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Variation in hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis activity among bullied and non-bullied childrenTracy Vaillancourt
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Aggress Behav 34:294-305. 2008....
Shyness and timidity in young adults who were born at extremely low birth weightLouis A Schmidt
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Behaviour, McMaster University and Neuroscience Program, McMaster Institute for Neuroscience Discovery and Study, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Pediatrics 122:e181-7. 2008....
Test-retest reliability of regional electroencephalogram (EEG) and cardiovascular measures in social anxiety disorder (SAD)Louis A Schmidt
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, Canada
Int J Psychophysiol 84:65-73. 2012..These findings also provide support for the notion that resting frontal EEG asymmetry and RSA constitute relatively stable individual differences in this clinical population...
Effects of acute prednisone administration on memory, attention and emotion in healthy human adultsL A Schmidt
Department of Psychology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont, Canada
Psychoneuroendocrinology 24:461-83. 1999..The multiple roles of glucocorticoids in memory, attention and emotion are discussed...
Frontal electroencephalogram asymmetry, salivary cortisol, and internalizing behavior problems in young adults who were born at extremely low birth weightLouis A Schmidt
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Child Dev 81:183-99. 2010..Being born at ELBW may have subtle influences on brain-behavior relations even in survivors without major impairments and evidence of these influences may not emerge until young adulthood...
Evidence for a gene-gene interaction in predicting children's behavior problems: association of serotonin transporter short and dopamine receptor D4 long genotypes with internalizing and externalizing behaviors in typically developing 7-year-oldsLouis A Schmidt
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, 1280 Main Street West, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1, Canada
Dev Psychopathol 19:1105-16. 2007..Implications of these findings for understanding cumulative biological risk and protective factors in childhood behavior problems and psychopathology are discussed...
Linking gene, brain, and behavior: DRD4, frontal asymmetry, and temperamentLouis A Schmidt
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1, Canada
Psychol Sci 20:831-7. 2009..We discuss how the interaction of genetic and endoenvironmental factors may confer risk and protection for different behavioral styles in children...
Frontal electroencephalogram alpha asymmetry during sleep: stability and its relation to affective styleLouis A Schmidt
Child Emotion Laboratory, Department of Psychology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Emotion 3:401-7. 2003..The high degree of association between presleep waking and REM sleep may be a result of high cortical activation common to these states and may reflect a predisposition to different styles of emotional reactivity...
Development of frontal electroencephalogram (EEG) and heart rate (ECG) responses to affective musical stimuli during the first 12 months of post-natal lifeLouis A Schmidt
Department of Psychology, McMaster University, Hamilton, L8S 4K1, Ontario, Canada
Brain Cogn 52:27-32. 2003..Findings suggest that there is a clear developmental change in the effect of music on brain activity in the first year, with music having a "calming" influence on infants by the end of the first year of life...
Autonomic predictors of Stroop performance in young and middle-aged adultsKaren J Mathewson
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Int J Psychophysiol 76:123-9. 2010..Findings suggest that performance of executive function tasks that evoke attentional control may depend in part on the responsiveness of autonomic control parameters via age-dependent mechanisms...
Regional EEG alpha power, coherence, and behavioral symptomatology in autism spectrum disorderKaren J Mathewson
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Clin Neurophysiol 123:1798-809. 2012....
Frontal brain oscillatory coupling in children of parents with social phobia: a pilot studyVladimir Miskovic
McMaster Integrative Neuroscience Discovery and Study, McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci 23:111-4. 2011....
Peer victimization, depressive symptoms, and high salivary cortisol predict poorer memory in childrenTracy Vaillancourt
Faculty of Education and School of Psychology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Brain Cogn 77:191-9. 2011..These findings highlight that peer abuse is harmful and may impact children's long-term mental health and memory functioning...
Behavioral and cardiac responses to emotional stroop in adults with autism spectrum disorders: influence of medicationKaren J Mathewson
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behavior, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Autism Res 4:98-108. 2011..This relation was reversed in the unmedicated ASD group and absent in the medicated ASD group. Findings highlight the importance of considering medication status in the recently burgeoning area of psychophysiological studies of autism...
Frontal brain electrical asymmetry and cardiac vagal tone predict biased attention to social threatVladimir Miskovic
McMaster Integrative Neuroscience Discovery and Study, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4K1
Int J Psychophysiol 75:332-8. 2010..Our results provide preliminary evidence that two well established psychophysiological indicators of affective style bias early processing of motivationally salient stimuli...
