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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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Childhood Maltreatment and Electrodermal Reactivity to Stress Among Pregnant Women33
Assessing the motivational value of infant video clips on chimpanzees through discrimination learning task28
Maternal early life and prenatal stress in relation to birth outcomes in Argentinian mothers26
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Cultural Values Influence the Developmental Trajectory of Resistance to Social Influence Over the Course of Adolescence24
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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 mice18
An Interpersonal Physiological Pathway Framework Linking Racism and Well‐Being in Black American Families17
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Estrous Cycle Impacts Fear Extinction and Relapse in Female Adolescent Rats17
Between‐ and Within‐Person Associations Between Serum Lipids and Adolescent Depressive Symptoms17
Effect of baby swimming lessons on infants’ avoidance of bodies of water16
Investigating Physiology‐Behavior Associations for Youth During Parent–Child Conflict Discussions15
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Developmental windows for effects of choline and folate on excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmission during human gestation15
Advancing Wrist‐Worn Accelerometry for Measurement of Infant Motor Behavior14
Effects of Peripubertal Experiences on Competitive Behavior in Male Rats at Different Stages of Adulthood14
Early Adversity Affects Cerebellar Structure and Function—A Systematic Review of Human and Animal Studies14
Early adversity changes the economic conditions of mouse structural brain network organization14
A Role for Fetal Movement in Shaping Maternal Neurodevelopment14
Anxiety, aggression, reward sensitivity, and forebrain dopamine receptor expression in a laboratory rat model of early‐life disadvantage14
Association between physical activity and allostatic load among pregnant women13
Pupillary Responses to Dynamic Negative Versus Positive Facial Expressions of Emotion in Children and Parents: Links to Depression and Anxiety12
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Physiological Markers of Early Social Skills in Rural South Africa: The Role of Frontal Alpha Asymmetry and Heart Rate Variability12
New Mothers’ Experiences of Childhood Adversity and Current Context of Economic Adversity Predict Parent and Infant RSA12
Emotion Regulation and Neural Connectivity After Frustrative Non‐Reward in Adolescents: The Moderating Role of Cognitive Flexibility12
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Maternal hair cortisol predicts periodic and aperiodic infant frontal EEG activity longitudinally across infancy11
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Exploring Neural Markers of Reward and Loss Processing and Problematic Parenting Styles Among Mothers With and Without Histories of Depression11
Role of tactile stimulation during the preweaning period on the development of the peripheral sensory sural (SU) nerve in adult artificially reared female rat11
Youth coping and cardiac autonomic functioning: Implications for social and academic adjustment10
Adrenal Biomarkers of Stress in Transgender and Gender‐Diverse Adolescents10
Correction to “Exploring Neural Markers of Reward and Loss Processing and Problematic Parenting Styles Among Mothers With and Without Histories of Depression”10
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
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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Hair and plasma cortisol throughout the first 3 years of development in infant rhesus macaques, Macaca mulatta9
Temperament in Early Childhood Is Associated With Gut Microbiota Composition and Diversity9
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Neurobehavioral Profiles in Low‐Risk Infants: Associations With Prenatal Maternal Biobehavior and Birth Characteristics8
Maternal Prenatal Stress and the Offspring Gut Microbiome: A Cross‐Species Systematic Review8
Differential Effects of Prenatal Buprenorphine and Methadone on Postnatal Growth and Gene Expression in the Nucleus Accumbens8
Maternal High‐Fat Diet and Neonatal LPS Exposure Prolong USV Sequences and Shift Call‐Type Repertoires in Neonatal Rats8
Mother and sibling interactions during the preweaning period influence myelination and impulse propagation of the sensory sural nerve in the adult rat8
Sex differences in autism‐like behavior and dopaminergic neurons in substantia nigra of juvenile mice prenatally exposed to valproate8
Age‐dependent associations between RSA reactivity, affective and cognitive regulation, and psychopathology risk in young children exposed to varying levels of socioeconomic disadvantage8
Demographic and health predictors of telomere length during adolescence8
