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Continuity and discontinuity of behavioral inhibition and exuberance: psychophysiological and behavioral influences across the first four years of lifeN A Fox
Department of Human Development, University of Maryland, College Park 20742, USA
Child Dev 72:1-21. 2001..A second group of infants, selected at 4 months of age for patterns of behavior thought to predict temperamental exuberance, displayed a high degree of continuity over time in these behaviors...- Behavioral inhibition: linking biology and behavior within a developmental frameworkNathan A Fox
Department of Human Development, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
Annu Rev Psychol 56:235-62. 2005..The current chapter reviews these areas of research and provides an integrative account of the broad impact of behavioral inhibition research... - Temperament and early experience form social behaviorNathan A Fox
Institute for Child Study, Department of Human Development, University of Maryland, 3304 Benjamin Building, College Park, MD 20742 1131, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1038:171-8. 2004..Children displaying behavioral inhibition are at-risk for behavioral problems related to anxiety and social withdrawal... 
Longitudinal stability of temperamental exuberance and social-emotional outcomes in early childhoodKathryn A Degnan
Department of Human Development, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
Dev Psychol 47:765-80. 2011..Multiple factors supported an approach bias for exuberant temperament but did not differentiate between adaptive and maladaptive social-emotional outcomes at 5 years of age...- Psychophysiological and behavioral evidence for varying forms and functions of nonsocial behavior in preschoolersHeather A Henderson
Department of Human Development, University of Maryland, USA
Child Dev 75:251-63. 2004.... 
Attention to novelty in behaviorally inhibited adolescents moderates risk for anxietyBethany C Reeb-Sutherland
Department of Human Development, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 50:1365-72. 2009..The current study considers whether this attention profile moderates risk for clinical anxiety disorders among adolescents with a history of BI...- Temperamental exuberance and executive function predict propensity for risk taking in childhoodAyelet Lahat
Department of Human Development, 3304 Benjamin Building, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
Dev Psychopathol 24:847-56. 2012..Attention shifting likely affords a child the ability to consider both positive and negative consequences and moderates the relation between early exuberance and risk-taking propensity... - Startle response in behaviorally inhibited adolescents with a lifetime occurrence of anxiety disordersBethany C Reeb-Sutherland
Department of Human Development, University of Maryland, 3304 Benjamin Building, College Park, MD 20742, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 48:610-7. 2009..The current study examines whether the startle reflex response may be used to differentiate between behaviorally inhibited adolescents with and without a history of anxiety... - Affective primes suppress attention bias to threat in socially anxious individualsSarah M Helfinstein
Child Development Laboratory, Department of Human Development, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
Behav Res Ther 46:799-810. 2008..ERP results suggested differential processing of the prime and faces displays by HSA and LSA individuals. However, no group by prime interaction was found for any of ERP components... - Behavioral inhibition and anxiety disorders: multiple levels of a resilience processKathryn Amey Degnan
University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
Dev Psychopathol 19:729-46. 2007..These discontinuous trajectories of behaviorally inhibited children and the factors that form them are discussed as examples of the resilience process... - Behavioral inhibition and anxiety: the moderating roles of inhibitory control and attention shiftingLAUREN K WHITE
Department of Human Development, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
J Abnorm Child Psychol 39:735-47. 2011..These findings suggest that different cognitive processes may influence relative levels of risk or adaptation depending upon a child's temperamental reactivity... - Effects of early intervention and the moderating effects of brain activity on institutionalized children's social skills at age 8Alisa N Almas
Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 109:17228-31. 2012.... - The predictive nature of individual differences in early associative learning and emerging social behaviorBethany C Reeb-Sutherland
Department of Human Development, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America
PLoS ONE 7:e30511. 2012..Learning was not related to general cognitive abilities. These results underscore the importance of early contingency learning and suggest the presence of a basic mechanism underlying the ontogeny of social behaviors... - The effects of severe psychosocial deprivation and foster care intervention on cognitive development at 8 years of age: findings from the Bucharest Early Intervention ProjectNathan A Fox
Department of Human Development, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 52:919-28. 2011..Previous reports from the Bucharest Early Intervention Project suggested that children removed from institutions and placed into intervention displayed gains in IQ relative to children randomized to remain in institutional care... - Autonomic nervous system reactivity to positive and negative mood induction: the role of acute psychological responses and frontal electrocortical activityWillem J Kop
Department of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
Biol Psychol 86:230-8. 2011..009). It is concluded that positive and negative mood induction result in differential HRV responses, which is related to both task valence and the intensity of task-induced emotions... - Cascading effects: the influence of attention bias to threat on the interpretation of ambiguous informationLAUREN K WHITE
