Brenden Tervo-Clemmens
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Credentials

PhD

Assistant Professor

Biography

Bio

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Division, and Masonic Institute for the Developing Brain, as well as an Institute for Translational Neuroscience Scholar. I earned my PhD (Clinical Psychology) from the University of Pittsburgh, with secondary training from Carnegie Mellon University (Cognitive Neuroscience), focusing on the intersection of developmental cognitive neuroscience, mental health research, and computational methods. I trained at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School for my predoctoral clinical internship and postdoctoral fellowship, with an emphasis on research and treatment of adolescents with substance use disorders.

Research in my lab aims to understand normative brain development and the emergence of mental health and substance use disorders during adolescence, integrating techniques from developmental cognitive neuroscience, computational methods, and psychopathology research. We are also engaged in methodological work aiming to evaluate and improve the reproducibility and ultimately, clinical and policy utility, of large-scale fMRI and behavioral assessment research in neurodevelopmental studies.

Administrative Assistant

(for academic support only)
Shelly Slominski
slomi001@umn.edu

In the Media

2024: Research featured in this New York Times article, titled, “Teen Drug and Alcohol Use Linked to Mental Health Distress.”
2024: Featured in this Medical School article titled, “High school students who report using alcohol, cannabis or nicotine at higher risk for suicidal thoughts and other mental health disorders”
2023: Featured in this article titled, "Is Your 18-Year-Old Really 'Mature'? New Brain Study Has Answers".
2023: The focus of this article titled, “Integrating his clinical work into his research an exciting prospect for new faculty member.”
2022: Invited on the Flux Society [Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience]: Sensitive Periods Podcast.
2022: Invited on the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) Neurosalience Podcast
2022: Featured on KCBS, San Francisco. Click here for more information.
2022: Research featured on Psychology Today, Click here for the article.
2021: Featured on WHYY, National Public Radio (NPR)-Affiliate, Philadelphia, Click here for more information.

Education

PhD, University of Pittsburgh

Major: Psychology (Clinical)

Minor: Quantitative Methodology (In Psychology)

MS, Villanova University

Major: Psychology (Experimental)

Graduate Certificate Program, Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Carnegie Mellon University and University of Pittsburgh

Major: Neuroscience

BA, Duquesne University

Major: Psychology

Fellowships, Residencies, and Visiting Engagements

MGH/NIDA K12 Postdoctoral Fellow,

Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School

Predoctoral Clinical Psychology Internship,

Massachusetts General Hospital/ Harvard Medical School

Honors and Recognition

Institute for Translational Neuroscience Scholar, University of Minnesota

Association for Psychological Science (APS) Rising Star

Outstanding Achievement and Promise for Future Accomplishments (Bassell Student Award), University of Pittsburgh

Dean's Graduate Scholarship, University of Pittsburgh

Pennsylvania Psychological Foundation (PPF) Education Award, Frank and MaryAnn Dattilio Scholarship

American Psychological Foundation (APF) Visionary Award

NIDA Director's Travel Award, College on Problems of Drug Dependence (CPDD)

Outstanding Research Paper by a Fellow in Psychology, Emerson Award, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Department of Psychiatry

NIDA/NIAA Webinars by Early Career Investigators in Addiction Neuroscience (WECAN)

Professional Memberships

Flux International Congress for Integrative Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

College on Problems of Drug Dependence

Organization for Human Brain Mapping

Selected Publications

Tervo-Clemmens, B., Gilman, J. M., Evins, A. E., Bentley, K. H., Nock, M. K., Smoller, J. W., & Schuster, R. M., 2024. Substance Use, Suicidal Thoughts, and Psychiatric Comorbidities Among High School Students. JAMA Pediatrics,

doi: https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapediatrics.2023.6263

Tervo-Clemmens, B., Calabro, F. J., Parr, A. C., Fedor, J., Foran, W., & Luna, B., 2023. A canonical trajectory of executive function maturation from adolescence to adulthood. Nature communications, 14 (1): 6922.

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-42540-8

Tervo-Clemmens, B., Karim, Z. A., Khan, S. Z., Ravindranath, O., Somerville, L. H., Schuster, R. M., ... & Evins, A. E., 2023. The Developmental Timing but Not Magnitude of Adolescent Risk-Taking Propensity Is Consistent Across Social, Environmental, and Psychological Factors. Journal of Adolescent Health,

doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2023.11.001 PubMed ID: 38085210.

Tervo-Clemmens, B., Marek, S., & Barch, D. M., 2023. Tailoring Psychiatric Neuroimaging to Translational Goals. JAMA Psychiatry, 80 (8): 765-766.

doi: https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2023.1416

Marek, S., Tervo-Clemmens, B. (shared first author), et al., 2022. Reproducible brain-wide association studies require thousands of individuals. Nature, 603 (7902): 654-660.

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04492-9 PubMed ID: 35296861.

Tervo-Clemmens, B., Quach, A., Calabro, F. J., Foran, W., & Luna, B., 2020. Meta-analysis and review of functional neuroimaging differences underlying adolescent vulnerability to substance use. NeuroImage, 209 116476.

doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116476 PubMed ID: 31875520.

Contact

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Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, F282/2A West Building, 2450 Riverside Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55454

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