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Sex differences in the vulnerability of the hippocampus to prenatal stress7
Quality not quantity: Deficient juvenile play experiences lead to altered medial prefrontal cortex neurons and sociocognitive skill deficits7
Fast changes in default and control network activity underlying intraindividual response time variability in childhood: Does age and sex matter?7
Early Supraspinal Influences on Human Embryonic Posture7
Endogenous Control and Reward‐based Mechanisms Shape Infants’ Attention Biases to Caregiver Faces7
Is economic hardship associated with young children's cortisol levels?7
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“Nobody Here Likes Her”—The Impact of Parental Verbal Threat Information on Children's Fear of Strangers7
Parent‐Reported Toddler Dysregulation and Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia Predict Trajectories of Childhood Externalizing Behaviors7
Warm Parenting Throughout Adolescence Predicts Basal Parasympathetic Activity Among Mexican‐Origin Youths7
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Chloride Modulates Central pH Sensitivity and Plasticity of Brainstem Breathing‐Related Biorhythms in Zebra Finch Embryos7
Behavioral responses to natural rewards in developing male and female rats7
The development of interoceptive hunger signals6
Bidirectional Relations Among Maternal Positive Emotion, Infant Positive Emotionality, and Infant Physiological Regulation Across the First 18 Months of Life6
Ganaxolone Therapy After Preterm Birth Restores Cerebellar Oligodendrocyte Maturation and Myelination in Guinea Pigs6
Effect of social instability stress in adolescence or adulthood on sensitivity to sucrose concentration in a social context in male and female Long‐Evans rats6
Emotion regulation and reactivity are associated with cortical thickness in early to mid‐childhood6
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Developing Best Practices for Inclusion in fNIRS Research: Equity for Participants With Afro‐Textured Hair6
Effects of Early Life Scarcity‐Adversity on Maturational Milestones in Male and Female Rats6
Testing detectability, attractivity, hedonic specificity, extractability, and robustness of colostrum odor—Toward an olfactory bioassay for human neonates6
Progressive Voxel‐Wise Homotopic Connectivity from childhood to adulthood: Age‐related functional asymmetry in resting‐state functional magnetic resonance imaging6
Who Participates in Research and Why: Reducing Barriers to Diversifying Samples in Developmental Psychobiology6
Oxytocin system polymorphisms rs237887 and rs2740210 variants increase the risk of depression in pregnant women with early abuse5
Behavioral and neurostructural correlates of childhood physical violence victimization: Interaction with family functioning5
Cross‐Tissue Specificity of Pediatric DNA Methylation Associated With Cumulative Family Stress5
Early Family Experiences and Neural Activity in Rural Pakistani Children: The Differential Role of Gender5
Socioeconomic Status, the Home Language Environment, Noise Exposure, and the Mismatch Response in Infancy5
The impact of dopamine receptor D4, temperamental negativity, and household chaos on young twins’ externalizing behaviors5
From One's Heart to the Mind of Others: A Study in School‐Aged Children5
Longitudinal patterns of neuroendocrine coupling from middle childhood to early adolescence5
57th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology5
Comparative analysis of electrodermal activity metrics and their association with child behavior in autism spectrum disorder5
The Effects of Distraction and Reappraisal on the Late Positive Potential Across Discrete Emotions: A Study With Latinx Children5
Examining the Relation Between Prenatal Emotion Dysregulation and Toddler Vocabulary Development: A Biobehavioral Approach5
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
Prenatal Zika Virus Exposure Alters the Interaction Between Affective Processing and Decision‐Making in Juvenile Rhesus Macaques (Macaca mulatta)5
Obituary for Celia L. Moore (1942–2025)5
Assessing Children's Autonomic Nervous System Activity During Structured Tasks: A Feasibility and Reliability Study in Ghana5
Losing a parent in early‐life impairs flock size discrimination and lowers oxytocin receptor abundance in a medial amygdala homologue of adult zebra finches5
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Influence of oxytocin on parenting behaviors and parent–child bonding: A systematic review5
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Evaluating Household Income and Tobacco Exposure as Moderators of the Association Between Prenatal Cannabis Exposure and Newborn Neurobehavior5
Maternal Milk Allopregnanolone May Buffer Negative Associations Between Maternal Postpartum Psychological Distress and Infant Regulatory Capacity5
Infant 6‐Month Psychophysiology During Interaction With Mother Is Differentiated by 12‐Month Attachment Quality5
When and how do children solve the Weather Prediction Task?5
