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BioRuohan's research centers around understanding the genetic and environmental mechanisms supporting infants' and young children's socioemotional development through the lens of developmental cognitive neuroscience. Her PhD research focused on uncovering he neural and caregiver correlates on infants' emotion-perception neural circuitry during live interactions in typically developing children using electroencephalogram (EEG). At Stanford, she is pursuing research questions using a combination of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and EEG to identify the endophenotype of the neural anatomy and function in children with rare genetic conditions such as neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) and Noonan Syndrome (NS) differ from typically developing counterparts, and explore how such neural differences may lead to unique developmental trajectory of social communication.