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Michaela Cordova, B.S.

Pronouns: Michaela

Doctoral Student
2021-Present

SDSU / UC San Diego Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology
Neuropsychology

San Diego

Areas of Research

Heterogeneity of neurodevelopmental disorders (ASD/ADHD) using machine learning techniques and brain imaging.

Bio

I’m a PhD student at the UCSD/SDSU Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, as well as a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. Previously, I’m worked as a Research Associate with the Developmental Cognition and Neuroimaging Lab (DCAN) at Oregon Health and Science University and as a contract researcher for the University of Minnesota.

Mentors

Ruth Carper, Ph.D., SDSU

Details

Education
  1. B.S., Psychology
    Portland State University
Publications
  1. Cordova, M., Shada, K., Demeter, D.V., Doyle, O., Miranda-Dominguez, O., Perrone, A., Schifsky, E., Graham, A., Fombonne, E., Langhorst, B., Nigg, J., Fair, D.A., Feczko, E. (2020) Heterogeneity of executive function revealed by a functional random forest approach across ADHD and ASD. NeuroImage: Clinical. doi: 10.1016/j.nicl.2020.102245
  2. Marek, S., Tervo-Clemmens, B., Nielsen, A., Wheelock, M., Miller, R., Laumann, T., Earl, E., Foran, W., Cordova, M., Doyle, O., Perrone, A., Miranda-Dominguez, O., Feczko, E., Sturgeon, D., Graham, A., Hermosillo, R., Snider, K., Galassi, A., Nagel, B., Feldstein Ewing, S., Eggebrecht, A., Garavan, H., Dale, A., Greene, D., Barch, D., Fair, D.A., Luna, B., Dosenbach, N. (2019) Identifying Reproducible Individual Differences in Childhood Functional Brain Networks: An ABCD Study. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. doi:10.1016/j.dcn.2019.100706
  3. Henry, T.R., Feczko, E., Cordova, M., Earl, E., Williams, S., Nigg, J., Fair, D.A., Gates, K.M. (2019). Comparing Directed Functional Connectivity Between Groups with Confirmatory Subgrouping GIMME. NeuroImage. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.12.040
  4. Karalunas, S.L., Hawkey, E., Gustafsson, H., Miller, M., Langhorst, B., Cordova, M., Fair, D.A., Nigg, J. (2018) Overlapping and distinct cognitive impairments in attention-deficit/hyperactivity and autism spectrum disorder without intellectual disability. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology. doi:10.1007/s10802-017-0394-2
  5. Feczko, E., Balba, N., Miranda-Dominguez, O., Cordova, M., Karalunas, S.L., Irwin, L., Demeter, D.V., Hill, A.P., Langhorst, B., Grieser-Painter, J., Van Santen, J., Fombonne, E., Nigg, J., Fair, D.A. (2017). Subtyping cognitive profiles in autism spectrum disorder using a random forest algorithm. NeuroImage. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.12.044
  6. Mills, B., Miranda-Dominguez, O., Mills, K., Earl, E., Cordova, M., Grieser-Painter, J., Karalunas, S., Nigg, J., Fair, D.A. (2017). ADHD and attentional control: Impaired segregation of task positive and task negative brain networks. Network Neuroscience. doi:10.1162/NETN_a_00034
Awards & Honors
  1. National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, 2020