Developmental Psychobiology

Papers
(The median citation count of Developmental Psychobiology is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
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Childhood Maltreatment and Electrodermal Reactivity to Stress Among Pregnant Women38
Assessing the motivational value of infant video clips on chimpanzees through discrimination learning task31
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Estrous Cycle Impacts Fear Extinction and Relapse in Female Adolescent Rats24
An Interpersonal Physiological Pathway Framework Linking Racism and Well‐Being in Black American Families21
Cultural Values Influence the Developmental Trajectory of Resistance to Social Influence Over the Course of Adolescence20
Maternal early life and prenatal stress in relation to birth outcomes in Argentinian mothers19
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Maternal Early Pregnancy Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) Metabolites Correlate With Newborn Resting‐State Functional Connectivity17
Between‐ and Within‐Person Associations Between Serum Lipids and Adolescent Depressive Symptoms17
The role of epigenetic mechanisms in the long‐term effects of early‐life adversity and mother–infant relationship on physiology and behavior of offspring in laboratory rats and mice17
Associations Between New Mothers’ Neural Reward Response and Perceptions of Their Own Infant17
Emotion Regulation and Neural Connectivity After Frustrative Non‐Reward in Adolescents: The Moderating Role of Cognitive Flexibility15
Association between physical activity and allostatic load among pregnant women15
Physiological Markers of Early Social Skills in Rural South Africa: The Role of Frontal Alpha Asymmetry and Heart Rate Variability15
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Effect of baby swimming lessons on infants’ avoidance of bodies of water14
Anxiety, aggression, reward sensitivity, and forebrain dopamine receptor expression in a laboratory rat model of early‐life disadvantage14
Early adversity changes the economic conditions of mouse structural brain network organization13
Effects of Peripubertal Experiences on Competitive Behavior in Male Rats at Different Stages of Adulthood13
A Role for Fetal Movement in Shaping Maternal Neurodevelopment13
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Pupillary Responses to Dynamic Negative Versus Positive Facial Expressions of Emotion in Children and Parents: Links to Depression and Anxiety12
Developmental windows for effects of choline and folate on excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmission during human gestation12
New Mothers’ Experiences of Childhood Adversity and Current Context of Economic Adversity Predict Parent and Infant RSA12
Early Adversity Affects Cerebellar Structure and Function—A Systematic Review of Human and Animal Studies12
Advancing Wrist‐Worn Accelerometry for Measurement of Infant Motor Behavior12
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Investigating Physiology‐Behavior Associations for Youth During Parent–Child Conflict Discussions12
Role of tactile stimulation during the preweaning period on the development of the peripheral sensory sural (SU) nerve in adult artificially reared female rat11
Adrenal Biomarkers of Stress in Transgender and Gender‐Diverse Adolescents11
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Youth coping and cardiac autonomic functioning: Implications for social and academic adjustment10
Exploring Neural Markers of Reward and Loss Processing and Problematic Parenting Styles Among Mothers With and Without Histories of Depression10
Hair and plasma cortisol throughout the first 3 years of development in infant rhesus macaques, Macaca mulatta10
Environmental enrichment initiated in adolescence restores the reduced expression of synaptophysin and GFAP in the hippocampus of chronically stressed rats in a sex‐specific manner10
Correction to “Exploring Neural Markers of Reward and Loss Processing and Problematic Parenting Styles Among Mothers With and Without Histories of Depression”10
Maternal hair cortisol predicts periodic and aperiodic infant frontal EEG activity longitudinally across infancy9
Temperament in Early Childhood Is Associated With Gut Microbiota Composition and Diversity9
Sex differences in autism‐like behavior and dopaminergic neurons in substantia nigra of juvenile mice prenatally exposed to valproate9
