Laura R. Ment, MD

Laura R. Ment, M.D., is a Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology and Associate Dean for Admissions and Financial Aid at Yale University School of Medicine. She is a graduate of Brown University and Tufts University School of Medicine and received her training in both Pediatrics and Pediatric Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Ment’s clinical interests include neonatal brain injury in both preterm and term infants, as well as developmental delay, epilepsy and neurogenetic disorders. She has been a member of the NANDS Council of the National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke, and her research interests include adaptive mechanisms of the developing brain, prevention of injury in preterm neonates, long-term neurodevelopmental and neuroimaging sequelae, and genetic mechanisms responsible for these changes. Her magnetic resonance studies explore neural connectivity in the preterm brain and typically developing fetus, and her most recent work is focused on identifying biomarkers of growth and maturation of the developing brain.