Amanda Norona-Zhou, PhD
Assistant Director
Psychiatry
School of Medicine

Dr. Noroña-Zhou conducts research on prenatal and intergenerational influences on child and family wellbeing and the role that malleable, policy-relevant social factors can play in both preventing family stress exposures as well as supporting families already exposed to stress. In her role as Assistant Director of IDHP, she is working to develop clearer pathways for social scientists to translate and disseminate their findings into programs and policies that improve the lives of families in our communities. She also serves as a prenatal stress science consultant for several NIH- and philanthropy-funded prospective, longitudinal research projects, including the Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) PATHWAYS study, the SEED prenatal programming study, and the TIDES multi-site prenatal programming study. As a second-generational Filipino American, Dr. Noroña-Zhou also works to advance the adoption of anti-racist, decolonized frameworks and methods in the scientific process.

Dr. Noroña-Zhou completed her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at UCLA, where her research examined the development of emotion regulation in childhood, a risk factor for various mental health difficulties across the lifespan; her clinical training focused on child and family mental health. She completed her capstone clinical internship in child health psychology from Children’s Hospital Colorado, where she received specialty training in providing integrated developmental, behavioral, and mental health services in pediatric primary care. She then completed a postdoctoral research fellowship in developmental psychopathology and prenatal programming at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. Across these experiences, Dr. Noroña-Zhou gained expertise in maternal-child mental health, integrated behavioral healthcare, psychobiological indices of stress, and family-based treatments for childhood anxiety, trauma, disruptive behaviors, and depression.

• Unpredictable maternal behavior is associated with a blunted infant cortisol response.
  Developmental psychobiology 2020 Noroña-Zhou AN, Morgan A, Glynn LM, Sandman CA, Baram TZ, Stern HS, Davis EP
• Childhood maltreatment affects adolescent sensitivity to parenting and close friendships in predicting growth in externalizing behavior.
  Development and psychopathology 2019 Tung I, Noroña AN, Lee SS
• Patterns of Sensitivity to Parenting and Peer Environments: Early Temperament and Adolescent Externalizing Behavior.
  Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence 2018 Tung I, Noroña AN, Morgan JE, Caplan B, Lee SS, Baker BL
• Temperamental sensitivity to early maltreatment and later family cohesion for externalizing behaviors in youth adopted from foster care.
  Child abuse & neglect 2017 Tung I, Noroña AN, Lee SS, Langley AK, Waterman JM
• Prenatal programming of postnatal plasticity for externalizing behavior: Testing an integrated developmental model of genetic and temperamental sensitivity to the environment.
  Developmental psychobiology 2017 Tung I, Morgan JE, Noroña AN, Lee SS
• COMT and DAT1 polymorphisms moderate the indirect effect of parenting behavior on youth ADHD symptoms through neurocognitive functioning.
  Child neuropsychology : a journal on normal and abnormal development in childhood and adolescence 2017 Morgan JE, Caplan B, Tung I, Noroña AN, Baker BL, Lee SS
• Developmental Patterns of Child Emotion Dysregulation as Predicted by Serotonin Transporter Genotype and Parenting.
  Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53 2017 Noroña AN, Tung I, Lee SS, Blacher J, Crnic KA, Baker BL
• Developmental delay and emotion dysregulation: Predicting parent-child conflict across early to middle childhood.
  Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) 2017 Marquis WA, Noroña AN, Baker BL
• The effects of early positive parenting and developmental delay status on child emotion dysregulation.
  Journal of intellectual disability research : JIDR 2016 Norona AN, Baker BL
• The transactional relationship between parenting and emotion regulation in children with or without developmental delays.
  Research in developmental disabilities 2014 Norona AN, Baker BL
• Electrophysiological evidence of heterogeneity in visual statistical learning in young children with ASD.
  Developmental science 2014 Jeste SS, Kirkham N, Senturk D, Hasenstab K, Sugar C, Kupelian C, Baker E, Sanders AJ, Shimizu C, Norona A, Paparella T, Freeman SF, Johnson SP
• Atypical face processing in children with tuberous sclerosis complex.
  Journal of child neurology 2012 Jeste SS, Hirsch S, Vogel-Farley V, Norona A, Navalta MC, Gregas MC, Prabhu SP, Sahin M, Nelson CA