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Existing research has established that irritability and executive function (EF) are distinct yet often co-occurring transdiagnostic symptoms, each with its developmental trajectory. However, no evidence exists on whether these two symptoms follow...
Health literacy interventions, message tailoring, and motivational strategies have substantially advanced cancer education over the past three decades. Yet persistent challenges across the cancer continuum—inconsistent screening uptake,...
High-quality romantic relationships are linked to better psychological well-being, yet adolescents and young adults vary in the quality of their romantic experiences. Socio-cognitive abilities, including empathy, emotion regulation, and theory of...
Early-life adversity is a well-established correlate of later mental ill-health, yet developmental outcomes are highly heterogeneous. This review advances a developmental brain health framework that shifts emphasis from disorder endpoints to...
Background Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) are associated with altered in utero neurodevelopment, yet long-term impact on adolescent white matter architecture remains unclear, particularly by HDP subtype and sex. While...
Purpose Adolescence is a vulnerable period for the experience of shame and the development of ruminative habits. We sought to examine whether and how rumination potentiates shame, a risk factor for psychopathology. Cognitive research in adults has...
This study examines the long-term predictive validity of cognitive skills measured at the end of compulsory schooling by drawing on nearly two decades of longitudinal data collected by the Swiss TREE study. TREE has followed the participants of PISA...
Background Maintaining cognitive health in older adults is an important public health challenge. We systematically evaluated associations between indoor air pollution (IAP) exposure and global cognitive function, cognitive subdomains, and cognitive...
Background Peer acceptance remains a critical challenge for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in inclusive preschool settings. From an ecological systems perspective, this mixed-methods study examined peer acceptance toward children with...
The parent-child relationship is crucial for children's socio-emotional development. Previous research, mostly in mothers of infants, has implicated neural networks subserving reward, saliency, and theory of mind (ToM). In this preregistered study,...
Background Perinatal exposure to fine particles increases the risk of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Thus, to prevent exposure-related neurodevelopmental disorders, it is crucial to clarify how such particles influence ASD susceptibility. However,...
Background Neuropathological changes associated with Alzheimer’s disease begin to manifest during midlife. In females, this period coincides with perimenopause and early postmenopause, two distinct, critical reproductive stages characterized by...
Accurately estimating neurodevelopmental brain age from structural connectomes provides a quantitative lens into large-scale maturation of the human brain. We introduce an Adaptive Residual Graph Attention Network (Res-GAT) that jointly learns...
Experience-dependent neuroplasticity refers to the brain’s ability to reorganize in response to experience. An intriguing example occurs when children begin formal schooling, acquiring skills such as reading and symbolic number processing. Because...
Background Sleep-related problems (SRP) in childhood are common and clinically relevant, yet their neural correlates and links to future mental health outcomes remain poorly understood. This study investigates how distinct dimensions of SRP relate to...
Background Age‑at‑onset is an important dimension for subtyping major depressive disorder (MDD). Few studies have jointly compared childhood trauma, suicidal ideation and cognition performance between drug-naïve first-episode adult MDD patients with...
Ratio processing is an important part of mathematics learning. Novice learners often misjudge ratios because they overfocus on the component values (e.g., numerators or denominators). This study examined non-symbolic ratio processing patterns in...
Background Digital cognitive assessment platforms are increasingly being explored as a means to enhance accessibility, standardization and automated scoring in clinical and educational contexts. Traditional paper-based cognitive testing may present...
Background Predicted brain age is a widely used neuroimaging biomarker of brain maturation. However, limited normative pediatric datasets in model training raise concerns about systematic biases when applied to children. This study evaluates the...
The Journal of Autism and Developmental Disordersseeks to advance theoretical and applied research as well as examine and evaluate clinical...
Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology brings together the latest innovative research that advances knowledge of psychopathology from...
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Reading and writing skills are fundamental to literacy. Consequently, the processes involved in reading and writing and the failure to acquire these...
