2021
Migration‐related trauma and mental health among migrant children emigrating from Mexico and Central America to the United States: Effects on developmental neurobiology and implications for policy
Cohodes EM, Kribakaran S, Odriozola P, Bakirci S, McCauley S, Hodges HR, Sisk LM, Zacharek SJ, Gee DG. Migration‐related trauma and mental health among migrant children emigrating from Mexico and Central America to the United States: Effects on developmental neurobiology and implications for policy. Developmental Psychobiology 2021, 63: e22158. PMID: 34292596, PMCID: PMC8410670, DOI: 10.1002/dev.22158.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMental healthMigration-related traumaEffects of traumaDevelopment of internalizingEarly life adversityEmotion regulationMigrant childrenTransdiagnostic mechanismsTrauma exposureExternalizing symptomatologyTraumatic experiencesRefugee childrenChildren's exposureDevelopmental neurobiologyChildrenYouthInterdisciplinary effortInternalizingTraumaImplicationsAdversityNeurobiologyContext of migrationSymptomatologyLearning
2019
Novel insights from actigraphy: Anxiety is associated with sleep quantity but not quality during childhood
Cohodes EM, Abusch A, Odriozola P, Gee DG. Novel insights from actigraphy: Anxiety is associated with sleep quantity but not quality during childhood. Clinical Child Psychology And Psychiatry 2019, 25: 189-199. PMID: 30696260, PMCID: PMC6667310, DOI: 10.1177/1359104518822685.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSleep quantitySleep-related interventionsSleep functionPredictors of anxietyPediatric clinical samplesAge-related changesHigh anxietyAnxietyPediatric samplesPrevious researchSleep dysfunctionClinical samplesChildhoodFunction changesAdolescenceAdolescentsActigraphyPresent studyYouthQuantitative measuresCorrelatesAssociationSleepChildrenIntervention
2014
Maternal Buffering of Human Amygdala-Prefrontal Circuitry During Childhood but Not During Adolescence
Gee DG, Gabard-Durnam L, Telzer EH, Humphreys KL, Goff B, Shapiro M, Flannery J, Lumian DS, Fareri DS, Caldera C, Tottenham N. Maternal Buffering of Human Amygdala-Prefrontal Circuitry During Childhood but Not During Adolescence. Psychological Science 2014, 25: 2067-2078. PMID: 25280904, PMCID: PMC4377225, DOI: 10.1177/0956797614550878.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAmygdala-prefrontal circuitryMaternal bufferingMaternal stimuliAmygdala-prefrontal connectivityMature connectivityAmygdala reactivityPotential mechanismsMaternal modulationChildhoodMother-child relationshipNeural mechanismsSensitive periodChildrenCaregiversMaternal influenceRegulatory influenceAdolescenceStimuliBehavioral regulationNeurocircuitryCircuitry
2013
Early developmental emergence of human amygdala–prefrontal connectivity after maternal deprivation
Gee DG, Gabard-Durnam LJ, Flannery J, Goff B, Humphreys KL, Telzer EH, Hare TA, Bookheimer SY, Tottenham N. Early developmental emergence of human amygdala–prefrontal connectivity after maternal deprivation. Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America 2013, 110: 15638-15643. PMID: 24019460, PMCID: PMC3785723, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1307893110.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMaternal deprivationAmygdala-mPFC connectivityEarly adversityEarly maternal deprivationAmygdala-prefrontal connectivityMature connectivityRodent modelsReduced anxietyAdolescent phenotypeHormone cortisolEarly developmental emergenceStress-induced modificationsDeprivationComparison childrenConnectivity patternsChildrenDevelopmental emergenceAnxietyPhenotypeInstitutionalized youthAmygdalaAdversityCortisolOntogenetic adaptation