Sejal Mistry
  • Graduate Student
Research Areas
  • Cognition & Cognitive Neuroscience

Research Interests

I am interested in identifying contextual differences that are important for promoting emotionally positive outcomes for young children (infants, toddlers) and their mothers. Using a multi-method approach (self-report, EEG/ERP, standardized behavioral paradigms, cortisol), my work has focused on three domains: (a) biological and contextual pathways for child development, (b) perinatal period as a sensitive developmental period, and (c) basic science efforts of EEG/ERP to illuminate early developmental processes.

 

Faculty Advisor

Rebecca Brooker

Awards & Honors

  • Young Investigator Award, Journal of Neuroendocrinology, April 2022

Selected Publications

  • Publications

    • Mistry-Patel, S. & Brooker, R.J. Associations between error-related negativity and childhood anxiety risk differ based on SES (in press). Developmental Psychology. PMCID: PMC1828016.
    • Brooker, R.J, Mistry-Patel, S., Kling, J., & Howe, H. (2021). Deriving within-person estimates of delta-beta coupling: A novel measure for identifying individual differences in emotion and neural function in childhood. Developmental Psychobiology.
    • Brooker, R.J., Hammond, M., Mistry-Patel, S., Schlegel, R.J., Vess, M., Wine, M., & Havens, J. (2021). Feelings of parental authenticity moderate concurrent links between breastfeeding experience and symptoms of postpartum depression. Frontiers in Women’s Global Health, 2, 25.
    • Nyman, T., Pegg, S., Kiel, E. J., Mistry‐Patel, S., Becker‐Schmall, L. J., & Brooker, R. J. (2020). Perceived social support moderates neural reactivity to emotionally valenced stimuli during pregnancy. Psychophysiology, 57(11), e13647. NIHMSID: 1606964

     

    Presentations

    • Brooker, R.J., Nyman, T., Mistry-Patel, S., & Kling, J.L. Avoiding Icarus: when too high becomes too bad. Talk given by Brooker, R.J. at the Development 2022 Conference; Calgary, Canada.
    • Mistry-Patel, S., Peoples, S.G., & Brooker, R.J. Maternal depression moderates error-related negativity across pregnancy and postpartum. Talk given at the 2022 International Meeting on the Neuroscience of Parenting; Saint-Malo, France.
    • Mistry-Patel, S., Nyman, T.N., Dollar, J., Gagne, J., & Brooker, R.J. Early temperament predicts aggression and prosociality: moderation by N2. Talk given at the Professional Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Area Seminar, February 2022.