Modifying quantitative sensory testing to investigate behavioral reactivity in a pediatric global developmental delay sample: Relation to peripheral innervation and chronic pain outcomes9
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Differential Effects of Prenatal Buprenorphine and Methadone on Postnatal Growth and Gene Expression in the Nucleus Accumbens8
Maternal Prenatal Stress and the Offspring Gut Microbiome: A Cross‐Species Systematic Review8
Warm Parenting Throughout Adolescence Predicts Basal Parasympathetic Activity Among Mexican‐Origin Youths8
Is economic hardship associated with young children's cortisol levels?8
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Mother and sibling interactions during the preweaning period influence myelination and impulse propagation of the sensory sural nerve in the adult rat8
Maternal High‐Fat Diet and Neonatal LPS Exposure Prolong USV Sequences and Shift Call‐Type Repertoires in Neonatal Rats8
Neurobehavioral Profiles in Low‐Risk Infants: Associations With Prenatal Maternal Biobehavior and Birth Characteristics8
Quality not quantity: Deficient juvenile play experiences lead to altered medial prefrontal cortex neurons and sociocognitive skill deficits8
Fast changes in default and control network activity underlying intraindividual response time variability in childhood: Does age and sex matter?8
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Age‐dependent associations between RSA reactivity, affective and cognitive regulation, and psychopathology risk in young children exposed to varying levels of socioeconomic disadvantage8
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Endogenous Control and Reward‐based Mechanisms Shape Infants’ Attention Biases to Caregiver Faces7
“Nobody Here Likes Her”—The Impact of Parental Verbal Threat Information on Children's Fear of Strangers7
Early Supraspinal Influences on Human Embryonic Posture7
Behavioral responses to natural rewards in developing male and female rats7
Parent‐Reported Toddler Dysregulation and Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia Predict Trajectories of Childhood Externalizing Behaviors7
Chloride Modulates Central pH Sensitivity and Plasticity of Brainstem Breathing‐Related Biorhythms in Zebra Finch Embryos7
Bidirectional Relations Among Maternal Positive Emotion, Infant Positive Emotionality, and Infant Physiological Regulation Across the First 18 Months of Life7
Effects of Early Life Scarcity‐Adversity on Maturational Milestones in Male and Female Rats6
Who Participates in Research and Why: Reducing Barriers to Diversifying Samples in Developmental Psychobiology6
The development of interoceptive hunger signals6
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Emotion regulation and reactivity are associated with cortical thickness in early to mid‐childhood6
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The Effects of Distraction and Reappraisal on the Late Positive Potential Across Discrete Emotions: A Study With Latinx Children6
Examining the Relation Between Prenatal Emotion Dysregulation and Toddler Vocabulary Development: A Biobehavioral Approach6
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Progressive Voxel‐Wise Homotopic Connectivity from childhood to adulthood: Age‐related functional asymmetry in resting‐state functional magnetic resonance imaging6
Testing detectability, attractivity, hedonic specificity, extractability, and robustness of colostrum odor—Toward an olfactory bioassay for human neonates6
Ganaxolone Therapy After Preterm Birth Restores Cerebellar Oligodendrocyte Maturation and Myelination in Guinea Pigs6
Navigating Stress: Exploring the Role of Empathy in Caregiving6
Behavioral and neurostructural correlates of childhood physical violence victimization: Interaction with family functioning6
Developing Best Practices for Inclusion in fNIRS Research: Equity for Participants With Afro‐Textured Hair6
Socioeconomic Status, the Home Language Environment, Noise Exposure, and the Mismatch Response in Infancy5
Cross‐Tissue Specificity of Pediatric DNA Methylation Associated With Cumulative Family Stress5
Evaluating Household Income and Tobacco Exposure as Moderators of the Association Between Prenatal Cannabis Exposure and Newborn Neurobehavior5
