We have summarised some key academic papers and research findings from across the disciplines - including neuroscience, psychology and biology – to view on-line or download:

• Why Choo-Choo is Better than Train: The Role of Register-Specific Words in Early Vocabulary Growth
  Ota M, Davies-Jenkins N, Skarabela B
  Cognitive Science (2018) 1-26

Why Choo-Choo is Better than Train: The Role of Register-Specific Words in Early Vocabulary Growth

 

• Attachment security buffers the HPA axis of toddlers growing up in poverty or near poverty: Assessment during paediatric well-child exams with inoculations.
  Anna B. Johnson, Shanna B. Mliner, Carrie E. Depasquale, Michael Troy, Megan R. Gunnar
  Psychoneuroendocrinology95 (2018) 120–127

Attachment security buffers the HPA axis of toddlers growing up in poverty or near poverty: Assessment during paediatric well-child exams with inoculations.

 

• Differentially Methylated Genes in Saliva are linked to Childhood Stress
  Papale, L.A., Seltzer, L.J., Madrid, A., Pollak, S.D. and Alisch. R.S. (2018)
  Scientific Reports8:10785

Differentially Methylated Genes in Saliva are linked to Childhood Stress

 

• Technoference: longitudinal associations between parent technology use, parenting stress, and child behaviour problems 
  B.T. McDaniel and J. S. Radesky.
  Pediatric Research 13^th June 2018.

Technoference: longitudinal associations between parent technology use, parenting stress, and child behaviour problems

 

• Neurohormones and temperament interact during infant development
  Jones, N.A. and Sloan, A. (2018)
  Philos Trans R. Soc Lond B 373 (1744): 20170159

 Neurohormones and temperament interact during infant development

 

• Lost connections: Oxytocin and the neural, physiological and behavioural consequences of disrupted relationships
  Pohl, T.T., Young, L.J. & Bosch, O.J.
  Int. J. Psychophysiology 2017, DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2017.12.011

Lost connections: Oxytocin and the neural, physiological and behavioural consequences of disrupted relationships

• Mothers’ and Fathers’ Sensitivity With Their Two Children: A Longitudinal Study From Infancy to Early Childhood
  Elizabeth T. Hallers-Haalboom, Marleen G. Groeneveld, Shiela R. van Berkel, Joyce J. Endendijk, Lotte D. van der Pol,
  Mariëlle Linting, Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg and Judi Mesman
  Developmental Psychology 2017. 53 (5), 860-872

Mothers’ and Fathers’ Sensitivity With Their Two Children: A Longitudinal Study From Infancy to Early Childhood

• Association between maternal childhood trauma and offspring psychopathology: mediation analysis from the ALSPAC cohort
  Plant, D.T., Jones, F.W., Pariante, C.M. and Pawlby, S.
  British Journal of Psychiatry (2017), 211, 144-150

Association between maternal childhood trauma and offspring psychopathology: mediation analysis from the ALSPAC cohort

• Disorganized attachment in infancy: a review of the phenomenon and its implications for clinicians and policy-makers
  Pehr Granqvist, L. Alan Sroufe, Mary Dozier, Erik Hesse, Miriam Steele, Marinus van Ijzendoorn, Judith Solomon, Carlo Schuengel, Pasco Fearon, Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg, Howard Steele, Jude Cassidy, and 32 other authors
  Attachment and Human Development, 2017 vol 19, No 6, 534-558

Disorganized attachment in infancy: a review of the phenomenon and its implications for clinicians and policy-makers

• The Future of Preschool Prevention, Assessment and Intervention
  Hudziak J, Archangeli C
  Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics, North America 26 (2017) 611-624

The Future of Preschool Prevention, Assessment and Intervention

• Speaker gaze increases information coupling between infant and adult brains. (2017)
  Leong, V., Byrne, E., Clackson, K., Georgieva, S., Lam, S., and Wass, S.
  PNAS, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1702493114

Speaker gaze increases information coupling between infant and adult brains

• All our Sons: The Developmental Neurobiology and Neuroendocrinology of Boys at Risk (2017)
  Allan N. Schore
  Infant Mental Health Journal 2017Jan: 38 (1), 15-52 DOI: 10.1002/imhj.21616

All our Sons: The Developmental Neurobiology and Neuroendocrinology of Boys at Risk

• Serotonin transporter gene (SLC6A4) polymorphism and susceptibility to a home visiting maternal-infant attachment intervention delivered by community health workers in South Africa: Reanalysis of a randomized controlled trial (2017)
  Morgan, B., Kumsta, R., Fearon, P., Moser, D., Skeen, S., Cooper, P., Murray, L., Moran, G. and Tomlinson, M.
  PLoS Medicine DOI:10.1371/journal.pmed.1002237

Serotonin transporter gene (SLC6A4) polymorphism and susceptibility to a home visiting maternal-infant attachment intervention delivered by community health workers in South Africa: Reanalysis of a randomized controlled trial

• Impact of early personal-history characteristics on the Pace of Ageing: implications for clinical trials of therapies to slow aging and expand healthspan (2017)
  Belsky, D.W., Caspi, A., Cohen, H.J., Kraus, W.E., Ramrakha, S., Poulton, R. & Mofitt, T.E.
  Aging Cell 1-8 Doi: 10.1111/acel.12591

Impact of early personal-history characteristics on the Pace of Ageing: implications for clinical trials of therapies to slow aging and expand healthspan

• Elevated cortisol levels in Norwegian toddlers in childcare (2017)
  Drugli, M.B., Solheim, E., Lydersen, S., Moe, V., Smith, L., Berg-Nielsen, T.S.
  Early Child Development and Care

Elevated cortisol levels in Norwegian toddlers in childcare (2017)