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Benjamin Nephew

Assistant Research Professor-Biology & Biotechnology
EDUCATION
PhD Biology and Biotechnology Tufts University 2003
Expert Bio

Professor Nephew's work is broadly focused on identifying and studying neurobehavioral mechanisms of mental illness and developing effective interventions. Research areas include mindfulness-based stress reduction to develop machine learning-based early predictors of severe depression and suicidality; postpartum depression/anxiety, and the impact of social stress, alcohol, and air pollution on behavior, immune factors, neural connectivity, neuroendocrinology, and related epigenetic changes.

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