I am part of the Georgia Center for Developmental Science (GCDS) at the University of Georgia, where our team studies how adversity influences human development and resilience. Using multiple methods, including neuroimaging (fMRI), stress physiology, behavioral observation, and surveys, we examine how individual, family, peer, and neighborhood contexts interact to shape youth outcomes.

My research is grounded in the Psychosocial Model of Hormesis (Oshri, 2023), which suggests that certain types of stressors, when experienced at moderate levels and within specific environmental and developmental contexts, can promote strengthening effects and resilience. I view resilience as a system property that develops through nonlinear, dynamic interactions among biological, psychological, and social processes, and from the adaptive responses elicited by adversity itself. Guided by this systems perspective, our work seeks to identify mechanisms of self-regulation and adaptation that support healthy development. Through longitudinal and multi-level approaches, we aim to inform prevention and intervention efforts and advance a more integrative science of resilience. 

Current NIH Funded Research

A Neuroecological Approach to Examining the Effects of Early Life Adversity on Adolescent Drug Use Vulnerabilities Using the ABCD Dataset

Role: Principal Investigator; NIDA (R01DA058334) 

Early Adversity and Drug Use Vulnerability Among Low-Income Rural Children: Testing a Neuro-ecological Model of Resilience.

Role: Principal Investigator; NIDA (R01 DA055630-01) 

Selected Publications

Oshri, A., Howard, C. J., Kogan, S. M., Shang, L., Geier, C. F., & Bauer, B. W. (2025). Neurobehavioral pathways linking socioeconomic status hardship to suicide risk versus resilience in young adolescents: The roles of sleep health and default mode network connectivity. Nature: Translational Psychiatry, 15, 497.DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-025-03710-y

Oshri, A., *Reck, A. J., Carter, S. E., Uddin, L. Q., Geier, C. F., Beach, S., Brody, G., Kogan, S., Sweet, L. (2024). Racial discrimination and risk for internalizing and externalizing symptoms among Black youths. JAMA network open, 7(6), e2416491-e2416491.

Oshri, A., *Howard, C.J., *Zhang, L., *Reck, A., Cui, Z., Liu, S., Duprey, E., *Evans, A.E. *Azarmehr, R., & Geier, C. (2024) Strengthening through adversity: The hormesis model in developmental psychopathology. Development and Psychopathology, Published Online, 1-17. DOI

Oshri, A., *Liu, S., Suveg, C. M., Caughy, M. O. B., & *Huffman, L. G. (2023). Biological sensitivity to context as a dyadic construct: An investigation of child–parent RSA synchrony among low-SES youth. Development and Psychopathology, 35(1), 95-108. DOI

Oshri, A. (2023). The hormesis model for building resilience through adversity: Attention to mechanism, context and developmental timing, Review of General Psychology, 27(3). DOI

Oshri, A., Liu, S., Caughy, O. M., Suveg, C., & *Goodgame-Huffman, L. (2023). Biological sensitivity to context as a dyadic construct: an investigation of child-parent RSA synchrony among low-SES youth. Development and Psychopathology, 35(1), 95-108. DOI