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Neurosciences of infant mental health development: Recent findings and implications for counseling psychology.

This article is about the neural correlates of infant mental health and their correspondences to...

Emotion recognition from dynamic emotional displays in children with ADHD.

Children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) often engage in ineffective or inappropriate social interactions and have...

RCT of mind reading as a component of a psychosocial treatment for high-functioning children with ASD.

This randomized controlled trial evaluated the efficacy of mind reading as a component of a...

Emotion recognition in children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders.

There is a limited amount of research that examines social-emotional functioning in children with Fetal...

Social functioning and autonomic nervous system sensitivity across vocal and musical emotion in williams syndrome and autism spectrum disorder.

Both Williams syndrome (WS) and autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are associated with unusual auditory phenotypes...

Early life stress is associated with default system integrity and emotionality during infancy.

Background Extensive animal research has demonstrated the vulnerability of the brain to early life stress...

What sleeping babies hear: A functional MRI study of emotion processing.

Experiences of adversity in the early years of life alter the developing brain. However, evidence...

Emotional processing and executive functioning in children and adults with Tourette’s syndrome.

Tourette's syndrome (TS) is predominantly a childhood disorder, with many of those who meet diagnostic...

Atypical neural responses to vocal anger in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

Background Deficits in facial emotion processing, reported in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), have been linked to...

The neuro-environmental loop of plasticity: A cross-species analysis of paren- tal effects on emotion circuitry development following typical and adverse caregiving.

Early experiences critically shape the structure and function of the brain. Perturbations in typical/species-expected early...