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Soc Sci Med 2022 May 10;305:115017. Epub 2022 May 10.

Department of Pediatrics, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ, USA; Child Health Institute of New Jersey, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ, USA; Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.

Maternal depression is associated with adverse impacts on the health of women and their children. However, further evidence is needed on the extent to which maternal depression influences women's economic well-being and how unmeasured confounders affect estimates of this relationship. In this study, we aimed to measure the association between maternal depression and economic outcomes (income, employment, and material hardship) over a 15-year time horizon. Read More

J Atten Disord 2022 May 22:10870547221099961. Epub 2022 May 22.

National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Hyattsville, MD, USA.

Objective: To provide state-level estimates of diagnosed ADHD and associated treatment among children in the United States in 2016 to 2019.

Method: This study used the National Survey of Children's Health to produce national and state-level estimates of lifetime diagnosis and current ADHD among all children aged 3 to 17 years (=114,476), and national and state-level estimates of medication and behavioral treatment use among children with current ADHD.

Results: The state-level estimates of diagnosed ADHD ranged from 6. Read More

Dev Psychobiol 2022 Jul;64(5):e22281

Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico.

Individual differences in behavior (animal personality) have recently received much attention although less so in young mammals. We tested 74 preweaning-age kittens from 16 litters of domestic cats in five everyday contexts repeated three times each across a 3-week period: a handling test where an experimenter held the kitten, a test where a piece of raw beef was given to the kitten and gradually withdrawn, a test where the kitten was presented with a live mouse in a jar, a test where the kitten was briefly confined in a pet carrier, and an encounter with an unfamiliar human who first remained passive and then attempted to stroke the kitten. We found consistent individual differences in behavior in all tests except with the mouse, although less marked than in equivalent tests with adult cats. Read More

J Child Adolesc Trauma 2022 Jun 28;15(2):201-208. Epub 2021 Jul 28.

Section of Clinical Child and Family Studies, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Children exposed to traumatic events are at increased risk for developing symptoms of a Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Children often discuss emotional, and therefore also traumatic, events in their lives with their parents, and the quality of these discussions can facilitate coping and further development. The study aim was 1) to explore whether the association between the quality of dialogue between mothers and children about emotional events and children's posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) might be indirectly linked through children's adaptive coping skills, and 2) whether this association differed when discussing different negative emotions. Read More

Biol Psychiatry 2022 Mar 26. Epub 2022 Mar 26.

BC Children's Hospital Research Institute, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; Department of Pediatrics (Neonatology), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Electronic address:

Background: Children born very preterm (≤32 weeks gestational age) show poorer cognitive and language development compared with their term-born peers. The importance of supportive maternal responses to the child's cues for promoting neurodevelopment is well established. However, little is known about whether supportive maternal behavior can buffer the association of early brain dysmaturation with cognitive and language performance. Read More