Postweaning cafeteria diet induces a short‐term metabolic disfunction and a differential vulnerability to develop anxiety‐like and depressive‐like behaviors in male but not female rats5
Psychoneuroimmunological Evidence for Biological Embedding During Early Adolescence5
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Prenatal Zika Virus Exposure Alters the Interaction Between Affective Processing and Decision‐Making in Juvenile Rhesus Macaques (Macaca mulatta)5
From One's Heart to the Mind of Others: A Study in School‐Aged Children5
Maternal Milk Allopregnanolone May Buffer Negative Associations Between Maternal Postpartum Psychological Distress and Infant Regulatory Capacity5
Longitudinal patterns of neuroendocrine coupling from middle childhood to early adolescence5
Comparative analysis of electrodermal activity metrics and their association with child behavior in autism spectrum disorder5
Infant 6‐Month Psychophysiology During Interaction With Mother Is Differentiated by 12‐Month Attachment Quality5
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Assessing Children's Autonomic Nervous System Activity During Structured Tasks: A Feasibility and Reliability Study in Ghana5
Oxytocin system polymorphisms rs237887 and rs2740210 variants increase the risk of depression in pregnant women with early abuse5
Early Family Experiences and Neural Activity in Rural Pakistani Children: The Differential Role of Gender5
Influence of oxytocin on parenting behaviors and parent–child bonding: A systematic review5
Obituary for Celia L. Moore (1942–2025)5
When and how do children solve the Weather Prediction Task?5
The Interaction Between Socioeconomic Status, Parent–Child Relationship, and the COMT Val158Met Polymorphism Predicts Chinese Preschoolers' Executive Fun5
Feasibility of an Online Acute Stressor in Preschool Children of Mothers with Depression5
The impact of dopamine receptor D4, temperamental negativity, and household chaos on young twins’ externalizing behaviors5
Prenatal serotonin reuptake inhibitor antidepressant exposure, SLC6A4 genetic variations, and cortisol activity in 6‐year‐old children of depressed mothers: A cohort study4
Neural sensitivity to social reward predicts links between social behavior and loneliness in youth during the COVID‐19 pandemic4
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The role of task difficulty in directing selective attention in bobwhite quail (Colinus virginianus) neonates: A developmental test of the intersensory redundancy hypothesis4
The relationship of psychological well‐being and cognitive emotions with breastfeeding self‐efficacy in mothers in the postpartum period4
The effects of early rearing experiences on mutual eye gaze among captive olive baboons (Papio anubis)4
Examining the Relationship Between Early Feeding Difficulties and Language Development: A Longitudinal Study4
Why do individuals with Williams syndrome or Down syndrome fail the Weather Prediction Task?4
Dyadic Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia Outcomes for Mothers and Their Children: Long‐Term Follow‐Up of a Randomized Controlled Trial of Brief Parenting Interventions4
Maternal Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) Moderates the Association Between Birth Weight and EEG Power in Healthy Term‐Age Newborns4
Impact of maternal physical exercise on inflammatory and hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis markers in the brain and lungs of prenatally stressed neonatal mice4
Children's and Adults’ P100 and N170 Responses to Own‐ and Other‐Race Face Categories and Identities4
Acute and long‐lasting effects of adolescent fluoxetine exposure on feeding behavior in Sprague–Dawley rats4
Associations Between Prenatal Maternal Stress and Infant Resting Brain Activity: A Preregistered Investigation4
Maternal Childhood Trauma and Offspring Hypothalamic–Pituitary–Adrenal Axis Function from Infancy to 6 Years of Age4
A preliminary investigation of epigenome‐wide DNA methylation and temperament during infancy4
Relationship Between Prone Skills and Motor‐Based Problem‐Solving Abilities in Full‐Term and Preterm Infants During the First 6 Months of Life4
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Cannabis Use, and the Endocannabinoid System: A Scoping Review4
Psychometric Properties of the Neural Response to Rewards and Errors Across Mid‐ to Late‐Adolescence4
