PhD student @BABLab_UCLA | studying how experiences shape health & development | she/her 🏳️🌈🥄
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Fran Querdasi retweeted
10 Oct 2025
Excited to share that the validation paper for our microcoding system (microFIMS) is out now in Developmental Psychology! Our coding manual and training materials (using open source software) can be found our lab website: auburnflowerlab.wixsite.com/…
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19 Nov 2024
🚨preprint alert🚨
Excited to share new work on developmental links between the microbiome-gut-brain axis and internalizing symptoms with @Dr_BCallaghan, @JessicaUy_PhD, Jen Labus, and the GUSTO study team 🥳 (1/n)
osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/u9… (note: has not yet been peer-reviewed)
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19 Nov 2024
In sum, this study identifies prospective links between gut microbiome composition, brain functional connectivity networks, and internalizing (depression and anxiety) symptoms across early to middle childhood.
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19 Nov 2024
This is exciting because it suggests that the early life gut microbiome might shape functional brain development in middle childhood in ways that are relevant for emergence of anxiety and depression symptoms when children enter school age. Lots of directions for follow-up! 🥳
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16 Oct 2024
Yayy! I've so much fun working on this project! Congrats to our paper leader @ShibaEsfand 🥳. Stay tuned for more results coming soon from the Mind, Brain, and Body Study 😀
16 Oct 2024
🧠My first-first author paper of grad school is officially hot off the press! 🧠
We detail a novel approach for assessing the effects of caregiving-related #adversity (e.g., maltreatment) on the #brain #gut #immune axis and #internalzing symptoms in youth
doi.org/10.1016/j.bbih.2024.…
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15 Oct 2024
Remember to get your booster! 📈 good reminder that side effects may be milder than you expect
14 Oct 2024
Just got my covid booster yesterday and I was *dreading* it because I usually have terrible side effects, but I ended up being totally fine this year. Pleasantly surprised!
Anyway, this is a 📢 PSA 📢 that covid still exists, and please get your booster!!
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Fran Querdasi retweeted
5 Feb 2024
So excited to share my first first-author paper published in Journal of Affective Disorders! We developed and validated a novel online version of the probabilistic reward task in a community sample of adults with self-reported MDD. cdasr.mclean.harvard.edu/wp-…
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Fran Querdasi retweeted
10 Sep 2024
‼️Novel Mechanistic Framework for Peripartum Depression‼️
In our new perspective article we highlight the role of #interoception in #pregnancy related #depression.
doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.…
Summary Below 🧵
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Fran Querdasi retweeted
3 Oct 2024
@BABLab_UCLA student @ShibaEsfand rocking the #ISDP2024 poster session tonight with her proposed hypothesis driven study looking at striatal function, mental health, and gut microbiome in kids.
3 Oct 2024
At #ISDP2024 ? Be sure to drop by my poster (#86) to hear me talk about the links between the gut microbiome, striatal functioning and internalizing symptoms in kids! @devpsybio @BABLab_UCLA
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Fran Querdasi retweeted
3 Oct 2024
If you’re at #ISDP come stop by my poster this evening to see our results investigating latent profiles of early life adversity and internalizing symptoms in young adults! @ADRC_UCLA
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Fran Querdasi retweeted
3 Oct 2024
If you’re at #ISDP come stop by my poster this evening to see our results investigating the relationship between features of the gut-microbiome and cortical thickness of insula subregions in children. #interoception
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Fran Querdasi retweeted
3 Oct 2024
At #ISDP2024 ? Be sure to drop by my poster (#86) to hear me talk about the links between the gut microbiome, striatal functioning and internalizing symptoms in kids! @devpsybio @BABLab_UCLA
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Fran Querdasi retweeted
3 Oct 2024
Come check out my poster tonight to learn more about my favorite topic, the oral microbiome brain axis! #ISDP2024
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2 Oct 2024
Come stop by my poster tonight at #ISDP2024! You’ll learn about how the gut microbiome’s potential to produce acetate, a SCFA, is related to children’s health & adversity exposure. Interestingly, acetate is involved in energy metabolism & neuroimmune function 🧠✨
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