List of works by Megan Gunnar

A Preliminary, Randomized-Controlled Trial of Mindfulness and Game-Based Executive Function Trainings to Promote Self-Regulation in Internationally-Adopted Children

scientific article published on 01 October 2019

A Role for Placental CRH in Cortical Thinning and Neuropsychiatric Outcomes

scientific article published on 01 May 2018

A commentary on deprivation-specific psychological patterns: effects of institutional deprivation

scientific article published in April 2010

ADHD Symptoms in Post-Institutionalized Children Are Partially Mediated by Altered Frontal EEG Asymmetry

scientific article published on 29 September 2016

Acetylcholinesterase activity and neurodevelopment in boys and girls

journal article published in 2013

Adoption as an intervention for institutionally reared children: HPA functioning and developmental status

scientific article published on 14 September 2012

Adult attachment, parent emotion, and observed parenting behavior: mediator and moderator models

scientific article published in January 2004

Affective attunement in peer dyads containing children adopted from institutions

scientific article published on 09 July 2019

Alterations in stress responses of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis in small for gestational age infants

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Annual Research Review: Early adversity, the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical axis, and child psychopathology

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Associations between early life adversity and executive function in children adopted internationally from orphanages

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Attachment and Emotional Development in Institutional Care: Characteristics and Catch-Up

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Attachment security buffers the HPA axis of toddlers growing up in poverty or near poverty: Assessment during pediatric well-child exams with inoculations

scientific article published on 22 May 2018

Atypical EEG power correlates with indiscriminately friendly behavior in internationally adopted children

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Behavior problems in postinstitutionalized internationally adopted children

scientific article published on 01 January 2007

Behavioral and emotional symptoms of post-institutionalized children in middle childhood

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Beyond stimulus deprivation: iron deficiency and cognitive deficits in postinstitutionalized children

scientific article published on 5 March 2014

Bidirectional effects of parenting and child behavior in internationally adopting families.

scientific article published on 6 March 2017

Brief Stress Reduction Strategies Associated with Better Behavioral Climate in a Crisis Nursery: A Pilot Study

scientific article published on 30 January 2020

Bringing basic research on early experience and stress neurobiology to bear on preventive interventions for neglected and maltreated children.

scientific article published on January 2006

Child maltreatment and the developing HPA axis

scientific article published on 28 July 2006

Children in Institutional Care: Delayed Development and Resilience

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Children's cortisol response to the transition from preschool to formal schooling: A review

scientific article published on 14 September 2018

Cognitive-affective strategies and cortisol stress reactivity in children and adolescents: Normative development and effects of early life stress

scientific article published on 18 March 2019

Comparing observational software with paper and pencil for time-sampled data: a field test of Interval Manager (INTMAN).

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Comparison of Institutionally Reared and Maltreated Children on Socioemotional and Biological Functioning

scientific article published on 27 January 2019

Corrigendum to "The CIRCORT database: Reference ranges and seasonal changes in diurnal salivary cortisol derived from a meta-dataset comprised of 15 field studies" [PNEC 73C (2016) 16-23].

scientific article published on 28 December 2016

Cortisol and Parenting Predict Pathways to Disinhibited Social Engagement and Social Functioning in Previously Institutionalized Children

scientific article published on 10 March 2020

Cortisol function among early school-aged homeless children.

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Cortisol levels in response to starting school in children at increased risk for social phobia.

scientific article published on 17 August 2011

Cultural socialization in families with internationally adopted children

scientific article published on December 2006

Depressive Symptoms in Mothers of Recently Adopted Post-Institutionalized Children

journal article; published in Adoption Quarterly in 2014

Development of mechanisms that regulate global CNS states: an introduction.

scientific article published on 17 June 2009

Developmental changes in baseline cortisol activity in early childhood: relations with napping and effortful control

scientific article published in November 2004

Developmental changes in hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal activity over the transition to adolescence: normative changes and associations with puberty.

scientific article published on January 2009

Developmental changes in the responses of preterm infants to a painful stressor

scientific article published on 07 September 2008

Differential DNA methylation in peripheral blood mononuclear cells in adolescents exposed to significant early but not later childhood adversity

scientific article published on 05 February 2016

Disinhibited social behavior among internationally adopted children

scientific article published on January 2009

Disinhibited social engagement in postinstitutionalized children: differentiating normal from atypical behavior

scientific article published on 12 March 2014

Duration of early adversity and structural brain development in post-institutionalized adolescents

