A5030035317- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Infant Development and Preterm Care
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Media Influence and Health
- Infant Health and Development
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Family and Disability Support Research
- Digital Marketing and Social Media
- Animal and Plant Science Education
- Action Observation and Synchronization
- Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
- Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
- Language Development and Disorders
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Human-Animal Interaction Studies
- Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders
- Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
- Neural dynamics and brain function
- Behavioral and Psychological Studies
- Birth, Development, and Health
- Sexual function and dysfunction studies
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
Northwestern University
2019-2023
Health Innovations (United States)
2020-2022
Museum of Science
2019
DePaul University
2017-2018
University of Chicago
2012-2015
Florida International University
2011-2013
Mental disorders are the predominant chronic diseases of youth, with substantial life span morbidity and mortality. A wealth evidence demonstrates that neurodevelopmental roots common mental health problems present in early childhood. Unfortunately, this has not been translated to systematic strategies for improving population-level at most malleable period. We lay out a translational Health, Earlier road map as key future direction prevention disorder. This paradigm shift aims reduce...
Significance Early detection of infant neuromotor pathologies is critical for timely therapeutic interventions that rely on early-life neuroplasticity. Traditional assessments subjective expert evaluations or specialized medical facilities, making them challenging to scale in remote and/or resource-constrained settings. The results presented here aim democratize these using wireless networks miniaturized, skin-integrated sensors digitize movement behaviors and vital signs infants a...
Create and validate developmentally sensitive parent-report measures of emotional distress for children ages 1-5 years that conceptually align with the Patient-Reported Outcome Measurement Information System (PROMIS®) pediatric measures.Initial items were generated based on expert parent input regarding core components in early childhood review theoretical empirical work this domain. Items psychometrically tested using data from two waves panel surveys. Item response theory (IRT) was applied...
Children’s confidence in their own knowledge may influence willingness to learn novel information from others. Twenty‐four‐month‐old children’s ( N = 160) labels for either familiar or objects an adult speaker was tested 1 of 5 conditions: accurate, inaccurate, knowledgeable, ignorant, uninformative. Children were willing a second label object reliable informant the and uninformative conditions; children less apply if previously inaccurate had expressed ignorance. However, when novel,...
To illustrate the integration of developmental considerations into person-reported outcome (PRO) measurement development for application in early childhood pediatric psychology.
Abstract Despite increasing emphasis on emergent brain‐behavior patterns supporting language, cognitive, and socioemotional development in toddlerhood, methodologic challenges impede their characterization. Toddlers are notoriously difficult to engage brain research, leaving a developmental window which neural processes understudied. Further, electroencephalography (EEG) event‐related potential paradigms at this age typically employ structured, experimental tasks that rarely reflect...
From birth, infants are exposed to a wealth of emotional information in their interactions. Much research has been done investigate the development emotion perception, and factors influencing that development. The current study investigates role familiarity on 3.5-month-old infants' generalization expressions. Infants were assigned one two habituation sequences: sequence, visually habituated parental expressions happy or sad. At test, viewed either continuation mother depicting novel...
Abstract Building on prior work using Tom Dishion's Family Check-Up, the current article examined intervention effects dysregulated irritability in early childhood. Dysregulated irritability, defined as reactive and intense response to frustration, prolonged angry mood, is an ideal marker of neurodevelopmental vulnerability later psychopathology because it a transdiagnostic indicator decrements self-regulation that are measurable first years life have lifelong implications for health...
The integration of neurodevelopmental perspectives into clinical science has identified irritability as an early dimensional marker lifespan mental health risk. Elucidating the developmental patterning irritable behavior is key to differentiating normative variation from risk markers. Accounting for dysregulation and contextual features useful differentiation at preschool age, laying groundwork even earlier characterization. We provide initial evidence validity Multidimensional Assessment...
Characterizing the scope and import of early childhood irritability is essential for real-world actualization this reliable indicator transdiagnostic mental health risk. Thus, we utilize pragmatic assessment to establish prevalence, stability, predictive utility clinically significant irritability.Data included two independent, diverse community samples preschool age children (N = 1857; N 1490), with a subset enriched risk 425) assessed longitudinally from through preadolescence (∼4-9 years...
