Professor Emeritus
M_PEDS-DEVELOPMENTAL MEDICINE
Publications
Cross-Tissue Specificity of Pediatric DNA Methylation Associated With Cumulative Family Stress.
Developmental psychobiology
Cortisol response marks biological sensitivity to kindergartners' social hierarchies for emerging school engagement.
Developmental psychobiology
Linking specific biological signatures to different childhood adversities: findings from the HERO project.
Pediatric research
Translating the Biology of Adversity and Resilience Into New Measures for Pediatric Practice.
Pediatrics
Change of pace: How developmental tempo varies to accommodate failed provision of early needs.
Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews
Travels with Curly: A personal, collegial tribute to Professor Marla Sokolowski.
Journal of neurogenetics
Externalizing and Internalizing Problems: Associations with Family Adversity and Young Children's Adrenocortical and Autonomic Functioning.
Research on child and adolescent psychopathology
Associations between multisystem stress reactivity and peer nominated aggression in early childhood vary by sex.
Development and psychopathology
How a Pandemic Could Advance the Science of Early Adversity.
JAMA pediatrics
Genes and environments, development and time.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Maternal Stress During Pregnancy Predicts Infant Infectious and Non-infectious Illness.
The Journal of pediatrics
Evidence for discrete profiles of children's physiological activity across three neurobiological system and their transitions over time.
Developmental science
The Ethical Triage and Management Guidelines of the Entrapped and Mangled Extremity in Resource Scarce Environments: A Systematic Literature Review.
Disaster medicine and public health preparedness
Associations between classroom climate and children's externalizing symptoms: The moderating effect of kindergarten children's parasympathetic reactivity.
Development and psychopathology
Biological sensitivity to context: A test of the hypothesized U-shaped relation between early adversity and stress responsivity.
Development and psychopathology
Informant-specific reports of peer and teacher relationships buffer the effects of harsh parenting on children's oppositional defiant disorder during kindergarten.
Development and psychopathology
The PedBE clock accurately estimates DNA methylation age in pediatric buccal cells.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Integration of DNA methylation patterns and genetic variation in human pediatric tissues help inform EWAS design and interpretation.
Epigenetics & chromatin
Differences in febrile and respiratory illnesses in minority children: The sociodemographic context of restrictive parenting.
Academic pediatrics
Children's biobehavioral reactivity to challenge predicts DNA methylation in adolescence and emerging adulthood.
Developmental science
Family Socioeconomic Status, Cortisol, and Physical Health in Early Childhood: The Role of Advantageous Neighborhood Characteristics.
Psychosomatic medicine
An exploratory qualitative study of life trajectories from preschool-age to young adulthood: Identifying early biologic sensitivity, facing challenges and moving forward.
Advances in pediatric research
Child temperament and teacher relationship interactively predict cortisol expression: The prism of classroom climate.
Development and psychopathology
Epigenetic correlates of neonatal contact in humans.
Development and psychopathology
Children's Autonomic Nervous System Reactivity Moderates the Relations between Family Adversity and Sleep Problems in Latino 5-Year Olds in the CHAMACOS Study.
Frontiers in public health
Epigenomic Susceptibility to the Social World: Plausible Paths to a "Newest Morbidity".
Academic pediatrics
Parenting and SES: relative values or enduring principles?
Current opinion in psychology
Socioeconomic Disparities in Childhood Obesity Risk: Association With an Oxytocin Receptor Polymorphism.
JAMA pediatrics
Socioeconomic Adversity, Negativity in the Parent Child-Relationship, and Physiological Reactivity: An Examination of Pathways and Interactive Processes Affecting Young Children's Physical Health.
Psychosomatic medicine
Commentary: The course of life and life, of course: a commentary on Ben-Shlomo, Cooper and Kuh.
International journal of epidemiology
Layered Social Network Analysis Reveals Complex Relationships in Kindergarteners.
Frontiers in psychology
Children of chronically ill parents: Relationship between parental multiple sclerosis and childhood developmental health.
Multiple sclerosis (Houndmills, Basingstoke, England)
Differential Susceptibility of the Developing Brain to Contextual Adversity and Stress.
Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology
Five-minute Apgar score as a marker for developmental vulnerability at 5 years of age.
Archives of disease in childhood. Fetal and neonatal edition
Early adversity, elevated stress physiology, accelerated sexual maturation, and poor health in females.
Developmental psychology
A model-based approach to stability analysis of autonomic-cardiac regulation.
