Early Environments

Early Environments and Emotional Neurodevelopment

Another passion of mine is understanding how earlier experiences affect emotional neurodevelopment. While the data I would love to analyze does not exist yet, I have wonderful mentors and collaborators working on related research. Below is work from those collaborations.

King, L.S., Camacho, M.C., Montez, D.F., Humphreys, K.L., & Gotlib, I.H. (2021). Naturalistic language input is associated with resting-state functional connectivity in infancy. Journal of Neuroscience.  41 (3) 424-434. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0779-20.2020

Hoyniak, C.P., Quiñones-Camacho, L.E., Camacho, M.C., Chin, J.H., Williams, E.M., Wakschlag, L.S., & Perlman, S.B. (2021). Adversity is linked with decreased parent-child neural synchrony in the context of laboratory-induced stress. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 48, 100937 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2021.100937

Humphreys, K.L., Camacho, M.C., Roth, M.C., & Estes, E.C. (2020). Prenatal stress exposure and multimodal assessment of amygdala-medial prefrontal cortex connectivity in infants. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 46, 100877. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2020.100877

Humphreys, K.L., Sacchet, M.D., Camacho, M.C., King, L.S., Colich, N.L., Ordaz, S.J., Ho, T.C., & Gotlib, I.H. (2018). Evidence for a sensitive period in the effects of early life stress on human hippocampal volume. Developmental Science. E12775. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12775

King, L.S., Humphreys, K.L., Camacho, M.C., & Gotlib, I.H. (2018). A Person-Centered Approach to the Assessment of Early Life Stress: Neurobiological Correlates in Early Adolescence. Developmental Psychopathology. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579418000184