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Early life experience and sex influence acoustic repertoire use in wild‐born, but hand‐reared, captive cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus)4
Acute and long‐lasting effects of adolescent fluoxetine exposure on feeding behavior in Sprague–Dawley rats4
Interpersonal Contributors to Depression in Sexual Minority Adolescents: An Examination of Exposure to Acute Stressors and Neural Reactivity to Interpersonal Emotional Images4
Association of maternal and paternal psychosocial stress and infant hair cortisol among Arab American immigrants: A pilot study4
The effects of early rearing experiences on mutual eye gaze among captive olive baboons (Papio anubis)4
Feasibility of an Online Acute Stressor in Preschool Children of Mothers with Depression4
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The Interaction Between Socioeconomic Status, Parent–Child Relationship, and the COMT Val158Met Polymorphism Predicts Chinese Preschoolers' Executive Fun4
Neural sensitivity to social reward predicts links between social behavior and loneliness in youth during the COVID‐19 pandemic4
Impact of maternal physical exercise on inflammatory and hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis markers in the brain and lungs of prenatally stressed neonatal mice4
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Associations Between Prenatal Maternal Stress and Infant Resting Brain Activity: A Preregistered Investigation4
A preliminary investigation of epigenome‐wide DNA methylation and temperament during infancy4
The role of task difficulty in directing selective attention in bobwhite quail (Colinus virginianus) neonates: A developmental test of the intersensory redundancy hypothesis4
Maternal Childhood Trauma and Offspring Hypothalamic–Pituitary–Adrenal Axis Function from Infancy to 6 Years of Age4
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Why do individuals with Williams syndrome or Down syndrome fail the Weather Prediction Task?4
Children's and Adults’ P100 and N170 Responses to Own‐ and Other‐Race Face Categories and Identities4
Prenatal serotonin reuptake inhibitor antidepressant exposure, SLC6A4 genetic variations, and cortisol activity in 6‐year‐old children of depressed mothers: A cohort study4
Dyadic Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia Outcomes for Mothers and Their Children: Long‐Term Follow‐Up of a Randomized Controlled Trial of Brief Parenting Interventions4
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Cannabis Use, and the Endocannabinoid System: A Scoping Review4
The relationship of psychological well‐being and cognitive emotions with breastfeeding self‐efficacy in mothers in the postpartum period4
Maternal Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) Moderates the Association Between Birth Weight and EEG Power in Healthy Term‐Age Newborns4
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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
Children's shyness and physiological arousal to a peer's social stress4
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Preventive putative effect of agmatine on cognitive and molecular outcomes in ventral tegmental area of male offspring following physical and psychological prenatal stress4
Psychoneuroimmunological Evidence for Biological Embedding During Early Adolescence4
Relationship Between Prone Skills and Motor‐Based Problem‐Solving Abilities in Full‐Term and Preterm Infants During the First 6 Months of Life4
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
Examining the impact of prenatal maternal internalizing symptoms and socioeconomic status on children's frontal alpha asymmetry and psychopathology3
Cortisol response marks biological sensitivity to kindergartners’ social hierarchies for emerging school engagement3
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Enhanced maternal behaviors in a mouse model of congenital blindness3
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Gene Expression After Exercise Is Disrupted by Early‐Life Stress3
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Prenatal Maternal Stress and Weak Handedness in Early Childhood: The Iowa Flood Study3
The influence of anterior cingulate GABA+ and glutamate on emotion regulation and reactivity in adolescents and adults3
Locomotor Response to Novelty: What Does It Tell Us?3
The Quadratic Association Between Resting Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia and Adolescents’ Prosociality: The Moderating Role of Parental Marital Conflict3
Maternal Emotion Regulation and Parenting: A Physiological Perspective3
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
The effects of abnormal visual experience on neurodevelopmental disorders3
Differences Between Preterm and Full‐Term Infants in Electroencephalogram Power Spectral Density Slope3
A review of the literature: How does prenatal opioid exposure impact placental health and fetal brain development?3
Developmental age and fatty acid amide hydrolase genetic variation converge to mediate fear regulation in female mice3
