A5065090288- Sleep and related disorders
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Sleep and Wakefulness Research
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Infant Development and Preterm Care
- Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Infant Health and Development
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Cognitive Abilities and Testing
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
- Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Neuroscience of respiration and sleep
- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
- EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
- Birth, Development, and Health
- Circadian rhythm and melatonin
- Youth Substance Use and School Attendance
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Impact of Technology on Adolescents
Washington University in St. Louis
2020-2024
Indiana University Bloomington
2015-2019
Indiana University
2016-2018
Importance Defining basic psychosocial resources to facilitate thriving in the first year of life could tangibly inform policy and enhance child development worldwide. Objective To determine if key environmental supports measured as a thrive factor (T-factor) positively impact brain, cognitive, socioemotional outcomes through age 3. Design, Setting, Participants This prospective longitudinal cohort study took place at Midwestern academic medical center from 2017 2022. included singleton...
Abstract. There has been an unprecedented increase in the number of research studies employing event-related potential (ERP) techniques to examine dynamic and rapidly occurring neural processes with children during preschool early childhood years. Despite this, there relatively little discussion methodological procedural differences that exist for young versus older adults. That is, reviewers, editors, consumers this work often expect developmental simply apply adult procedures younger...
Parent-child synchrony-parent-child interaction patterns characterized by contingent social responding, mutual responsivity, and co-regulation-has been robustly associated with adaptive child outcomes. Synchrony has investigated in both behavioral biological frameworks. While it demonstrated that adversity can influence parent-child synchrony, the neural mechanisms which this disruption occurs are understudied. The current study examined association between adversity, synchrony across...
Despite a robust literature examining the association between sleep problems and cognitive abilities in childhood, little is known about this toddlerhood, period of rapid development. The present study examined various problems, using actigraphy, performance on standardized test abilities, longitudinally across three ages (30, 36, 42 months) large sample toddlers ( N = 493). Results revealed between‐subject effect which children who had more delayed schedules average also showed poorer but...
Background Sleep is thought to be important for behavioral and cognitive development. However, much of the prior research on sleep's role in behavioral/cognitive development has relied upon self‐report measures cross‐sectional designs. Methods The current study examined how early childhood sleep, measured actigraphically, was developmentally associated with child functioning at 54 months. Emphasis preschool, a crucial setting emergence psychopathology. Participants included 119 children...
The study objective was to examine the impact of a brief behavioral sleep intervention (The Sleep Train Program) on and behavior in children with externalizing problems. Children (3-8 years) presenting health clinic for problems were randomized receive or mealtime (active control). Families then completed parent management training followed by cross-over intervention. Outcomes included parent-reported child actigraphic sleep, examined full sample subsample comorbid difficulties. In both...
Abstract While substantial research supports the role of parent–child interactions on emergence psychiatric symptoms, few studies have explored biological mechanisms for this association. The current study behavioral and neural synchronization during frustration play as predictors internalizing externalizing behaviors across a span 1.5 years. Parent–child dyads first came to laboratory when child was 4–5 years old completed Disruptive Behavior Diagnostic Observation Schedule: Biological...
Radically open dialectical behavior therapy (RO DBT) is an empirically supported psychotherapy for treatment-refractory depression (TRD) that targets psychological inflexibility and interpersonal functioning within the context of maladaptive overcontrol. However, it unknown whether change in these mechanistic processes associated with decreased symptoms. This study tested depressive symptoms RO DBT.Adults TRD from The Refractory Depression: Mechanisms Efficacy DBT (RefraMED) randomized...
The present study considered multiple aspects of sleep in a community sample young children (at ages 30, 36, and 42 months) their mothers, using both diaries actigraphy. Through principal components analysis, 17 20 commonly used actigraphy variables were reduced to four main whose formed composites of: Activity, night-to-night Variability, Timing, Duration. Sleep latency daytime remained separate from the composites. same identified at each age, for mothers. Furthermore, derived showed...
Family processes during the pre-bedtime period likely have a crucial influence on toddler sleep, but relatively little previous research has focused family process in this context. The current study examined several aspects of period, including use bedtime routines, qualities child's home sleep environment, and promotion child emotional security, families 30-month-old toddlers (N= 546; 265 female) who were part multi-site longitudinal development. These characteristics quantified using...
Abstract Pregnant women in poverty may be especially likely to experience sleep and circadian rhythm disturbances, which have downstream effects on fetal neurodevelopment. However, the associations between social disadvantage during pregnancy, neonatal brain structure remains poorly understood. The current study explored association maternal disturbances pregnancy outcomes, examining as a mediator of effect infant structural outcomes. included 148 mother‐infant dyads, recruited early who had...
The current study used event-related potentials to examine a candidate process through which sleep difficulties affect attentional processing in toddlers. Fifteen toddlers participated an auditory Oddball task while neurophysiological data were collected. Sleep deficits assessed using actigraphs, and attention was examined with sustained task. A P3-like component elicited from the toddlers, longer target P3 latencies associated poorer irregular sleep. Findings suggest that is less efficient...
The physical home environment is thought to play a crucial role in facilitating healthy sleep young children. However, relatively little known about how various features of the are associated with early childhood, and some recommendations clinicians make for improving child environments based on limited research evidence. present study examined observer parent descriptions child's were sleep, measured using actigraphy parent's reports, across year childhood. used machine learning approach...
The current study examined the association between effortful control and a well-studied neural index of self-regulation, N2 event-related potential (ERP) component, in toddlers. Participants included 107 toddlers (44 girls) assessed at 30, 36 42 months age. completed Go/NoGo task while electroencephalography data were recorded. focused on ERP component. Parent-reported was with NoGo Findings suggest positive component inhibitory subscale wider dimension, suggesting that may processes...