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Journal article Psychoneuroendocrinology · April 2026 ObjectiveTo explore relations between cortisol response measured by hair cortisol concentrations (HCC), war exposure (e.g., air alarms and explosions), and psychological distress for youth living in Ukraine during the current invasion.Methods< ... Full text Cite

Regulation of Stress Physiology While Parenting: a Randomized Micro-trial of Loving-Kindness Meditation on Parenting and Salivary Alpha Amylase.

Journal article Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · April 2025 Sensitive parenting early in life sets children up for healthy development, and this type of parenting draws on the parent's compassion and physiological regulation. Loving-kindness meditations (LKM) increase compassion and reduce physiological responses t ... Full text Cite

Subtypes of Childhood Social Withdrawal and Adult Relationship and Parenting Outcomes.

Journal article International journal of behavioral development · October 2024 The aims of the current 30-year prospective study were to determine: 1) whether socially withdrawn kindergarten children are less likely than others to enter serious romantic relationships or become parents by age 34, 2) whether socially withdrawn children ... Full text Open Access Cite

Previously institutionalized toddlers' social and emotional competence and kindergarten adjustment: Indirect effects through executive function.

Journal article Developmental psychology · December 2023 Longitudinal multimethod data across three time points were examined to explore the associations between previously institutionalized toddlers' (N = 71; 59% female) socioemotional skills (Time Point 1: 18 months to 3-years-old), executive functionin ... Full text Cite

A Meta-analysis of Loving-Kindness Meditations on Self-Compassion

Journal article Mindfulness · October 1, 2023 Objectives: Accumulating evidence from the last two decades suggests self-compassion is central to psychological well-being and reduced psychopathology symptoms. Loving-kindness meditations (LKMs), a mindfulness practice that involves sending feelings of k ... Full text Cite

Maternal stress and development of infant attention to threat-related facial expressions.

Journal article Developmental psychobiology · November 2022 Attentional biases to threat-related stimuli, such as fearful and angry facial expressions, are important to survival and emerge early in development. Infants demonstrate an attentional bias to fearful facial expressions by 5-7 months of age and an attenti ... Full text Cite

Associations Between Maternal Stress, Early Language Behaviors, and Infant Electroencephalography During the First Year of Life.

Journal article Journal of child language · July 2021 Associations have been observed between socioeconomic status (SES) and language outcomes from early childhood, but individual variability is high. Exposure to high levels of stress, often associated with low-SES status, might influence how parents and infa ... Full text Cite

Infants' abilities to respond to cues for joint attention vary by family socioeconomic status.

Journal article Infancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant Studies · March 2021 The influence of socioeconomic variability on language and cognitive development is present from toddlerhood to adolescence and calls for investigating its earliest manifestation. Response to joint attention (RJA) abilities constitute a foundational develo ... Full text Cite

Temporal dynamics of visual representations in the infant brain.

Journal article Developmental cognitive neuroscience · October 2020 Tools from computational neuroscience have facilitated the investigation of the neural correlates of mental representations. However, access to the representational content of neural activations early in life has remained limited. We asked whether patterns ... Full text Cite

An exploratory study of predictors of cognition in two low-income samples of infants across the first year of life.

Journal article PloS one · January 2020 ObjectiveIn this exploratory longitudinal study we assessed cognitive development in a community sample of infants born into predominantly low-income families from two different urban sites, to identify family and community factors that may associ ... Full text Cite

Neglect, HPA axis reactivity, and development.

Journal article International journal of developmental neuroscience : the official journal of the International Society for Developmental Neuroscience · November 2019 Neglect is a common and frequently chronic form of child maltreatment that can compromise child development and increase the risk of physical and psychological problems. In this review, we discuss one of the potential ways neglect becomes biologically embe ... Full text Cite

Association of Perceived Maternal Stress During the Perinatal Period With Electroencephalography Patterns in 2-Month-Old Infants.

Journal article JAMA pediatrics · June 2019 ImportanceVariation in child responses to adversity creates a clinical challenge to identify children most resilient or susceptible to later risk for disturbances in cognition and health. Advances in establishing scalable biomarkers can lead to ea ... Full text Cite