Informal learning environments provide the opportunity to study guests' experiences as they engage with exhibits specifically designed invoke emotional experience of awe. The current paper presents insight gained by using both traditional survey measures and innovative mobile eye-tracking technology examine awe in a science museum. We present results for visual attention two exhibit spaces, one chosen its potential evoke positive negative awe, associations between responses regard different...
The National Institute of Mental Health Research Domain Criteria's (RDoC) has prompted a paradigm shift from categorical psychiatric disorders to considering multiple levels vulnerability for probabilistic risk disorder. However, the lack neurodevelopmentally-based tools clinical decision-making limited RDoC's real-world impact. Integration with developmental psychopathology principles and statistical methods actualize implementation RDoC inform neurodevelopmental risk. In this conceptual...
Background Cognitive behavioral therapy–based interventions are effective in reducing prenatal stress, which can have severe adverse health effects on mothers and newborns if unaddressed. Predicting next-day physiological or perceived stress help to inform enable pre-emptive for a likely physiologically perceptibly stressful day. Machine learning models useful tools that be developed predict by using data collected from the previous Such improve our understanding of specific factors allow...
Abstract Background Maternal stress has negative consequences on infant behavioral development, and COVID-19 presented uniquely stressful situations to mothers of infants born during the pandemic. We hypothesized that with higher levels perceived pandemic would report regulatory problems including crying interrupted sleep patterns. Methods As part 6 sites a longitudinal study, completed Perceived Stress Scale, Brief Infant Sleep Questionnaire, an Crying survey at ( n = 433) 12 344) months...
Abstract Skilled social interactions require knowledge about others' intentions and the ability to implement this in real‐time generate appropriate responses one's partner. Young infants demonstrate an understanding of other people's (e.g. Woodward, Sommerville, Gerson, Henderson & Buresh, 2009), yet it is not until second year that seem master implementation their during Warneken Tomasello, 2007). The current study investigates possibility developments competence are related increases...
Previous research has shown that young infants perceive others' actions as structured by goals. One open question is whether the recruitment of this understanding when predicting imposes a cognitive challenge for infants. The current study explored infants' ability to utilize their knowledge goals rapidly predict future behavior in complex social environments and distinguish goal-directed from other kinds movements. Fifteen-month-olds (N = 40) viewed videos an actor engaged either (grasping)...
This study examined the predictive reasoning abilities of typically developing (TD) infants and 2‐year‐old children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in an eye‐tracking paradigm. Participants watched a video goal‐directed action which human actor reached for grasped one two objects. At test, objects switched locations. Across these events, we measured: visual anticipation outcome kinematic cues (i.e., completed reaching behavior); goal prediction without incomplete reach); latencies to...
Patients in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) are limited their ability to engage developmentally typical activity. Long-term hospitalization, especially with minimal interpersonal engagement, is associated risk for delirium and delayed recovery. Virtual reality (VR) has growing evidence as a safe, efficacious, acceptable intervention pain distress management context of uncomfortable healthcare procedures, enhancing engagement in, improving outcomes rehabilitation therapy.Critically...
Translation of developmental science discoveries is impeded by numerous barriers at different stages the research-to-practice pipeline. Actualization vast potential sciences to improve children's health and development in real world imperative but has not yet been fully realized. In this commentary, we argue that an integrated developmental-implementation framework will result a translational mindset essential for accelerating impact. We delineate key principles methods implementation...
Abstract Background We expanded the Multidimensional Assessment Profiles (MAPS) Scales developmental specification model to characterize normal:abnormal spectrum of internalizing (anxious and depressive) behaviors in early childhood via MAPS‐Internalizing (MAPS‐INT) scale. Methods The MAPS‐INT item pool was generated based on clinical expertise prior research. Analyses were conducted a sub‐sample families ( n = 183) from diverse When Worry sample. Results Normal:abnormal descriptive patterns...