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Megan M. Herting is affiliated with the University of Southern California in the United States and has a research profile spanning medicine and environmental science. Their work intersects multiple subfields including health, toxicology and mutagenesis, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, cognitive neuroscience, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, as well as speech and hearing.

The scientist's research covers a variety of main topics, notably:

  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Noise Effects and Management
  • Birth, Development, and Health

Herting has contributed to numerous papers, some of which have attracted considerable citations. Recent examples include:

  • The Roles of Physical Activity, Exercise, and Fitness in Promoting Resilience During Adolescence: Effects on Mental Well-Being and Brain Development (2020, Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging)
  • Inter-individual variability in structural brain development from late childhood to young adulthood (2021, NeuroImage)
  • Fine particulate matter exposure during childhood relates to hemispheric-specific differences in brain structure (2020, Environment International)
  • Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study Linked External Data (LED): Protocol and practices for geocoding and assignment of environmental data (2021, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience)
  • Correspondence Between Perceived Pubertal Development and Hormone Levels in 9-10 Year-Olds From the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study (2021, Frontiers in Endocrinology)

Frequent coauthors in Herting's work include Hedyeh Ahmadi, Katherine L. Bottenhorn, Carlos Cardenas-Iniguez, Daniel A. Hackman, and Devyn L. Cotter.

The scientist regularly publishes in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Environment International, ISEE Conference Abstracts, and NeuroImage.

Best Publications

  • Image processing and analysis methods for the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study.

    Donald J. Hagler;Sean N. Hatton;M. Daniela Cornejo;Carolina Makowski

  • Development of the cerebral cortex across adolescence: A multisample study of inter-related longitudinal changes in cortical volume, surface area, and thickness

    Christian Krog Tamnes;Megan M. Herting;Anne-Lise Goddings;Rosa Meuwese

  • Structural brain development between childhood and adulthood: Convergence across four longitudinal samples

    Kathryn L. Mills;Anne-Lise Goddings;Megan M. Herting;Rosa Meuwese

  • The Impact of Sex, Puberty, and Hormones on White Matter Microstructure in Adolescents

    Megan M. Herting;Emily C. Maxwell;Christy Irvine;Bonnie J. Nagel

  • Puberty and structural brain development in humans.

    Megan M. Herting;Elizabeth R. Sowell

  • The Roles of Physical Activity, Exercise, and Fitness in Promoting Resilience During Adolescence: Effects on Mental Well-Being and Brain Development.

    Britni R. Belcher;Jennifer Zink;Anisa Azad;Claire E. Campbell

  • The role of testosterone and estradiol in brain volume changes across adolescence: a longitudinal structural MRI study.

    Megan M. Herting;Prapti Gautam;Jeffrey M. Spielberg;Eric Kan

  • Altered white matter microstructure in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

    Bonnie J. Nagel;Deepti Bathula;Megan Herting;Colleen Schmitt

  • Development of subcortical volumes across adolescence in males and females: A multisample study of longitudinal changes

    Megan M. Herting;Cory Johnson;Kathryn L. Mills;Nandita Vijayakumar

  • Aerobic fitness relates to learning on a virtual morris water task and hippocampal volume in adolescents

    Megan M. Herting;Bonnie J. Nagel

  • A Longitudinal Study: Changes in Cortical Thickness and Surface Area during Pubertal Maturation

    Megan M. Herting;Prapti Gautam;Jeffrey M. Spielberg;Ronald E. Dahl

  • Delay discounting behavior and white matter microstructure abnormalities in youth with a family history of alcoholism.

    Megan M. Herting;Daniel Schwartz;Suzanne H. Mitchell;Bonnie J. Nagel

  • Quality Control of Structural MRI Images Applied Using FreeSurfer—A Hands-On Workflow to Rate Motion Artifacts

    Lea L Backhausen;Megan M Herting;Judith Buse;Veit Roessner

  • Hemispheric Lateralization of Verbal and Spatial Working Memory during Adolescence.

    Bonnie J. Nagel;Megan M. Herting;Emily C. Maxwell;Richard Bruno

  • Inter-individual variability in structural brain development from late childhood to young adulthood.

    Kathryn L. Mills;Kimberly D. Siegmund;Christian K. Tamnes;Lia Ferschmann

  • Exercise, cognition, and the adolescent brain.

    Megan M. Herting;Xiaofang Chu

  • Fine particulate matter exposure during childhood relates to hemispheric-specific differences in brain structure.

    Dora Cserbik;Jiu-Chiuan Chen;Rob McConnell;Kiros Berhane

  • Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study Linked External Data (LED): Protocol and Practices for Geocoding and Assignment of Environmental Data

    Chun Chieh Fan;Andrew Marshall;Harry Smolker;Marybel R. Gonzalez

  • Altered fronto-cerebellar connectivity in alcohol-naïve youth with a family history of alcoholism

    Megan M. Herting;Damien A. Fair;Bonnie J. Nagel

  • Current, future and potential use of mobile and wearable technologies and social media data in the ABCD study to increase understanding of contributors to child health.

    K.S. Bagot;S.A. Matthews;M. Mason;Lindsay M. Squeglia

  • Test-retest reliability of longitudinal task-based fMRI: Implications for developmental studies.

    Megan M. Herting;Prapti Gautam;Prapti Gautam;Zhanghua Chen;Adam Mezher

Frequent Co-Authors

Elizabeth R. Sowell
Elizabeth R. Sowell University of Southern California
Bonnie J. Nagel
Bonnie J. Nagel Oregon Health & Science University
Susan F. Tapert
Susan F. Tapert University of California, San Diego
Wesley K. Thompson
Wesley K. Thompson University of California, San Diego
Deborah A. Yurgelun-Todd
Deborah A. Yurgelun-Todd University of Utah
Fiona C. Baker
Fiona C. Baker SRI International
Christian K. Tamnes
Christian K. Tamnes University of Oslo
Damien A. Fair
Damien A. Fair University of Minnesota
Terry L. Jernigan
Terry L. Jernigan University of California, San Diego
Ronald E. Dahl
Ronald E. Dahl University of California, Berkeley

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