Ashley C Parr, PhD

Research Instructor in Psychiatry

Contact Details

3811 O'Hara St.

Pittsburgh

15213

Email parrac@upmc.edu

Education & Training

PhD

Neuroscience (Neuroeconomics), Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Developmental Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Professional Affiliations

Member, Society for Neuroscience

Member, Flux: The Society for Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

Member, Organization for Human Brain Mapping

Research Interests

Developmental neuroscience; Neuroeconomics

Selected Research Publications & Products

Parr AC, Calabro F, Tervo-Clemmens B, Larsen B, Foran W, Luna B. Contributions ofdopamine-related basal ganglia neurophysiology to the developmental effects of incentiveson inhibitory control. In Press at Dev Cogn Neurosci. Manuscript ID: DCN-D-21-00252.
Parr AC, Calancie O, Coe B, Khan S, Munoz D. Development of mixed-strategy decisionmaking in adolescents with and without borderline personality disorder. Front Neurosci.: Decision Neuroscience. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2021.667399
Parr AC, Calabro F, Larsen B, Tervo-Clemmens B, Foran W, Olafsson V, Luna B. Dopaminerelated striatal neurophysiology is associated with specialization of frontostriatal reward circuitry through adolescence. Prog Neurobiol. PMID: 33667595.

December 11, 2023

Publications

Nature Communications: A Canonical Trajectory of Executive Function Maturation from Adolescence to Adulthood

Luna and Colleagues Nature Communications 2023

Theories of human neurobehavioral development suggest executive functions mature from childhood through adolescence, a time when individuals may also experience peaks in risk-taking behaviors such as substance use, and increased vulnerability to psychiatric disorders. However, the timing of adolescent executive function development and the specific age when executive functions reach adult levels have been...

October 4, 2022

Faculty

The Department of Psychiatry Welcomes Three New Faculty Members

The Department of Psychiatry Welcomes Drs. Parr, Stepan and Punzi

Pitt Psychiatry extends a warm welcome to three new faculty members: Ashley Parr, PhD (Research Instructor in Psychiatry) Dr. Parr earned her PhD in neuroscience, with a focus on neuroeconomics, from Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada. She then came to the University of Pittsburgh for postdoctoral research training under the mentorship of Bea Luna, PhD (Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology and...