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| Marilyn J EssexSummaryAffiliation: University of Wisconsin Country: USA Publications
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Epigenetic vestiges of early developmental adversity: childhood stress exposure and DNA methylation in adolescenceMarilyn J Essex
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
Child Dev 84:58-75. 2013..To the authors' knowledge, this is the first report of prospective associations between adversities in early childhood and the epigenetic conformation of adolescents' genomic DNA...- Biological sensitivity to context moderates the effects of the early teacher-child relationship on the development of mental health by adolescenceMarilyn J Essex
Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, 6001 Research Park Boulevard, Madison, WI 53719, USA
Dev Psychopathol 23:149-61. 2011..The importance of these findings for recent theoretical arguments regarding biological sensitivity to context and differential susceptibility is discussed... - Early risk factors and developmental pathways to chronic high inhibition and social anxiety disorder in adolescenceMarilyn J Essex
Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, 6001 Research Park Blvd, Madison, WI 53719, USA
Am J Psychiatry 167:40-6. 2010..The authors sought to identify early risk factors for, and developmental pathways to, chronic high inhibition among school-age children and the association of chronic high inhibition with social anxiety disorder by adolescence... - Screening for childhood mental health problems: outcomes and early identificationMarilyn J Essex
Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI 53719, USA
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 50:562-70. 2009..the broad patterns of mental health problems from kindergarten to grade 5? (2) What are the grade 5 outcomes of these patterns? (3) How early in school can children likely to develop the most impairing patterns be identified accurately?.. 
Exploring risk factors for the emergence of children's mental health problemsMarilyn J Essex
Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin Madison 53719, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 63:1246-56. 2006..Exploratory studies that generate testable models of how risk factors for childhood mental health problems work together over time are critical for developing effective prevention and treatment strategies...- Influence of early life stress on later hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis functioning and its covariation with mental health symptoms: a study of the allostatic process from childhood into adolescenceMarilyn J Essex
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI 53719 1176, USA
Dev Psychopathol 23:1039-58. 2011..Results highlight the importance of examining multiple types of ELS and dynamic HPA functioning in order to capture the allostatic process unfolding across the transition into adolescence... - Comparison of video- and EMG-based evaluations of the magnitude of children's emotion-modulated startle responseMarilyn J Essex
Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53719, USA
Behav Res Methods Instrum Comput 35:590-8. 2003.... - Exposure to maternal depression and marital conflict: gender differences in children's later mental health symptomsMarilyn J Essex
Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 42:728-37. 2003..To investigate effects of the timing of initial exposure to maternal depression and marital conflict on kindergarten children's mental health symptoms... - Stability of early identified aggressive victim status in elementary school and associations with later mental health problems and functional impairmentsLinnea R Burk
Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI 53719, USA
J Abnorm Child Psychol 39:225-38. 2011..Further early interventions may need to be carefully tailored to prevent and/or attenuate later psychological, academic, and physical health problems... - Developmental pathways to amygdala-prefrontal function and internalizing symptoms in adolescenceCory A Burghy
Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Nat Neurosci 15:1736-41. 2012..These data highlight that, for females, the effects of ELS and early HPA-axis function may be detected much later in the intrinsic processing of emotion-related brain circuits... - Identification of early child and family risk factors for aggressive victim status in first gradeLinnea R Burk
Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI 53719, USA
J Abnorm Child Psychol 36:513-26. 2008..The identification of early risk factors is crucial to prevention and early intervention efforts that have the potential to attenuate the long term emotional, social, and academic problems associated with aggressive victim status... - Sex, temperament, and family context: how the interaction of early factors differentially predict adolescent alcohol use and are mediated by proximal adolescent factorsLinnea R Burk
Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI 53719, USA
Psychol Addict Behav 25:1-15. 2011..Results have implications for the timing and type of interventions offered to adolescents... - Maternal stress beginning in infancy may sensitize children to later stress exposure: effects on cortisol and behaviorMarilyn J Essex
Department of Psychiatry, Wisconsin Psychiatric Institute and Clinics, University of Wisconsin, 6001 Research Park Boulevard, Madison, WI 53719, USA
Biol Psychiatry 52:776-84. 2002..CONCLUSIONS: These results link the findings of preclinical studies to humans by showing that exposure to early maternal stress may sensitize children's pituitary-adrenal responses to subsequent stress exposure... - Environmental influences on family similarity in afternoon cortisol levels: twin and parent-offspring designsJane E Schreiber
Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin Madison, 1202 West Johnson Street, Madison, WI 53706, USA
Psychoneuroendocrinology 31:1131-7. 2006.... - Gender differences in emotional reactivity of depressed and at-risk preschoolers: implications for gender specific manifestations of preschool depressionJoan L Luby
Department of Psychiatry, Washington University, St Louis, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol 38:525-37. 2009..This finding was detected in depressed and "at risk for internalizing" boys who were not comorbid for externalizing problems... - Deriving childhood temperament measures from emotion-eliciting behavioral episodes: scale construction and initial validationJeffrey R Gagne
Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin Madison, 1202 West Johnson Street, Madison, WI 53706 1611, USA
Psychol Assess 23:337-53. 2011.... - Specificity in the association of anxiety, depression, and atopic disorders in a community sample of adolescentsMarcia J Slattery
Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA
J Psychiatr Res 45:788-95. 2011..Findings demonstrate the importance of assessing the impact of co-morbid psychiatric symptoms and atopic disorders within individual studies to determine the specificity of underlying relationships between these conditions... - The confluence of mental, physical, social, and academic difficulties in middle childhood. II: developing the Macarthur health and Behavior QuestionnaireMarilyn J Essex
Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 41:588-603. 2002.... - Early family context and development of adolescent ruminative style: moderation by temperamentLori M Hilt
Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, USA
Cogn Emot 26:916-26. 2012..Further, the interaction of these temperament factors exerted an additional influence on later rumination. Implications for prevention and intervention efforts are discussed... - Behavioral circadian regularity at age 1 month predicts anxiety levels during school-age yearsTimothy H Monk
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Psychiatry Res 178:370-3. 2010..Baby SRM score at age 1 month significantly predicted the child's school (K-9, 5 time points) anxiety level (more regular=less anxious), and may be mediated through sociability and directed-attention pathways... - Association of internalizing disorders and allergies in a child and adolescent psychiatry clinical sampleMauricio Infante
Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI 53719 1176, USA
J Clin Psychiatry 68:1419-25. 2007.... - The role of self-enhancing evaluations in a successful life transitionChristine Man Lai Kwan
Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin Madison, 53706, USA
Psychol Aging 18:3-12. 2003..This study underscores the significance of holding a positive view of self vis-à-vis others in negotiating life challenges as well as the reciprocal influence of well-being on social self-evaluative processes... - Evidence for coordinated functional activity within the extended amygdala of non-human and human primatesJonathan A Oler
Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI 53719, USA
Neuroimage 61:1059-66. 2012..These results support the use of in vivo functional imaging methods in nonhuman and human primates to probe the functional anatomy of major brain networks such as the extended amygdala... 
