Parenting is genetically influenced: What does that mean for research into child and adolescent social development?

T Kretschmer - Social Development, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Individual differences in child and adolescent social development are due to a combination
of variation in genetic propensity and environmental conditions. That is, variation in social …

The adaptive stochasticity hypothesis: Modeling equifinality, multifinality, and adaptation to adversity

S Carozza, D Akarca, D Astle - Proceedings of the National …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Neural phenotypes are the result of probabilistic developmental processes. This means that
stochasticity is an intrinsic aspect of the brain as it self-organizes over a protracted period. In …

Educational attainment polygenic scores, socioeconomic factors, and cortical structure in children and adolescents

EC Merz, J Strack, H Hurtado, U Vainik… - Human Brain …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Genome‐wide polygenic scores for educational attainment (PGS‐EA) and socioeconomic
factors, which are correlated with each other, have been consistently associated with …

A person‐centered data analytic approach to dopaminergic polygenic moderation of child maltreatment exposure

ED Handley, J Russotti, AJ Ross… - Developmental …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The present study illustrates the utility of latent class analysis, a person‐centered data
analytic approach, as an innovative method for identifying naturally occurring patterns of …

Language Development and Behavioral Systems

M Pelaez, G Novak - The Psychological Record, 2024 - Springer
We present the core principles of a behavioral systems theory (BST) that incorporates
dynamical systems concepts and applies them to a behavior analysis of early language …

Effects of polygenes, parent–child relationship and frustration on junior high school students' aggressive behaviors

M Zhang, Z Jiang, K Zhao, Y Zhang, M Xu… - PsyCh journal, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The effects of the interaction between polygenes and the parent–child relationship on junior
high school students' aggressive behaviors were explored through the frameworks of gene …

Polygenic risk for depression and anterior and posterior hippocampal volume in children and adolescents

H Hurtado, M Hansen, J Strack, U Vainik… - Journal of Affective …, 2024 - Elsevier
Background Depression has frequently been associated with smaller hippocampal volume.
The hippocampus varies in function along its anterior-posterior axis, with the anterior …

[HTML][HTML] Using sibling models to unpack the relationship between education and cognitive functioning in later life

P Herd, K Sicinski - SSM-Population Health, 2022 - Elsevier
As the population ages and the prevalence of dementia increases, unpacking robust and
persistent associations between educational attainment and later life cognitive functioning is …

Can behavioural genetics advance the study of children's play?

GA Francis, U Toseeb - 2023 - psyarxiv.com
This article discusses how play research can draw on genetically sensitive data to
investigate individual differences in children's play and tackle questions relating to the origin …

Current Complexities in Establishing Risk Factors for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in Longitudinal Research

KN Thompson - Biological Psychiatry, 2024 - biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com
A long-term goal of psychiatric research is to understand the process by which psychiatric
disorders develop over time and lead to impairing symptoms. Attention-deficit/hyperactivity …