Suparna Choudhury, McGill University

Research

Genetic Susceptibility Early Environments Maternal Adversity Mental Health Positive Well-Being Psychopathology Sex And Gender Trajectories

Latest papers

Politics of Plasticity: Implications of the New Science of the "Teen Brain" for Education.
Culture, medicine and psychiatry · 2022 · first author
Editorial: Challenges of Interdisciplinary Research in the Field of Critical (Sex/Gender) Neuroscience.
Frontiers in sociology · 2021 · senior author
"Mombrain and Sticky DNA": The Impacts of Neurobiological and Epigenetic Framings of Motherhood on Women's Subjectivities.
Frontiers in sociology · 2021 · senior author

All 7 publications

Latest funding

Identifying pathways for the emergence of mental health functioning in young adults from prenatal adversity, genetic susceptibility, the early environment, and intervening life stress - Leveraging hypotheses generated from an international birth cohort consortium to test specific mechanisms about anxiety, depression, and wellbeing.
CIHR · 2022 · Principal investigator
$100,000
Autiobiographical Filmmaking and Psychological Distress in Youth
SSHRC · 2021 · Co-investigator
$7,389
Identifying COVID-related mental health problems and resiliency in youth to inform intervention policy from pre-pandemic levels of maternal environmental adversity and mood: The Maternal Adversity Vulnerability and Neurodevelopment Study
CIHR · 2021 · Principal investigator
$500,000

All 4 grants and awards

7 publications.

01

Politics of Plasticity: Implications of the New Science of the "Teen Brain" for Education.

Choudhury S, Wannyn W

Culture, medicine and psychiatry2022First author

DOI: 10.1007/s11013-021-09731-8 PMID: 34216345

02

Editorial: Challenges of Interdisciplinary Research in the Field of Critical (Sex/Gender) Neuroscience.

Fitsch H, Lysen F, Choudhury S

Frontiers in sociology2021Senior author

DOI: 10.3389/fsoc.2021.797089 PMID: 35097062

03

"Mombrain and Sticky DNA": The Impacts of Neurobiological and Epigenetic Framings of Motherhood on Women's Subjectivities.

Norrmén-Smith IO, Gómez-Carrillo A, Choudhury S

Frontiers in sociology2021Senior author

DOI: 10.3389/fsoc.2021.653160 PMID: 33928142

04

Distinct influence of parental occupation on cortical thickness and surface area in children and adolescents: Relation to self-esteem.

Khundrakpam B, Choudhury S, Vainik U, Al-Sharif N, Bhutani N, Jeon S, Gold I, Evans A

Human brain mapping2020

DOI: 10.1002/hbm.25169 PMID: 33058416

05

Reporting Grantee Demographics for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Neuroscience.

Choudhury S, Aggarwal NK

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2020First author

DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.2285-20.2020 PMID: 32938722

06

"Learning how to deal with feelings differently": Psychotropic medications as vehicles of socialization in adolescence.

Choudhury S, McKinney KA, Kirmayer LJ

Social science & medicine (1982)2015First author

DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.02.034 PMID: 25779773

07

Big data, open science and the brain: lessons learned from genomics.

Choudhury S, Fishman JR, McGowan ML, Juengst ET

Frontiers in human neuroscience2014First author

DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00239 PMID: 24904347

Identifying pathways for the emergence of mental health functioning in young adults from prenatal adversity, genetic susceptibility, the early environment, and intervening life stress - Leveraging hypotheses generated from an international birth cohort consortium to test specific mechanisms about anxiety, depression, and wellbeing.

Principal investigatorCIHR2022Project Grant

Principal investigators: Wazana, Ashley; Choudhury, Suparna

Keywords: Early Environments; Genetic Susceptibility; Maternal Adversity; Mental Health; Positive Well-Being; Psychopathology; Sex And Gender; Trajectories; Youth

$100,000

Autiobiographical Filmmaking and Psychological Distress in Youth

Co-investigatorSSHRC2021Partnership Engage Grants

Principal investigators: Gold, Ian

Keywords: film; mental well-being

$7,389

Identifying COVID-related mental health problems and resiliency in youth to inform intervention policy from pre-pandemic levels of maternal environmental adversity and mood: The Maternal Adversity Vulnerability and Neurodevelopment Study

Principal investigatorCIHR2021Op. Gr.: Addr. Wider Impacts of COVID-Imp. on social/econ/pop iss/pbl outcomes

Principal investigators: Wazana, Ashley; Rozenberg, Mira; Tresierra, Millie; Choudhury, Suparna

Keywords: Covid; Developmental Trajectories; Early Life Exposure; Genetic Susceptibility; Maternal Environmental Adversity; Maternal Mood; Youth And Mother Mental Health; Youth And Mother Resiliency

$500,000

Neurosciences and the Afterlife of Death: Re-imagining Notions of Suicidal Risk

Co-investigatorCIHR2012Operating Grant

Principal investigators: Lloyd, Stephanie

Keywords: Kin; Medical Anthropology; Mental Health; Narrative Analysis; Neurosciences; Psychiatry; Qualitative Research; Risk; Science Studies; Suicide

$159,046

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Neurology and Neurosurgery
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Alan Evans

Neurology and Neurosurgery

1 shared papers, latest 2020

Ian Gold

Faculty

1 shared papers, latest 2020

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: Genetic Susceptibility Dear Professor Choudhury, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. I read your paper "Politics of Plasticity: Implications of the New Science of the "Teen Brain" for Education." (2022), and it connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your CIHR-funded project "Identifying pathways for the emergence of mental health functioning in young adults from prenatal adversity, genetic susceptibility, the early environment, and intervening life stress - Leveraging hypotheses generated from an international birth cohort consortium to test specific mechanisms about anxiety, depression, and wellbeing." (2022), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]