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Dara G. Ghahremani

2 papers in the library · publishing 2026

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Social emotional learning and autonomic regulation enhance social connectedness in female adolescents with extensive exposure to adverse childhood experiences.

Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence September 2026 Nathan D Chabin, Justine Chen, Matthew Abikenari et al.

Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are associated with social isolation, a known contributor to diminishing mental health with consequences for adolescent development. We evaluated effects of the SKY Schools program, which combines social emotional learning (SEL) with training in autonomic regulation (breathwork), on social connectedness (SC) in female Latinx adolescents with high ACEs, a...

Altered neurobehavioral reward response predicts psychotic-like experiences in youth exposed to cannabis prenatally

Carolyn M. Amir, Dara G. Ghahremani, Sarah E. Chang et al. preprint

Abstract Importance Rates of prenatal cannabis exposure (PCE) are rising with increasingly permissive legislation regarding cannabis use, which may be a risk factor for psychosis. Disrupted reward-related neural circuitry may underlie this relationship. Objective To elucidate neural mechanisms involved in the association between PCE and youth-onset psychotic-like experiences by probing...