College of Education and Human Development

Institute of Child Development

Finola Kane-Grade

  • Pronouns: she, her, hers

  • Doctoral Student

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

  • kane0321@umn.edu
Finola Kane-Grade

Areas of interest

Adolescents and youth; Developmental neuroscience; Families and parenting; Hormones and behavior; Prevention/intervention; Resilience; Social and emotional development; Stress and maltreatment

Degrees

Bachelor of Arts (BA) degrees in Psychology and Music Performance - Flute, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2016

Biography

Finola Kane-Grade is a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and Ph.D. student on the Developmental Psychopathology and Clinical Science track at the Institute of Child Development (ICD). She is interested in neurobiological mechanisms linking early life stress and later psychopathology and health outcomes. Additionally, she hopes to identify protective mechanisms underlying resilience (such as social buffering) and translate this knowledge in ways that can be used to inform prevention efforts. At the University of Minnesota, she works with Dr. Megan Gunnar and Dr. Kathleen Thomas. Finola received her B.A. in Psychology and Music Performance from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2016 and completed an honors thesis on stress and learning with Dr. Seth Pollak. She then completed a postgraduate research fellowship at the Yale Child Study with Dr. Katarzyna Chawarska studying early markers of autism risk, and most recently worked as a research coordinator at Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School with Drs. Charles Nelson and Michelle Bosquet Enlow studying emotional development and risk markers for childhood anxiety.

Publications

Richardson, H., Taylor, J., Kane-Grade, F., Powell, L., Enlow, M.B., & Nelson, C.A. (2021). Preferential responses to faces in superior temporal and medial prefrontal cortex in three-year-old children. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 50, 100984.

Bowman, L.C., McCormick, S.A., Kane-Grade, F., Xie, W., Bosquet Enlow, M., & Nelson, C.A. (2021). Infants’ neural responses to emotional faces are related to maternal anxiety. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.

Xie, W., Leppanen, J.M., Kane-Grade, F.E., & Nelson, C.A. (2021). Converging neural and behavioral evidence for a rapid, generalized response to threat-related facial expressions in 3-year-old children. NeuroImage, 229, 117732.

Vernetti, A., Shic, F., Boccanfuso, L., Macari, S., Kane-Grade, F.E., Milgramm, A., Hilton, E., Heymann, P., Goodman, M.S., & Chawarska, K. (in press). Atypical emotional electrodermal activity in toddlers with autism spectrum disorder. Autism Research.

Bosquet Enlow, M., Kane-Grade, F.E., De Vivo, I., Petty, C., & Nelson, C.A. (2020). Patterns of change in telomere length over the first three years of life in healthy children. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 115.

Macari, S., DiNicola, L., Kane-Grade, F.E., Prince, E., Vernetti, A., Powell, K., Fontenelle, S., & Chawarska, K. (2018). How does it feel? Emotional expressivity in toddlers with ASD. JAACAP, 57, 828-836.