Implications of Developmental 17‐OHPC Exposure on the Mesocorticolimbic Serotonergic and Dopaminergic Pathways and Adolescent Mood–Related Behavior in Rats4
Abstracts From the 58th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology (ISDP), November 12–14, 2025, Catamaran Hotel & Spa, San Diego, CA, USA4
Interpersonal Contributors to Depression in Sexual Minority Adolescents: An Examination of Exposure to Acute Stressors and Neural Reactivity to Interpersonal Emotional Images4
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Children's shyness and physiological arousal to a peer's social stress4
Preventive putative effect of agmatine on cognitive and molecular outcomes in ventral tegmental area of male offspring following physical and psychological prenatal stress4
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Developmental age and fatty acid amide hydrolase genetic variation converge to mediate fear regulation in female mice4
Telomere Length and Change Among Infants Growing up in Low‐ to Mid‐Income Households4
The impact of poor fetal growth and chronic hyperpalatable diet exposure in adulthood on hippocampal function and feeding patterns in male rats3
Effects of Emotional Violence Experienced by Fathers From Their Partners in the Postpartum Period on Depression Level and Father–Infant Attachment3
Examining the interaction between prenatal stress and polygenic risk for attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder on brain growth in childhood: Findings from the DREAM BIG consortium3
A review of the literature: How does prenatal opioid exposure impact placental health and fetal brain development?3
Negative caregiving and stress reactivity moderate the relation between early life stress and externalizing in adolescence3
Gene Expression After Exercise Is Disrupted by Early‐Life Stress3
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Enhanced maternal behaviors in a mouse model of congenital blindness3
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Assessment of the effects of sex, age, and rearing condition on ultrasonic vocalizations elicited by pups during the maternal potentiation paradigm in C57BL/6J mice3
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Cortisol response marks biological sensitivity to kindergartners’ social hierarchies for emerging school engagement3
Genetic Variability in OXTR Polymorphism and Infant Reactivity to Ostracism Experiences3
The effects of abnormal visual experience on neurodevelopmental disorders3
Postnatal Development of Chloride Cotransporters in the Piriform Cortex and Its Modulation by Early Maternal Care3
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Maternal Separation Reduces Hypothalamic Interleukin‐6 Expression and Enhances Microglial Activation During Critical Developmental Windows3
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Influence of early social isolation on general activity and spatial learning in adult WAG/Rij rats3
Early‐life stress and current stress predict BMI and height growth trajectories in puberty3
Parent and Child Influences on Adrenocortical Synchrony During Middle Childhood3
Maternal Emotion Regulation and Parenting: A Physiological Perspective3
Examining the impact of prenatal maternal internalizing symptoms and socioeconomic status on children's frontal alpha asymmetry and psychopathology3
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Development and pilot testing of an early childhood somatosensory assessment: Somatosensory test of reaching3
Differences Between Preterm and Full‐Term Infants in Electroencephalogram Power Spectral Density Slope3
Fingerprint patterns in relation to an altered neurodevelopment in patients with autism spectrum disorder3
Prenatal Maternal Stress and Weak Handedness in Early Childhood: The Iowa Flood Study3
Neural and Psychophysiological Correlates of Cognitive, Social, and Emotional Development of Infants and Children of Mothers With Peripartum Depression: A Systematic Review2
Autonomic nervous system reactivity and preschoolers’ social dominance2
Preconception Exposure to Chronic Stressors Impairs Social Behaviors in Prairie Vole Offspring ( Microtus ochrogaster ): Partial Mediation by Parental Pa2
Maternal Prenatal Psychological Stress and Iron Levels in the Fetal Brain2
Greater Frontoparietal Connectivity During Task Engagement Among Toddlers With Parent‐Reported Inattention2
