Nicolas Camacho

Journal article Journal of affective disorders · June 2026 The emergence of depression during the preschool years is well established. However, the neural correlates of depressive symptoms during this developmental period remain relatively understudied. Prior work has suggested a concurrent association between lef ... Full text Cite

Dimensions of Depressive Symptoms in Young Children: Factor Analysis of the Preschool Feelings Checklist-Scale.

Journal article Assessment · June 2025 The current study is an investigation of the dimensionality of the Preschool Feelings Checklist-Scale (PFC-S), a caregiver-report questionnaire of early childhood depressive symptom severity. Caregivers of 450 young children, ages 3-8 years (M = 5.6 ... Full text Cite

Probing the content of affective semantic memory following caregiving-related early adversity.

Journal article Developmental science · November 2024 Cognitive science has demonstrated that we construct knowledge about the world by abstracting patterns from routinely encountered experiences and storing them as semantic memories. This preregistered study tested the hypothesis that caregiving-related earl ... Full text Cite

Exploring the optimal factor structure of mind-wandering: Associations with neuroticism.

Journal article PLoS One · 2024 Mind-wandering is an essential cognitive process in which people engage for 30-50% of their waking day and is highly associated with neuroticism. The current study identified the factor structure of retrospective self-report items related to mind-wandering ... Full text Link to item Cite

Associations between pre-pandemic authoritative parenting, pandemic stressors, and children's depression and anxiety at the initial stage of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Journal article Scientific reports · September 2023 Large-scale changes due to the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic negatively affected children's mental health. Prior research suggests that children's mental health problems during the pandemic may have been concurrently attenuated by an authoritative ... Full text Cite

Toxicant exposure and the developing brain: A systematic review of the structural and functional MRI literature.

Journal article Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · January 2023 Youth worldwide are regularly exposed to pollutants and chemicals (i.e., toxicants) that may interfere with healthy brain development, and a surge in MRI research has begun to characterize the neurobiological consequences of these exposures. Here, a system ... Full text Cite

Heterogeneity in caregiving-related early adversity: Creating stable dimensions and subtypes.

Journal article Development and psychopathology · May 2022 Early psychosocial adversities exist at many levels, including caregiving-related, extrafamilial, and sociodemographic, which despite their high interrelatedness may have unique impacts on development. In this paper, we focus on caregiving-related early ad ... Full text Cite

Adaptation in the face of adversity: Decrements and enhancements in children's cognitive control behavior following early caregiving instability.

Journal article Developmental science · November 2021 Cognitive control is typically described as disrupted following exposure to early caregiving instability. While much of the work within this field has approached cognitive control broadly, evidence from adults retrospectively reporting early-life instabili ... Full text Cite

An open resource for transdiagnostic research in pediatric mental health and learning disorders.

Journal article Scientific data · December 2017 Technological and methodological innovations are equipping researchers with unprecedented capabilities for detecting and characterizing pathologic processes in the developing human brain. As a result, ambitions to achieve clinically useful tools to assist ... Full text Cite