Brenden Tervo-Clemmens, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
E-MAIL: [email protected]

Research Interests:

The Tervo-Clemmens (TC) lab aims to understand normative brain development and the emergence of mental health and substance use disorders (as well as their co-occurrence) during adolescence, integrating techniques from developmental, computational, and clinical neuroscience.

We are also engaged in methodological work aiming to evaluate and improve the reproducibility and ultimately, clinical and policy utility, of large-scale fMRI and behavioral assessments in neurodevelopmental studies.

Publications

  • Tervo-Clemmens B, Gilman JM, Evins AE, Bentley KH, Nock MK, Smoller JW, Schuster RM. Substance use, suicidal thoughts, and psychiatric comorbidities among high school students. JAMA Pediatr. 2024 Mar 1;178(3):310-313.
  • Tervo-Clemmens B, Calabro FJ, Parr AC, Fedor J, Foran W, Luna B. A canonical trajectory of executive function maturation from adolescence to adulthood. Nat Commun. 2023 Oct 30;14(1):6922.
  • Tervo-Clemmens B, Marek S, Barch DM. Tailoring psychiatric neuroimaging to translational goals. JAMA Psychiatry. 2023 Aug 1;80(8):765-766.
  • Marek S, Tervo-Clemmens B, Calabro FJ, (shared first author), et al.. Reproducible brain-wide association studies require thousands of individuals. Nature. 2022 Mar;603(7902):654-660.
  • Tervo-Clemmens B, Quach A, Calabro FJ, Foran W, Luna B. Meta-analysis and review of functional neuroimaging differences underlying adolescent vulnerability to substance use. Neuroimage. 2020 Apr 1;209:116476.
  • Tervo-Clemmens B, Simmonds D, Calabro FJ, Day NL, Richardson GA, Luna B. Adolescent cannabis use and brain systems supporting adult working memory encoding, maintenance, and retrieval. Neuroimage. 2018 Apr 1;169:496-509. 
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