A5082227696- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
- Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
- Deception detection and forensic psychology
- Reading and Literacy Development
- Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression
- Stress Responses and Cortisol
- Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Stalking, Cyberstalking, and Harassment
- Crime Patterns and Interventions
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Face Recognition and Perception
- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills
- Child Welfare and Adoption
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Identity, Memory, and Therapy
- Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
University College London
2016-2025
Anna Freud Centre
2016-2025
King's College London
2007-2024
Queen Mary University of London
2024
University of Cambridge
2024
Université Laval
2024
Language Science (South Korea)
2018-2024
UCL Australia
2000-2015
National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
2007-2012
Birkbeck, University of London
2011
The recognition of dyslexia as a neurodevelopmental disorder has been hampered by the belief that it is not specific diagnostic entity because variable and culture-specific manifestations. In line with this belief, we found Italian dyslexics, using shallow orthography which facilitates reading, performed better on reading tasks than did English French dyslexics. However, all dyslexics were equally impaired relative to their controls phonological tasks. Positron emission tomography scans...
Two groups of male university students who had been diagnosed as dyslexic when younger, and two control subjects similar age IQ to the dyslexics, were scanned whilst reading aloud during a task where was implicit. The dyslexics performed less well than their peers on range literacy tasks strikingly impaired phonological tasks. In experiment, simple words pseudowords presented at slow pace so that accuracy equal for controls. Relative rest, both normal activated same peri- extra-sylvian...
Theory of Mind (ToM) is the ability to attribute thoughts, intentions and beliefs others. This involves component processes, including cognitive perspective taking (cognitive ToM) understanding emotions (affective ToM). study assessed distinction overlap neural processes involved in these respective components, also investigated their development between adolescence adulthood. While data suggest that ToM develops adulthood, populations have not been compared on affective domains. Using fMRI...
In children with conduct problems, high levels of callous-unemotional traits are associated amygdala hypoactivity to consciously perceived fear, while low may be hyperactivity. Behavioral data suggest that fear processing deficits in extend stimuli presented below conscious awareness (preattentively). The authors investigated the neural basis this effect. Amygdala involvement was predicted on its role preattentive affective healthy adults and dysfunction previous studies problems.Functional...
<h3>Context</h3>Reduced neural responses to others' distress is hypothesized play a critical role in conduct problems coupled with callous-unemotional traits, whereas increased affective stimuli may accompany without traits. Heterogeneity of profiles account for inconsistent neuroimaging findings this population.<h3>Objectives</h3>To broaden understanding processing using an task including empathy component as well explore dimensional contributions symptoms and traits variance...
Callous-unemotional (CU) traits are associated with antisocial and delinquent behaviors in children represent a potential risk factor for adult psychopathy. However, there is paucity of longitudinal research that explores the development these traits, their association conduct problems (CP), psychosocial predictors outcomes. Using large sample followed longitudinally from Twins Early Development Study (N=9,578), we described joint developmental trajectories CU CP during childhood (between...
Background Childhood adversity is associated with significantly increased risk of psychiatric disorder. To date, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies children have mainly focused on institutionalisation and investigated conscious processing affect. Aims investigate neural response to pre-attentively presented affect cues in a community sample documented experiences maltreatment the home. Method A masked dot-probe paradigm involving pre-attentive presentation angry, happy...
BackgroundChildhood maltreatment has been shown to significantly elevate the risk of psychiatric disorder. Previous neuroimaging studies children exposed have reported atypical neural structure in several regions, including prefrontal cortex and temporal lobes. These exclusively investigated volumetric differences rather than focusing on genetically developmentally distinct indices brain structure.MethodsHere we used surface-based methods examine cortical thickness, surface area, local...
Background: Childhood maltreatment is strongly associated with increased risk of psychiatric disorder. Previous neuroimaging studies have reported atypical neural structure in the orbitofrontal cortex, temporal lobe, amygdala, hippocampus and cerebellum maltreated samples. It has been hypothesised that these structural differences may relate to vulnerability. However, previous typically recruited clinical samples concurrent disorders, or poorly characterised range experiences levels anxiety...
Highlights•Children with conduct problems showed reduced neural responses to others' pain•Reductions in anterior insula, cingulate cortex, and inferior frontal gyrus•Callous traits associated the magnitude of reduction•Findings may reflect early neurobiological risk for adult psychopathySummaryChildren (CP) persistently violate rights represent a considerable societal cost [1]. These children also display atypical empathic distress [2], which partly account their violent antisocial behavior....
<h3>Importance</h3> Exposure to bullying is associated with poor mental health. However, the degree which observed associations reflect direct detrimental contributions of exposure health remains uncertain, as noncausal relationships may arise from genetic and environmental confounding (eg, preexisting vulnerabilities). Determining what extent contributes an important concern, implications for primary secondary interventions. <h3>Objective</h3> To characterize concurrent longitudinal...