Christine Massey is the Director of Research and Education at the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science at the University of Pennsylvania.

She is also the Director of PENNlincs, which serves as a research and development arm of the Institute, linking recent theory and research in cognitive science to education efforts in public schools and cultural institutions.

Innovation in data science and translational neuroscience to understand brain development and mental illness. Our research uses advanced analytics to integrate complex brain images and rich behavioral data.   Ultimately, we seek to map normal brain development and understand how alterations in brain maturation increase risk of psychiatric illness.

The human brain undergoes dramatic remodeling as it matures. Our work seeks to define normal patterns of brain development using multi-modal neuroimaging, network science, and machine learning methods.

Advances in psychiatric care are limited by our lack of understanding of the biology of these disorders. Using tools from network science and machine learning, we seek to link dysfunction in brain circuits to symptoms of mental illness such as irritability, executive dysfunction, impulsivity, and anhedonia.

Non-invasive neuroimaging methods continue to advance at a rapid pace. We develop software and analysis methods to minimize artifact, integrate high-dimensional data, maximize reproducibility, and enhance scalability. See our software page for further details.¹⁾