New Texas Twins #epigenetic paper 🧬! Following preregistered analyses Center for Open Science, we find that socially stratified saliva DNA-methylation profiles are associated with performance on cognitive tasks in children and adolescents ➡️ biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/7

Fostering resilience in children following adversity is an important goal! Here (doi.apa.org/10.1037%2Ftra0…), we (Lucy King @K_GuyonHarris Charley Zeanah) propose a framework to improve children's access to effective caregiver regulation as the way to do so.

The Value of Dimensional Models of Early Experience: Thinking Clearly About Concepts and Categories is officially published: journals.sagepub.com/eprint/DNEYQX3… in Perspectives on Association for Psychological Science

Are memories of childhood trauma biased by a person's current depressive state when recalled as an adult? The CTQ is widely used to quantify severity of trauma experienced during childhood. We tested its temporal stability over 2 years based on our pre-registered protocol. 1/n

Pleased to share our accepted paper (rdcu.be/cxymu) for "Measuring naturalistic proximity as a window into caregiver–child interaction patterns" (led by Virginia Salo) using a Team Science approach with PatPannuto abiri @willhedgecock85 et al. /1

I'm thrilled to see this study published today in Nature Communications illustrating the powerful effect of shifting parents' beliefs about brain development. I hope it can also help shift society's beliefs about the urgent need to do more to support parents ... nature.com/articles/s4146…

I am so proud of this new review on early adversity, 🧠, and depression risk with Lucy King! Online now at Translational Psychiatry @nresearchnews: “Mechanisms of neuroplasticity linking early adversity to depression: developmental considerations” rdcu.be/czbQP

Open Science now goes worldwide with a recommendation by UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳. youtu.be/I3Wkvx_ZaFo

As we are talking a lot about how uncaring the academy can be, Talia Schaffer 🌻🇺🇦’s Communities of Care helps us think about taking care of each other and the texts we work with. My review for Los Angeles Review of Books!

While I’m rage crying…this is a fantastic resource. There are so many people tirelessly and lovingly working to get women their healthcare. We’re not alone. plancpills.org

NEW FINDING: Family placements following severe deprivation lead to long-term gains in IQ. This study documents early adult outcomes from the Bucharest Early Intervention Project (BEIP), a randomized control trial of foster care (pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.10…), in @PNASnews.🧵

RCT on long-term effects of foster care over institutional care finds assignment to foster care causes: • ⬆️IQ • ⬆️Physical growth • ⬇️Internalizing • No effect on ADHD • No effect on externalizing until adolescence American Psychiatric Association Lucy King ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/ap…