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Bush, L., Wakschlag, L. S., Winn, K., Hertz-Picciotto, I., Nozadi, S., Lewis, J. … Posner, J. (2020). Environmental children’s health outcomes (ECHOS): Looking back and moving forward. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 11, article 547, doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2020.0054.

The family environment, with all its complexity and diverse components, plays a critical role in shaping neurodevelopmental outcomes in children. Herein we review several domains of the family environment (family socioeconomic status, family composition and home...

Bray, B. A., Liu, C., Roben, C. K., Leve, L. D., Shaw, D. S., Ganiban, J. M., … & Neiderhiser, J. M. (2020). Inherited and Environmental Moderators of Mother-Child Behavioral Contingency and Contingent Negativity at 27 Months. Infant Behavior and Development, 61, 101478.

Previous research has shown that as depressive symptomology increases, mothers tend to show withdrawn or harsh interaction patterns with their children, and the quality of these interaction patterns have subsequently been linked to child behavior problems. However,...

Borriello, G. A., Ramos, A. M., Natsuaki, M. N., Reiss, D., Shaw, D. S., Leve, L. D., & Neiderhiser, J. M. (2020). The intergenerational transmission of mathematics achievement in middle childhood: A prospective adoption design. Developmental Science, 23, e12974, doi:10.1111/desc.12974.

The present study uses a parent-offspring adoption design to examine the dual roles of heritable and environmental influences on children’s mathematics achievement. Linked sets (N = 195) of adopted children, adoptive parents, and birth parents each completed a measure...