Maternal negative affect moderates behavioral and physiological synchrony in Latinx and Black mother–child dyads2
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Precocial Weaning Influences Anxiety, Social and Maternal Care but Not Cognition in African Striped Mice, Rhabdomys dilectus chakae2
Experience With Face Groups Impacts Face Processing, but Not Face Differentiation in 6‐ and 9‐Month‐Old Infants2
Adolescent nicotine administration impacts working memory and reversal learning but not cognitive flexibility2
The effect of emotional uncertainty on attentional bias toward neutral infant faces in adults2
The last stage of development: The restructuring and plasticity of the cortex during adolescence especially at puberty2
Parental Incarceration, Attachment to Caregivers, and Young Children's Physiological Stress2
Caudate volume is prospectively associated with irritability in toddlerhood: A preliminary investigation2
The effects of postnatal erythropoietin and nano‐erythropoietin on behavioral alterations by mediating K‐Cl co‐transporter 2 in the valproic acid‐induced rat model of autism2
Prenatal Alcohol Exposure Disrupts Performance in a Differential Reinforcement of Low Rates Task Specifically in Adolescent Male Rats2
Child Effortful Control Moderates the Link Between Parenting Stress and Child Parasympathetic Regulation: Interactions Across Contexts and Measures2
Sex Differences in the Associations Among Parenting, Socioeconomic Status, and Error Monitoring Among Adolescents2
Pubertal maturation and timing effects on resting state electroencephalography in autistic and comparison youth2
Processing of task‐irrelevant sounds during typical everyday activities in children2
Locomotor Response to Novelty: What Does It Tell Us?2
The influence of anterior cingulate GABA+ and glutamate on emotion regulation and reactivity in adolescents and adults2
Grandmother–grandchild physiological synchrony in Chinese three‐generation families: Links with child emotion regulation2
The Development of Facial Bristles in Tawny Frogmouths ( Podargus strigoides )2
The impact of air pollution on neurocognitive development: Adverse effects and health disparities2
Prenatal substance exposure, early‐life adversity, and parenting: Associations with adolescent stress response2
Navigating Academic Brokering: Enhancing Belongingness in Scientific Training Programs2
Impact of Sex and Salivary Dehydroepiandrosterone on the Association Between Testosterone and Emotion Dysregulation2
Emotional expression visual mismatch negativity in children2
Reaching While Learning to Sit: Capturing the Kinematics of Co‐Developing Skills at Home2
Analysis of Content About Infant Development From Formal Parent Education Sources in Different World Regions2
Preconception Exposure to Chronic Stressors Influences Pair‐Bonding Quality and Promotes Proximity‐Based Parenting Styles in Adult Prairie Voles ( Microtus ochrogaster 2
Effects of social environments on male primate HPG and HPA axis developmental programming2
The Quadratic Association Between Resting Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia and Adolescents’ Prosociality: The Moderating Role of Parental Marital Conflict2
Associations between disordered eating, internalizing symptoms, and behavioral and neural correlates of response inhibition in preadolescence2
Examining the biological impacts of parent–child relationship dynamics on preschool‐aged children who have experienced adversity2
Agomelatine Is Unable to Attenuate Kainic Acid–Induced Deficits in Early Life Communicative Behavior2
Out of Sight, Out of Mind? Neuronal Gamma Oscillations During Occlusion Events in Infants1
Connecting the Dots: Associative Transfer and Inference at 6 Months of Age1
Two‐Hit Exposure to Lipopolysaccharide and Acetaminophen Alters Larval Zebrafish ( Danio rerio ) Swim Behavior1
Neurobehavioral alterations induced by third‐trimester gestation‐equivalent ethanol exposure are inhibited by folate administration1
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The effects of exposure to physical and emotional violence from partners on psychological resilience, forgiveness, happiness, life satisfaction, and depression level in Turkish women1
Volumetric development of hippocampal subfields and hippocampal white matter connectivity: Relationship with episodic memory1
Quantifying Visuomotor Maturation From Middle Childhood to Adolescence1