Effects of Emotional Violence Experienced by Fathers From Their Partners in the Postpartum Period on Depression Level and Father–Infant Attachment3
Fingerprint patterns in relation to an altered neurodevelopment in patients with autism spectrum disorder3
Effects of social environments on male primate HPG and HPA axis developmental programming3
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
Influence of early social isolation on general activity and spatial learning in adult WAG/Rij rats3
Negative caregiving and stress reactivity moderate the relation between early life stress and externalizing in adolescence3
The impact of poor fetal growth and chronic hyperpalatable diet exposure in adulthood on hippocampal function and feeding patterns in male rats3
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Experience With Face Groups Impacts Face Processing, but Not Face Differentiation in 6‐ and 9‐Month‐Old Infants3
Expressive language in infancy and toddlerhood: The roles of child temperament and maternal parenting behaviors3
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Development and pilot testing of an early childhood somatosensory assessment: Somatosensory test of reaching3
Telomere Length and Change Among Infants Growing up in Low‐ to Mid‐Income Households3
Parent and Child Influences on Adrenocortical Synchrony During Middle Childhood3
Precocial Weaning Influences Anxiety, Social and Maternal Care but Not Cognition in African Striped Mice, Rhabdomys dilectus chakae3
Processing of task‐irrelevant sounds during typical everyday activities in children3
Early‐life stress and current stress predict BMI and height growth trajectories in puberty3
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Analysis of Content About Infant Development From Formal Parent Education Sources in Different World Regions2
Grandmother–grandchild physiological synchrony in Chinese three‐generation families: Links with child emotion regulation2
Maternal negative affect moderates behavioral and physiological synchrony in Latinx and Black mother–child dyads2
Pubertal maturation and timing effects on resting state electroencephalography in autistic and comparison youth2
Preconception Exposure to Chronic Stressors Influences Pair‐Bonding Quality and Promotes Proximity‐Based Parenting Styles in Adult Prairie Voles ( Microtus ochrogaster 2
Emotional expression visual mismatch negativity in children2
The effect of emotional uncertainty on attentional bias toward neutral infant faces in adults2
Parental Incarceration, Attachment to Caregivers, and Young Children's Physiological Stress2
Neural and Psychophysiological Correlates of Cognitive, Social, and Emotional Development of Infants and Children of Mothers With Peripartum Depression: A Systematic Review2
Prenatal Alcohol Exposure Disrupts Performance in a Differential Reinforcement of Low Rates Task Specifically in Adolescent Male Rats2
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
Maternal Prenatal Psychological Stress and Iron Levels in the Fetal Brain2
Examining the biological impacts of parent–child relationship dynamics on preschool‐aged children who have experienced adversity2
Adolescent nicotine administration impacts working memory and reversal learning but not cognitive flexibility2
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The impact of air pollution on neurocognitive development: Adverse effects and health disparities2
Sex Differences in the Associations Among Parenting, Socioeconomic Status, and Error Monitoring Among Adolescents2
Agomelatine Is Unable to Attenuate Kainic Acid–Induced Deficits in Early Life Communicative Behavior2
Caudate volume is prospectively associated with irritability in toddlerhood: A preliminary investigation2
Navigating Academic Brokering: Enhancing Belongingness in Scientific Training Programs2
Neonatal ventral hippocampus lesion disrupts maternal behavior in rats: An animal model of schizophrenia2
Child Effortful Control Moderates the Link Between Parenting Stress and Child Parasympathetic Regulation: Interactions Across Contexts and Measures2
The last stage of development: The restructuring and plasticity of the cortex during adolescence especially at puberty2
Associations between disordered eating, internalizing symptoms, and behavioral and neural correlates of response inhibition in preadolescence2
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Greater Frontoparietal Connectivity During Task Engagement Among Toddlers With Parent‐Reported Inattention2
Early Attachment Disruption Increases Central Sensitivity of Depressive‐Like Behavior to Stimulation by PGE‐22
Impact of Sex and Salivary Dehydroepiandrosterone on the Association Between Testosterone and Emotion Dysregulation2
Preconception Exposure to Chronic Stressors Impairs Social Behaviors in Prairie Vole Offspring ( Microtus ochrogaster ): Partial Mediation by Parental Pa2
Reaching While Learning to Sit: Capturing the Kinematics of Co‐Developing Skills at Home2
