Publications
"Steps Toward Peace and Violence Prevention Across Generations: The Potential of Early Child Development in the Context of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals." New Dir Child Adolesc Dev. 2018.159 (2018): 5-12.
"Nurturing resilient children." J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 48 (2007): 221-3.
"Steps toward peace and violence prevention across generations: The potential of Early Child Development in the context of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals." New Dir Child Adolesc Dev. 2018 (2018): 5-12.
Pathways to Peace: The Transformative Power of Children and Families. Vol. 15. Cambridge MA US / London UK: MIT Press, 2014.
"Maternal behavior and developmental psychopathology." Biol. Psychiatry. 51.1 (2002): 27-43.
Peace is a lifelong process: The importance of partnerships." Pathways to Peace: The Transformative Power of Children and Families. Eds. J. Leckman, C. Panter-Brick, and R. Salah. Vol. 15. MIT Press, 2014. 3-17.
"Nurturing resilient children." Rev Bras Psiquiatr. 29 (2007): 5-6.
"Variations in maternal behavior--oxytocin and reward pathways--peripheral measures matter?!" Neuropsychopharmacology. 36.13 (2011): 2587-8.
"Primary parental preoccupation: circuits, genes, and the crucial role of the environment." J Neural Transm (Vienna). 111 (2004): 753-71.
"Oxytocin response to youth-mother interactions in clinically anxious youth is associated with separation anxiety and dyadic behavior." Depress Anxiety. 34.2 (2017): 127-136.
"Salivary oxytocin in clinically anxious youth: Associations with separation anxiety and family accommodation." Psychoneuroendocrinology. 65 (2016): 35-43.
"Family accommodation in pediatric anxiety disorders." Depress Anxiety. 30 (2013): 47-54.
"Cross-generational influences on childhood anxiety disorders: pathways and mechanisms." J Neural Transm (Vienna). 123.9 (2016): 1053-67.
Evaluation Report of the Better Parenting Project: National multisectoral collaboration on behalf of young children. New York, NY: UNICEF, 2007.
"Childrearing discipline and violence in developing countries." Child Dev. 83.1 (2012): 62-75.
"A health equity critique of social marketing: where interventions have impact but insufficient reach." Soc Sci Med. 83 (2013): 133-41.
Horizontal Inequalities and Post-Conflict Development. Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Integrating Early Childhood Development and Violence Prevention. New York: Colombia University, 2014.
Father-child relationships." Handbook of father involvement: multidisciplinary perspectives(link is external). Routlege, 2013. 119-134.
The Role of the Father in Child Development. Wiley, 2004.
"A Pilot Intervention to Promote Positive Parenting in Refugees from Syria in Lebanon and Jordan." Frontiers in Psychiatry. 11 (2020).
"Early childhood development-global action is overdue." Lancet. 378 (2011): 1277-8.
"Genome-wide epigenetic regulation by early-life trauma." Arch. Gen. Psychiatry. 69.7 (2012): 722-31.
World report on violence and health. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Orgnization, 2002.
Constructive Conflicts: From Escalation to Resolution. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2011.
"Global Mental Health: Five Areas for Value-Driven Training Innovation." Acad Psychiatry. 40 (2016): 650-8.
"TET enzymes, TDG and the dynamics of DNA demethylation." Nature. 502.7472 (2013): 472-9.
The psychology of moral development: the nature and validity of moral stages. Harper & Row, 1984.
"Mothers speaking: A study on the experience of mothers with mother-child education program (MOCEP)." European Early Childhood Education Research Journal. 12.1 (2007).
Evaluation report of the Father-Support Program. Istanbul, Turkey: Mother-Child Education Foundation Publications, 2004.
"Economic, neurobiological, and behavioral perspectives on building America's future workforce." Proc Natl Acad Sci U S AProc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 103 (2006): 10155-10162.
"Economic, neurobiological, and behavioral perspectives on building America's future workforce." Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.. 103.27 (2006): 10155-62.
Ending violence in childhood. Global report 2017. New Delhi, India: Know Violence in Childhood, 2017.
"Welfare reform, family support, and child development: perspectives from policy analysis and developmental psychopathology." Dev Psychopathol. 12 (2000): 619-32.
The war on children: Time to end grave violations against children in conflict. London: Save the Children, 2018.
Early Childhood Services for Young Refugee Children: Cross-Country Analysis. Moving Minds Alliance, 2020.
"Breastfeeding, brain activation to own infant cry, and maternal sensitivity." J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 52.8 (2011): 907-15.
"A Prospective Longitudinal Study of Perceived Infant Outcomes at 18-24 Months: Neural and Psychological Correlates of Parental Thoughts and Actions Assessed during the First Month Postpartum." Front Psychol. 6 (2015): 1772.
"EARLY POSTPARTUM PARENTAL PREOCCUPATION AND POSITIVE PARENTING THOUGHTS: RELATIONSHIP WITH PARENT-INFANT INTERACTION." Infant Ment Health J. 34.2 (2013): 104-116.
"The plasticity of human maternal brain: longitudinal changes in brain anatomy during the early postpartum period." Behav Neurosci. 124 (2010): 695-700.
"Neural plasticity in fathers of human infants." Soc Neurosci. 9.5 (2014): 522-35.
"Perceived quality of maternal care in childhood and structure and function of mothers' brain." Dev Sci. 13.4 (2010): 662-73.
"Prenatal maternal infection, neurodevelopment and adult schizophrenia: a systematic review of population-based studies." Psychological medicine. 43 (2013): 239-57.
"Early childhood development and psychosocial support in Syria." Forced Migration Review; Oxford.60 (2019): 8-10.
"A Way of Thinking about Parent/Teacher Partnerships for Teachers Le partenariat parent/enseignant: Un autre point de vue Una forma de reflexionar sobre la asociacio´n Padre/Maestro para maestros." International Journal of Early Years Education. 10 (2002): 177-191.
Epigenetics: Significance of the gene-environment interface for brain development." Pathways to peace: The transformative power of children and families. Vol. 15. MIT Press, 2014. 65-77.
"Trophoblast regulation of maternal endocrine function and behaviour." Biology and Pathology of Trophoblast (2006): 148-168.
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