Rebecca Brady, MD, PhD

Rebecca Brady, MD, PhD is a child psychiatry resident in the Albert J. Solnit Integrated Program. Born and raised in North Carolina, Rebecca graduated summa cum laude from Duke University with a B.S. in Neuroscience and Philosophy and was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa honor society. She then completed her MD and PhD training as part of Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine’s Medical Scientist Training Program. Under the mentorship of Dr. Christopher Smyser and Dr. Cynthia Rogers, she examined how prenatal exposure to neighborhood crime and parental callous-unemotional traits related to functional brain connectivity in newborns as well as conduct problems and moral development in toddlers. Her PhD in Neuroscience was funded by a T32 Imaging Sciences Fellowship and a F30 National Research Service Award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. She has published several first-author papers in top journals such as JAMA Psychiatry, Biological Psychiatry, and JAACAP. She was also named an Ann W. and Spencer T. Olin Fellow. Rebecca remains interested the relationships between prenatal risk factors, early brain development, and later psychiatric symptoms. At Yale, she plans to study the brain, behavioral, and environmental factors underlying moral development and externalizing disorders in mothers and infants. Clinically, Rebecca is interested in perinatal and early childhood psychiatry.