Child Development Laboratory, Department of Human Development, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
Behav Res Ther 49:244-51. 2011..These data suggest that perturbations in the initial stages of information processing associated with anxiety may lead to a cascade of subsequent processing biases... - Stable early maternal report of behavioral inhibition predicts lifetime social anxiety disorder in adolescenceAndrea Chronis-Tuscano
Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 48:928-35. 2009..It was hypothesized that stable BI would predict the presence of adolescent psychiatric diagnoses, specifically SAD... - Maternal over-control moderates the association between early childhood behavioral inhibition and adolescent social anxiety symptomsErin Lewis-Morrarty
Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, 1123K Biology Psychology Building, College Park, MD 20742, USA
J Abnorm Child Psychol 40:1363-73. 2012..These findings have the potential to inform prevention and early intervention programs by identifying particularly at-risk youth and specific targets of treatment... - Approach-withdrawal and the role of the striatum in the temperament of behavioral inhibitionSarah M Helfinstein
Department of Human Development, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 2074, USA
Dev Psychol 48:815-26. 2012..This article reviews evidence implicating dual roles for fear and reward circuitry in the expression of behavioral inhibition... - Individual differences in children's performance during an emotional Stroop task: a behavioral and electrophysiological studyKoraly Perez-Edgar
Department of Human Development, Child Development Laboratory, University of Maryland, 3304 Benjamin Building, College Park, MD 20742, USA
Brain Cogn 52:33-51. 2003..In addition, positive and negative words showed differences in processing across components. In particular, negative words appeared to tax attentional and processing resources more than positive words... - Neural activation underlying cognitive control in the context of neutral and affectively charged pictures in childrenConnie Lamm
Child Development Laboratory, Department of Human Development, University of Maryland, MD 20742 1131, USA
Brain Cogn 79:181-7. 2012..The findings are discussed in reference to the impact of affective stimuli on recruitment of specific brain regions involved in cognitive control... - Role of attention in the regulation of fear and anxietyLAUREN K WHITE
Department of Human Development, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
Dev Neurosci 31:309-17. 2009..The current review summarizes the extant literature on the links between voluntary and involuntary attention processes and the role that these attention processes have in the etiology, maintenance, and regulation of anxious behavior... - Temperament and the environment in the etiology of childhood anxietyKathryn A Degnan
University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 51:497-517. 2010..Furthermore, conducting these investigations across multiple levels of analysis in large-scale, longitudinal samples would be an important addition to the literature on the developmental psychopathology of anxiety... - Striatal responses to negative monetary outcomes differ between temperamentally inhibited and non-inhibited adolescentsSarah M Helfinstein
University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
Neuropsychologia 49:479-85. 2011..This suggests a perturbed ability to encode reward value... - The role of infant soothability in the relation between infant negativity and maternal sensitivityMelissa M Ghera
Department of Human Development, University of Maryland, 3304 Benjamin Building, College Park, MD 20742, USA
Infant Behav Dev 29:289-93. 2006.... - The development of P50 suppression in the auditory event-related potentialPeter J Marshall
Department of Human Development, University of Maryland, 3304 Benjamin Building, College Park, MD 20742, USA
Int J Psychophysiol 51:135-41. 2004..For the children who showed P50 suppression, the magnitude of P50 suppression increased with age and reached adult levels in the oldest participants. P50 suppression did not vary with the extent of social withdrawal behaviors... - Temperament and anxiety disordersKoraly Perez-Edgar
University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
Child Adolesc Psychiatr Clin N Am 14:681-706, viii. 2005..The authors examine the outstanding issues that must be addressed before the benefits of bridging these traditionally independent fields of study can be fully exploited... - Contextual basis of maternal perceptions of infant temperamentAmie Ashley Hane
Department of Human Development, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
Dev Psychol 42:1077-88. 2006..These findings support the hypothesis that maternal perceptions are based on mothers' experiences with their infants but that the salience of infant temperamental characteristics to mothers varies across emotion and interactive context... - One-month-old human infants learn about the social world while they sleepBethany C Reeb-Sutherland
Department of Human Development, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
Dev Sci 14:1134-41. 2011..These results suggest a mechanism by which learning about the social world occurs early in life and the power of ecologically valid cues in facilitating that learning... - Quality of life for children with cochlear implants: perceived benefits and problems and the perception of single words and emotional soundsEfrat A Schorr
University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
J Speech Lang Hear Res 52:141-52. 2009..Effects of age at amplification with hearing aids and fitting of cochlear implants on perceived quality of life were also investigated... - Infant attachment and temperament as predictors of subsequent externalizing problems and cardiac physiologyKim B Burgess
Department of Human Development, University of Maryland at College Park, 20742, USA
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 44:819-31. 2003.... - Behavioural inhibition: is it a risk factor for anxiety?Ayelet Lahat
Department of Human Development, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA
