Suzanne Perkins
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Suzanne Perkins is a Research Assistant Professor at the Research Center for Group Dynamics in the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. She is an educational neuroscientist who examines the role of context in the development of cognitive processes in children and adolescents, with a special focus on childhood maltreatment, other violence exposure, and poverty, and how that exposure influences cognitive processing development. Working in developmental psychology as well as cognition and cognitive neuroscience, her work has explored poverty and language development; effects of exposure to intimate partner violence (IPV) on child adjustment; violence exposure and the development of school-related functioning. Dr. Perkins is a former special education teacher who has also specialized in executive functioning and stress disorders in youth.
- Suzanne Perkins, Rebecca M. Ametrano, Marisa Leach, John P. Kobrossi, Joanne Smith-Darden, Sandra A. Graham-Bermann. 2024. Contributions of Violence Exposure and Traumatic Stress Symptoms to Physical Health Outcomes in Incarcerated Adolescents. Youth & Society 56(7):1263-1292.
- Suzanne Perkins, Shaun Ho, S., Evans, Gary W., Liberzon, Israel, Gopang, Meroona, Swain, James E.. 2024. Language processing following childhood poverty: Evidence for disrupted neural networks. Brain and Language 252:105414.
- Suzanne Perkins. 2013. Poverty and Language Development: Roles of Parenting and Stress. Innov Clin Neurosci. 2013 Apr(10(4)): 10–19. PMID: 23696954.
- Suzanne Perkins, Sandra Graham-Bermann. 2012. Violence exposure and the development of school-related functioning: Mental health, neurocognition, and learning. Aggression and Violent Behavior 17(1):89-98.
- Suzanne Perkins, Graham-Bermann, Sandra A.. 2010. Effects of early exposure and lifetime exposure to intimate partner violence (IPV) on child adjustment. Violence and victims 25(4)