Joint attention in parent-child dyads involving children with selective mutism: a comparison between anxious and typically developing childrenMatilda E Nowakowski
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S 4K1, Canada
Child Psychiatry Hum Dev 42:78-92. 2011..We discuss the implications of the present findings for understanding the maintenance and treatment of SM...
Perceived maternal stress during pregnancy and its relation to infant stress reactivity at 2 days and 10 months of postnatal lifeEman Leung
McMaster University, Ontario, Canada
Clin Pediatr (Phila) 49:158-65. 2010..Although the negative impact of maternal stress during pregnancy on stress reactivity in offspring is well documented in nonhuman animals, we know little about these relations in humans and their lasting effects...
An investigation of control among parents of selectively mute, anxious, and non-anxious childrenShannon C Edison
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Child Psychiatry Hum Dev 42:270-90. 2011..These results support previous theories that parents take over for their children when they fail to meet performance demands, especially when the child or parent is anxious...
Frontal EEG asymmetry and symptom response to cognitive behavioral therapy in patients with social anxiety disorderDavid A Moscovitch
Canada Research Chair in Mental Health Research, Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, Ontario N2L3G1, Canada
Biol Psychol 87:379-85. 2011..These preliminary findings suggest that resting frontal EEG asymmetry may be a predictor of symptom change and endstate functioning in SAD patients who undergo efficacious psychological treatment...
Different fusiform activity to stranger and personally familiar faces in shy and social adultsElliott A Beaton
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1, Canada
Soc Neurosci 4:308-16. 2009..Findings suggest that there are distinct patterns of neural activation in the FFA in response to viewing stranger and personally familiar faces among shy and social adults...
Adolescent females exposed to child maltreatment exhibit atypical EEG coherence and psychiatric impairment: linking early adversity, the brain, and psychopathologyVladimir Miskovic
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont L8S 4K1, Canada
Dev Psychopathol 22:419-32. 2010..The findings are discussed in the context of models linking early adversity to brain function and psychopathology...
Resting frontal EEG asymmetry and shyness and sociability in schizophrenia: a pilot study of community-based outpatientsMichelle K Jetha
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Int J Neurosci 119:847-56. 2009..These pilot data suggest that positive symptoms in patients with schizophrenia may obscure the relations between personality and frontal EEG asymmetry measures observed in healthy adults...
Early information processing biases in social anxietyVladimir Miskovic
McMaster Integrative Neuroscience Discovery and Study, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Cogn Emot 26:176-85. 2012..Future studies should consider using designs that more closely replicate aspects of real-world interaction to study processing biases in socially anxious populations...
Changes in EEG cross-frequency coupling during cognitive behavioral therapy for social anxiety disorderVladimir Miskovic
McMaster Integrative Neuroscience Discovery and Study, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Psychol Sci 22:507-16. 2011..These findings provide evidence of concomitant improvement in neural and behavioral functioning among socially anxious adults undergoing psychotherapy...
Frontal EEG asymmetry and sensation seeking in young adultsDiane L Santesso
Department of Psychology, Brock University, St Catharines, Ontario, Canada
Biol Psychol 78:164-72. 2008..How greater relative left frontal cortical activity at rest is related to a tendency to engage in sensation-seeking and risky behaviors is discussed...
Shyness and the first 100 ms of emotional face processingMichelle K Jetha
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Soc Neurosci 7:74-89. 2012..This study presents the first evidence that shyness is related to early electrocortical responses to the processing of fearful faces, consistent with a fast-path amygdala sensitivity model...
Frontal brain electrical activity (EEG) and heart rate in response to affective infant-directed (ID) speech in 9-month-old infantsDiane L Santesso
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Brain Cogn 65:14-21. 2007..Findings are discussed in terms of how increases in frontal EEG power in response to different affective intensity may reflect the cognitive aspects of emotional processing across sensory domains in infancy...
Frontal brain oscillations and social anxiety: a cross-frequency spectral analysis during baseline and speech anticipationVladimir Miskovic
McMaster Integrative Neuroscience Discovery and Study, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1, Canada
Biol Psychol 83:125-32. 2010..Our results are discussed in the context of previous studies on cross-frequency EEG coupling in relation to individual differences in motivation and emotion and future directions for studying the neural correlates of anxiety...
