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Exploring the Interaction Between Preschool Executive Control and Caregiver Emotion Socialization in Predicting Adolescent Weight Trajectories
There is a critical need for research examining how neural vulnerabilities associated with obesity, including lower executive control, interact with...
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Childhood Overeating and Disordered Eating From Early Adolescence to Young Adulthood: A Longitudinal Study on the Mediating Role of BMI, Victimization and Desire for Thinness
Eating disorders have early origins, and there could be a continuum between childhood eating behaviors, such as overeating, and long-term disordered...
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The Impact of Early and Recent Life Stress on Trajectories of Inflammatory Biomarkers in a Diverse Sample of Adolescents
Elevated inflammatory activity is one possible pathway through which exposure to childhood adversity engenders risk for physical and psychiatric...
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The Genes We Inherit and Those We Don’t: Maternal Genetic Nurture and Child BMI Trajectories
Recently, methods have been introduced using polygenic scores (PGS) to estimate the effects of genetic nurture, the environmentally-mediated effects...
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Developmental trajectories of eating disorder symptoms: A longitudinal study from early adolescence to young adulthood
BackgroundAdolescence is a critical period for the development of eating disorders, but data is lacking on the heterogeneity of their evolution...
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Early weight gain trajectories in first episode anorexia: predictors of outcome for emerging adults in outpatient treatment
BackgroundEarly response to treatment has been shown to be a predictor of later clinical outcomes in eating disorders (EDs). Specifically, early...
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The Effect of Neighborhood-level Resources on Children’s Physical Development: Trajectories of Body Mass Index and Pubertal Development and the Influence of Child Biological Sex
Growing research substantiates the role of neighborhood disadvantage in contributing to early pubertal maturation and higher body mass index;...
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Identity Formation, Body Image, and Body-Related Symptoms: Developmental Trajectories and Associations Throughout Adolescence
Emerging evidence highlights the intricate link between identity and one’s body, however, integrative longitudinal research on this identity-body...
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How Early Stressful Life Experiences Combine With Adolescents’ Conjoint Health Risk Trajectories to Influence Cardiometabolic Disease Risk in Young Adulthood
Research has primarily focused on additive (unique) associations between early stressful life experiences (specifically, socioeconomic adversity and...
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Differences in Body Mass Index (BMI) in Early Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder Compared to Youth with Typical Development
Adolescence is a time of exceptional physical health juxtaposed against significant psychosocial and weight-related problems. The study included 241,...
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Brief Meditation on Test Anxiety of Eighth Grade Chinese Students: Chain-Mediating Roles of Mindfulness and Self-Efficacy
Numerous studies have revealed an alarming prevalence of test anxiety among Chinese junior high school students. Prevention of test anxiety in this...
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Sexual Risk Behaviors during Adolescence: Associations with Childhood and Adolescent BMI
Research examining associations between unhealthy weight and sexual risk behaviors derives primarily from cross-sectional studies conducted at...
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Trajectories of Change in the Behavioral and Health Phenotype of Adolescents and Adults with Fragile X Syndrome and Intellectual Disability: Longitudinal Trends Over a Decade
This study examined trajectories of daily living skills, behavior problems, body mass index (BMI), and health conditions spanning nearly a decade in...
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Modeling Parent-Specific Genetic Nurture in Families with Missing Parental Genotypes: Application to Birthweight and BMI
Disaggregation and estimation of genetic effects from offspring and parents has long been of interest to statistical geneticists. Recently,...
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Cross-cultural adaptation and psychometric investigation of the palatable eating motives scale (PEMS) for a sample of Brazilian adults
Highly palatable foods and beverages can significantly stimulate appetite through the reward system leading to hedonic hunger. Investigating...
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Assessing a multivariate model of brain-mediated genetic influences on disordered eating in the ABCD cohort
Eating disorders often emerge during adolescence, and affected individuals frequently demonstrate high rates of psychiatric comorbidity, particularly...
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Antipsychotic effects on anthropometric outcomes in anorexia nervosa: a retrospective chart review of hospitalized children and adolescents
BackgroundOff-label antipsychotic use is not uncommon in youth with anorexia nervosa (AN), aiming to enhance suboptimal weight restoration, yet its...
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Development, Implementation, and Process Evaluation of Bukhali: An Intervention from Preconception to Early Childhood
The Healthy Life Trajectories Initiative, an international consortium developed in partnership with the World Health Organization, is addressing...
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Using a thin slice coding approach to assess preschool overweight and obesity
Obesity is a major public health problem and cause of significant burden across the lifespan. Longitudinal samples, beginning in early childhood...
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A Varying Coefficient Model to Jointly Test Genetic and Gene–Environment Interaction Effects
Most human traits are influenced by the interplay between genetic and environmental factors. Many statistical methods have been proposed to screen...
