Shelby Leverett

Program: Neurosciences

Current advisor: Cynthia Rogers, MD

Undergraduate university: Duke University, 2015

Enrollment year: 2021

Research summary
Understanding biological and environmental factors that influence neurodevelopment during sensitive periods

Graduate publications
Leverett SD, Brady RG, Tooley UA, Lean RE, Tillman R, Wilson J, Ruscitti M, Triplett RL, Alexopoulos D, Gerstein ED, Smyser TA, Warner B, Luby JL, Smyser CD, Rogers CE, Barch DM. 2025 Associations between Parenting and Cognitive and Language Abilities at 2 Years of Age Depend on Prenatal Exposure to Disadvantage. J Pediatr, 276():114289. PMCID:

Leverett SD, Poolos O, Brady RG, Tillman R, Lean RE, Gerstein ED, Anaya B, Triplett RL, Alexopoulos D, Warner B, Luby JL, Smyser CD, Rogers CE, Barch DM. 2025 Neonatal brain volumes and early parenting behavior as mediators in associations between prenatal social disadvantage and socioemotional problems in toddlers. Biol Psychiatry, ():S0006-3223(25)01214-4. PMCID:

Brady RG, Leverett SD, Mueller L, Ruscitti M, Latham AR, Smyser TA, Gerstein ED, Warner BB, Barch DM, Luby JL, Rogers CE, Smyser CD. 2024 Neighborhood Crime and Externalizing Behavior in Toddlers: A Longitudinal Study With Neonatal fMRI and Parenting. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry, 63(7):733-44. PMCID: PMC11156792

Bogdan R, Leverett SD, Constantino-Petit AM, Lashley-Simms N, Liss DB, Johnson EC, Lenze SN, Lean RE, Smyser TA, Carter EB, Smyser CD, Rogers CE, Agrawal A. 2024 Characteristics of women concordant and discordant for urine drug screens for cannabis exposure and self-reported cannabis use during pregnancy. Neurotoxicol Teratol, 103():107351. PMCID:

Constantino-Pettit A, Tillman R, Wilson J, Lashley-Simms N, Vatan N, Atkinson A, Leverett SD, Lenze S, Smyser CD, Bogdan R, Rogers C, Agrawal A. 2024 Cannabis Use and Trajectories of Depression and Stress Across the Prenatal Period. JAMA Netw Open, 7(12):e2451597. PMCID: PMC11653121