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| M R GunnarSummaryAffiliation: University of Minnesota Country: USA Publications
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Child maltreatment and the developing HPA axisAmanda R Tarullo
Institute of Child Development, 51 East River Road, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Horm Behav 50:632-9. 2006..Post-institutionalized children may provide a model to separate early adverse care histories from current adversity...- Social behavior correlates of cortisol activity in child care: gender differences and time-of-day effectsK Tout
Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455, USA
Child Dev 69:1247-62. 1998..The methodological and theoretical implications of these findings for the study of the development of hormone-behavior relations are discussed... - Salivary cortisol levels in children adopted from romanian orphanagesM R Gunnar
Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 55455, USA
Dev Psychopathol 13:611-28. 2001.... - Social regulation of the cortisol levels in early human developmentMegan R Gunnar
Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota, 51 East River Road, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Psychoneuroendocrinology 27:199-220. 2002..Finally, the few studies of cortisol activity under conditions of neglectful and abusive care of young children are considered, noting that these often have yielded evidence of reduced rather than increased cortisol levels... - Low cortisol and a flattening of expected daytime rhythm: potential indices of risk in human developmentM R Gunnar
Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455, USA
Dev Psychopathol 13:515-38. 2001..Lastly, we note that evidence of low cortisol under adverse early life conditions in humans adds to the importance of understanding the implications of hypocortisolism for health and development... - Foster children's diurnal production of cortisol: an exploratory studyMary Dozier
Department of Psychology, University of Delaware, USA
Child Maltreat 11:189-97. 2006..These differences suggest that conditions associated with foster care interfere with children's ability to regulate neuroendocrine functioning... - Bringing basic research on early experience and stress neurobiology to bear on preventive interventions for neglected and maltreated childrenMegan R Gunnar
Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
Dev Psychopathol 18:651-77. 2006..Finally, we discuss several considerations that should facilitate a more complete integration of basic research on early experience and stress neurobiology into preventive intervention strategies... 
Cultural socialization in families with internationally adopted childrenRichard M Lee
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota Twin Cities Campus, MN 55455, USA
J Fam Psychol 20:571-80. 2006..Individual variations in cultural socialization also are discussed in terms of child development and shifting adoption attitudes and practices...- Behavior problems in postinstitutionalized internationally adopted childrenMegan R Gunnar
Institute of Child Development, 51 East River Road, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Dev Psychopathol 19:129-48. 2007..Finally, children adopted from Russia/Eastern Europe appeared at greater risk of developing behavior problems in several domains compared to children adopted from other areas of the world... - Effects of therapeutic interventions for foster children on behavioral problems, caregiver attachment, and stress regulatory neural systemsPhilip A Fisher
Oregon Social Learning Center, 10 Shelton McMurphey Blvd, Eugene, OR 97401 4928, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1094:215-25. 2006..The interventions under investigation have produced evidence that it is possible to impact many areas that have been negatively affected by early stress, including HPA axis activity, behavior, and attachment to caregivers... - The International Adoption Project: population-based surveillance of Minnesota parents who adopted children internationallyWendy L Hellerstedt
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Matern Child Health J 12:162-71. 2008..To conduct the first population-based surveillance in the United States of parents who adopted children from countries outside of the United States... - Effects of a therapeutic intervention for foster preschoolers on diurnal cortisol activityPhilip A Fisher
Oregon Social Learning Center, 10 Shelton McMurphey Boulevard, Eugene, OR 97401, USA
Psychoneuroendocrinology 32:892-905. 2007..In sum, improvements in caregiving following early adversity appear to have the potential to reverse or prevent disruptions in HPA axis functioning... - Early care experiences and HPA axis regulation in children: a mechanism for later trauma vulnerabilityMegan R Gunnar
Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Prog Brain Res 167:137-49. 2008..What awaits study is whether periods of atypical cortisol levels and altered HPA function early in life, even if transient, impact brain development in ways that heighten vulnerability to PTSD in response to traumas experienced later... 
