Casey is the Christina L. Williams Professor of Neuroscience at Barnard College-Columbia University and a member of the Justice Collaboratory in the Yale Law School. She is a world leader in human neuroimaging and its use in typical and atypical development and skillfully uses brain imaging to uniquely examine developmental transitions across the life span, especially during the period of adolescence. Her work is grounded in translational studies from genetically altered mice to human patients, developing models for several mental health problems that affect millions of young people today. Her studies have begun to inform when and how to target treatments to the individual based on age and genetic profile (i.e., precision medicine) and have implications for juvenile justice and mental health policy reform. Her scientific discoveries have been published in over 250 articles in top tier journals including Science, Nature Medicine, Nature Neuroscience, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, cited over 73,000 times and highlighted by NPR, PBS, NY Times and National Geographic. She has received numerous life-time achievement awards for her science and mentoring from the Association for Psychological Science, the American Psychological Association, the Cognitive Neuroscience Society and the Society for Neuroscience and she is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Science.
Casey has served on several advisory boards including the NIMH Board of Scientific Counselors and NIMH Council, the Scientific Advisory Board for NARSAD, the Advisory Board for the Human Connectome Project- Life Span Study, the National Research Council Board of Children, Youth and Families, and National Research Council and Institute of Medicine committees of the National Academies on the Science of Adolescent Risk Taking, Assessing Juvenile Justice Reform, and Sports Related Concussions in Youth. She has received funding from the NIMH, NIDA and NICHD, NSF, the John Merck Fund, the Dana Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation. She has been asked to present her work on the adolescent brain to congressional staff on Capital Hill, to the Washington State Supreme Court and to federal judges around the country.
Finally, Casey is someone who takes the training of the next generation of scientists as seriously as her own research, for which she is passionate.
For a current list of publications and citations: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=OQQzJnsAAAAJ&hl=en