BJ Casey is an American psychologist and expert on adolescent brain development and self control.
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17 Facts About BJ Casey
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BJ Casey is a Professor of Psychology and Affiliated Professor of the Justice Collaboratory and Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program at Yale University where she directs the Fundamentals of the Adolescent Brain Lab.
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BJ Casey has served on several national advisory boards, and has won a number of honors and awards.
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BJ Casey was born in Kinston, North Carolina and grew up on a family farm.
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BJ Casey was the first in her family to obtain an advanced degree, earning her bachelor's and master's degrees in psychology from Appalachian State University and her doctorate in experimental psychology and behavioral neuroscience from the University of South Carolina.
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BJ Casey was among the first scientists to use fMRI in children, laying the groundwork for a new field of study: developmental cognitive neuroscience.
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BJ Casey was then recruited by Michael Posner to direct the Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology.
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BJ Casey served as the Director of the Neuroscience program at Weill Cornell for five years.
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In 2016, BJ Casey moved to Yale University where she now directs the Fundamentals of the Adolescent Brain lab.
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BJ Casey is one of the most cited scientists in developmental neuroscience, with over 200 publications and over 50,000 citations.
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BJ Casey's work has demonstrated similar patterns of behavior and brain activity during adolescence across species.
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BJ Casey proposed a prominent model of adolescent neurobiology known as the imbalance model, a foundational theory for many developmental neuroscience studies in humans and in animals.
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In collaboration with the late Walter Mischel, BJ Casey studied the original participants of Mischel's famous 1972 Stanford Bing Nursery School "Marshmallow Experiment" 40 years later.
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BJ Casey was awarded a grant of over $10 million as Principal Investigator of the ABCD Study Yale University site.
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BJ Casey has formally mentored over 30 pre and post doctoral trainees.
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BJ Casey is a member of the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Law and Neuroscience and is frequently called upon as an expert in adolescent development in both the scientific and legal arenas.
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BJ Casey's research was included in amicus briefs presented to the US Supreme Court to argue against the death penalty in juveniles and mandatory life without parole.
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