Salivary cortisol levels in children of low-income women with high depressive symptomatologyLia C H Fernald
University of California, Berkeley, 50 University Hall, MC 7360, Berkeley, CA94720 7360, USA
Dev Psychopathol 20:423-36. 2008..These results suggest that among very low-income families, high maternal depressive symptoms are associated with hypoactivity of the HPA system in children, particularly boys...- Early deprivation and home basal cortisol levels: a study of internationally adopted childrenDarlene A Kertes
Institute of Child Development, 51 East River Road, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Dev Psychopathol 20:473-91. 2008..A structural equation model revealed that preadoption Deprived Care predicted Growth Delay at adoption and Growth Delay predicted higher morning cortisol levels and a larger diurnal cortisol decrease... - It's not that bad: error introduced by oral stimulants in salivary cortisol researchNicole M Talge
Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
Dev Psychobiol 47:369-76. 2005..When used sparingly, oral stimulants can be employed without compromising the quality of salivary cortisol data... - Developmental changes in baseline cortisol activity in early childhood: relations with napping and effortful controlSarah E Watamura
Department of Human Development, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
Dev Psychobiol 45:125-33. 2004..These results suggest that circadian regulation of the HPA axis continues to mature into the third year in humans, and that its maturation corresponds to aspects of behavioral development... - Effects of prenatal betamethasone exposure on regulation of stress physiology in healthy premature infantsElysia Poggi Davis
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of California Irvine, City Tower, 333 City Boulevard West, Orange, CA 92868, USA
Psychoneuroendocrinology 29:1028-36. 2004..These findings suggest that antenatal corticosteroids suppress infants' HPA response to a stressor typically encountered in a neonatal intensive care situation... - Rising cortisol at childcare: relations with nap, rest, and temperamentSarah E Watamura
Department in Human Development, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
Dev Psychobiol 40:33-42. 2002..Factors other than daytime rest periods seem likely to account for the rise in cortisol across the childcare day, possibly factors involving the interactional demands of group settings during this developmental period... - The anterior attention network: associations with temperament and neuroendocrine activity in 6-year-old childrenElysia Poggi Davis
Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455-0345, USA
Dev Psychobiol 40:43-56. 2002..However, these data also illustrate the multifaceted nature of effortful control and the need for care when attempting to understand the neural systems involved in the effortful regulation of behavior... - Individual differences in children's cortisol response to the beginning of a new school yearJacqueline Bruce
Institute of Child Development, 51 East River Road, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455, USA
Psychoneuroendocrinology 27:635-50. 2002..In contrast, shyness, which negatively contributes to Surgency, was positively correlated with evening change scores on the fifth day of school... - Maternal panic disorder: infant temperament, neurophysiology, and parenting behaviorsSusan L Warren
George Washington University, Washington, DC 20037, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 42:814-25. 2003..Helping PD mothers parent their more highly aroused/arousable infants could reduce the development of psychopathology... - Morning-to-afternoon increases in cortisol concentrations for infants and toddlers at child care: age differences and behavioral correlatesSarah E Watamura
Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota, 55455, USA
Child Dev 74:1006-20. 2003..Controlling age, teacher-reported social fearfulness predicted higher afternoon cortisol and larger cortisol increases across the day at child care. This phenomenon may indicate context-specific activation of the HPA axis early in life... - Integrating neuroscience and psychological approaches in the study of early experiencesMegan R Gunnar
Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1008:238-47. 2003..In addition, however, anomalous findings and the challenge they pose in translating the basic neuroscience findings to human development are also discussed... - Adult attachment, parent emotion, and observed parenting behavior: mediator and moderator modelsEmma K Adam
School of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
Child Dev 75:110-22. 2004.... - Evening activities as a potential confound in research on the adrenocortical system in childrenDarlene A Kertes
Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota. Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Child Dev 75:193-204. 2004..These results show that in studies with children, nights on which participants engage in sport activities should be avoided when collecting ambulatory measures of salivary cortisol concentrations... - Peer rejection, temperament, and cortisol activity in preschoolersMegan R Gunnar
Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota, 51 East River Road, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Dev Psychobiol 43:346-58. 2003..In these contexts, both direct and indirect pathways between temperament and cortisol need to be examined... - Tympanic membrane temperature and emotional dispositions in preschool-aged children: a methodological studyMegan R Gunnar
Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Child Dev 75:497-504. 2004..TM asymmetry may be a phenotypic marker of vulnerability to negative emotionality, but measures obtained on one occasion may not reliably index the phenotype... - Transition to child care: associations with infant-mother attachment, infant negative emotion, and cortisol elevationsLieselotte Ahnert
Educational and Developmental Psychology, Free University of Berlin, Germany
Child Dev 75:639-50. 2004..Attachments remained secure or became secure if mothers spent more days adapting their children to child care... - Comparing observational software with paper and pencil for time-sampled data: a field test of Interval Manager (INTMAN)Jon Tapp
Vanderbilt University, Vanderbilt Kennedy Center, Peabody Box 74, 230 Appleton Place, Nashville, TN 37203, USA
Behav Res Methods 38:165-9. 2006..Overall, the computer-assisted program was a more efficient and accurate data collection system for time-sampled data than the traditional method... - Integrating biological measures into the design and evaluation of preventive interventionsDante Cicchetti
Dev Psychopathol 20:737-43. 2008