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| Jennifer Y F LauSummaryAffiliation: King's College London Country: UK Publications
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Gene-environment interactions and correlations in psychiatric disordersJennifer Y F Lau
Social, Genetic, and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute for Psychiatry, DeCrespigny Park, London SE5 8AF, UK
Curr Psychiatry Rep 6:119-24. 2004..These have important implications in guiding future psychiatric research, mental health practice, and policy-making bodies...- Examining the state-trait anxiety relationship: a behavioural genetic approachJennifer Y F Lau
Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, UK
J Abnorm Child Psychol 34:19-27. 2006..The implications of these results for vulnerability mechanisms involving stress reactivity on anxiety are discussed... - I think, therefore I am: a twin study of attributional style in adolescentsJennifer Y F Lau
MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, UK
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 47:696-703. 2006..These relationships have mainly been considered in terms of social risk mechanisms, and little is known about the role of genetic influences... 
The direction of longitudinal associations between sleep problems and depression symptoms: a study of twins aged 8 and 10 yearsAlice M Gregory
Department ofPsychology, Goldsmiths College, University ofLondon, London, UK I2lnstitute ofPsychiatry, King s College London, London, UK
Sleep 32:189-99. 2009..To establish the direction and etiology of longitudinal associations between sleep problems and depression symptoms in children...- Genetic and environmental influences on interpersonal cognitions and associations with depressive symptoms in 8-year-old twinsAlice M Gregory
Medical Research Council Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, London, UK
J Abnorm Psychol 116:762-75. 2007..These latter findings may result from interpersonal cognitions in young children, reflecting life experiences as opposed to trait-like cognitive biases... 
Does childhood anxiety evoke maternal control? A genetically informed studyThalia C Eley
Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, UK
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 51:772-9. 2010..do not?; 2) to what extent do genetic and environmental factors influence maternal control and child anxiety?; 3) to what extent do genetic and environmental factors influence the associations between child anxiety and maternal control?..- Attributional style as a risk marker of genetic effects for adolescent depressive symptomsJennifer Y F Lau
Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, London, UK
J Abnorm Psychol 117:849-59. 2008..Implications for attributional style as a marker reflecting genetic risks are discussed... - Pathways to childhood depressive symptoms: the role of social, cognitive, and genetic risk factorsJennifer Y F Lau
Social, Genetic, and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, London, United Kingdom
Dev Psychol 43:1402-14. 2007..Together, these routes accounted for approximately 13% of total phenotypic variance in depressive symptoms. Theoretical and analytical implications of these results are discussed in the context of several design-related caveats... - Disentangling gene-environment correlations and interactions on adolescent depressive symptomsJennifer Y F Lau
Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, London, UK
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 49:142-50. 2008..While these effects are often studied independently, evidence supports their co-occurrence on depression... - In the face of uncertainty: a twin study of ambiguous information, anxiety and depression in childrenThalia C Eley
Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London, De Crespigny Park, P O Box P080, London, SE5 8AF, UK
J Abnorm Child Psychol 36:55-65. 2008..The data also support a role for genetic influence on threat interpretations, which may mediate responses to stress... - The role of children's negative attributions on depressive symptoms: an inherited characteristic or a product of the early environment?Jennifer Y F Lau
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Dev Sci 15:569-78. 2012..Placing the present findings with those of adolescents suggests possible developmental differences in the relationship between attributional style and depressive symptoms... - The Genesis 12-19 (G1219) Study: a twin and sibling study of gene-environment interplay and adolescent development in the UKTom A McAdams
MRC Social Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, London, UK
Twin Res Hum Genet 16:134-43. 2013..In this article, we describe the sample, data collection, and measures used. We also summarize some of the key findings to date... - Anxiety-related biases in children's avoidant responses to a masked angry faceJennifer Y F Lau
MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, London, UK
Behav Res Ther 45:1639-45. 2007..These results suggest a relationship between anxiety and stimulus-response learning for CS+-UCS associations that support behavioural avoidance... - Amygdala and ventrolateral prefrontal cortex function during anticipated peer evaluation in pediatric social anxietyAmanda E Guyer
Mood and Anxiety Program, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, 15K North Dr, Room 208, Bethesda, MD 20892 2670, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 65:1303-12. 2008..Such fear-circuitry dysfunction may also manifest when anticipated social evaluation leads socially anxious adolescents to misperceive peers as threatening... - Elucidating risk mechanisms of gene-environment interactions on pediatric anxiety: integrating findings from neuroscienceJennifer Y F Lau
Mood and Anxiety Program, National Institute of Mental Health, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 258:97-106. 2008..Exploring these relationships during development is crucial, given that these early life processes may potentially shape longer-term patterns of emotional behavior, and therefore life-long trajectories of anxiety... - Finding gene-environment interactions for generalised anxiety disorderAlice M Gregory
Psychology Department, Goldsmiths College, University of London, London, UK
Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 258:69-75. 2008.... - Assessing gene-environment interactions on anxiety symptom subtypes across childhood and adolescenceJennifer Y F Lau
US National Institute of Mental Health, 15K, North Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892 2670, USA
Dev Psychopathol 19:1129-46. 2007..We interpret these preliminary findings tentatively in the context of gene-environment interaction on anxiety in general, and on early separation and later panic anxiety in particular... - Changes in genetic and environmental influences on depressive symptoms across adolescence and young adulthoodJennifer Y F Lau
Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, 15K North Drive, Room 211, Bethesda, MD 20892 2670, USA
Br J Psychiatry 189:422-7. 2006..Depression rises markedly in adolescence, a time when increased and new genetic influences have been reported... - Finding gene-environment interactions for phobiasAlice M Gregory
Psychology Department, Goldsmiths College, University of London, Lewisham Way, New Cross, London, UK
Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 258:76-81. 2008..In addition to the careful conceptualisation of new studies, it is suggested that data already collected should be re-analysed in light of increased understanding of processes influencing phobias... - Fear conditioning in adolescents with anxiety disorders: results from a novel experimental paradigmJennifer Y F Lau
Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program, National Institute of Mental Health National Institutes of Health, 15K North Drive, MSC 2670, Bethesda, MD 20892 2670, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 47:94-102. 2008..Adult data suggest that anxiety disorders involve elevated fear but intact differential conditioning. We used a novel paradigm to assess fear conditioning in pediatric anxiety patients...