Mary Ellen Lynch, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Phone: 404-712-9800

mlynch@emory.edu

Current Projects: Co-Investigator and Project Coordinator for Emory Adult Assessment Project; Co-Investigator for the Emory Teen Imaging Study and the Emory Language Development Study

Education: University of Nebraska at Omaha, B.A. in Psychology, 1973. University of Nebraska at Omaha, M.A. in Psychology, 1975. Cornell University, Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology, 1982

Professional Interests: Research interests include parent-adolescent relationships; impact of maternal substance abuse on child and adolescent development; social perception processes

Selected publications:

Brown, J.V., Bakeman, R., Coles, C.D., Platzman, K.A., & Lynch, M.E. (2004). Prenatal cocaine exposure: A comparison of 2-year-old children in parental and nonparental care. Child Development, 75 (4), 1282-1295.

Lynch, M.E., Coles, C.D., Corley, T. C. & Falek, A. (2003). Examining delinquency in adolescents differentially prenatally exposed to alcohol: The role of proximal and distal risk factors. Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 64(5), 678-686.

Coles, C.D., Platzman, K.A., Lynch, M.E., & Freides, D. (2002) Auditory and visual sustained attention in adolescents prenatally exposed to alcohol. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 26, 263-271.

Coles, C.D. & Lynch, M.E. (2000). Adolescents with disabilities: Insights for individuals with FAS/FAE. In J. Kleinfeld, B. Morse, & S. Westfield (Eds.), Fantastic Antone grows up: Adolescents and adults with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. (pp. 247-258). Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press.

Bard, K.A., Coles, C.D., Platzman, K.A., & Lynch, M.E. (2000). The effects of prenatal drug exposure, term status, and caregiving on arousal and arousal modulation in 8-week-old infants. Developmental Psychobiology, 36, 194-212.