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Maternal depression, child frontal asymmetry, and child affective behavior as factors in child behavior problemsErika E Forbes
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 47:79-87. 2006..Despite findings that parent depression increases children's risk for internalizing and externalizing problems, little is known about other factors that combine with parent depression to contribute to behavior problems...
Objective sleep in pediatric anxiety disorders and major depressive disorderErika E Forbes
University of Pittsburgh, 3811 O Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 47:148-55. 2008..To examine objective and subjective sleep problems in early-onset anxiety and depression...- PER2 rs2304672 polymorphism moderates circadian-relevant reward circuitry activity in adolescentsErika E Forbes
Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
Biol Psychiatry 71:451-7. 2012..Associations among circadian genes, function in neural reward circuits, and circadian-influenced behavior have not yet been studied in humans, however... - Research Review: altered reward function in adolescent depression: what, when and how?Erika E Forbes
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic and Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 53:3-15. 2012..Peer-reviewed empirical papers for inclusion in this critical review were obtained by searching PubMed, PsycInfo and ScienceDirect for the years 1990-2010... - Real-world affect and social context as predictors of treatment response in child and adolescent depression and anxiety: an ecological momentary assessment studyErika E Forbes
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
J Child Adolesc Psychopharmacol 22:37-47. 2012..Individual differences in the social and affective dynamics of daily life could help to elucidate the characteristics of youth who respond to treatment... - Children's affect expression and frontal EEG asymmetry: transactional associations with mothers' depressive symptomsErika E Forbes
WPIC Loeffler 319, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, 3811 O Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
J Abnorm Child Psychol 36:207-21. 2008..Findings suggest that akin to other interpersonal stressors, children's affective characteristics may contribute to maternal depressive symptoms... - Altered striatal activation predicting real-world positive affect in adolescent major depressive disorderErika E Forbes
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, 3811 O Hara St, Loeffler 319, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Am J Psychiatry 166:64-73. 2009..The authors tested differences in reward-related brain function in healthy and depressed adolescents, and the authors examined direct links between reward-related brain function and positive mood that occurred in real-world contexts... - Neural systems of threat processing in adolescents: role of pubertal maturation and relation to measures of negative affectErika E Forbes
Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
Dev Neuropsychol 36:429-52. 2011..Amygdala and VLPFC reactivity were correlated with negative affect and depressive symptoms. Threat-processing changes during puberty may facilitate changes in social behavior and negative affect... - Healthy adolescents' neural response to reward: associations with puberty, positive affect, and depressive symptomsErika E Forbes
University of Pittsburgh, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 49:162-72.e1-5. 2010..The current study focused on puberty-specific changes in brain function and their association with mood... - Reward-related brain function as a predictor of treatment response in adolescents with major depressive disorderErika E Forbes
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci 10:107-18. 2010..Final levels of severity and anxiety symptoms were associated with pretreatment striatal reactivity, and rate of anxiety symptom reduction was associated with greater striatal reactivity and lower medial PFC reactivity... - Reward-related decision-making in pediatric major depressive disorder: an fMRI studyErika E Forbes
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Pittsburgh, PA 15218, USA
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 47:1031-40. 2006..Depression is postulated to involve decreased activity in reward-related affective systems... - Alterations in reward-related decision making in boys with recent and future depressionErika E Forbes
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
Biol Psychiatry 61:633-9. 2007..Altered reward processing is postulated to be a feature of depression. Reward processing may be valuable to understanding early-onset depressive disorders, which tend to be chronic and recurrent... - Peri-sleep-onset cortisol levels in children and adolescents with affective disordersErika E Forbes
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Biol Psychiatry 59:24-30. 2006..Evidence also indicates that pubertal development may influence the expression of HPA dysregulation. We hypothesized that adolescents with depression and youth with anxiety disorders exhibit elevated peri-sleep-onset cortisol... - Children's affect regulation during a disappointment: psychophysiological responses and relation to parent history of depressionErika E Forbes
Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Sennott Square, 3rd Floor, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
Biol Psychol 71:264-77. 2006..Physiological responses associated with affect regulation may help identify children at risk for depression... - Positive and negative affect in depression: influence of sex and pubertyErika E Forbes
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 3811 O Hara St, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1021:341-7. 2004..Cortisol was generally unrelated to depression and mood. Findings are consistent with emotion-based models of depression and with the literature on depression and emotion regulation during adolescence... - Neural systems of positive affect: relevance to understanding child and adolescent depression?Erika E Forbes
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Dev Psychopathol 17:827-50. 2005..We review the literature on altered positive affect in depression, suggesting directions for future research. Finally, we discuss the treatment implications of this framework... - Daily emotional dynamics in depressed youth: a cell phone ecological momentary assessment studyJennifer S Silk
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
