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Jessica Louise Buthmann is a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Psychology at Stanford University, affiliated with the Stanford Neurodevelopment, Affect, and Psychopathology Lab under Dr. Ian Gotlib. Her research focuses on understanding how environmental toxins, early life adversity, and psychosocial stress influence neurodevelopmental trajectories and mental health outcomes in children and adolescents. Key areas include prenatal air pollution exposure effects on brain structure, stress reactivity mechanisms, and socioeconomic factors moderating neurobiological processes.
She holds a Young Investigator Grant (NARSAD) from the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation (2024-2026). Buthmann collaborates extensively with interdisciplinary teams, leveraging longitudinal cohort studies like the Singapore GUSTO project. Her work integrates neuroimaging (e.g., MRI), endocrine measures (cortisol/DHEA ratios), and behavioral assessments to explore bidirectional relationships between environmental exposures and brain development.
Notable contributions include linking late gestational particulate matter exposure to hippocampal growth patterns and uncovering how nucleus accumbens volume mediates attention problems in offspring of stressed mothers. She also investigates how neighborhood disadvantage interacts with parenting behaviors to shape adolescent brain-behavior outcomes.
