Kate MacDuffie

Postdoctoral fellow
University of Washington

Kate MacDuffie is a licensed clinical psychologist, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Washington and a bioethics fellow at the Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics at Seattle Children’s Hospital. MacDuffie’s research spans the areas of neuroimaging and neuroethics, with a focus on disclosure of results to participants with psychiatric or neurodevelopmental disorders.

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By Mac Shine

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The silent majority: How astrocytes shape the brain across scales

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