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Maternal smoking during pregnancy and adult male criminal outcomesP A Brennan
Department of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 56:215-9. 1999..Our study examines maternal smoking during pregnancy as a predictor of offspring crime in the context of a prospective, longitudinal design...- Integrating biological and social processes in relation to early-onset persistent aggression in boys and girlsPatricia A Brennan
Department of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
Dev Psychol 39:309-23. 2003..Gender and developmental phase of measurement moderated the relationship between biosocial risks and the outcomes of early-onset persistent aggression and adolescent-onset aggression... 
Maternal depression and infant cortisol: influences of timing, comorbidity and treatmentPatricia A Brennan
Psychology Department, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 49:1099-107. 2008..The potential roles of comorbid maternal anxiety disorders, timing of maternal depression, and maternal treatment with psychotropic medications during pregnancy are addressed...- Maternal depression, paternal psychopathology, and adolescent diagnostic outcomesPatricia A Brennan
Department of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 70:1075-85. 2002..Chronic family stress and father's expressed emotion appeared to mediate the relationship between parental psychopathology and youth depression... - Interactions between the COMT Val108/158Met polymorphism and maternal prenatal smoking predict aggressive behavior outcomesPatricia A Brennan
Department of Psychology, 36 Eagle Row, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Biol Psychol 87:99-105. 2011..This gene-environment interaction was not significant for youth attention problems... - Relationship of maternal smoking during pregnancy with criminal arrest and hospitalization for substance abuse in male and female adult offspringPatricia A Brennan
Department of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Am J Psychiatry 159:48-54. 2002..This study attempted to replicate these findings in a large-scale, longitudinal community cohort study... - Chronicity, severity, and timing of maternal depressive symptoms: relationships with child outcomes at age 5P A Brennan
Department of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
Dev Psychol 36:759-66. 2000..Timing of maternal symptoms was not significantly related to child vocabulary scores, but more recent reports of maternal depressive symptoms were associated with higher rates of child behavior problems... - Major mental disorders and criminal violence in a Danish birth cohortP A Brennan
Department of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 57:494-500. 2000.... - Maternal depression, parent-child relationships, and resilient outcomes in adolescencePatricia A Brennan
Department of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 42:1469-77. 2003..To examine the relationship between maternal depression, parent-child relations, and resilient outcomes in the context of risk in a cross-sectional study of 816 15-year-olds in Australia... - Stress sensitization and adolescent depressive severity as a function of childhood adversity: a link to anxiety disordersEmmanuel P Espejo
Department of Psychology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
J Abnorm Child Psychol 35:287-99. 2007.... - Family discord and stress predictors of depression and other disorders in adolescent children of depressed and nondepressed womenConstance Hammen
Department of Psychology, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1563, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 43:994-1002. 2004.... 
Maternal borderline personality disorder symptoms and adolescent psychosocial functioningNathaniel R Herr
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, 3191 Franz Hall, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1563, USA
J Pers Disord 22:451-65. 2008..This study provides some of the first empirical evidence for a link between mother's BPD symptoms and youth psychosocial outcomes...- Psychotic disorders and sex offending in a Danish birth cohortAmanda Alden
Department of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 64:1251-8. 2007..Psychotic disorders are associated with an increased risk of aggressive behavior and violent crime. Whether there is also an association with sex offending is unknown... - Current and past depression as predictors of family functioning: a comparison of men and women in a community sampleNathaniel R Herr
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1563, USA
J Fam Psychol 21:694-702. 2007.... - Severity, chronicity, and timing of maternal depression and risk for adolescent offspring diagnoses in a community sampleConstance Hammen
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, 90095, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 60:253-8. 2003..The study addresses these issues, disaggregating their overlapping effects... - Health outcomes related to early adolescent depressionDanielle Keenan-Miller
Department of Psychology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
J Adolesc Health 41:256-62. 2007..In addition, indicators of medical and social costs associated with these health consequences were measured... - Interpersonal impairment and the prediction of depressive symptoms in adolescent children of depressed and nondepressed mothersConstance Hammen
Department of Psychology, University of California Los Angeles, 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1563, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 42:571-7. 2003..Chronic social difficulties were expected to be more predictive of depressive symptoms in offspring of depressed women, while recent stressful life events were expected to predict depression in offspring of never-depressed women... - Understanding the sex difference in vulnerability to adolescent depression: an examination of child and parent characteristicsNicole K Eberhart
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095 1563, USA
J Abnorm Child Psychol 34:495-508. 2006..These findings suggest that girls' higher incidence of depression is due in part to their higher levels of negative self-perceptions, whereas positive interpersonal factors serve to protect them from depressive episodes... - Impact of antenatal and postpartum maternal mental illness: how are the children?Sarah R Brand
Department of Clinical Psychology, Emory University, 1462 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA, USA