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Early Life Adversity with Height Stunting Is Associated with Cardiometabolic Risk in Adolescents Independent of Body Mass Index

scientific article published on 23 August 2018

Early Life Stress: Effects on the Regulation of Anxiety Expression in Children and Adolescents

scientific article published on 6 November 2015

Early adverse care, stress neurobiology, and prevention science: lessons learned

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Early adversity and children's regulatory deficits: Does postadoption parenting facilitate recovery in postinstitutionalized children?

scientific article published on 28 October 2019

Early adversity, hypocortisolism, and behavior problems at school entry: A study of internationally adopted children.

scientific article published on 21 December 2015

Early care experiences and HPA axis regulation in children: a mechanism for later trauma vulnerability

scientific article published on January 2008

Early deprivation and autonomic nervous system functioning in post-institutionalized children

scientific article published on 24 October 2015

Early deprivation and home basal cortisol levels: a study of internationally adopted children.

scientific article published in January 2008

Early deprivation impairs the development of balance and bilateral coordination

scientific article published on 09 September 2013

Early experience and the development of stress reactivity and regulation in children

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Early growth faltering in post-institutionalized youth and later anthropometric and pubertal development.

scientific article published on 7 February 2017

Early life stress and brain function: Activity and connectivity associated with processing emotion and reward

scientific article published on 27 December 2019

Early social deprivation and the social buffering of cortisol stress responses in late childhood: An experimental study

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Effects of a therapeutic intervention for foster preschoolers on diurnal cortisol activity

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Effects of prenatal betamethasone exposure on regulation of stress physiology in healthy premature infants

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Effects of therapeutic interventions for foster children on behavioral problems, caregiver attachment, and stress regulatory neural systems

scientific article published on December 2006

Electrophysiological evidence of altered memory processing in children experiencing early deprivation

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Emotion regulation and cortisol reactivity during a social evaluative stressor: A study of post-institutionalized youth

scientific article published on 12 February 2019

Emotion understanding, parent mental state language, and behavior problems in internationally adopted children

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Evening activities as a potential confound in research on the adrenocortical system in children

scientific article published in January 2004

Exploring the Psychometric Properties of the Parent Daily Report - Toddler Version (PDR-T)

scientific article published on 06 May 2019

FKBP5 moderation of depressive symptoms in peer victimized, post-institutionalized children

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Fearful Temperament and Stress Reactivity Among Preschool-Aged Children

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Foster children's diurnal production of cortisol: an exploratory study

scientific article published in May 2006

Future directions in the study of social relationships as regulators of the HPA axis across development

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GLUCOCORTICOIDS AND LEARNING DURING INFANCY.

scientific article published on December 2015

Gene-environment interplay in common complex diseases: forging an integrative model—recommendations from an NIH workshop

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Growth delay as an index of allostatic load in young children: predictions to disinhibited social approach and diurnal cortisol activity

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Heightened stress responsiveness and emotional reactivity during pubertal maturation: implications for psychopathology

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I. INTRODUCTION.

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II. GENERAL METHODOLOGY FOR ALL PHASES OF THE LONGITUDINAL STUDY.

scientific article published on December 2015

III. JUSTIFICATION FOR CORTISOL RESPONSE CATEGORIES

scientific article published on 01 December 2015

IV. Growth Failure in Institutionalized Children

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IV. LONGITUDINAL ANALYSES OF CORTISOL AND MATERNAL SENSITIVITY

scientific article published on 01 December 2015

Identifying atypical cortisol patterns in young children: The benefits of group-based trajectory modeling

scientific article published on 05 October 2008

Immune and neuroendocrine correlates of temperament in infancy.

scientific article published in December 2017

Increased freezing and decreased positive affect in postinstitutionalized children

scientific article published on January 2014

Individual differences in children's cortisol response to the beginning of a new school year

scientific article published in August 2002

Inhibited temperament and parent emotional availability differentially predict young children's cortisol responses to novel social and nonsocial events

scientific article published in November 2009

Inhibition and exuberance in preschool classrooms: associations with peer social experiences and changes in cortisol across the preschool year

scientific article published in September 2011

Institutional care and iron deficiency increase ADHD symptomology and lower IQ 2.5-5 years post-adoption

