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498 APPENDIX Csample of young people ages 14 to 22, to assess trends in risks to health and theircorrelates and predictors.Mary Rothbart, Ph.D., is a Distinguished Professor Emerita at the University ofOregon. She studies temperament and emotional and social development, and forthe last 25 years has worked with Michael Posner studying the development ofattention and its relation to temperamental effortful control. She has also madecontributions to the education and support of new parents through Eugene,Oregon’s Birth to Three organization.M. Rosario Rueda, Ph.D., is Research Associate in the Cognitive NeuroscienceLaboratory at the Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Granada(Spain). Her work has focused on studying the development of attention in childrenusing cognitive and brain function assessments. Her current research involvesexploring the appropriate methods to train attention in young children, as well asunderstanding the contribution of individual differences in attention to emotionalregulation and social and school competency in children and adolescents.Lisa Saccomanno, Ph.D., is a Postdoctoral Fellow with Bruce Bowerman at theUniversity of Oregon. Prior to joining the Bowerman lab, Lisa was Director ofthe Genomics Facility at the University of Oregon, where she began a collaborativeproject with Michael Posner from the Institute of Neuroscience to examinethe molecular basis for the neural network that underlies self-regulation of cognitionand affect.Steven Southwick, M.D., is Professor of Psychiatry at the Yale Medical Schooland at the Yale Child Study Center, Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at the Mt.Sinai School of Medicine, and Deputy Director of the Clinical NeurosciencesDivision of the National Center for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. His researchfocuses on the phenomenology and neurobiology of PTSD, the longitudinal courseof trauma-related psychological symptoms, memory for traumatic events, treatmentof PTSD, and neurobiological and psychological factors associated withresilience to stress.Elizabeth Sowell, Ph.D., is Associate Professor in the Department of Neurologyat the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research has focused on normativebrain development and brain morphologic abnormalities in children withvarious neurodevelopmental disorders such as fetal alcohol syndrome and attentiondeficit/ hyperactivity disorder. She is currently conducting longitudinal studiesof children with prenatal methamphetamine exposure using functional and structuralneuroimaging.