Stability of resting frontal electroencephalogram (EEG) asymmetry and cardiac vagal tone in adolescent females exposed to child maltreatmentVladimir Miskovic
McMaster Integrative Neuroscience, Discovery and Study, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Dev Psychobiol 51:474-87. 2009..Findings are discussed in terms of plasticity within the neural circuits of emotion regulation during the early childhood period and alternative causal models of developmental psychopathology...
Shy children are less sensitive to some cues to facial recognitionPaul M Brunet
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, L8S 4K1, Canada
Child Psychiatry Hum Dev 41:1-14. 2010....
Autonomic regulation predicts performance on Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST) in adults with schizophreniaKaren J Mathewson
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4K1
Biol Psychol 91:389-99. 2012..Findings extend the neurovisceral integration model of autonomic regulation to adults with schizophrenia and attest to the reliability of the model...
Error-related electrocortical responses in 10-year-old children and young adultsDiane L Santesso
Department of Psychology, Brock University, St Catharines, Canada
Dev Sci 9:473-81. 2006..Error-related ERPs may be a useful tool in studying the development of this brain region and its role in behavior in normal and atypical development...
The psychology of potential threat: properties of the security motivation systemAndrea L Hinds
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University, 1200 Main St W, Hamilton, ON, Canada L8N 3Z5
Biol Psychol 85:331-7. 2010..These findings are consistent with the hypothesis that deactivation of the security motivation system depends on performance of security-related behaviors, rather than non-behavioral events such as cognitive re-evaluation of threat...
Regional electroencephalogram (EEG) spectral power and hemispheric coherence in young adults born at extremely low birth weightVladimir Miskovic
McMaster Institute for Neuroscience Discovery and Study, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont, Canada L8S 4K1
Clin Neurophysiol 120:231-8. 2009..We examined the effects of extremely low birth weight (ELBW<1000 g) on adult brain functioning...
Behavioral and psychophysiological characteristics of children of parents with social phobia: a pilot studyMira J Campbell
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Int J Neurosci 117:605-16. 2007....
Social fearfulness in the human brainVladimir Miskovic
McMaster Integrative Neuroscience Discovery and Study, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
Neurosci Biobehav Rev 36:459-78. 2012..The review highlights the need to adopt an integrative, network-based approach to the study of the neural substrates underlying social anxiety...
Shyness and face scanning in childrenPaul M Brunet
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
J Anxiety Disord 23:909-14. 2009..Theoretical and practical implications for understanding the social cognitive correlates and treatment of shyness are discussed...
Establishment of joint attention in dyads involving hearing mothers of deaf and hearing children, and its relation to adaptive social behaviorMatilda E Nowakowski
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Behavior, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
Am Ann Deaf 154:15-29. 2009..The findings suggest that mother-child interactions that are low in successful establishment of joint attention might mediate the development of socioemotional problems evident in deaf children with hearing families...
Different neural responses to stranger and personally familiar faces in shy and bold adultsElliott A Beaton
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Behav Neurosci 122:704-9. 2008..Findings suggest that there are distinct neural substrates underlying and maintaining individual differences along a shy-bold continuum in humans...
Error-related electrocortical responses are enhanced in children with obsessive-compulsive behaviorsDiane L Santesso
Department of Psychology, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
Dev Neuropsychol 29:431-45. 2006..It was found that more parent-reported obsessive-compulsive behaviors were associated with larger ERN and Pe components in the children. Results suggest unique contributions of the ERN and Pe in predicting obsessive-compulsive behaviors...
When too much is not enough: obsessive-compulsive disorder as a pathology of stopping, rather than startingAndrea L Hinds
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
PLoS ONE 7:e30586. 2012....
Resting and reactive frontal brain electrical activity (EEG) among a non-clinical sample of socially anxious adults: does concurrent depressive mood matter?Elliott A Beaton
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Neuropsychiatr Dis Treat 4:187-92. 2008..Findings also highlight the importance of considering concurrent emotional states of participants when examining psychophysiological correlates of personality...
Do temperamentally shy children process emotion differently than nonshy children? Behavioral, psychophysiological, and gender differences in reticent preschoolersLaura A Theall-Honey
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, L8S 4K1
Dev Psychobiol 48:187-96. 2006....
