Natalie was awarded a National Research Service Award from the National Institute of Mental Health that will begin in fall 2017 when she joins the lab.  The project is entitled “Neurodevelopmental Mechanisms linking Childhood Adversity with Adolescent Psychopathology: Pubertal Timing and Cortico-Limbic Circuitry.”  The grant will identify mechanisms through which childhood adversity, pubertal timing, and brain development influence risk for psychopathology in adolescents. Specifically, Natalie will examine how different dimension of childhood adversity influence pubertal timing, investigate whether pubertal timing is a mechanism explaining the association between non-normative pubertal timing and adolescent psychopathology, and evaluate whether pubertal timing-related changes in cortical-limbic circuitry mediate the association between childhood adversity and adolescent psychopathology.