Tamara Vanderwal
BSc, MD, MAR
Investigator, BC Children's Hospital
Child Psychiatrist, TOPs Program
Shefali Rai and Kate J. Godfrey and Kirk Graff and Ryann Tansey and Daria Merrikh and Shelly Yin and Matthew Feigelis and Damion V. Demeter and Tamara Vanderwal and Deanna J. Greene and Signe Bray
DOI: 10.64898/2026.03.05.70989903 / 2026
eneuro
Kate J. Godfrey and Shefali Rai and Kirk Graff and Shelly Yin and Daria Merrikh and Ryann Tansey and Tamara Vanderwal and Ashley D. Harris and Signe Bray
DOI: 10.1523/ENEURO.0209-24.202412 / 2024
Raven S Wallace and Bront Mckeown and Ian Goodall-Halliwell and Louis Chitiz and Philippe Forest and Theodoros Karapanagiotidis and Bridget Mulholland and Adam G Turnbull and Tamara Vanderwal and Samyogita Hardikar and Tirso Gonzalez Alam and Boris Bernhardt and Hao-Ting Wang and Will Strawson and Michael Milham and Ting Xu and Daniel Margulies and Giulia L Poerio and Elizabeth Jefferies and Jeremy I Skipper and Jeffery Wammes and Robert Leech and Jonathan Smallwood
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.97731.311 / 2024
Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Tamara Vanderwal
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaac.2024.07.83210 / 2024
Jivesh Ramduny and Tamara Vanderwal and Clare Kelly
DOI: 10.1101/2024.06.21.59922506 / 2024
Jivesh Ramduny and Tamara Vanderwal and Clare Kelly
DOI: 10.1101/2024.06.04.59744706 / 2024
Jivesh Ramduny and Lucina Q. Uddin and Tamara Vanderwal and Eric Feczko and Damien A. Fair and Clare Kelly and Arielle Baskin-Sommers
DOI: 10.1101/2024.06.22.60022106 / 2024
Brain Stimulation
Vinh Tan and Jerrold Jeyachandra and Ruiyang Ge and Erin W. Dickie and Elizabeth Gregory and Tamara Vanderwal and Fidel Vila-Rodriguez and Colin Hawco
DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2023.07.05107 / 2023
NeuroImage
Ahmad Samara and Jeffrey Eilbott and Daniel S. Margulies and Ting Xu and Tamara Vanderwal
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.12002305 / 2023
PLOS ONE
Simon Frew and Ahmad Samara and Hallee Shearer and Jeffrey Eilbott and Tamara Vanderwal
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.026511204 / 2022
NeuroImage
Emily S. Finn and Enrico Glerean and Uri Hasson and Tamara Vanderwal
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.11877602 / 2022
Frontiers in Physiology
Olivia Campbell and Tamara Vanderwal and Alexander Mark Weber
DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2021.80994301 / 2022
NeuroImage
Tamara Vanderwal and Jeffrey Eilbott and Clare Kelly and Simon Frew and Todd S. Woodward and Michael P. Milham and F. Xavier Castellanos
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.11753702 / 2021
NeuroImage
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.11686008 / 2020
NeuroImage
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.11635211 / 2019
Biological Psychiatry
Evelyn M.R. Lake and Emily S. Finn and Stephanie M. Noble and Tamara Vanderwal and Xilin Shen and Monica D. Rosenberg and Marisa N. Spann and Marvin M. Chun and Dustin Scheinost and R. Todd Constable
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2019.02.01908 / 2019
NeuroImage
Mai Nguyen and Tamara Vanderwal and Uri Hasson
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.09.01001 / 2019
Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
Tamara Vanderwal and Jeffrey Eilbott and F. Xavier Castellanos
DOI: 10.1016/j.dcn.2018.10.00411 / 2018
eneuro
Agustin Petroni and Samantha S. Cohen and Lei Ai and Nicolas Langer and Simon Henin and Tamara Vanderwal and Michael P. Milham and Lucas C. Parra
DOI: 10.1523/ENEURO.0244-17.201701 / 2018
NeuroImage
Tamara Vanderwal and Jeffrey Eilbott and Emily S. Finn and R. Cameron Craddock and Adam Turnbull and F. Xavier Castellanos
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.06.02708 / 2017
GigaScience
David OConnor and Natan Vega Potler and Meagan Kovacs and Ting Xu and Lei Ai and John Pellman and Tamara Vanderwal and Lucas C. Parra and Samantha Cohen and Satrajit Ghosh and Jasmine Escalera and Natalie Grant-Villegas and Yael Osman and Anastasia Bui and R. Cameron Craddock and Michael P. Milham
DOI: 10.1093/gigascience/giw01101 / 2017
Agustin Petroni and Samantha Cohen and Lei Ai and Nicolas Langer and Simon Henin and Tamara Vanderwal and Michael P. Milham and Lucas C. Parra
DOI: 10.1101/08906011 / 2016
Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Tamara Vanderwal
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaac.2016.04.02108 / 2016
NeuroImage
Tamara Vanderwal and Clare Kelly and Jeffrey Eilbott and Linda C. Mayes and F. Xavier Castellanos
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.07.06911 / 2015
Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Tamara Vanderwal and Clare Kelly and F. Xavier Castellanos
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaac.2013.03.00406 / 2013
NeuroImage
Tamara Vanderwal and Elinora Hunyadi and Daniel W. Grupe and Caitlin M. Connors and Robert T. Schultz
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2008.03.05807 / 2008
"Brain Mapping of Discrete Developmental Periods", American Psychiatric Association/Lilly Psychiatric Research Fellowship
“The use of movies to assay brain network dynamics in ADHD”,
Klingenstein Family Foundation
"Intrinsic Connectivity Networks in Young Children", American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
"Developmental Trajectories of Intrinsic Functional Connectivity", Allison Family Foundation
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Junior Investigator Award
Resident Teaching Award, Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine
Contributing Editor (2014-2017), The Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Yale Psychiatry Research Scholar, Yale School of Medicine
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