Int Rev Psychiatry 23:248-57. 2011..In the present paper we review the contribution of these factors to the development of anxiety in behaviourally inhibited children... - Ordinary variations in maternal caregiving influence human infants' stress reactivityAmie Ashley Hane
University of Maryland CP, 3304 Benjamin Building, College Park, MD 20742, USA
Psychol Sci 17:550-6. 2006..The results suggest that ordinary variations in MCB may influence the expression of neural systems involved in stress reactivity in human infants... - A comparison of the electroencephalogram between institutionalized and community children in RomaniaPeter J Marshall
University of Maryland, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 16:1327-38. 2004..The results are discussed in the context of two models: that the pattern of EEG in the institutionalized children reflects a maturational lag in nervous system development, or that it reflects tonic cortical hypoactivation... - Variations of the flanker paradigm: assessing selective attention in young childrenJennifer Martin McDermott
Department of Human Development, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
Behav Res Methods 39:62-70. 2007.... - Evidence for a gene-environment interaction in predicting behavioral inhibition in middle childhoodNathan A Fox
Department of Human Development, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
Psychol Sci 16:921-6. 2005..Results were consistent with this hypothesis: Children with the combination of the short 5-HTT allele and low social support had increased risk for behavioral inhibition in middle childhood... - Behavioral and electrophysiological markers of selective attention in children of parents with a history of depressionKoraly Perez-Edgar
Department of Psychology, George Mason University, 4400 University Drive, Fairfax, VA 22030, USA
Biol Psychiatry 60:1131-8. 2006..Children of parents with childhood-onset depression (COD) are at increased risk for socioemotional difficulties. This study examined potential differences in selective attention as a function of parental COD... - Timing of intervention affects brain electrical activity in children exposed to severe psychosocial neglectRoss E Vanderwert
Department of Human Development, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America
PLoS ONE 5:e11415. 2010.... - The mirror mechanism and mu rhythm in social developmentRoss E Vanderwert
Department of Human Development, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA Laboratories of Cognitive Neuroscience, Division of Developmental Medicine, Children s Hospital Boston, MA, USA
Neurosci Lett 540:15-20. 2013..We conclude with directions for future research that will improve our understanding of the putative human MN system and the functional role of MNs in social development... - The Bucharest Early Intervention Project: case study in the ethics of mental health researchCharles H Zeanah
Institute of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, USA
J Nerv Ment Dis 200:243-7. 2012..In discussing how these questions were addressed as the study was designed and after it was initiated, we describe our attempts to wed sound scientific practices with meaningful ethical protections for participants... - Development of the EEG from 5 months to 4 years of agePeter J Marshall
Department of Human Development, University of Maryland, 3304 Benjamin Building, College Park, MD 20742, USA
Clin Neurophysiol 113:1199-208. 2002..Particular emphasis is placed on the empirical confirmation of a 6-9 Hz alpha-range frequency band that has previously been used in the infant EEG literature... - Attachment security as a mechanism linking foster care placement to improved mental health outcomes in previously institutionalized childrenKatie A McLaughlin
Children s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 53:46-55. 2012..Second we evaluated the role of lack of attachment in an institutionalized sample on the etiology of internalizing disorders within the context of a randomized trial... - Spectral characteristics of the newborn rhesus macaque EEG reflect functional cortical activityRoss E Vanderwert
Human Development, University of Maryland, 3304Benjamin Building, College Park, MD 20742, USA
Physiol Behav 107:787-91. 2012..These findings demonstrate similarities between infant human and infant monkey EEG and suggest approaches for future translational research in developmental psychobiology... - Auditory-visual fusion in speech perception in children with cochlear implantsEfrat A Schorr
Department of Human Development/Institute of Child Study, University of Maryland, 3304 Benjamin Building, College Park, MD 20742, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102:18748-50. 2005..The likelihood of consistent auditory-visual fusion declined with age at implant beyond 2.5 years, suggesting a sensitive period for bimodal integration in speech perception... - Mismatch negativity in socially withdrawn childrenYair Bar-Haim
Department of Psychology, Tel-Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Biol Psychiatry 54:17-24. 2003.... - Attention alters neural responses to evocative faces in behaviorally inhibited adolescentsKoraly Perez-Edgar
Department of Psychology, George Mason University, USA
Neuroimage 35:1538-46. 2007..These patterns of reactivity may help sustain early temperamental biases over time and contribute to the observed relation between BI and anxiety... - Cognition and affective style: Individual differences in brain electrical activity during spatial and verbal tasksMartha Ann Bell
Department of Psychology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA
Brain Cogn 53:441-51. 2003..These data suggest that, within a selected normal population, differences in affective style may interact with cognitive performance and with the brain electrical activity associated with that performance... - The caregiving context in institution-reared and family-reared infants and toddlers in RomaniaAnna T Smyke
Tulane University, LA, USA
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 48:210-8. 2007.... - 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... - Striatal functional alteration in adolescents characterized by early childhood behavioral inhibitionAmanda E Guyer
