Nagpal N., Ramos, A., M., Hajal, N., Massey, S. H., Leve, L. D., Shaw, D. S., Ganiban, J. M., Reiss, D., & Neiderhiser, J. (2021). Psychopathology symptoms are associated with prenatal health practices in pregnant women with heavy smoking levels. Maternal and Child Health Journal, 25, 330-337.

by eca5042 | Sep 19, 2022

Purpose Smoking during pregnancy may be linked to other problematic prenatal health behaviors in women. We examined interrelationships among prenatal smoking, prenatal health behaviors and mental health. The objective of this study was to examine factors that may...

Dunlop, A.L., Essalmi A.G., Alvalos, L., Breton, C., Camargo, C.A., Cowell, W.J., et al. (2021) Racial and geographic variation in effects of maternal education and neighborhood-level measures of socioeconomic status on gestational age at birth: Findings from the ECHO cohorts. PLoS ONE 16(1):e0245064.

by eca5042 | Sep 19, 2022

Preterm birth occurs at excessively high and disparate rates in the United States. In 2016, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) launched the Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) program to investigate the influence of early life exposures on...

Cree. R. A., Liu, C., Gueorguieva, R., Neiderhiser, J. M., Leve, L. D., Connell, C. M., Shaw, D. S., Natsuaki, M. N., Ganiban, J. M., Beekman, C., Smith, M. V., & Reiss, D. (2021). Using an adoption design to test genetically based differences in risk for child behavior problems in response to home environmental influences. Development and Psychopathology, 33, 1229-1247.

by eca5042 | Sep 19, 2022

Differential susceptibility theory (DST) posits that individuals differ in their developmental plasticity: some children are highly responsive to both environmental adversity and support, while others are less affected. According to this theory, “plasticity” genes...

Cioffi, C. C., Leve, L. D., Natsuaki, M. N., Shaw, D. S., Reiss, D., Ganiban, J. M., & Neiderhiser, J. M. (2021). Examining reciprocal associations between parent depressive symptoms and child internalizing symptoms on subsequent psychiatric disorders: An adoption study. Depression and Anxiety, 38, 1211-1224

by eca5042 | Sep 19, 2022

Introduction: The dynamic interplay between parent depressive symptoms and child internalizing behavior over time is not well understood. Methods: We used data from a prospective parent-offspring adoption design (N = 561) to examine associations between adoptive...

Cioffi, C., Griffin, A. M., Natsuaki, M. N., Shaw, D. S., Reiss, D., Ganiban, J. M., & Neiderhiser, J. M. (2021). The role of negative emotionality in the development of child executive function and language abilities from toddlerhood to first grade: An adoption study. Developmental Psychology, 57, 347-360.

by eca5042 | Sep 19, 2022

Understanding the role of negative emotionality in the development of executive functioning (EF) and language skills can help identify developmental windows that may provide promising opportunities for intervention. In addition, because EF and language are both...