A5037528234- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Birth, Development, and Health
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Stress Responses and Cortisol
- Infant Health and Development
- Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
- Neonatal Respiratory Health Research
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
- Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Breastfeeding Practices and Influences
- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
- Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Adaptive Learning
- Fatty Acid Research and Health
- Family Support in Illness
University of Oslo
2021-2025
OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University
2025
NORCE Norwegian Research Centre
2024
Institute of Technical Education
2021
Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences
2015-2020
Agency for Science, Technology and Research
2015-2020
Nanyang Technological University
2018-2019
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
2010-2017
Papageorgiou General Hospital
2017
National University of Singapore
2013
We developed a multiple-form list learning test appropriate for use with the Greek population and generated norms clinical research use. This task, Verbal Learning Test (GVLT), was based on California Test. administered standard version (Form A) to sample of 354 healthy individuals, as well two alternative forms (B C) subgroup initial sample. Performance three equivalent, each presented excellent internal consistency. found good sensitivity specificity in testãs utility differentiating...
Recent work suggests that DNA methylation can be used as a proxy of fetal glucocorticoid exposure (MPS-GC), showing associations with maternal psychopathology during pregnancy. However, it is unknown whether the MPS-GC may act marker for broader prenatal stress and partially mediates child internalizing externalizing symptoms. Using harmonized data from three prospective birth cohorts (Npooled = 6086), we examined cumulative measure stress, its individual domains, associate in cord blood at...
A basic tenet of Attachment Theory describes a species-wide tendency to search out an attachment figure in times distress. Expectations support, or lack thereof, may provide template for socioemotional functioning. This study investigated potential concurrent predictors (i.e. time spent with one's mother and parenting style) correlates children's verbally expressed preferences their mothers maternal preference) during hypothetical attachment- affiliation-related situations 185 Southeast...
Research on mental health has traditionally separated the study of illbeing—disorder and problems—and wellbeing—life satisfaction positive affect. While previous reviews studies primarily employing self-report scales indicate that illbeing wellbeing are distinct yet interconnected constructs, a deeper examination their relationship is lacking. This perspective article from PROMENTA Center offers review synthesis findings joint nature across multiple levels analysis. Adopting an...
This study investigated whether child exuberance, an aspect of temperament related to emotion regulation, moderates the well‐documented association between high parenting stress and increased risk for internalizing externalizing problems during preschool years. At 42 months age exuberance was observed in 256 children (47% girls) maternal self‐reports on were obtained. 48 assessed through reports from both parents. Indeed, higher problems, this more pronounced among with levels exuberance....
Maternal anxiety is a well-known risk factor for early childhood behavior problems. In this study, we explore (1) whether parenting stress mediates relation and also (2) child factors, namely self-regulation, modify the influence of maternal well-being on externalizing internalizing problems at 4 years age.Mothers taking part in Growing Up Singapore Towards Healthy Outcomes cohort completed Spielberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory when their children were 24 months age. At 42 age, performed...
Recent years have seen a growing interest in neuropsychological assessment throughout the world. In countries with no history of research, clinicians often use existing tests developed other long tradition research and practice. While verbal were viewed as vulnerable to cultural and/or language bias, visuoperceptual tasks once considered impervious factors. More recent studies, however, dispelled this myth [1]. For example, Colombian Aruacos showed significantly poorer performance on...
Do expectant parents experience increased anxiety and depression during pregnancies conceived through ART compared to spontaneous conception?Among all in the sample, those who reported overall lower levels of pregnancy spontaneously, while subsample both conception, mothers experienced early following conception.Previous research on parents' psychosocial adjustment response has found mixed results, with some studies suggesting is associated depression, other improved mental health or no...
Caregiving insensitivity and fear dysregulation predict anxiety symptoms in children. It is unclear, however, whether sensitive parental care during infancy predicts regulation later childhood. To address this question, we asked observed maternal sensitivity, measured at 6 months, 42-month-old children's laboratory-induced responses (n=213) a fear-eliciting episode. We predicted that higher levels of sensitivity would be associated with greater regulation. operationalized as decreases over...
Introduction: Studies investigating the involvement of attention processes in facial affect recognition (FAR) have been contradictory, with some suggesting a generalised cognitive deficit, whereas others specialised deficit recognition. Given ubiquity both and emotion perception deficits schizophrenia, we examined whether specific attentional processes, fact, mediate FAR.Methods: Patients schizophrenia (n = 38) healthy controls 24) performed tests assessing FAR specifically, visual (Trail...
Abstract Maladaptive offspring emotion regulation has been identified as one pathway linking maternal and child psychological well-being in school-aged children. Whether such a is present earlier life still remains unclear. The study investigated the role of preschoolers’ reactivity association between distress internalizing externalizing problems. Children’s were assessed through both observed behavior physiology. At 42 months age, children ( n = 251; 128 girls) completed fear induction...
Abstract Background Distinguishing whether and how pre-existing characteristics impact maternal responses to adversity is difficult: Does prior well-being decrease the likelihood of encountering stressful experiences? it protect against adversity’s negative effects? We examine interaction between relatively uniformly experienced (due COVID-19 experience) individual variation in (i.e., pre-pandemic onset) distress predicted mothers’ pandemic levels insensitive caregiving within a country...
Abstract From a conditional adaptation vantage point, early life caregiving adversity likely enhances aspects of cognition needed to manage interpersonal threats. Yet, research examining care and offspring predominantly relies upon experiments including affectively neutral stimuli, with findings generally interpreted as “early-life is, de facto, ‘bad’ for cognitive performance.” Here, in Southeast Asian sample, we examined observed maternal sensitivity infancy performance 3 years later...
Introduction Links between maternal sensitivity, hippocampal development, and memory abilities suggests early life insensitive care may shape structures schemas influencing future decisions stress management, biasing children to negative information. While it is possible that this pattern of neurodevelopment have adaptive consequences, for example, preventing from encountering untoward experience with adversity, also leave some at risk the development internalizing problems. Methods Here, in...
The present study aimed at assessing whether impaired facial affect recognition (FAR) in patients with first-episode psychosis (FEP) would improve after a brief intervention targeting FAR specifically.Thirty-five outpatients and 38 healthy controls were administered an which involved training to recognize emotional information, conveyed by changes features. Using pre- post-intervention design, two measurements of conducted using experimental procedure alternative sets stimuli.We found...
Abstract Background Antenatal maternal anxiety is a risk for offspring psychological and cognitive difficulties. The preschool years represent an important time brain development, so may be window intervention. However, electrophysiological investigations of preschoolers’ functioning are lacking. We ask whether symptoms predict neurophysiology, consider timing specificity (26-weeks antenatal or 24-months postnatal), form insult (anxiety symptoms, per se, also depression symptoms), gender....
Abstract The aim of this study is to assess whether positive emotional exchanges (i.e., emotion coregulation) within the mother–child dyad play a protective role in children's physiological response distressing task. Specifically, we test coregulation among mothers and their preschool‐aged children associated with respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) at baseline, during, following frustration One hundred Singaporean dyads ( M childage = 3.5 years) participated standardized “Laughing Task”...