Prenatal substance exposure, early‐life adversity, and parenting: Associations with adolescent stress response2
The Development of Facial Bristles in Tawny Frogmouths ( Podargus strigoides )1
Emerging Adults Mirror Infants’ Emotions and Yawns1
Science Democratization for Rigor, Relevance, and Resilience1
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Maternal childhood adversity and infant epigenetic aging: Moderation by restless sleep during pregnancy1
Neurobehavioral alterations induced by third‐trimester gestation‐equivalent ethanol exposure are inhibited by folate administration1
Infants' sex affects neural responses to affective touch in early infancy1
Volumetric development of hippocampal subfields and hippocampal white matter connectivity: Relationship with episodic memory1
Fine and gross motor skills in 7–10 years old Indian children exposed to a natural disaster during early development1
The Association Between Childhood Impaired Motor Development and Adolescent Psychotic Experiences1
Maternal oxytocin treatment at birth increases epigenetic age in male offspring1
Associations of maternal emotion regulation with child white matter connectivity in Black American mother–child dyads1
Mother–Infant Physiological Coregulation Is Associated With Infant Developmental Status Among Families With Experienced Adversity1
The effect of physical and emotional partner violence exerted during pregnancy on prenatal attachment and depression levels in pregnant women1
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Associations between adversity in the family of origin and hair cortisol concentration in adulthood1
Hair Cortisol Concentrations in Children: A Longitudinal Analysis Across Childhood1
The fear that remains: Associations between trauma, related psychopathology, and fear‐potentiated startle in youth resettled as refugees1
Interactions among stress, behavioral inhibition, and delta–beta coupling predict adolescent anxiety during the COVID‐19 pandemic1
Habitual night waking associates with dynamics of waking cortical theta power in infancy1
Out of Sight, Out of Mind? Neuronal Gamma Oscillations During Occlusion Events in Infants1
Signal in the noise: Dimensions of predictability in the home auditory environment are associated with neurobehavioral measures of early infant sustained attention1
More than meets the eye: Examining physiological and behavioral regulation during delay of gratification task1
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The effect of kangaroo care on cortisol levels and immune factors in breast milk1
Connecting the Dots: Associative Transfer and Inference at 6 Months of Age1
Commentary on the special issue: Building on progress and surmounting barriers in research on developmental psychobiology1
Developmental Trajectories of Delta–Beta EEG Coupling Across Infancy: The Influence of Infant Temperament and Maternal Anxiety Over Time1
Epigenetic processes associated with neonatal spinal transection1
A person‐centered data analytic approach to dopaminergic polygenic moderation of child maltreatment exposure1
Measuring Socioeconomic and Stress Disparities in Infant Declarative Memory Using the Visual Paired Comparison Task1
Autonomic nervous system reactivity and preschoolers’ social dominance1
Preferences for Processing Facial Information at Different Orientations in Individuals With Developmental Prosopagnosia1
Face processing in the infant brain after pandemic lockdown1
Exploring the impact of parental technoference on toddlers: A commentary on physiological and developmental implications1
Immediate Effects of Postpartum Hypothyroidism and Long‐Term Effects of Neonatal Hypothyroidism on Maternal Behavior in Rats1
Infrared Thermal Imaging (ITI), a Non‐invasive Window Into Early Emotion Regulation: A Systematic Review1
Fetal Cortisol Exposure and Offspring Socioemotional Development1
The relationship of social support perceived by mothers and fathers and dyadic adjustment with maternal and paternal attachment in the postpartum period1
Impact of Cesarean Delivery on Reward Behavior and Tyrosine Hydroxylase in the Nucleus Accumbens of Adult Prairie Vole Offspring1
Cues associated with a single ethanol exposure elicit conditioned corticosterone responses in adolescent male but not female Sprague–Dawley rats1
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Pathways Linking Community‐Level Social Determinants of Health to Infant Biological Markers and Early Childhood Psychopathology: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach1
Meconium as an Analyte for Androgen Exposure: Analysis Through Varying Maternal‐Fetal Biomarkers1
Prenatal Psychosocial Distress Interacting with Postnatal Maternal Sensitivity in Shaping Infant Observed Affect and RSA Profiles1
The Effects of Environmental Enrichment on the Behavioral Profile of an Attention‐Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Animal Model: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis1
Equifinality in infancy: The many paths to walking1
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