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Pilyoung Kim
Department of Psychology, University of Denver
Type of member: Regular (since 2015)
Telephone: 303-871-4132
Email Address: pilyoung.kim@du.edu
Website Address: https://www.du.edu/ahss/psychology/facultystaffstudents/faculty-listing/kim.html
Mailing Address: Department of Psychology Frontier Hall, Room 355 2155 S. Race St. Denver, CO 80208
Current research interests
Our lab's research program focuses on examining the early life origins of socioeconomic disparities in health from a neurobiological perspective. We are currently conducting a longitudinal study to examine the effects of prenatal exposure to poverty on brains of two generations – new mothers and newborns. We use a multidisciplinary approach, including neuroimaging (MRI, fMRI, fNIRS), neuroendocrine, observational and behavioral methods. We are also working on various projects on delineating (1) the roles of stress on neural regulation of emotion and parenting among new parents; and (2) the roles of early exposure to poverty on brain development for emotion regulation in young children.
Selected publications
Kim, P., Evans, G. W., Chen, E., Miller, G., & Seeman, T. (2017). How Socioeconomic Disadvantages Get Under the Skin and into the Brain to Influence Health Development Across the Lifespan. Handbook of Life Course Health Development, 463-497. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-47143-3_19 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-47143-3_19
Kim, P., Capistrano, C., Erhart, A., Gray-Schiff, R., & Xu, N. (2017). Socioeconomic Disadvantage, Neural Responses to Infant Emotions, and Emotional Availability among First-time New Mothers. Behavioral Brain Research, 325, 188-196. https://www.du.edu/ahss/psychology/fcnlab/media/documents/kim2016.pdf
Kim, P., Capistrano, C., & Congleton, C. (2016). Socioeconomic disadvantages and neural sensitivity to infant cry: Role of maternal distress. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 11(10), 1597-1607. doi:10.1093/scan/nsw063 https://www.du.edu/ahss/psychology/fcnlab/media/documents/kim2016.pdf
profile updated: 04/12/2019