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Institutional care as a risk for declarative memory development

scientific article published in January 2010

Integrating biological measures into the design and evaluation of preventive interventions

scientific article published in January 2008

Integrating neuroscience and psychological approaches in the study of early experiences.

scientific article published in December 2003

It's not that bad: error introduced by oral stimulants in salivary cortisol research

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Life stress and cortisol reactivity: An exploratory analysis of the effects of stress exposure across life on HPA-axis functioning

scientific article published on 03 March 2020

Lower acetylcholinesterase activity among children living with flower plantation workers

journal article published in 2012

Maternal depression and infant daytime cortisol

scientific article published on 9 April 2012

Maternal panic disorder: infant temperament, neurophysiology, and parenting behaviors.

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Maternal relationship during adolescence predicts cardiovascular disease risk in adulthood

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Mitigating HPA axis dysregulation associated with placement changes in foster care ⬇️

scientific article published on May 1, 2011

Moderate versus severe early life stress: associations with stress reactivity and regulation in 10-12-year-old children

scientific article published on 02 October 2008

Moderating the Risk for Attention Deficits in Children with Pre-Adoptive Adversity: The Protective Role of Shorter Duration of out of Home Placement and Children's Enhanced Error Monitoring

scientific article published on 30 June 2020

Morning-to-afternoon increases in cortisol concentrations for infants and toddlers at child care: age differences and behavioral correlates

scientific article published in July 2003

Neglect, HPA axis reactivity, and development

scientific article published on 30 July 2019

Neurodevelopmental effects of early deprivation in postinstitutionalized children

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Parent support is less effective in buffering cortisol stress reactivity for adolescents compared to children

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Parental buffering of fear and stress neurobiology: Reviewing parallels across rodent, monkey, and human models

scientific article published on 03 August 2015

Peer Problems Among Postinstitutionalized, Internationally Adopted Children: Relations to Hypocortisolism, Parenting Quality, and ADHD Symptoms.

scientific article published on 8 November 2017

Peer rejection, temperament, and cortisol activity in preschoolers

scientific article published in December 2003

Peer victimization and internalizing symptoms among post-institutionalized, internationally adopted youth

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Persistent skewing of the T-cell profile in adolescents adopted internationally from institutional care

scholarly article by Brie M Reid et al published March 2019 in Brain, Behavior, and Immunity

Perspectives on Psychological Science: Right Way/Wrong Way Symposium.

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Postadoption parenting and socioemotional development in postinstitutionalized children

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Postinstitutionalized children's development: growth, cognitive, and language outcomes

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Poverty-alleviation program participation and salivary cortisol in very low-income children.

scientific article published on 04 May 2009

Prolonged institutional rearing is associated with atypically large amygdala volume and difficulties in emotion regulation

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Psychobiological mechanisms underlying the social buffering of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical axis: a review of animal models and human studies across development

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Pubertal recalibration of cortisol reactivity following early life stress: a cross-sectional analysis

scientific article published on 25 October 2018

Pubertal stress recalibration reverses the effects of early life stress in postinstitutionalized children

scientific article published on 11 November 2019

Reversing the Effects of Early Deprivation after Infancy: Giving Children Families may not be Enough

scientific article published on 8 December 2010

Rising cortisol at childcare: relations with nap, rest, and temperament

scientific article published on January 2002

Risk taking, decision-making, and brain volume in youth adopted internationally from institutional care

scientific article published on 28 August 2018

Risk-taking and sensation-seeking propensity in postinstitutionalized early adolescents

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Salivary cortisol levels in children of low-income women with high depressive symptomatology

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Sense of School Membership and Associated Academic and Psychological Outcomes in Post-Institutionalized Adopted High School Students

journal article; published in Adoption Quarterly in 2016

Sensitive Periods.

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Sensory processing in internationally adopted, post‐institutionalized children ⬇️

scientific article published on August 25, 2010

Social Buffering of Stress in Development: A Career Perspective

scientific article published on May 2017

Social Support Can Buffer against Stress and Shape Brain Activity ⬇️

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Social deprivation and the HPA axis in early development

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Social regulation of the cortisol levels in early human development

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Social stress buffering by friends in childhood and adolescence: Effects on HPA and oxytocin activity

scientific article published on 22 February 2016

Special Editorial: Open science and the Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry - next steps?

scholarly article by Joan Asarnow et al published July 2018 in The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry

Stress physiology and developmental psychopathology: past, present, and future.

