Maternal Behavior

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • Adult-child interaction analysis: methodology and case application. 
  • Alterations in PKCgamma in the mouse hippocampus after prenatal exposure to heroin: a link from cell signaling to behavioral outcome. 
  • Behavioral influences on preterm birth: integrated analysis of the pregnancy, infection, and nutrition study. 
  • Chaos, danger, and maternal parenting in families: Links with adolescent adjustment in low- and middle-income countries. 
  • Childhood sexual trauma and subsequent parenting beliefs and behaviors. 
  • Cocaine-exposed preterm neonates show behavioral and hormonal differences. 
  • Completing the cycle: maternal effects as the missing link in plant life histories. 
  • Consequences of smoking during pregnancy on maternal health. 
  • Contraceptive use by obese women 1 year postpartum. 
  • Correlates and Consequences of Spanking and Verbal Punishment for Low-Income White, African American, and Mexican American Toddlers 
  • DNA methylation of NR3c1 in infancy: Associations between maternal caregiving and infant sex. 
  • Development of parenting self-efficacy in mothers of high-risk infants. 
  • Developmental outcome of very low birth weight infants at four years of age as a function of biological risk and psychosocial risk. 
  • Do juveniles help or hinder? Influence of juvenile offspring on maternal behavior and reproductive outcomes in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). 
  • Early nurture epigenetically tunes the oxytocin receptor. 
  • Effect of a paraprofessional home-visiting intervention on American Indian teen mothers’ and infants’ behavioral risks: a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Effect of an educational script on postpartum contraceptive use: a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Effects of Tennessee Medicaid managed care on obstetrical care and birth outcomes. 
  • Effects of a hybrid education program for Korean mothers of children with atopic dermatitis. 
  • Egalitarianism in female African lions. 
  • Emotional responses of mothers of late-preterm and term infants. 
  • Endocrine responses to mother-infant separation in developing rats. 
  • Epigenetic Programming by Maternal Behavior in the Human Infant. 
  • Epigenetic basis for the development of depression in children. 
  • Evidence for social referencing in young chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). 
  • Evolutionary perspectives on the role of oxytocin in human social behavior, social cognition and psychopathology. 
  • Examination of a conceptual model of child neglect. 
  • Examining pregnant women's hostile attributions about infants as a predictor of offspring maltreatment. 
  • Experimental research on the relation between food price changes and food-purchasing patterns: a targeted review. 
  • Factors That Influence Breastfeeding Initiation Among African American Women. 
  • Familiar social and nonsocial stimuli and the kitten's response to a strange environment. 
  • Female lions can identify potentially infanticidal males from their roars. 
  • Formative research methods for designing culturally appropriate, integrated child nutrition and development interventions: an overview. 
  • Human placental lactogen infusions into the medial preoptic area stimulate maternal behavior in steroid-primed, nulliparous female rats. 
  • Infant physiological response to the still-face paradigm: contributions of maternal sensitivity and infants' early regulatory behavior. 
  • Infants of depressed mothers show "depressed" behavior even with nondepressed adults. 
  • Introduction to special issue: 'Life history and learning: how childhood, caregiving and old age shape cognition and culture in humans and other animals'. 
  • Linking family hardship to children's lives. 
  • Longitudinal relation between state-trait maternal irritability and harsh parenting. 
  • Maternal aggression persists following lipopolysaccharide-induced activation of the immune system. 
  • Maternal depressive symptoms and child social preference during the early school years: mediation by maternal warmth and child emotion regulation. 
  • Maternal health prior to pregnancy and preterm birth among urban, low income black women in Baltimore: the Baltimore Preterm Birth Study. 
  • Maternal obesity, psychological factors, and breastfeeding initiation. 
  • Maternal recognition of infant calls in ring-tailed lemurs. 
  • Maternally responsive neurons in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis and medial preoptic area: Putative circuits for regulating anxiety and reward. 
  • Mother-child interaction quality as a partial mediator of the roles of maternal depressive symptomatology and socioeconomic status in the development of child behavior problems. Conduct Problems Prevention Research Group. 
  • NURTURE: development and pilot testing of a novel parenting intervention for mothers with histories of an eating disorder. 
  • Neurophenotyping genetically modified mice for social behavior. 
  • Parent and child behavior during immunization 
  • Parent-focused change to prevent obesity in preschoolers: results from the KAN-DO study. 
  • Photoperiod affects the expression of sex and species differences in leukocyte number and leukocyte trafficking in congeneric hamsters. 
  • Poverty as context for the parenting experience of low-income Lumbee Indian mothers with a medically fragile infant. 
  • Predicting developmental outcomes at school entry using a multiple-risk model: four American communities. The Conduct Problems Prevention Research Group. 
  • Predictors of breastfeeding in overweight and obese women: data from Active Mothers Postpartum (AMP). 
  • Predictors of child noncompliant behavior in the home. 
  • Pregravid body mass index is associated with early introduction of complementary foods. 
  • Pregravid body mass index, psychological factors during pregnancy and breastfeeding duration: is there a link? 
  • Prenatal air pollution exposure induces sexually dimorphic fetal programming of metabolic and neuroinflammatory outcomes in adult offspring. 
  • Preschool outcomes of children of depressed mothers: role of maternal behavior, contextual risk, and children's brain activity. 
  • Prevalence and incidence of probable perinatal depression among women enrolled in Option B+ antenatal HIV care in Malawi. 
  • Reflections on stillness: mothers' reactions to the still-face situation. 
  • Relationships between maternal and adolescent weight-related behaviors and concerns: the role of perception. 
  • Remission of maternal depression: relations to family functioning and youth internalizing and externalizing symptoms. 
  • Sex differences in learning in chimpanzees. 
  • Stability and change in the psychological adjustment of mothers of children and adolescents with cystic fibrosis and sickle cell disease. 
  • Tactile and nutritional aspects of maternal care: specific regulators of neuroendocrine function and cellular development. 
  • Teen-aged mothers in contemporary Britain. 
  • Testing the mid-range model: Attachment in a high risk sample. 
  • The Contributions of Maternal Sensitivity and Maternal Depressive Symptoms to Epigenetic Processes and Neuroendocrine Functioning. 
  • The emergence of affiliative behavior in infant spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta). 
  • The impact of prenatal education on behavioral changes toward breast feeding and smoking cessation in a healthy start population. 
  • The influence of maternal child-rearing attitudes and teaching behaviors on preschoolers' delay of gratification. 
  • The relation between mothers' hostile attribution tendencies and children's externalizing behavior problems: the mediating role of mothers' harsh discipline practices. 
  • The relationship between planned and reported home infant sleep locations among mothers of late preterm and term infants. 
  • The role of early experience in shaping behavioral and brain development and its implications for social policy. 
  • The work of worrying: battered women and their children. 
  • Trends in the maternal investment of harbour porpoises are uncoupled from the dynamics of their primary prey. 
  • Unintended pregnancy and prenatal behaviors among urban, black women in Baltimore, Maryland: the Baltimore preterm birth study. 
  • Use of videotaped interactions during pediatric well-child care: impact at 33 months on parenting and on child development. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Dodge, Kenneth A., William McDougall Distinguished Professor of Public Policy Studies, Duke Science & Society