Dr. Susan Perlman received her doctorate from Duke University in 2009 in Cognitive Neuroscience and Developmental Psychology.  After completing a Post-Doctoral Scholarship in the Department of Psychiatry, Dr. Perlman joined the faculty in 2011 and founded the Laboratory for Child Brain Development.  Her work focuses on the neurodevelopment of emotion from birth to adulthood in typically and abnormally developing populations with a focus on the preschool period (age 3-6).  She uses multi-modal neuroimaging, combined with behavior and physiological measures, to predict the onset of psychopathology in preschool children.  Recent work focuses on concurrent neural activation within the parent and child as a mechanism for emotion socialization.  Dr. Perlman’s work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, NAARSAD, and the University of Pittsburgh Clinical and Translational Science Institute with a recent BRAINS Award from the National Institute of Mental Health.  She is the neuroimaging director if the Pittsburgh ECHO Cohort project as well as a member of the training faculty in the Department of Neuroscience.