Long-term stability of resting frontal EEG alpha asymmetry and power in a sample of stable community outpatients with schizophreniaMichelle K Jetha
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Int J Psychophysiol 72:228-33. 2009..This same pattern was not evidenced in the posterior EEG sites. These findings provide preliminary evidence of a putative psychophysiological trait marker of affective style in stable community outpatients with schizophrenia...
Cross-regional cortical synchronization during affective image viewingVladimir Miskovic
McMaster Integrative Neuroscience Discovery and Study, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, ON, Canada L8S 4K1
Brain Res 1362:102-11. 2010..Our results suggest large-scale synchronization of cortical cells during affective viewing and emphasize the role of beta oscillations in mediating such binding...
Frontal brain oscillatory coupling among men who vary in salivary testosterone levelsVladimir Miskovic
McMaster Integrative Neuroscience Discovery and Study, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1, Canada
Neurosci Lett 464:239-42. 2009..Findings are discussed in terms of emerging evidence relating steroid hormones to cross-frequency spectral coupling and directions for future work...
Are shy adults really bolder online? It depends on the contextPaul M Brunet
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada
Cyberpsychol Behav 11:707-9. 2008..Findings suggest that context may influence some, but not all, aspects of social communication in shy adults...
Neuroticism and introversion: a risky combination for disordered eating among a non-clinical sample of undergraduate womenJessie L Miller
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Eat Behav 7:69-78. 2006..Thus, a combination of neuroticism and introversion may be a risk-factor for symptoms of eating disorders in a non-clinical sample of university women...
Shyness, sociability, and social dysfunction in schizophreniaJ O Goldberg
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, McMaster University, and Hamilton Program for Schizophrenia, 102 350 King St E, Hamilton ON Canada L8N 3Y3
Schizophr Res 48:343-9. 2001....
Shyness, sociability, and eating problems in a non-clinical sample of female undergraduatesJessie L Miller
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Eat Behav 9:352-9. 2008..These findings extend earlier work on shyness to another form of psychopathology (i.e., eating problems) not previously examined in a non-clinical sample...
Behavioral and socio-emotional functioning in children with selective mutism: a comparison with anxious and typically developing children across multiple informantsDiana Carbone
McMaster Integrative Neuroscience, Discovery, and Study MiNDS, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
J Abnorm Child Psychol 38:1057-67. 2010..The present findings also have implications for clinical practice, whereby social skills training merits inclusion in intervention for children with anxiety disorders as well as children with SM...
Cortisol response to stress in female youths exposed to childhood maltreatment: results of the youth mood projectHarriet L MacMillan
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada
Biol Psychiatry 66:62-8. 2009..We examined differences between maltreated and control participants in heart rate and cortisol resting and reactivity levels in response to a psychosocial stressor...
Joint attention in toddlerhood predicts internalizing problems at early school ageMatilda E Nowakowski
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Clin Pediatr (Phila) 51:1032-40. 2012..Preliminary findings are discussed in terms of their theoretical implications for work on early mother-child interactions and children's typical and atypical sociemotional development...
Left-handedness and developmental coordination disorderJohn Cairney
Department of Family Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
Can J Psychiatry 53:696-9. 2008..To examine the prevalence of left-handedness in a sample of children screened for developmental coordination disorder (DCD)...
ERP correlates of error monitoring in 10-year olds are related to socializationDiane L Santesso
Department of Psychology, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ont, Canada L2S 3A1
Biol Psychol 70:79-87. 2005....
Neuroanatomy of the human affective systemDavid W Patterson
Education Programme in Anatomy, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, L8S 4K1, Hamilton, Ont, Canada
Brain Cogn 52:24-6. 2003....
Frontal electroencephalogram asymmetry during affective processing in children with Down syndrome: a pilot studyN J Conrad
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
J Intellect Disabil Res 51:988-95. 2007....
Salivary cortisol levels and infant temperament shape developmental trajectories in boys at risk for behavioral maladjustmentKoraly Perez-Edgar
Department of Psychology, George Mason University, 4400 University Drive, MS 3F5, Fairfax, VA 22030, United States
Psychoneuroendocrinology 33:916-25. 2008..The data suggested that there are unique biobehavioral mechanisms shaping specific patterns of maladjustment in childhood...
Frontal electroencephalogram activation asymmetry, emotional intelligence, and externalizing behaviors in 10-year-old childrenDiane L Santesso
Brock University, St. Catharines, Canada
Child Psychiatry Hum Dev 36:311-28. 2006....