Advancing the Study of Maternal Prenatal Stress Phenotypes and Infant Temperament Outcomes1
Cognitive Control Moderates Associations Between Domains of Temperamental Reactivity and Preschoolers’ Social Behaviors1
Linking Mothers’ Autonomic Functioning and Their Autonomy‐Relevant Parenting1
Immediate Effects of Postpartum Hypothyroidism and Long‐Term Effects of Neonatal Hypothyroidism on Maternal Behavior in Rats1
Innovative Methods for Prenatal Cannabis Exposure: Vapor Inhalation Chamber and Metabolite Quantification in Prairie Voles and Rats1
Science Democratization for Rigor, Relevance, and Resilience1
Associations between adversity in the family of origin and hair cortisol concentration in adulthood1
Measuring Socioeconomic and Stress Disparities in Infant Declarative Memory Using the Visual Paired Comparison Task1
The fear that remains: Associations between trauma, related psychopathology, and fear‐potentiated startle in youth resettled as refugees1
Mother–Infant Physiological Coregulation Is Associated With Infant Developmental Status Among Families With Experienced Adversity1
The Association Between Childhood Impaired Motor Development and Adolescent Psychotic Experiences1
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Infrared Thermal Imaging (ITI), a Non‐invasive Window Into Early Emotion Regulation: A Systematic Review1
Exploring the impact of parental technoference on toddlers: A commentary on physiological and developmental implications1
Cues associated with a single ethanol exposure elicit conditioned corticosterone responses in adolescent male but not female Sprague–Dawley rats1
Development of “personality” in the domestic cat: A longitudinal study1
Low Pregnancy Cortisol and Infant Socioemotional Problems: The Mediating Role of Postpartum Depressive Symptoms1
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Unique and interactive effects of threat and deprivation on latent trait cortisol among emerging adults1
Activational Effects of Gonadal Hormones on Social Reward Motivation in Adolescence and Adulthood in Female and Male Long–Evans Rats1
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Maternal childhood adversity and infant epigenetic aging: Moderation by restless sleep during pregnancy1
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Signatures of emotional face processing measured by event‐related potentials in 7‐month‐old infants1
Habitual night waking associates with dynamics of waking cortical theta power in infancy1
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Prenatal Psychosocial Distress Interacting with Postnatal Maternal Sensitivity in Shaping Infant Observed Affect and RSA Profiles1
Meconium as an Analyte for Androgen Exposure: Analysis Through Varying Maternal‐Fetal Biomarkers1
Pathways Linking Community‐Level Social Determinants of Health to Infant Biological Markers and Early Childhood Psychopathology: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach1
Emerging Adults Mirror Infants’ Emotions and Yawns1
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Infants' sex affects neural responses to affective touch in early infancy1
Fine and gross motor skills in 7–10 years old Indian children exposed to a natural disaster during early development1
Impact of Cesarean Delivery on Reward Behavior and Tyrosine Hydroxylase in the Nucleus Accumbens of Adult Prairie Vole Offspring1
“Katerina gets mad”: Infants’ physiological and behavioral responses to co‐viewing educational, self‐regulatory media1
COVID‐19 and early puberty—An unintended consequence of COVID‐19 lockdown?1
Hair Cortisol Concentrations in Children: A Longitudinal Analysis Across Childhood1
Early Attachment Disruption Increases Central Sensitivity of Depressive‐Like Behavior to Stimulation by PGE‐21
The relationship of social support perceived by mothers and fathers and dyadic adjustment with maternal and paternal attachment in the postpartum period1
Interactions among stress, behavioral inhibition, and delta–beta coupling predict adolescent anxiety during the COVID‐19 pandemic1
Pediatric Heart Rate Variability During Play and Neurocognitive Testing: The Influence of Parental Attitudes Towards Play1
Face processing in the infant brain after pandemic lockdown1
Developmental Trajectories of Delta–Beta EEG Coupling Across Infancy: The Influence of Infant Temperament and Maternal Anxiety Over Time1
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