Emotional Development and Affective Neuroscience Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health NIH, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
J Neurosci 26:6399-405. 2006.... - Long-term stability of frontal electroencephalographic asymmetry in adults with a history of depression and controlsMarike Vuga
Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, 4321 Sennott Square, 210 S Bouquet Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
Int J Psychophysiol 59:107-15. 2006..These findings support the view that resting frontal EEG asymmetry reflects a moderately stable individual difference in adults, irrespective of sex and history of depression... - Self-regulatory processes in early personality development: a multilevel approach to the study of childhood social withdrawal and aggressionSusan D Calkins
Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 27402-6164, USA
Dev Psychopathol 14:477-98. 2002..Significant gaps remain in our knowledge of the pathways to disordered behavior and the role that self-regulation plays in such pathways. Suggestions are made for the ways in which future longitudinal studies might address these gaps... - 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... - Designing research to study the effects of institutionalization on brain and behavioral development: the Bucharest Early Intervention ProjectCharles H Zeanah
Department of Psychiatry, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA
Dev Psychopathol 15:885-907. 2003.... - Temperament and attachment disordersCharles H Zeanah
Institute of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health, Department of Psychiatry and Neurology, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA
J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol 33:32-41. 2004..We consider possible directions for research efforts designed to explore the biological underpinnings of the complex phenomenon of attachment disorders... - Children's narratives and patterns of cardiac reactivityYair Bar-Haim
Department of Psychology, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel 69978
Dev Psychobiol 44:238-49. 2004..The findings suggest interplay between the cognitive-emotional processes associated with narrative processing and production and cardiac activation patterns... - Vagal tone and temperament as predictors of emotion regulation strategies in young childrenAimee K Santucci
Center for Research on Health Care, University of Pittsburgh, Suite 600, 230 McKee Place, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
Dev Psychobiol 50:205-16. 2008..Overall, the findings are consistent with models of vagal tone and temperament as markers of individual differences in ER... - Long-term stability of electroencephalographic asymmetry and power in 3 to 9 year-old childrenMarike Vuga
Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh, 127 Parran Hall, 130 DeSoto Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Int J Psychophysiol 67:70-7. 2008..Stability in school-age children approached values as has been reported for adults. The findings provide partial support to the concept of frontal EEG asymmetry as a trait marker in childhood... - Effects of early intervention on EEG power and coherence in previously institutionalized children in RomaniaPeter J Marshall
Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA
Dev Psychopathol 20:861-80. 2008..Supplementary analyses examined whether the EEG measures mediated changes in intellectual abilities within the foster care children, but no clear evidence of mediation was observed... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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... - The impact of reward, punishment, and frustration on attention in pediatric bipolar disorderBrendan A Rich
Pediatrics and Developmental Neuropsychiatry Branch, Mood and Anxiety Program, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892 1255, USA
Biol Psychiatry 58:532-9. 2005..We tested the hypothesis that frustration adversely impacts attention and behavior in children with bipolar disorder (BPD)... - 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... - Different psychophysiological and behavioral responses elicited by frustration in pediatric bipolar disorder and severe mood dysregulationBrendan A Rich
Pediatrics and Developmental Neuropsychiatry Branch, Section on Development and Affective Neuroscience, NIMH Mood and Anxiety Program, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Am J Psychiatry 164:309-17. 2007..e., a history of at least one manic or hypomanic episode with euphoric mood) as well as those with no diagnosis (i.e., healthy comparison children)... - Temperamental contributions to children's performance in an emotion-word processing task: a behavioral and electrophysiological studyKoraly Perez-Edgar
Department of Psychology, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA
Brain Cogn 65:22-35. 2007..These findings indicate that performance on an auditory selective attention task can assist in identifying underlying patterns of affective processing... - Automatic correction of ocular artifacts in the EEG: a comparison of regression-based and component-based methodsGarrick L Wallstrom
Center for Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh, Forbes Tower Suite 8084, 200 Lothrop Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Int J Psychophysiol 53:105-19. 2004..Results supported the use of regression-based and PCA-based ocular artifact correction and suggested a need for further studies examining possible spectral distortion from ICA-based correction procedures... - Cognitive recovery in socially deprived young children: the Bucharest Early Intervention ProjectCharles A Nelson
Harvard Medical School and Children s Hospital, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Science 318:1937-40. 2007..These results point to the negative sequelae of early institutionalization, suggest a possible sensitive period in cognitive development, and underscore the advantages of family placements for young abandoned children...