How a Mother’s Childhood Affects Her Child’s Future: @JAACAP study finds maternal childhood trauma linked to larger amygdala volumes in female children, potentially protective against anxiety. Link: https://t.co/TYqA8rxvPU #MentalHealth #AcademicTwitter @StanfordPsych @GotlibLab

🚨preprint alert🚨 Excited to share new work on developmental links between the microbiome-gut-brain axis and internalizing symptoms with @Dr_BCallaghan, @JessicaUy_PhD, Jen Labus, and the GUSTO study team 🥳 (1/n) https://t.co/dqbr0UAPOD (note: has not yet been peer-reviewed)

Along with our fantastic GUSTO collaborators, @JessicaUy_PhD and I wrote a paper on the transgenerational impacts of maternal childhood adversity on second generation children's brain and behavior. It was just featured in the NIH Spotlight! https://t.co/AEejMsKrid

Many thanks to my mentor @BridgetCallagh3, co-authors Chloe Schwartz, @KristenAChu @emilyanntowner, Alejandra Lemus, @NatalieHBrito, and the families who participated in the study!

Findings highlight the impact parental behaviors have on children's fears during the COVID-19 pandemic and suggest differential effects by age.

However, parents who engaged in more comfort behaviors (e.g., physical touch, organizing fun activities, establishing routines) buffered the effect of community sources of threat on children's COVID-19 fear in older children (~ 11+ years), but not younger children.

Greater COVID-19 threat information from community sources (e.g., school, friends, media) was also associated with greater COVID-19 fears in youth.

We found that parents who reported greater COVID-19 fears more often transmitted threat information related to COVID-19 to their children, which was related to greater COVID-19 fears in younger children (up to ~ 10 years), but not older children.

We examined how parents' fears of COVID-19, expression of COVID-19 threat information, and comfort behaviors related to children's fears of COVID-19 in 283 children (5.5-17 years) from 186 families during initial lockdown (April - July 2020)

Excited to share my first publication from @BABLab_UCLA where we looked at how parental behaviors impact children's fears related to COVID-19. https://t.co/wVQTQrIa2O (more info below, also my first 🧵!)

New paper alert 🚨. Together with @Monk_Lab @DANLAB_Columbia and @clareamc we looked at the evidence for #BabyBrain in third trimester pregnant people. Spoiler alert - we didn't see it. Instead, we saw evidence for cognitive plasticity. Read on for details: A 🧵 1/9

#Adolescence is a period of remarkable growth & discovery as we adapt to the world. When policies & programs meet the core developmental needs of these years, we can support #positive development & reduce the impact of earlier adversity. Learn more 🌐: https://t.co/VklI0PsmBF

🚨 psych/neuro folks applying for faculty positions, we've collected resources for you! Multiple full sets of app materials, guides for writing every statement type, tips & powerpoints for navigating the process start to finish, hope they help! 🤞🤞 https://t.co/rB2cvOLLO2

SCAN has just released its special issue on 'Computational Methods in Social Neuroscience' edited by @parkinsoncm @SANS_news - its really fantastic https://t.co/RpNpEcXv8J

just submitted a manuscript to a journal as the corresponding author for the first time! 🤞

Teens ages 12-17, check out our online study in partnership with Children Helping Science! 🧠👩🏻‍🔬 If you know an adolescent who wants to help us understand the development of protection and reward learning, please send them our link! 👇

BABLab @UCLA is recruiting study participants! Do you have an adopted or guardianship child 6-9 years old or a teen 13-16 years old? Join our ONLINE study to help us learn how early life experiences influence physical and emotional health! Please RT and share!

First time attending @PNIRS meeting - looking forward to all the exciting talks and posters! #PNIRS2021

Just joined Twitter! Excited to make some science friends!