Isabel Wilder (she/her) is a first year student in the Developmental Area of the NACS program. Prior to graduate school, she completed a two year post-bacc in Dr. Karen Berman's lab in the Section on Integrative Neuroimaging at the National Institute of Mental Health at the NIH. There, she longitudinally studied adolescent neurodevelopment in the context of pubertal hormones. While at NIH, her main research projects included looking at myelin development and pubertal tempo, neurofunction underlying inhibitory control, and relations between hippocampal volume and estradiol/testosterone. Her current graduate work in Dr. Tracy Riggins's NeuroCognitive Development Lab focuses on relations among sleep, memory, and brain development in early childhood. Outside of research, she enjoys hiking, yoga, cooking (and eating!), and spending time with her partner and their 4-year-old son, Jamie.
Degrees
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B.A.Psychology
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B.A.Medical Anthropology
Awards
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2024-08-01Isabel is a NACS recipient of the University of Maryland's Flagship Fellowship.
