Associations between a metal mixture and infant negative affectivity: Effect modification by prenatal cortisol and infant sex

FM Merced‐Nieves, S Eitenbichler… - Child …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In‐utero exposures interact in complex ways that influence neurodevelopment. Animal
research demonstrates that fetal sex moderates the impact of joint exposure to metals and …

Childhood temperamental, emotional, and behavioral characteristics associated with mood and anxiety disorder s in adolescence: A prospective study

NR Bakken, LJ Hannigan, A Shadrin… - Acta Psychiatrica …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background Mood and anxiety disorders account for a large share of the global burden of
disability. Some studies suggest that early signs may emerge already in childhood …

Maternal suicide risk predicts preschooler emotional and behavioral problems

M Zalewski, AL Byrd, V Vine, AC Hernandez… - Psychiatry research, 2024 - Elsevier
Maternal history of suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STBs) has been identified as a robust
risk factor for offspring emotional and behavioral problems, including risk for offspring STBs …

Sensitivity to psychosocial influences at age 3 predicts mental health in middle childhood

CL McDermott, K Taylor, SDS Sharp… - Developmental …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Children vary in how sensitive they are to experiences, with consequences for their
developmental outcomes. In the current study, we investigated how behavioral sensitivity at …

Exploring the differentiation of behavioural and emotional problems across childhood: A prospective longitudinal cohort study

AD Askelund, H Ask, E Ystrom, A Havdahl… - JCPP …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background An individual's overall burden of behavioural and emotional problems across
childhood is associated with increased likelihood of later mental health conditions. However …

Associations between mothers' and fathers' depression and anxiety prior to birth and infant temperament trajectories over the first year of life: Evidence from diagnoses …

JA Mattera, AX Campagna, SH Goodman… - Journal of Affective …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Developmental shifts in infant temperament predict distal outcomes including
emerging symptoms of psychopathology in childhood. Thus, it is critical to gain insight into …

Within-person pathways among maternal depressive symptoms and offspring internalizing problems from early childhood through adolescence

S Chad-Friedman, E Chad-Friedman… - Development and …, 2023 - cambridge.org
Introduction: The report examined reciprocal within-person associations among maternal
depressive symptoms and offspring depressive, anxiety and irritability symptoms from early …

Assessing bidirectional relations between infant temperamental negative affect, maternal anxiety symptoms and infant affect-biased attention across the first 24 …

A Vallorani, KE Gunther, B Anaya, JL Burris… - Developmental …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Developmental theories suggest affect-biased attention, preferential attention to emotionally
salient stimuli, emerges during infancy through coordinating individual differences. Here we …

Childhood trajectories of internalising and externalising problems associated with a polygenic risk score for neuroticism in a UK birth cohort study

I Costantini, H Sallis, K Tilling, D Major‐Smith… - JCPP …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background Neuroticism represents a personality disposition towards experiencing negative
emotions more frequently and intensely. Longitudinal studies suggest that neuroticism …

Pregnancy complications and childhood mental health: is the association modified by sex or adverse social circumstances? Findings from the 'growing up in Ireland' …

E Butler, M Clarke, M Spirtos, LMO Keeffe… - Social psychiatry and …, 2024 - Springer
Specific pregnancy complications, socioeconomic position and sex have all been
independently associated with child mental health outcomes, but their combined effects …