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| Jennifer S SilkSummaryAffiliation: University of Pittsburgh Country: USA Publications
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Adolescents' emotion regulation in daily life: links to depressive symptoms and problem behaviorJennifer S Silk
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, USA
Child Dev 74:1869-80. 2003..g., denial) or involuntary engagement (e.g., rumination) was less effective in regulating negative affect, and greater use of these strategies was related to higher levels of depressive symptoms and problem behavior...
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...- 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... - Mother-child interactions in depressed children and children at high risk and low risk for future depressionLaura J Dietz
Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 47:574-82. 2008..To compare mother-child interactions and parenting styles in families of children with major depressive disorder, youths at high risk for depression, and healthy controls... - Pubertal changes in emotional information processing: pupillary, behavioral, and subjective evidence during emotional word identificationJennifer S Silk
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
Dev Psychopathol 21:7-26. 2009..These results provide physiological, behavioral, and subjective evidence consistent with a model of puberty-specific changes in neurobehavioral systems underpinning emotional reactivity... - Why do anxious children become depressed teenagers? The role of social evaluative threat and reward processingJ S Silk
University of Pittsburgh, Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Psychol Med 42:2095-107. 2012..Adolescence represents a key developmental window in which rates of this disorder increase markedly. Children with an anxiety disorder show a particular risk of developing depression during adolescence... - Expressed emotion in mothers of currently depressed, remitted, high-risk, and low-risk youth: links to child depression status and longitudinal courseJennifer S Silk
Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol 38:36-47. 2009..Higher initial critical expressed emotion was associated with a greater likelihood of having a future onset of a depressive episode in high-risk and depressed participants. Diagnostic groups did not differ in Emotional Overinvolvement... - 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.... - 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.... - 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... - Peer acceptance and rejection through the eyes of youth: pupillary, eyetracking and ecological data from the Chatroom Interact taskJennifer S Silk
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, 3811 O Hara St, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 7:93-105. 2012..Furthermore, the salience of social rejection and acceptance feedback appears to increase during adolescence... - 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... - 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... - "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... 
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...- 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.... - A longitudinal study of childhood depression and anxiety in relation to weight gainDana L Rofey
Children s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Weight Management and Wellness Center, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Child Psychiatry Hum Dev 40:517-26. 2009..The major finding that depression and anxiety are associated with increased BMI percentiles in a non-obese sample suggests that childhood psychopathology is an important factor that should be carefully monitored... - 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 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)... - Affective functioning among early adolescents at high and low familial risk for depression and their mothers: a focus on individual and transactional processes across contextsDana L McMakin
School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, 3811 O Hara Street, 322 Loeffler Building, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
J Abnorm Child Psychol 39:1213-25. 2011..transactional processes (e.g., negative escalation). Findings are discussed in concert with attention to affect flexibility, contextual and transactional factors... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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... - Emotion regulation strategies in offspring of childhood-onset depressed mothersJennifer S Silk
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 47:69-78. 2006..This study examines emotion regulation strategies used by children of mothers with childhood-onset depression (COD) and children of never-depressed mothers (NCOD)... - Impact of inflammatory bowel disease and high-dose steroid exposure on pupillary responses to negative information in pediatric depressionNeil P Jones
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15224, USA
Psychosom Med 73:151-7. 2011..In systemic inflammation, proinflammatory cytokines have been implicated in altering activity in brain regions known to affect emotion processing and emotion regulation in depression... - Fearful faces influence attentional control processes in anxious youth and adultsCecile D Ladouceur
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh Schoolof Medicine, 3811 O Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Emotion 9:855-64. 2009..These findings suggest that anxious individuals, particularly younger ones, exhibit difficulty resisting interference from threat-related stimuli when greater attentional resources are being recruited... - 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... - Utilizing Ecological Momentary Assessment in pediatric obesity to quantify behavior, emotion, and sleepDana L Rofey
Children s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Weight Management and Wellness Center, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 18:1270-2. 2010..7 +/- 0.3% and 64.2 +/- 0.3%, respectively. Data from the armband and phone calls are presented to illustrate the depth of information acquired by utilizing this innovative methodology... - Developmental trajectories of anxiety symptoms among boys across early and middle childhoodXin Feng
Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 117:32-47. 2008..The results are discussed in terms of the mechanisms of risk factors and implications for early identification and prevention... - Mom-it helps when you're right here! Attenuation of neural stress markers in anxious youths whose caregivers are present during fMRIOlivia L Conner
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
PLoS ONE 7:e50680. 2012..Capitalizing on the ability of anxious youths to manifest low levels of anxiety-like information processing in the presence of a caregiver could help in modeling adaptive function in behavioral treatments... - Sustained neural alterations in anxious youth performing an attentional bias task: a pupilometry studyRebecca B Price
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Depress Anxiety 30:22-30. 2013..We investigated early, intermediate, and sustained forms of bias using behavioral measures and pupillary reactivity, an index of cognitive and affective load, to gain insight into potential neurocognitive targets for early intervention... - Ethnic differences in relations between family process and child internalizing problemsMatthew Vendlinski
University of Pittsburgh, USA
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 47:960-9. 2006..The current study examined how ethnicity moderates relations between parent conflict, parent-child relationship quality, and internalizing problems... - Neighborhood cohesion as a buffer against hostile maternal parentingJennifer S Silk
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, PA 15213, USA
J Fam Psychol 18:135-46. 2004..Findings highlight the protective effect of neighborhood social cohesion and the utility of including young children's perspectives in research on neighborhoods and families... - Using ecological momentary assessment to determine media use by individuals with and without major depressive disorderBrian A Primack
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 165:360-5. 2011..To use ecological momentary assessment techniques to measure the association of major depressive disorder (MDD) with media use...
Research Grants
- Emotion Regulation and Transmission of DepressionJENNIFER SILK; Fiscal Year: 2007....
- Puberty and Threat/Reward Processing in the Trajectory from Anxiety to DepressionJennifer S Silk; Fiscal Year: 2010....