Isabelle Ouellet‐Morin
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Isabelle Ouellet‐Morin’s research lies at the intersection of developmental psychopathology, behavioural genetics, and stress neurobiology, with a focus on how early-life freezing responses shape mental health trajectories. Her major contribution involves demonstrating that the duration of freezing—a primitive threat response—during toddlerhood is not merely a fleeting behaviour but a genetically informed marker of vulnerability to internalizing symptoms in adolescence. By applying twin models to observational data, she has shown that both excessively long and absent freezing reactions carry distinct aetiological pathways, linking them to anxiety and depression through gene–environment interplay. Her 2022 study on the gene–environment aetiology of freezing, though recently published with 7 citations, has already sparked interest for its novel integration of ethological paradigms with molecular and quantitative genetics. This work positions her as a rising leader in translational developmental science, offering a mechanistic bridge between basic stress physiology and clinical risk. Her findings hold promise for early identification of children at risk for internalizing disorders, making her research both theoretically innovative and practically impactful for prevention science.
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