Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Ph.D., Emory University 2015
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  Duke Appointment History

  • Clinical Associate in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychiatry, Child & Family Mental Health and Developmental Neuroscience, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences 2015 - 2016
• Recognition
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  In the News

  • JAN 16, 2018

    Duke Health News

    Pregnant Women in NC Exposed to Less Secondhand Nicotine After Smoking Ban
• Research
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  Selected Grants

  • Maternal obesity, child executive functions and child weight gain awarded by National Institutes of Health 2015 - 2020
  • Pilot Project: Effects of Cannabis on the Epigenome of Humans and Rats awarded by John Templeton Foundation 2016 - 2017
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Conference Papers

    • White, SF, Marsh, AA, Fowler, KA, Schechter, JC, Sinclair, S, Pine, DS, and Blair, RJR. "A TEST OF CAUSAL HYPOTHESES OF PSYCHOPATHIC TRAITS: REDUCED EMOTIONAL RESPONSIVENESS OR ANOMALOUS ATTENTIONAL CONTROL?." September 2011.  Link to Item
    • White, SF, Marsh, A, Fowler, KA, Schechter, JC, Sinclair, S, Pine, DS, and Blair, JR. "A Test of Causal Hypotheses of Psychopathic Traits: Reduced Emotional Responsiveness or Anomalous Attentional Control?." May 1, 2011.  Link to Item

  • Journal Articles

    • Dozmorov, MG, Bilbo, SD, Kollins, SH, Zucker, N, Do, EK, Schechter, JC, Zhang, JJ, Murphy, SK, Hoyo, C, and Fuemmeler, BF. "Associations between maternal cytokine levels during gestation and measures of child cognitive abilities and executive functioning." Brain, behavior, and immunity (March 24, 2018).  Full Text
    • Schechter, JC, Fuemmeler, BF, Hoyo, C, Murphy, SK, Zhang, JJ, and Kollins, SH. "Impact of Smoking Ban on Passive Smoke Exposure in Pregnant Non-Smokers in the Southeastern United States." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 15, no. 1 (January 6, 2018).  Full Text
    • Winiarski, DA, Schechter, JC, Brennan, PA, Foster, SL, Cunningham, PB, and Whitmore, EA. "Adolescent Physiological and Behavioral Patterns of Emotion Dysregulation Predict Multisystemic Therapy Response." Journal of emotional and behavioral disorders 25, no. 3 (September 2017): 131-142.  Full Text
    • Schechter, JC, Brennan, PA, Smith, AK, Stowe, ZN, Newport, DJ, and Johnson, KC. "Maternal Prenatal Psychological Distress and Preschool Cognitive Functioning: the Protective Role of Positive Parental Engagement." Journal of abnormal child psychology 45, no. 2 (February 2017): 249-260.  Full Text
    • Schechter, JC, and Kollins, SH. "Prenatal Smoke Exposure and ADHD: Advancing the Field." Pediatrics 139, no. 2 (February 2017).  Full Text
    • White, SF, Fowler, KA, Sinclair, S, Schechter, JC, Majestic, CM, Pine, DS, and Blair, RJ. "Disrupted expected value signaling in youth with disruptive behavior disorders to environmental reinforcers." Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 53, no. 5 (May 2014): 579-88.e9.  Full Text
    • Ryan, SR, Schechter, JC, and Brennan, PA. "Perinatal factors, parenting behavior, and reactive aggression: does cortisol reactivity mediate this developmental risk process?." Journal of abnormal child psychology 40, no. 8 (November 2012): 1211-1222.  Full Text
    • Schechter, JC, Brennan, PA, Cunningham, PB, Foster, SL, and Whitmore, E. "Stress, cortisol, and externalizing behavior in adolescent males: an examination in the context of multisystemic therapy." Journal of abnormal child psychology 40, no. 6 (August 2012): 913-922.  Full Text
    • White, SF, Marsh, AA, Fowler, KA, Schechter, JC, Adalio, C, Pope, K, Sinclair, S, Pine, DS, and Blair, RJR. "Reduced amygdala response in youths with disruptive behavior disorders and psychopathic traits: decreased emotional response versus increased top-down attention to nonemotional features." The American Journal of Psychiatry 169, no. 7 (July 2012): 750-758.  Full Text
    • Marsh, AA, Finger, EC, Fowler, KA, Jurkowitz, ITN, Schechter, JC, Yu, HH, Pine, DS, and Blair, RJR. "Reduced amygdala-orbitofrontal connectivity during moral judgments in youths with disruptive behavior disorders and psychopathic traits." Psychiatry research 194, no. 3 (December 2011): 279-286.  Full Text
    • Brand, SR, Schechter, JC, Hammen, CL, Brocque, RL, and Brennan, PA. "Do adolescent offspring of women with PTSD experience higher levels of chronic and episodic stress?." Journal of traumatic stress 24, no. 4 (August 2011): 399-404.  Full Text
    • LaPrairie, JL, Schechter, JC, Robinson, BA, and Brennan, PA. "Perinatal risk factors in the development of aggression and violence." Advances in genetics 75 (January 2011): 215-253. (Review)  Full Text

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