Computers in biology and medicine
Impact of parental multiple sclerosis on early childhood development: A retrospective cohort study.
Multiple sclerosis (Houndmills, Basingstoke, England)
Development and the epigenome: the 'synapse' of gene-environment interplay.
Developmental science
DOES LOWER SUBJECTIVE SOCIAL STATUS YIELD RISKIER BIOMARKER PROFILES?
Journal of biosocial science
Children of chronically ill parents: the silence of research.
Child: care, health and development
An integrative view of school functioning: transactions between self-regulation, school engagement, and teacher-child relationship quality.
Child development
The symphonic structure of childhood stress reactivity: patterns of sympathetic, parasympathetic, and adrenocortical responses to psychological challenge.
Development and psychopathology
Children and adolescents adjustment to parental multiple sclerosis: a systematic review.
BMC neurology
Latino children's body mass index at 2-3.5 years predicts sympathetic nervous system activity at 5 years.
Childhood obesity (Print)
Noninvasive subject-specific monitoring of autonomic-cardiac regulation.
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
The lifelong effects of early childhood adversity and toxic stress.
Pediatric dentistry
Prenatal serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SRI) antidepressant exposure and serotonin transporter promoter genotype (SLC6A4) influence executive functions at 6 years of age.
Frontiers in cellular neuroscience
Family adversity and autonomic reactivity association with immune changes in HIV-affected school children.
Psychosomatic medicine
A novel approach to the design of an artificial bionic baroreflex.
Conference proceedings : ... Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual Conference
Daytime secretion of salivary cortisol and alpha-amylase in preschool-aged children with autism and typically developing children.
Journal of autism and developmental disorders
Early childhood poverty, immune-mediated disease processes, and adult productivity.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Gene-environment interplay in Drosophila melanogaster: chronic food deprivation in early life affects adult exploratory and fitness traits.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Social stratification, classroom climate, and the behavioral adaptation of kindergarten children.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Toward a new biology of social adversity.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Autonomic-cardiorespiratory regulation: a physiology-based mathematical model.
Conference proceedings : ... Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual Conference
Developmental changes in autonomic nervous system resting and reactivity measures in Latino children from 6 to 60 months of age.
Journal of developmental and behavioral pediatrics : JDBP
Kindergarten stressors and cumulative adrenocortical activation: the "first straws" of allostatic load?
Development and psychopathology
Physical activity of children with and without long-term illness or disability.
Journal of physical activity & health
Epigenetic vestiges of early developmental adversity: childhood stress exposure and DNA methylation in adolescence.
Child development
Autonomic and adrenocortical reactivity and buccal cell telomere length in kindergarten children.
Psychosomatic medicine
Maternal prenatal and child organophosphate pesticide exposures and children's autonomic function.
Neurotoxicology
Autonomic nervous system reactivity: children with and without sickle cell disease.
Nursing research
Differentiating challenge reactivity from psychomotor activity in studies of children's psychophysiology: considerations for theory and measurement.
Journal of experimental child psychology
Biological sensitivity to context moderates the effects of the early teacher-child relationship on the development of mental health by adolescence.
Development and psychopathology
Differential susceptibility to the environment: an evolutionary--neurodevelopmental theory.
Development and psychopathology
Differential susceptibility to the environment: toward an understanding of sensitivity to developmental experiences and context.
Development and psychopathology
Quality of early family relationships and the timing and tempo of puberty: effects depend on biological sensitivity to context.
Development and psychopathology
The interactive effect of marital conflict and stress reactivity on externalizing and internalizing symptoms: the role of laboratory stressors.
Development and psychopathology
A systematic approach to local stability analysis of cardiovascular baroreflex.
Conference proceedings : ... Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual Conference
Family socioeconomic status and child executive functions: the roles of language, home environment, and single parenthood.
Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS
Social inequalities in childhood dental caries: the convergent roles of stress, bacteria and disadvantage.
Social science & medicine (1982)
Stress reactivity as a moderator of family stress, physical and mental health, and functional impairment for children with sickle cell disease.
Journal of developmental and behavioral pediatrics : JDBP
Rethinking what is important: biologic versus social predictors of childhood health and educational outcomes.
Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.)
Biological sensitivity to context: the interactive effects of stress reactivity and family adversity on socioemotional behavior and school readiness.
Child development
Horizontal transmission of mutans streptococci in children.
