Education

Ph.D. - Combined Program in Education and Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Michigan

Certificate of Graduate Study - Development of Psychopathology and Mental Health Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Michigan

M.S. - Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Michigan

Certificate of Graduate Study - Department of Special Education, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts

Ed.M. - Program in Teaching and Curriculum Development, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, Massachusetts

B.A. - Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts

Selected Publications

Neurocognitive Development

Perkins, S. C., Welsh, R. C., Stern, E. R., Taylor, S. F., & Fitzgerald, K. D. (2013). Topographic Analysis of the Development of Individual Activation Patterns During Performance Monitoring in Medial Frontal Cortex. Cognitive Developmental Neuroscience, 6, 137–148.

Perkins, S.C., Finegood, E., & Swain, J. E., (2013) Parenting, Poverty, and Language Development, Innovations in Clinical Neuroscience, 10(4):10–19.

Fitzgerald, K. D., Perkins, S. C., Angstadt, M., Stern, E. R., Welsh, R. C., Liberzon, I., & Taylor, S. F. (2010). The development of performance-monitoring function in the posterior medial frontal cortex. Neuroimage, 49 (4): 3463-73.

Stress and Cognitive Development

Swain, J. S., Perkins, S. C., Dayton, C. J., Finegood E. D., Ho, S. S. (2012). Parental Brain and Socioeconomic Epigenetic Effects in Human Development, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 35(5): 378-379.

Perkins, S.C. (2012). An Ecological Perspective on the Comorbidity of Childhood Violence Exposure and Disabilities: Focus on the Ecology of the School, Psychology of Violence, 2(1): 75-89.

Perkins, S. C. & Graham-Bermann, S. (2012). Violence Exposure and the Development of School-Related Functioning: Psychopathology, Neurocognition, Language Deficits, and Disabilities, Journal of Aggression and Violent Behavior: A Review Journal, 17: 89-98.

Violence Exposure in Incarcerated youth

Perkins, S. C., Smith-Darden, J., Ametrano, R. M., & Graham-Bermann, S. (2014). Typologies of Violence Exposure and Cognitive Processing in Incarcerated Male Adolescents. Journal of Family Violence, 29(4), 439–451.

Perkins, S. C., Cortina, K. Smith-Darden, J. & Graham-Bermann, S. (2012). The Mediating Role of Self-Regulation Between Intrafamilial Violence and Mental Health Adjustment in Incarcerated Male Adolescents, Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 27(7): 1199–1224.

Perkins, S. C., Smith-Darden, J., & Graham-Bermann, S. (2011). The Relation of Violence Exposure and Ethnicity to Intelligence and Verbal-Performance Discrepancies in Incarcerated Male Adolescents, Violence and Victims, 26(4): 496-512.