J Exp Child Psychol 110:241-57. 2011.... - Caffeine consumption, sleep, and affect in the natural environments of depressed youth and healthy controlsDiana J Whalen
Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
J Pediatr Psychol 33:358-67. 2008..We examined caffeine use and its relation to sleep and affect in youth's natural environments... - Pediatric functional magnetic resonance neuroimaging: tactics for encouraging task complianceMichael W Schlund
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh PA, USA
Behav Brain Funct 7:10. 2011.... - "I won, but I'm not getting my hopes up": depression moderates the relationship of outcomes and reward anticipationThomas M Olino
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Psychiatry Res 194:393-5. 2011..This finding has implications for understanding the developmental pathophysiology of MDD and suggests specific contexts where altered motivational system functioning may play a role in maintaining depression... - Affect-modulated startle in adults with childhood-onset depression: relations to bipolar course and number of lifetime depressive episodesErika E Forbes
Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, 210 South Bouquet Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
Psychiatry Res 134:11-25. 2005..In unipolar and bipolar forms of COD, unusual affective modulation or maintenance of the startle response, respectively, may reflect underlying deficits in affect regulation... - Nothing to fear? Neural systems supporting avoidance behavior in healthy youthsMichael W Schlund
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh PA, USA
Neuroimage 52:710-9. 2010..The present approach may offer developmental affective neuroscience a conceptual and methodological framework for investigating avoidance in childhood anxiety... - Pupillary reactivity to emotional information in child and adolescent depression: links to clinical and ecological measuresJennifer S Silk
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh, 3811 O Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Am J Psychiatry 164:1873-80. 2007.... - The bidirectional association between daytime affect and nighttime sleep in youth with anxiety and depressionJennifer C Cousins
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA 15213, USA
J Pediatr Psychol 36:969-79. 2011..This study examines relationships between affect and sleep in youth with affective disorders using ecological momentary assessment (EMA)... - Weekend-weekday advances in sleep timing are associated with altered reward-related brain function in healthy adolescentsBrant P Hasler
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Biol Psychol 91:334-41. 2012..We speculate that circadian misalignment associated with weekend shifts in sleep timing may contribute to reward-related problems such as depression and substance abuse... - Reward-related brain function and sleep in pre/early pubertal and mid/late pubertal adolescentsStephanie M Holm
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
J Adolesc Health 45:326-34. 2009..As part of a larger study examining puberty-specific changes in adolescents' reward-related brain function, the current article focuses on the relationship between functional neuroimaging measures of reward and measures of sleep... - Emotional reactivity and regulation in anxious and nonanxious youth: a cell-phone ecological momentary assessment studyPATRICIA Z TAN
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 53:197-206. 2012..However, no study has examined anxious youth's emotional reactivity and regulation in real-world contexts... - Regional patterns of brain activity in adults with a history of childhood-onset depression: gender differences and clinical variabilityAnita Miller
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Am J Psychiatry 159:934-40. 2002..Gender and clinical history variables were examined as factors that may influence the relation between EEG and depression... - Maternal depression and child internalizing: the moderating role of child emotion regulationJennifer S Silk
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol 35:116-26. 2006..Findings suggest that generating positive affect in the face of a potential frustration may be a protective ER strategy for children at risk for depression... - Resilience among children and adolescents at risk for depression: Mediation and moderation across social and neurobiological contextsJennifer S Silk
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, USA
Dev Psychopathol 19:841-65. 2007..The paper concludes with a discussion of clinical implications of this approach... - Rapid eye movement sleep in relation to overweight in children and adolescentsXianchen Liu
Department of Psychiatry and Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 65:924-32. 2008..Short sleep duration is associated with obesity, but few studies have examined the relationship between obesity and specific physiological stages of sleep... - A genetic epidemiologic perspective on comorbidity of depression and anxietyDouglas E Williamson
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine Medical Center, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Child Adolesc Psychiatr Clin N Am 14:707-26, viii. 2005..In addition, anxious children are at increased risk for developing depression particularly during adolescence... 
Pubertal development and behavior: hormonal activation of social and motivational tendenciesErika E Forbes
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Brain Cogn 72:66-72. 2010..The paper also emphasizes the importance of investigating and understanding the direct influences of puberty on behavior and disentangling these from the broader set of changes during adolescent development...- Neural response to reward as a predictor of increases in depressive symptoms in adolescenceJudith K Morgan
University of Pittsburgh, Department of Psychiatry Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Neurobiol Dis 52:66-74. 2013..monetary reward directly and the longitudinal assessment of parallel changes in pubertal development, neural response to reward, and depressive symptoms... - Waiting to win: elevated striatal and orbitofrontal cortical activity during reward anticipation in euthymic bipolar disorder adultsRobin Nusslock
Department of Psychology and Psychiatry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
Bipolar Disord 14:249-60. 2012..We aimed to examine whether bipolar disorder, relative to healthy, participants displayed elevated activity in these regions during reward processing... - Temporal stability of individual differences in amygdala reactivityStephen B Manuck
Am J Psychiatry 164:1613-4. 2007