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Stressor paradigms in developmental studies: what does and does not work to produce mean increases in salivary cortisol

scientific article published on 24 March 2009

Supporting parents so that they can support their internationally adopted children: the larger challenge lurking behind the fatality statistics

scientific article published in November 2007

The CIRCORT database: Reference ranges and seasonal changes in diurnal salivary cortisol derived from a meta-dataset comprised of 15 field studies

scientific article published on 14 July 2016

The Confluence of Adverse Early Experience and Puberty on the Cortisol Awakening Response

scientific article published on January 2012

The Developmental Effects of Early Life Stress: An Overview of Current Theoretical Frameworks

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The Dual Impact of Early and Concurrent Life Stress on Adults' Diurnal Cortisol Patterns: A Prospective Study

scientific article published on 08 March 2019

The International Adoption Project: population-based surveillance of Minnesota parents who adopted children internationally

scientific article published on 12 June 2007

The Neurobiological Toll of Early Human Deprivation

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The anterior attention network: associations with temperament and neuroendocrine activity in 6-year-old children

scientific article published on January 2002

The brain-derived neurotrophic factor Val66Met polymorphism moderates early deprivation effects on attention problems

scientific article published on November 2012

The course of early disinhibited social engagement among post-institutionalized adopted children

scientific article published on 27 July 2016

The development of stress reactivity and regulation during human development

scientific article published on 29 November 2019

The differential impacts of early physical and sexual abuse and internalizing problems on daytime cortisol rhythm in school-aged children

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The effect of early deprivation on executive attention in middle childhood

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The emergence of attachment following early social deprivation

scientific article published on 12 March 2014

The impact of early neglect on defensive and appetitive physiology during the pubertal transition: a study of startle and postauricular reflexes.

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The import of the cortisol rise in child care differs as a function of behavioral inhibition

scientific article published in May 2011

The neurobiology of stress and development

scientific article published on January 2007

The neurodevelopment of social buffering and fear learning: integration and crosstalk

scientific article published on 12 February 2016

The onset of puberty: effects on the psychophysiology of defensive and appetitive motivation

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The pubertal stress recalibration hypothesis: Potential neural and behavioral consequences

scientific article published in 2021

The relation between infant freezing and the development of internalizing symptoms in adolescence: A prospective longitudinal study

scholarly article by Hannah C M Niermann et al published 15 October 2018 in Developmental Science

The relation between infant freezing and the development of internalizing symptoms in adolescence: A prospective longitudinal study

The rise in cortisol in family day care: associations with aspects of care quality, child behavior, and child sex.

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The roles of puberty and age in explaining the diminished effectiveness of parental buffering of HPA reactivity and recovery in adolescence

scientific article published on 8 May 2015

The slope of cortisol from awakening to 30 min post-wake in post-institutionalized children and early adolescents

scientific article published on 15 June 2018

The social buffering of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical axis in humans: Developmental and experiential determinants

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The startle response: developmental effects and a paradigm for children and adults

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To spear or not to spear: comparison of saliva collection methods

scientific article published on November 2008

To trust or not to trust: social decision-making in post-institutionalized, internationally adopted youth

scientific article published on 18 April 2016

Toddlers' and Preschoolers' Experience in Family Day Care: Age Differences and Behavioral Correlates

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Transition to child care: associations with infant-mother attachment, infant negative emotion, and cortisol elevations

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Translating Insights Into the Molecular Mechanisms of Puberty From Animals to Humans: A Commentary

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Tympanic membrane temperature and emotional dispositions in preschool-aged children: a methodological study

scientific article published in March 2004

V. CORTISOL RESPONSE PATTERNS AND DETECTION OF CHANGE IN AUDITORY AND VISUAL STIMULI

scientific article published on 01 December 2015

VI. MATERNAL SENSITIVITY AND DETECTION OF CHANGE IN AUDITORY AND VISUAL STIMULI

scientific article published on 01 December 2015

VII. GENERAL DISCUSSION

scientific article published on 01 December 2015

Validation of autonomic and endocrine reactivity to a laboratory stressor in young children

scientific article published on 29 November 2016

Vision and hearing deficits and associations with parent-reported behavioral and developmental problems in international adoptees

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