Ashley L. Ware, PH.D.

Research Interests

Brain health, development, and aging from childhood through early-to-middle adulthood in typical and neurological populations; social determinants of brain and cognitive health; impact of health and social inequities on brain and cognitive health across the lifespan; use of noninvasive neuroimaging to study neural plasticity; combine neuropsychological assessment with cognitive and computational neuroscience techniques to study clinical outcomes and recovery in neurological disorders, particularly traumatic brain injury; advanced neuroimaging biomarkers for brain, cognitive, and emotional functioning in neurological and neurodevelopmental disorders across the lifespan.

RESEARCH TECHNIQUES

Clinical neuropsychological assessment; advanced noninvasive MRI; multimodal neuroimaging; predictive neuroimaging; cognitive neuroscience; computational neuroscience; longitudinal design.

Opportunities for Students

Dr. Ware will be reviewing applications for the Fall 2025 admissions cycle (entering class of Fall 2026).

We recognize that applying to graduate school is a challenging and uncertain process. To help make that process more transparent and constructive, prospective applicants are encouraged to carefully review the information below:

Competitive applications typically demonstrate many of the following:

• • Significant prior experience in neuropsychology, cognitive assessment, or cognitive neuroscience
    • Often through undergraduate honors theses, poster presentations, post-baccalaureate research, or authorship on peer-reviewed manuscripts
  • Direct experience with clinical populations, such as work as a psychometrist, psychiatric technician, crisis-line worker, or behavioral technician
  • Strong academic record, excellent letters of recommendation, strong work ethic, and a passion for science
    Familiarity with MRI or neuroimaging data processing, basic programming or data analysis, and/or coursework in philosophy

Applications with limited experience in these areas are unlikely to be competitive.

In your personal statement, please describe how your training thus far aligns with our lab and why this program is a strong fit for your long-term goals. 

Education

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (2018-2022)
University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
Department of Psychology
Brain Injury Research in Children (BiRCH) Lab and Developmental Neuroimaging Lab
Supervisors: Keith Owen Yeates, PhD, ABPP and Catherine Lebel, PhD

Doctor of Philosophy (APA-Accredited) (2013-2018)
University of Houston, Houston, TX
Area of Concentration: Clinical Neuropsychology
Certificate in Child/Lifespan
Chair: Jack M. Fletcher, PhD, ABPP
Co-chair: Elisabeth A. Wilde, PhD

Predoctoral Clinical Internship (APA-Accredited) (2017-2018)
Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA
Area of Concentration: Clinical Neuropsychology
Certificate in Adult/Child

Master of Arts (2010-2013)
San Diego State University, San Diego, CA
Area of Concentration: Clinical Psychology
Chair: Sarah N. Mattson, PhD

Bachelor of Arts (2007-2009)
Cum Laude
University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, NC
Major: Psychology

Fine Arts Major (2004-2006)
Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Focus: Cello Performance

 

Selected Publications

Underlined indicates mentored trainee; † indicates equal contribution.

†Lee, M. A., †Shepard, H., … & Ware, A. L. on behalf of the A-CAP Study Team (2025). Acute emotion symptoms predict emotional problems up to 6 months after pediatric concussion. Manuscript submitted to Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, under review.

Lee, M. A., Yeates, K. O., … & Ware, A. L. on behalf of the A-CAP Study Team (2025). Cognitive function up to 6 months after pediatric concussion: an A-CAP study. Manuscript submitted to Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, under review.

Yeates, K. O., Tang, k., Zhang, C., Beauchamp, M. H., Craig, W., Doan, Q., Freedman, S. B., Gravel. J., Ware, A. L., & Zemek, R., on behalf of Pediatric Emergency Research Canada (PERC) A-CAP Study Team (2025). Symptom trajectories and their biopsychosocial correlates in pediatric concussion. Manuscript under review for Journal of Neurotrauma, in press. 

Marbil, M. G., Galarneau, J. M., … †Yeates, K. O., & †Ware, A. L. (2025). Posttraumatic headache subtypes and clinical recovery after pediatric concussion. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 1-13. 

Onicas, A. I., Deighton, S., … Ware, A. L. on behalf of the A-CAP Study Team (2025). Longitudinal functional network connectivity in pediatric concussion. Neurology, 104 (8).

Kennedy, E., Vadlamani, S., …. Ware, A. L., … & Dennis, E. (2025) Linking symptom inventories using semantic textual similarity. Journal of Neurotrauma, in press.

Dharsee, S., Laliberté Durish, C., Tang, K., Brooks, B. L., Noel, M., Ware, A. L., Beauchamp, M. H., Craig, W., Doan, Q., Freedman, S. B., Goodyear, B. G., Gravel, J., Zemek, R., Yeates, K. O., & Pediatric Emergency Research Canada (PERC) A-CAP Study Team (2024). Association of psychological resilience, cognitive reserve, and brain reserve with post-concussive symptoms in children with mild traumatic brain injury and orthopedic injury: an A-CAP study. Journal of Neurotrauma, 10.1089/neu.2024.0076. Advance online publication. PMID: 38874919

 
Onicas, A. I., Deighton, S., Yeates, K. O., Bray, S., Graff, K., Abdeen, N., Beauchamp, M. H., Beaulieu, C., Bjornson, B., Craig, W., Dehaes, M., Deschenes, S., Doan, Q., Freedman, S. B., Goodyear, B. G., Gravel, J., Lebel, C., Ledoux, A.-A., Zemek, R., & Ware, A. L. (2024). Longitudinal functional connectome in pediatric concussion: an advancing concussion assessment in pediatrics study. Journal of Neurotrauma, 41(5-6), 587–603. PMID: 37489293