Publications
Landscape Analysis of Early Childhood Development and Education in Emergencies." Journal on Education in Emergencies. 8.1 (2022): 138.
"Latency development in children of primary nurturing fathers. Eight-year follow-up." Psychoanal Study Child. 47 (1992): 85-101.
"Less is more: meta-analyses of sensitivity and attachment interventions in early childhood." Psychol Bull. 129.2 (2003): 195-215.
"Lessons Learned From the Supporting Father Involvement Study: A Cross-Cultural Preventive Intervention for Low-Income Families With Young Children." Journal of Social Service Research. 35 (2009): 163-179.
"Leveraging Caregivers to Provide Remote Early Childhood Education in Hard-to-Access Settings in Lebanon: Impacts From a Randomized Controlled Trial." Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness (2024): 1-31.
"Life in groups: the roles of oxytocin in mammalian sociality." Front Behav Neurosci. 7 (2013): 185.
"The lifelong effects of early childhood adversity and toxic stress." Pediatrics. 129 (2012): e232-46.
"Linking child survival and child development for health, equity, and sustainable development." Lancet (London, England). 381 (2013): 1514-5.
"Linking child survival and child development for health, equity, and sustainable development." Lancet. 381.9877 (2013): 1514-5.
"Local brain functional activity following early deprivation: a study of postinstitutionalized Romanian orphans." Neuroimage. 14.6 (2001): 1290-301.
"Long term consequences of early childhood malnutrition." Oxford Economic Papers. 58.3 (2006): 450-474.
"Long term mental health outcomes of Finnish children evacuated to Swedish families during the second world war and their non-evacuated siblings: cohort study." BMJ. 350 (2015): g7753.
"A Longitudinal Study of Psychosocial Adjustment and Community Reintegration among Former Child Soldiers in Sierra Leone." Int Psychiatry. 7 (2010): 60-62.
"A longitudinal study of relational aggression, physical aggression, and children's social-psychological adjustment." J Abnorm Child Psychol. 34 (2006): 131-42.
"Long-term consequences of neonatal rearing on central corticotropin-releasing factor systems in adult male rat offspring." Neuropsychopharmacology. 30.12 (2005): 2192-204.
"Long-term consequences of stunting in early life." Matern Child Nutr. 7 Suppl 3 (2011): 5-18.
"Long-term economic effect of early childhood nutrition." Lancet. 371 (2008): 365-6.
"Long-term effects of early childhood programs on social outcomes and delinquency." Future Child. 5 (1995): 51-75.
"Long-term effects of early intervention: Turkish low-income mothers and children." J Appl Dev Psychol. 22 (2001): 333-361.
"Long-term effects of early intervention: Turkish low-income mothers and children." J Appl Dev Psychol. 22 (2001): 333-361.
"Long-term effects of nurse home visitation on children's criminal and antisocial behavior: 15-year follow-up of a randomized controlled trial." Jama. 280 (1998): 1238-44.
"Long-term follow-up of a randomized trial of family foundations: effects on children's emotional, behavioral, and school adjustment." J Fam Psychol. 28.6 (2014): 821-31.
"The long-term health consequences of child physical abuse, emotional abuse, and neglect: a systematic review and meta-analysis." PLoS medicine. 9 (2012): e1001349.
"Love alters autonomic reactivity to emotions." Emotion. 11.6 (2011): 1314-21.
"Love and peace across generations: Biobehavioral systems and global partnerships." Comprehensive Psychoneuroendocrinology. 8 (2021): 100092.
"Male involvement interventions and improved couples’ emotional relationships in Tanzania and Zimbabwe: ‘When we are walking together, I feel happy’." Culture, Health & Sexuality (2019): 1-18.
"The mass media and the prevention of child behavior problems: the evaluation of a television series to promote positive outcomes for parents and their children." J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 41.7 (2000): 939-48.
"Maternal and paternal plasma, salivary, and urinary oxytocin and parent-infant synchrony: considering stress and affiliation components of human bonding." Dev Sci. 14.4 (2011): 752-61.
"Maternal behavior and developmental psychopathology." Biol. Psychiatry. 51.1 (2002): 27-43.
"Maternal brain response to own baby-cry is affected by cesarean section delivery." J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 49 (2008): 1042-52.
"Maternal care as a model for experience-dependent chromatin plasticity?" Trends Neurosci.. 28.9 (2005): 456-63.
"Maternal depression and mental health in early childhood: an examination of underlying mechanisms in low-income and middle-income countries." Lancet Psychiatry. 3 (2016): 983-992.
"Maternal depression and parental distress among families in the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project: Risk factors within the family setting." Infant Ment Health J. 31 (2010): 543-569.
"Maternal education preferences moderate the effects of mandatory employment and education programs on child positive and problem behaviors." Child Dev. 84 (2013): 198-208.
"Maternal history of autoimmune disease and later development of tourette syndrome in offspring." Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. 54 (2015): 495-501.e1.
"Maternal immune activation: Implications for neuropsychiatric disorders." Science (New York, N.Y.). 353 (2016): 772-7.
"Maternal Inflammation and Neurodevelopmental Programming: A Review of Preclinical Outcomes and Implications for Translational Psychiatry." Biological psychiatry. 85 (2019): 107-121.
"Maternal Interpersonal Trauma and Child Social-Emotional Development: An Intergenerational Effect." Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology. 31 (2017): 99-107.
"Maternal perceptions of father involvement among refugee and disadvantaged families in Beirut, Lebanon." PLOS ONE. 15.3 (2020): e0229670.
"Maternal perceptions of paternal investment are associated with relationship satisfaction and breastfeeding duration in humans." Journal of Family Psychology. 32.8 (2018): 1025-1035.
"Maternal posttraumatic stress disorder and depression in pediatric primary care: association with child maltreatment and frequency of child exposure to traumatic events." JAMA Pediatr. 167.11 (2013): 1011-8.
"Maternal programming of reproductive function and behavior in the female rat." Front Evol Neurosci. 3 (2011): 10.
"Maternal responsiveness moderates the relationship between allostatic load and working memory." Development and psychopathology. 23 (2011): 873-80.
"Maternal stress during pregnancy predicts cognitive ability and fearfulness in infancy." J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 46.11 (2007): 1454-63.
"Maximizing the potential of early childhood education to prevent externalizing behavior problems: A meta-analysis." J Sch Psychol. 53 (2015): 243-63.
"Measuring the cost of investing in early childhood interventions and applications of a standardized costing tool." Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1419.1 (2018): 74-89.
"Measuring the quality of early childhood education: Associations with children’s development from a national study with the IMCEIC tool in Colombia." Child Development. 93.1 (2022): 254-268.
"On the mechanics of economic development." Journal of Monetary Economics. 22.1 (1988): 3-42.
"Mechanisms in the cycle of violence." Science. 250 (1990): 1678-83.
"Media and technology use predicts ill-being among children, preteens and teenagers independent of the negative health impacts of exercise and eating habits." Computers in Human Behavior. 35 (2014): 364-375.
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