Depression and anxiety in preschoolers: A review of the past 7 years

DJ Whalen, CM Sylvester… - Child and adolescent …, 2017 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
This article reviews recent empirical literature on the prevalence, correlates, assessment,
and treatment of preschool-onset internalizing disorders. Major advances in the acceptance …

Differential susceptibility of the develo** brain to contextual adversity and stress

WT Boyce - Neuropsychopharmacology, 2016 - nature.com
A swiftly growing volume of literature, comprising both human and animal studies and
employing both observational and experimental designs, has documented striking individual …

Gene-environment interactions between stress and 5-HTTLPR in depression: A meta-analytic update

D Bleys, P Luyten, B Soenens, S Claes - Journal of affective disorders, 2018 - Elsevier
Background Meta-analyses have yielded contradictory findings concerning the role of 5-
HTTLPR in interaction with stress (GxE) in depression. The current meta-analysis …

Development and the epigenome: the 'synapse'of gene–environment interplay

WT Boyce, MS Kobor - Developmental science, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
This paper argues that there is a revolution afoot in the developmental science of gene–
environment interplay. We summarize, for an audience of developmental researchers and …

Gene× environment determinants of stress-and anxiety-related disorders

S Sharma, A Powers, B Bradley… - Annual review of …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
The burgeoning field of gene-by-environment (G× E) interactions has revealed fascinating
biological insights, particularly in the realm of stress-, anxiety-, and depression-related …

DNA methylation at stress‐related genes is associated with exposure to early life institutionalization

AL Non, BM Hollister, KL Humphreys… - American journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives Differences in DNA methylation have been associated with early life adversity,
suggesting that alterations in methylation function as one pathway through which adverse …

Serotonin tranporter methylation and response to cognitive behaviour therapy in children with anxiety disorders

S Roberts, KJ Lester, JL Hudson, RM Rapee… - Translational …, 2014 - nature.com
Anxiety disorders that are the most commonly occurring psychiatric disorders in childhood,
are associated with a range of social and educational impairments and often continue into …

Heterotypic and homotypic continuity in psychopathology: a narrative review

AM Speranza, M Liotti, I Spoletini… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Psychopathology is a process: it unfolds over time and involves several different factors. To
extend our knowledge of such process, it is vital to understand the trajectories that lead to …

Prenatal programming of postnatal plasticity revisited—And extended

S Hartman, J Belsky - Development and psychopathology, 2018 - cambridge.org
Two sets of evidence reviewed herein, one indicating that prenatal stress is associated with
elevated behavioral and physiological dysregulation and the other that such phenotypic …

Continuity and stability of preschool depression from childhood through adolescence and following the onset of puberty

MS Gaffrey, R Tillman, DM Barch, JL Luby - Comprehensive psychiatry, 2018 - Elsevier
Background A growing body of research now supports the validity, clinical significance, and
long-term negative impact of depression occurring during the preschool period. However …