Journal of dental research
Socioeconomic predictors of health and development in middle childhood: variations by socioeconomic status measure and race.
Issues in comprehensive pediatric nursing
Smile intensity and warm touch as thin slices of child and family affective style.
Emotion (Washington, D.C.)
The family is (still) the patient.
Archives of pediatrics & adolescent medicine
Time trends, trajectories, and demographic predictors of bullying: a prospective study in Korean adolescents.
The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine
Individual differences in behavioral, physiological, and genetic sensitivities to contexts: implications for development and adaptation.
Developmental neuroscience
Socioeconomic disparities affect prefrontal function in children.
Journal of cognitive neuroscience
Screening for childhood mental health problems: outcomes and early identification.
Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines
Cross-national comparison of adolescent drinking and cannabis use in the United States, Canada, and the Netherlands.
The International journal on drug policy
Bullying increased suicide risk: prospective study of Korean adolescents.
Archives of suicide research : official journal of the International Academy for Suicide Research
Contraceptive use by 15-year-old students at their last sexual intercourse: results from 24 countries.
Archives of pediatrics & adolescent medicine
Children's memory for a mild stressor: the role of sympathetic activation and parasympathetic withdrawal.
Developmental psychobiology
Early father involvement moderates biobehavioral susceptibility to mental health problems in middle childhood.
Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Exploring risk factors for the emergence of children's mental health problems.
Archives of general psychiatry
School bullying and youth violence: causes or consequences of psychopathologic behavior?
Archives of general psychiatry
The ontogeny of autonomic measures in 6- and 12-month-old infants.
Developmental psychobiology
Country material distribution and adolescents' perceived health: multilevel study of adolescents in 27 countries.
Journal of epidemiology and community health
Do welfare regimes mediate the effect of socioeconomic position on health in adolescence? A Cross-national comparison in Europe, North America, and Israel.
International journal of health services : planning, administration, evaluation
Autonomic reactivity and clinical severity in children with sickle cell disease.
Clinical autonomic research : official journal of the Clinical Autonomic Research Society
Adolescent alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana use: the influence of neighborhood disorder and hope.
American journal of health promotion : AJHP
Biological sensitivity to context: I. An evolutionary-developmental theory of the origins and functions of stress reactivity.
Development and psychopathology
Biological sensitivity to context: II. Empirical explorations of an evolutionary-developmental theory.
Development and psychopathology
Social stratification, health, and violence in the very young.
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
Consultation with the specialist: the vulnerable child syndrome.
Pediatrics in review
Physiological reactivity, social support, and memory in early childhood.
Child development
Prophecies of childhood: how children's social environments and biological propensities affect the health of populations.
International journal of behavioral medicine
A new approach to integrating data from multiple informants in psychiatric assessment and research: mixing and matching contexts and perspectives.
The American journal of psychiatry
Developmental and contextual influences on autonomic reactivity in young children.
Developmental psychobiology
Predictors of children's cortisol activation during the transition to kindergarten.
Journal of developmental and behavioral pediatrics : JDBP
Does elementary school alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana use increase middle school risk?
The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine
Temperament, tympanum, and temperature: four provisional studies of the biobehavioral correlates of tympanic membrane temperature asymmetries.
Child development
The confluence of mental, physical, social, and academic difficulties in middle childhood. I: exploring the "head waters" of early life morbidities.
Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
The confluence of mental, physical, social, and academic difficulties in middle childhood. II: developing the Macarthur health and Behavior Questionnaire.
Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Associations between physiological reactivity and children's behavior: advantages of a multisystem approach.
Journal of developmental and behavioral pediatrics : JDBP
Socioeconomic differences in children's health: how and why do these relationships change with age?
Psychological bulletin
Autonomic reactivity and psychopathology in middle childhood.
The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science
Dissociations between psychobiologic reactivity and emotional expression in children.
Developmental psychobiology
Injuries in child care centers: gender-environment interactions.
Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention
Plasma norepinephrine levels, vagal tone index, and flexor reflex threshold in premature neonates receiving intravenous morphine during the postoperative period: a pilot study.
The Clinical journal of pain
The epidemiology of injuries in 4 child care centers.
Archives of pediatrics & adolescent medicine
Social dominance and cardiovascular reactivity in preschoolers. Associations with SES and health.
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
Crowding stress and violent injuries among behaviorally inhibited rhesus macaques.
Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association
Social context in developmental psychopathology: recommendations for future research from the MacArthur Network on Psychopathology and Development. The MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Psychopathology and Development.
Development and psychopathology
Life events, frontal electroencephalogram laterality, and functional immune status after acute psychological stressors in adolescents.
Psychosomatic medicine
Consultation with the specialist. The vulnerable child.
Pediatrics in review
Tympanic temperature asymmetry and stress behavior in rhesus macaques and children.
Archives of pediatrics & adolescent medicine
Resilience and vulnerability among preschool children: family functioning, temperament, and behavior problems.
Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Persistent visceral pain in adolescents.
Journal of pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition
Dimensions of psychobiologic reactivity: Cardiovascular responses to laboratory stressors in preschool children.
Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine
Psychobiologic reactivity to stress and childhood respiratory illnesses: results of two prospective studies.
Psychosomatic medicine
Salivary cortisol in nursery-reared rhesus monkeys: reactivity to peer interactions and altered circadian activity.
Developmental psychobiology
Biobehavioral comparisons between adopted and nonadopted rhesus monkey infants.
Journal of developmental and behavioral pediatrics : JDBP
Hypnosis in the prevention of chemotherapy-related nausea and vomiting in children: a prospective study.
Journal of developmental and behavioral pediatrics : JDBP
What do minority elementary students understand about the causes of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, colds, and obesity?
Journal of developmental and behavioral pediatrics : JDBP
Health-related risk factors of homeless families and single adults.
Journal of community health
Immunologic changes occurring at kindergarten entry predict respiratory illnesses after the Loma Prieta earthquake.
Journal of developmental and behavioral pediatrics : JDBP
The psychobiology of childhood stress.
Current opinion in pediatrics
The relationship of family structure and perceived family support to length of hospital stay.
Family practice research journal
Maternal distress and discrepancy in reports of psychopathology in chronically ill children.
Psychosomatics
Depressive symptoms and adaptive style in children with cancer.
Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Mental disorders in chronically ill children: parent-child discrepancy and physician identification.
Pediatrics
Sexual abuse of children. The detection of semen on skin.
American journal of diseases of children (1960)
The association between hemoglobin and behavior problems in a sample of low-income Hispanic preschool children.
Journal of developmental and behavioral pediatrics : JDBP
Cardiovascular markers of biobehavioral reactivity.
Journal of developmental and behavioral pediatrics : JDBP
The vulnerable child: new evidence, new approaches.
Advances in pediatrics
Psychosocial predictors of maternal and infant health among adolescent mothers.
American journal of diseases of children (1960)
Home care for ventilator-dependent children. Psychosocial impact on the family.
American journal of diseases of children (1960)
Life after residency. Setting priorities in pediatric professional life.
American journal of diseases of children (1960)
Life events, social support, and cardiovascular reactivity in adolescence.
Journal of developmental and behavioral pediatrics : JDBP
Psychobiological differences in childhood stress response. II. Cardiovascular markers of vulnerability.
Journal of developmental and behavioral pediatrics : JDBP
Psychobiological differences in childhood stress response. I. Patterns of illness and susceptibility.
Journal of developmental and behavioral pediatrics : JDBP
Protein malnutrition in elderly Navajo patients.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Recurrent injuries in schoolchildren.
American journal of diseases of children (1960)
Sociocultural factors in puerperal infectious morbidity among Navajo women.
American journal of epidemiology
Health status of children in self-care.
American journal of diseases of children (1960)
Injuries, absences, and visits to the nurse among children in alternative schools.
The Journal of school health
The taxonomy of social support: an ethnographic analysis among adolescent mothers.
Social science & medicine (1982)
Clinical prediction of cervical spine injuries in children. Radiographic abnormalities.
American journal of diseases of children (1960)
Acute Chlamydia trachomatis respiratory infection in childhood. Serologic evidence.
American journal of diseases of children (1960)
Social and cultural factors in pregnancy complications among Navajo women.
American journal of epidemiology
Stress and child health: an overview.
Pediatric annals
Infection with Chlamydia trachomatis immunotype J associated with trachoma in children in an area previously endemic for trachoma.
The Journal of infectious diseases
Phytophotodermatitis simulating child abuse.
American journal of diseases of children (1960)
Illnesses in infants born to women with Chlamydia trachomatis infection. A prospective study.
American journal of diseases of children (1960)
Permanence and change: psychosocial factors in the outcome of adolescent pregnancy.
Social science & medicine (1982)