College of Education and Human Development

Institute of Child Development

Emily Furtado

  • Pronouns: she, her, hers

  • Doctoral Student

  • Institute of Child Development
    Carmen D. and James R. Campbell Hall
    51 East River Parkway
    Minneapolis, MN 55455

  • furta013@umn.edu
Emily Furtado

Areas of interest

Developmental neuroscience; Early childhood; Stress and maltreatment

Degrees

BA in Psychology and Organizational Studies, 2019

Biography

Emily J. Furtado is a first-year PhD student in the developmental psychopathology and clinical science program. Through her research she would like to characterize how negative life experiences during sensitive developmental periods affect emotional functioning. Toward that goal, she hopes to use skills in neuroimaging (fMRI and fNIRS) to better understand how stress can influence emotion-related psychophysiology and risk for psychopathology