A5045912408- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Stress Responses and Cortisol
- Birth, Development, and Health
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Iron Metabolism and Disorders
- Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
- Cardiovascular Health and Risk Factors
- Health disparities and outcomes
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Infant Development and Preterm Care
- Child Welfare and Adoption
- Sleep and related disorders
- Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Cognitive Abilities and Testing
- Cardiac Health and Mental Health
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Neonatal and fetal brain pathology
University of Denver
2019-2025
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
2024
University of Michigan
2017-2020
Colorado State University
2020
Arizona State University
2020
Oxford University Press (United Kingdom)
2018
Michigan United
2017
University of Minnesota
2013-2016
Twin Cities Orthopedics
2016
University of Notre Dame
2013
According to evolutionary life history models, environmental harshness and unpredictability can both promote a fast strategy characterized by increased risk taking enacting short-term, opportunistic behaviors. The current longitudinal study tests whether during childhood has stronger effects on risky behavior adolescence than harshness, there may be an early "sensitive period" which particularly strong unique these outcomes. Using data from the Minnesota Longitudinal Study of Risk...
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are associated with poorer adult mental health, and benevolent (BCEs) better health. This study aims to test whether ACEs BCEs predict health above beyond current stress social support during the COVID-19 pandemic. We analyzed data from undergraduate graduate students (N = 502) at an urban private university in Western United States. An online survey was conducted assess BCEs, support, depressive anxiety symptoms, perceived stress, loneliness May 2020....
Abstract Stressful experiences affect biological stress systems, such as the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal (HPA) axis. Life can potentially alter regulation of HPA axis and has been associated with poorer physical mental health. Little, however, is known about relative influence stressors that are encountered at different developmental periods on acute reactions in adulthood. In this study, we explored three models exposure cortisol reactivity to a modified version Trier Social Stress Test...
Previous research has demonstrated that before puberty, parents are able to buffer, and often completely block, cortisol responses social evaluative stressors (e.g., Trier Social Stress Test; TSST). However, after no longer provide a powerful buffer of the HPA axis from social-evaluative stressor. The current study investigates whether friends can in both children adolescents compared similar stress-ameliorating patterns also be observed oxytocin activity. A total 109 participants (54 aged...
Abstract Internationally adopted adolescents who are as young children from conditions of poverty and deprivation have poorer physical mental health outcomes than do conceived, born, raised in the United States by families similar to those adopt internationally. Using a sample Russian Eastern European adoptees control for Caucasian race US birth, nonadopted offspring well-educated well-resourced parents postadoption conditions, we hypothesized that important differences environments,...
Abstract Childhood poverty is hypothesized to increase risk for mental and physical health problems at least in part through dysregulation of the hypothalamic‐pituitary‐adrenal axis. However, less known about specific psychosocial stressors associated with cortisol reactivity regulation children living poverty. The current study investigates negative life events, household chaos, family conflict preschool middle childhood as potential predictors low‐income 7–10 year olds ( N = 242; M age 7.9...
Background: Stress and compromised parenting often place children at risk of abuse neglect. Child maltreatment has generally been viewed as a highly individualistic problem by focusing on stressors behaviors that impact individual families. However, because the global coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), families across world are experiencing new range threaten their health, safety, economic well-being. Objective: This study examined effects COVID-19 pandemic in relation to parental...
This study examines the extent to which iron deficiency in infancy contributes adverse neurocognitive and educational outcomes young adulthood directly indirectly, through its influence on verbal cognition attention problems childhood. Young adults (N = 1,000, M age 21.3 years, 52% female; of Spanish or indigenous descent) from working-class families Santiago, Chile, completed instruments assessing memory, processing speed, mental flexibility, attainment. Iron status was assessed at ages 6,...
To identify specific eating behavior pathways that mediate associations between financial difficulties, negative life events, and maternal depressive symptoms from 0 to 5 years cardiometabolic risk in adolescence.
To test whether cognitive vulnerability could explain the link between depression and poor health.A 4-week longitudinal design was used to examine health problems (eg, diabetes), behaviors smoking), depressive symptoms, vulnerability, life stress in a sample of 154 undergraduates.Contrary hypotheses, but not were associated with problems. However, as predicted, better predictor prospective changes specific than symptoms. Unexpectedly, best behaviors.These results are among first show that...
Children adopted from institutions have been studied as models of the impact stimulus deprivation on cognitive development (Nelson, Bos, Gunnar, & Sonuga‐Barke, 2011), but these children may also suffer micronutrient deficiencies (Fuglestad et al., 2008). The contributions iron deficiency ( ID ) and duration functioning in between 17 36 months age were examined. was assessed 55 soon after adoption, evaluated 11–14.6 postadoption when averaged 37.4 old SD = 4.9). at adoption longer...
Objective To determine whether iron deficiency in infancy is associated with sluggish cognitive tempo (SCT) or attention-deficit/hyperactive-impulsive (AD-HI) symptoms childhood and adolescence, such behaviors contribute concurrently predictively to lower verbal mathematical abilities.Method Chilean children (N = 959; 50% male, of Spanish indigenous descent from working-class backgrounds) were rated by mothers for SCT AD-HI at ages 5, 10, 16 years. Children completed standardized tests...