Casey Carrow

Casey graduated with high honors from Vanderbilt University in 2024, receiving a B.S. in Child Development and Cognitive Studies and a minor in Quantitative Methods. During her time at Vanderbilt, she conducted research in the Stress and Early Adversity Lab. She completed an honors thesis under Dr. Kathryn Humphreys on the intersections between maternal mental health, caregiving, and children’s early emotional development. Outside of school, Casey worked as a research assistant in the Bergelson Lab at Duke University studying infant language development, and spent a summer in the Developmental Personality Neuroscience Lab at UNC-Chapel Hill examining decision-making processes in young adults with social anxiety disorder and borderline personality disorder. Currently, Casey is a Sara S. Sparrow Fellow in Clinical Neuroscience in the McPartland Lab. She is interested in how the cognitive processes of autism impact social relationships and emotional outcomes in early life. In the future, Casey hopes to pursue a career as a Clinical Child Psychologist.