The dysfunctional attitudes scale: psychometric properties in depressed adolescentsGregory M Rogers
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Madison, WI 53719 1176, USA
J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol 38:781-9. 2009..The goodness-of-fit was equivalent across sexes and age groups. The findings support the use of the Dysfunctional Attitudes Scale and its subscales in the assessment of clinically depressed adolescents...- Family environments, adrenarche, and sexual maturation: a longitudinal test of a life history modelBruce J Ellis
Division of Family Studies and Human Development, John and Doris Norton School of Family and Consumer Sciences, University of Arizona, PO Box 210033, Tucson, AZ 85721 0033, USA
Child Dev 78:1799-817. 2007..Consistent with a life history perspective, quality of parental investment emerged as a central feature of the proximal family environment in relation to pubertal timing... - Early father involvement moderates biobehavioral susceptibility to mental health problems in middle childhoodW Thomas Boyce
School of Public Health and Institute of Development, University of California, Berkeley, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 45:1510-20. 2006..To study how early father involvement and children's biobehavioral sensitivity to social contexts interactively predict mental health symptoms in middle childhood... - Biological sensitivity to context: II. Empirical explorations of an evolutionary-developmental theoryBruce J Ellis
Division of Family Studies and Human Development, University of Arizona, PO Box 210033, Tucson, AZ 85721 033, USA
Dev Psychopathol 17:303-28. 2005.... - The confluence of mental, physical, social, and academic difficulties in middle childhood. I: exploring the "head waters" of early life morbiditiesW Thomas Boyce
Institute of Human Development and the School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley 94720 1190, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 41:580-7. 2002..To present the conceptual and methodological backgrounds for development of the MacArthur Assessment Battery for Middle Childhood and one of its constituent instruments, the MacArthur Health and Behavior Questionnaire (HBQ)... - Temperament, tympanum, and temperature: four provisional studies of the biobehavioral correlates of tympanic membrane temperature asymmetriesW Thomas Boyce
Institute of Human Development and School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley 94720 1190, USA
Child Dev 73:718-33. 2002..Taken together, these findings suggest that asymmetries in TM temperatures could be associated with behavior problems that signal risk for developmental psychopathology... - Revealing the relation between temperament and behavior problem symptoms by eliminating measurement confounding: expert ratings and factor analysesKathryn S Lemery
Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe 85287 1104, USA
Child Dev 73:867-82. 2002..The findings of this study contribute to the understanding of the relation between normal-range temperament and extreme behavior... - A new approach to integrating data from multiple informants in psychiatric assessment and research: mixing and matching contexts and perspectivesHelena C Kraemer
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, 4012 Quarry Road, MC 5717, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Am J Psychiatry 160:1566-77. 2003..This report proposes a theory to explain observed patterns of interinformant discordance and suggests a new approach to using data from multiple informants to measure characteristics of interest... - The development of children's ideal and ought self-guides: parenting, temperament, and individual differences in guide strengthNanmathi Manian
Child and Family Research, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, MD 20892 7971, USA
J Pers 74:1619-45. 2006..In turn, the parenting factors predicted individual differences in children's orientations to ideal and ought guides, and those associations were moderated by individual differences in child temperament... - Assessing internalizing, externalizing, and attention problems in young children: validation of the MacArthur HBQKathryn Lemery-Chalfant
Psychology Department, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287 1104, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 46:1315-23. 2007..The roles of child sex, level of impairment, and physical health in understanding of psychopathology were also considered... - Differential performance of the macarthur HBQ and DISC-IV in identifying DSM-IV internalizing psychopathology in young childrenJoan L Luby
Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 41:458-66. 2002..CONCLUSION: The findings support the general validity of the parent HBQ for the assessment of young child psychopathology and the hypothesis that it captures more internalizing psychopathology than the DISC-IV in this population...
Research Grants
- MATERNITY LEAVE AND HEALTH--PSYCHOSOCIAL FACTORSMarilyn Essex; Fiscal Year: 2002..This data collection is a critical step as this unique and important sample is followed longitudinally. ..