Sarah Whittle

Altered resting functional connectivity patterns associated with problematic substance use and substance use disorders during adolescence.

Divyangana Rakesh, Jinglei Lv, Andrew Zalesky, Nicholas B Allen, Dan I Lubman, Murat Yücel, Sarah Whittle

Journal article  |  2021  |  Journal of Affective Disorders

BACKGROUND: Adolescence is typified by increasing rates of substance use and the development of substance use disorders (SUD). Abe..

Neural Correlates of Emotion Regulation in Adolescents and Emerging Adults: A Meta-analytic Study

Elena Pozzi, Nandita Vijayakumar, Divyangana Rakesh, Sarah Whittle

Journal article  |  2021  |  Biological Psychiatry

BACKGROUND: The development of adaptive implicit and explicit emotion regulation skills is crucial for mental health. Adolescence ..

A longitudinal analysis of puberty-related cortical development.

Nandita Vijayakumar, George Youssef, Nicholas B Allen, Vicki Anderson, Daryl Efron, Philip Hazell, Lisa Mundy, Jan M Nicholson, George Patton, Marc L Seal, Julian G Simmons, Sarah Whittle, Tim Silk

Journal article  |  2020  |  NeuroImage

The brain undergoes extensive structural changes during adolescence, concurrent to puberty-related physical and hormonal changes. ..

Associations between early life stress and anterior pituitary gland volume development during late childhood

Paige Farrow, Julian G Simmons, Elena Pozzi, Carmela Diaz-Arteche, Sally Richmond, Katherine Bray, Orli Schwartz, Sarah Whittle

Journal article  |  2020  |  Psychoneuroendocrinology

Early Life Stress (ELS) is thought to influence Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal-Axis (HPAA) functioning, contributing to an increas..

Adrenarcheal hormone-related development of white matter during late childhood

Marjolein EA Barendse, Julian G Simmons, Robert E Smith, Marc L Seal, Sarah Whittle

Journal article  |  2020  |  NeuroImage

The aim of the current study was to longitudinally examine how adrenarcheal hormones influence the development of white matter str..

Exploratory Factor Analysis of Observational Parent-Child Interaction Data

Sally Richmond, Orli Schwartz, Katherine A Johnson, Marc L Seal, Katherine Bray, Camille Deane, Lisa B Sheeber, Nicholas B Allen, Sarah Whittle

Journal article  |  2020  |  Assessment

The majority of studies using observational coding systems for family interaction data derive scales describing family members' be..

Associations between early life stress and anterior pituitary gland volume development - A novel index of long-term hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis functioning

Carmela Diaz-Arteche, Julian G Simmons, Despina E Ganella, Orli Schwartz, Jee Hyun Kim, Paige Farrow, Sarah Whittle

Journal article  |  2020  |  Developmental Psychobiology

Previous research has established associations between early life stress (ELS) and altered pituitary gland volume (PGV) growth dur..

Unraveling the Consequences of Childhood Maltreatment: Deviations From Typical Functional Neurodevelopment Mediate the Relationship Between Maltreatment History and Depressive Symptoms.

Divyangana Rakesh, Clare Kelly, Nandita Vijayakumar, Andrew Zalesky, Nicholas B Allen, Sarah Whittle

Journal article  |  2020  |  Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging

BACKGROUND: Childhood maltreatment is associated with lifelong psychiatric sequelae. However, our understanding of neurobiological..

Parental somatic illnesses and their association with prodromal symptoms of psychosis among offspring

Lotta Kinnunen, Tanja Nordstrom, Mika Niemela, Sami Rasanen, Sarah Whittle, Michael Sawyer, Jouko Miettunen

Journal article  |  2020  |  Schizophrenia Research

Does cortical brain morphology act as a mediator between childhood trauma and transition to psychosis in young individuals at ultra-high risk?

Marta Rapado-Castro, Sarah Whittle, Christos Pantelis, Andrew Thompson, Barnaby Nelson, Eleni P Ganella, Ashleigh Lin, Renate LEP Reniers, Patrick D McGorry, Alison R Yung, Stephen J Wood, Cali F Bartholomeusz

Journal article  |  2020  |  Schizophrenia Research

BACKGROUND: Childhood trauma, particularly sexual abuse, has been associated with transition to psychosis in individuals at "ultra..