A5037803674- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
- Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease
- Language Development and Disorders
- Microscopic Colitis
- Face Recognition and Perception
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Cognitive Abilities and Testing
- Psychology of Development and Education
- Cancer survivorship and care
- Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
- Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints
- Medical research and treatments
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Education, Achievement, and Giftedness
- Media Influence and Health
- Autoimmune and Inflammatory Disorders
- Brain Metastases and Treatment
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Health and Medical Education
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
2019-2024
Yale University
2022-2024
Rutgers Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
2021-2024
University of California, Davis
2014-2017
Collecting data with infants is notoriously difficult. As a result, many of our studies consist small samples, only single measure, in age group, at time point. With renewed calls for greater academic rigor collection practices, using multiple outcome measures infant research one way to increase rigor, and, the same time, enable us more accurately interpret data. Here, we illustrate importance psychological examples from own work on rapid threat detection and broader infancy literature....
Fragile X syndrome (FXS) results from a trinucleotide repeat expansion (full mutation >200 cytosine-guanine-guanine (CGG) repeats) in the FMR1 gene, leading to reduction or absence of gene's protein product, fragile mental retardation (FMRP), ultimately causing cognitive and behavioral impairments that are characteristic syndrome. In our previous work with infants toddlers FXS, we have been able describe much about their visual processing abilities. light recent on mild deficits functional...
This study examines attentional biases in the presence of angry, happy and neutral faces using a modified eye tracking version dot probe task (DPT). Participants were 111 young children between 9 48 months. Children passively viewed an affective attention bias that consisted face pairing (neutral paired with either neutral, angry or happy) for 500 ms was followed by 1,500-ms asterisk on 1 side screen. Congruent trials which appeared same screen as emotional incongruent opposite face. The...
Several researchers have proposed a causal relation between biased attention to threat and the development maintenance of anxiety disorders in both children adults. However, despite widely documented correlation bias anxiety, developmental research this domain is limited. In review, we highlight importance taking approach studying biases anxiety. First, discuss how recent work on fits into existing theoretical frameworks for might interact with other risk factors across development. Then...
This study examined patterns of attention toward affective stimuli in a longitudinal sample typically developing infants (N = 357, 147 females, 50% White, 22% Latinx, 16% African American/Black, 3% Asian, 8% mixed race, 1% not reported) using two eye-tracking tasks that measure vigilance to (rapid detection), engagement with (total looking toward), and disengagement from (latency away) emotional facial configurations. Infants completed each task at 4, 8, 12, 18, 24 months age 2016 2020....
Abstract An attention bias to threat has been linked psychosocial outcomes across development, including anxiety (Pérez‐Edgar, K., Bar‐Haim, Y., McDermott, J. M., Chronis‐Tuscano, A., Pine, D. S., & Fox, N. A. (2010). Attention biases and behavioral inhibition in early childhood shape adolescent social withdrawal. Emotion (Washington, D.C.) , 10(3), 349). Although some are normative, it remains unclear how these diverge into maladaptive patterns of emotion processing for infants. Here,...
Developmental theories suggest affect-biased attention, preferential attention to emotionally salient stimuli, emerges during infancy through coordinating individual differences. Here we examined bidirectional relations between infant temperamental negative affect, and maternal anxiety symptoms using a Random Intercepts Cross-Lagged Panel model (RI-CLPM). Infant-mother pairs from Central Pennsylvania Northern New Jersey (
For decades, researchers have been interested in humans’ ability to quickly detect threat-relevant stimuli. Here, we review recent findings from infant research on biased attention threat and discuss how these data speak classic assumptions about whether biases for are normative, they change with development, what factors might contribute this developmental change. We conclude that although there is some stability infancy, various factors—including temperamental negative affect maternal...
A growing body of evidence suggests that chronic pain patients suffer from self-regulatory fatigue: difficulty controlling thoughts, emotions, and behavior. Pain acceptance, which involves responding to related experiences without attempts control or avoid them (pain willingness), pursuit valued life activities regardless (activity engagement) has been associated with various favorable outcomes in patients, including better psychological functioning. The study presented here tested the...
Fragile X syndrome (FXS) is a genetic disorder caused by trinucleotide CGG expansion within the FMR1 gene located on chromosome. Children with FXS have been shown to be impaired in dynamic visual attention processing. A key component of processing orienting-a perceptual ability that requires disengagement and engagement from one stimulus fixate second. Orienting, specifically attention, has previously not studied young children FXS. Using an eye tracking gap-overlap task, present study...
Background and objectives: Opioid overdose-related deaths in the US continue to increase. The primary aim of this study is determine rates fentanyl urine drug screens all patients who presented psychiatric emergency room at VA Connecticut over a 7-month period 2022 how compares 2018.
This study examined individual differences in affective attention trajectories infancy and relations with competence social reticence at 24 months. Data collection spanned 2017 to 2021. Infants (
Abstract Background Primary and secondary non-response to Anti-Tumor Necrosis Factor (TNF) therapy is common in patients with ulcerative colitis (UC), yet limited research has compared the effectiveness of subsequent biological therapy. Objective We sought compare vedolizumab tofacitinib anti-TNF experienced UC, focusing on patient-prioritized patient reported outcomes (PROs). Methods conducted a prospective cohort study nested within Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation’s IBD Partners SPARC...
Abstract Background Antitumor necrosis factor (anti-TNF) inhibitors are first-line treatment among patients with ulcerative colitis (UC). With time, tend to lose response or become intolerant, necessitating switching small cell biologics such as tofacitinib vedolizumab. In this real-world study of a large, geographically diverse US population TNF-experienced UC, we evaluated the effectiveness and safety newly initiating vs Methods We conducted cohort using secondary data from large insurer...
Abstract Attention biases to threat are considered part of the etiology anxiety disorders. bias variability (ABV) quantifies intraindividual fluctuations in attention and may better capture relation between psychopathology risk versus mean levels bias. ABV has been associated with attentional control emotion regulation, which impact how caregivers interact their child. In a relatively diverse sample infants (50% White, 50.7% female), we asked caregiver related trajectories infant negative...
Developmental theories suggest affect-biased attention, preferential attention to emotionally salient stimuli, emerges during infancy through coordinating individual differences. Here we examined bidirectional relations between infant temperamental negative affect, and maternal anxiety symptoms. Infant-mother pairs (N = 342; 50% girls; 52% White) participated when infants were 4, 8, 12, 18 24 months of age. Greater fluctuation in symptoms at 12- 18-months prospectively related greater...
This study examined individual differences in affective attention trajectories infancy and relations with competence social reticence at 24 months. Data collection spanned 2017 to 2021. Infants (N = 297, 53% White, 49% reported as assigned male birth) recruited South Central Pennsylvania Northern New Jersey provided eye-tracking data five assessments. Caregivers self-reported anxiety symptoms, infant temperamental negative affect the final assessment. A subgroup of infants participated a...