Clin Obstet Gynecol 52:441-55. 2009..The effects of maternal anxiety and depression during the perinatal period on cognitive, behavioral, and psychologic development from infancy through adolescence are examined... - The impact of maternal childhood abuse on maternal and infant HPA axis function in the postpartum periodSarah R Brand
Department of Psychology, Emory University, United States
Psychoneuroendocrinology 35:686-93. 2010..The majority of previous studies in this area focus on adult offspring, and the degree to which the effects of parental child abuse can be detected earlier in the development of the offspring remains obscure... - Early adversity and the prospective prediction of depressive and anxiety disorders in adolescentsNicole K Phillips
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
J Abnorm Child Psychol 33:13-24. 2005..Results suggest that anxiety disorders may be more strongly related to early stress exposure, while depressive disorders may be related to more proximal stressors or to early stressors not assessed in the current study... - Longitudinal changes in cortisol secretion and conversion to psychosis in at-risk youthElaine F Walker
Department of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 119:401-8. 2010..Future research with larger samples is needed to confirm and extend these results... - Resilience to maternal depression in young adulthoodRebecca Cristina Malvar Pargas
Psychology Department, 532 North Kilgo Circle, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Dev Psychol 46:805-14. 2010..03). Interventions focused on these 2 protective factors might yield the strongest benefits for offspring of depressed mothers as they transition to early adulthood... - Early onset recurrent subtype of adolescent depression: clinical and psychosocial correlatesConstance Hammen
Department of Psychology, University of California Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 49:433-40. 2008.... - Interaction of chronic stress with serotonin transporter and catechol-O-methyltransferase polymorphisms in predicting youth depressionChristopher C Conway
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, 90095 1563, USA
Depress Anxiety 27:737-45. 2010..However, recent evidence for 5-HTTLPR GxE in depression has been inconsistent. This study examined the moderating effect of the val158met polymorphism in the catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) gene on the strength of 5-HTTLPR GxE... - Interpersonal dysfunction in depressed women: impairments independent of depressive symptomsConstance Hammen
Department of Psychology, University of California Los Angeles, 405 Hilgard Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
J Affect Disord 72:145-56. 2002..The study explored the generality of interpersonal impairments in depressed women and examined the extent of their independence of current depressive episodes or symptoms... - A comparison of latent class, latent trait, and factor mixture models of DSM-IV borderline personality disorder criteria in a community setting: implications for DSM-5CHRISTOPHER CONWAY
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
J Pers Disord 26:793-803. 2012..The nosological implications of these results are discussed with respect to a "hybrid" model of BPD diagnosis currently under consideration for DSM-5... - Adolescent psychosocial risk factors for severe intimate partner violence in young adulthoodDanielle Keenan-Miller
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 75:456-63. 2007..In sum, the findings suggest that psychosocial factors observed in adolescence may contribute to the risk of experiencing severe intimate partner violence during young adulthood... - Chronic and acute stress and the prediction of major depression in womenConstance Hammen
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095 1563, USA
Depress Anxiety 26:718-23. 2009.... - Differential exposure and reactivity to interpersonal stress predict sex differences in adolescent depressionJosephine H Shih
Department of Psychology, Saint Joseph s University, Philadelphia, PA 19131, USA
J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol 35:103-15. 2006..Results were discussed in terms of girls' greater interpersonal focus and implications for understanding sex differences in depression... - Chronic and acute stress, gender, and serotonin transporter gene-environment interactions predicting depression symptoms in youthConstance Hammen
Department of Psychology, University of California Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 51:180-7. 2010..The present study attempted to distinguish between effects of acute and chronic stress to predict depressive symptoms at age 20 among 346 youth varying in polymorphisms of the 5HTT gene who had been assessed at ages 15 and 20... - Intergenerational transmission of depression: test of an interpersonal stress model in a community sampleConstance Hammen
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles 90095, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 72:511-22. 2004..Additionally, the association between maternal and child depression was entirely mediated by the predicted family and interpersonal stress effects... - Patterns of adolescent depression to age 20: the role of maternal depression and youth interpersonal dysfunctionConstance Hammen
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, 1285 Franz Hall, P O Box 951563, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1563, USA
J Abnorm Child Psychol 36:1189-98. 2008.... - Parental alcohol use disorders and child delinquency: the mediating effects of executive functioning and chronic family stressEmily R Grekin
Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri Columbia, 200 South 7th Street, Columbia, Missouri 65211 0001, USA
J Stud Alcohol 66:14-22. 2005..It also explores the mediating effects of executive functioning and chronic family stress on the parental AUD/child delinquency relationship... - The impact of maternal depression on adolescent adjustment: the role of expressed emotionDenise R Nelson
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 71:935-44. 2003..Results are discussed in terms of the mutual effects of depressed mothers and dysfunctional youths on each other...
Research Grants
- MATERNAL DEPRESSION EFFECTS ON CHILD OUTCOMEPatricia Brennan; Fiscal Year: 1999..e., protective factors) will be related to positive outcomes for those children whose mothers are depressed. ..
- TRANSITION TO ADULTHOOD IN YOUTH AT RISK FOR DEPRESSIONPatricia Brennan; Fiscal Year: 2004....