Do family environments influence children's brain development during the transition to adolescence?

Associations between cognitive and affective empathy and internalizing symptoms in late childhood

Katherine O Bray, Vicki Anderson, Christos Pantelis, Elena Pozzi, Orli S Schwartz, Nandita Vijayakumar, Sally Richmond, Camille Deane, Nicholas B Allen, Sarah Whittle

2021-07-01

BACKGROUND: Empathy is a multidimensional construct, which includes cognitive and affective components. Studies in adults have dem..

Maternal parenting behavior and functional connectivity development in children: A longitudinal fMRI study

Elena Pozzi, Nandita Vijayakumar, Michelle L Byrne, Katherine O Bray, Marc Seal, Sally Richmond, Andrew Zalesky, Sarah L Whittle

2021-04-01

Parenting behavior is associated with internalizing symptoms in children, and cross-sectional research suggests that this associat..

Towards understanding neurocognitive mechanisms of parenting: Maternal behaviors and structural brain network organization in late childhood

Sally Richmond, Richard Beare, Katherine A Johnson, Nicholas B Allen, Marc L Seal, Sarah Whittle

2021-02-02

A substantial body of knowledge suggests that exposure to adverse family environments - including violence and neglect - influence..

Adrenarcheal hormone-related development of white matter during late childhood

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

2020-12-01

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

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

2020-12-01

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

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

2020-12-01

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

The Influence of Maternal Parenting Style on the Neural Correlates of Emotion Processing in Children

Elena Pozzi, Julian G Simmons, Chad A Bousman, Nandita Vijayakumar, Katherine O Bray, Orwa Dandash, Sally Richmond, Orli Schwartz, Marc Seal, Lisa Sheeber, Marie BH Yap, Nicholas B Allen, Sarah L Whittle

2020-02-01

OBJECTIVE: The importance of parenting in influencing mental health outcomes, particularly depression, during childhood and adoles..

Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms Are Associated With Different Trajectories of Cortical Development During Late Childhood

Sarah Whittle, Nandita Vijayakumar, Julian G Simmons, Nicholas B Allen

2020-01-01

OBJECTIVE: Investigation of neurobiological differences between internalizing and externalizing symptoms in children is needed to ..

Pubertal hormones predict sex-specific trajectories of pituitary gland volume during the transition from childhood to adolescence

Sarah Whittle, Marjolein Barendse, Elena Pozzi, Nandita Vijayakumar, Julian G Simmons

2020-01-01

Pituitary gland volume (PGV) increases during childhood and adolescence in a sex-specific manner, and previous research suggests t..

Structural covariance networks in children and their associations with maternal behaviors

Sally Richmond, Richard Beare, Katherine A Johnson, Nicholas B Allen, Marc L Seal, Sarah Whittle

2019-11-15

There is a substantial body of research documenting the influence of early adverse experience on brain development. In contrast, r..

Measurement of cortisol, dehydroepiandrosterone, and testosterone in the hair of children: Preliminary results and promising indications

Jesse D Smith, Katherine A Johnson, Sarah Whittle, Nicholas B Allen, Julian G Simmons

2019-09-01

Hormone analysis is a valuable tool for understanding how physiology and behavior interact. Cortisol in hair has recently been exa..

Interaction between hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis genetic variation and maternal behavior in the prediction of amygdala connectivity in children

Elena Pozzi, Chad A Bousman, Julian G Simmons, Nandita Vijayakumar, Orli Schwartz, Marc Seal, Marie BH Yap, Nicholas B Allen, Sarah L Whittle

2019-08-15

High levels of negative, and low levels of positive parenting behaviors can increase the risk of internalizing symptoms in childre..

Study protocol: families and childhood transitions study (FACTS) - a longitudinal investigation of the role of the family environment in brain development and risk for mental health disorders in community based children

JG Simmons, OS Schwartz, K Bray, C Deane, E Pozzi, S Richmond, J Smith, N Vijayakumar, ML Byrne, ML Seal, MBH Yap, NB Allen, SL Whittle

2017-06-30

BACKGROUND: Extant research has demonstrated that parenting behaviour can be a significant contributor to the development of brain..