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2008 financial crisis versus 2020 economic fallout: How COVID-19 might influence fertility treatment and live births (2021)
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Gromski, P. S., Smith, A. D., Lawlor, D. A., Sharara, F. I., & Nelson, S. M. (2021). 2008 financial crisis versus 2020 economic fallout: How COVID-19 might influence fertility treatment and live births. Reproductive BioMedicine Online, 42(6), 1087-1096. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rbmo.2021.03.017

Research question The economic and reproductive medicine response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in the USA has reduced the affordability and accessibility of fertility care. What is the impact of the 2008 financial recession an... Read More about 2008 financial crisis versus 2020 economic fallout: How COVID-19 might influence fertility treatment and live births.

A structured approach to evaluating life course hypotheses: Moving beyond analyses of exposed versus unexposed in the omics context (2020)
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Zhu, Y., Simpkin, A. J., Suderman, M. J., Lussier, A. A., Walton, E., Dunn, E. C., & Smith, A. D. A. C. (2021). A structured approach to evaluating life course hypotheses: Moving beyond analyses of exposed versus unexposed in the omics context. American Journal of Epidemiology, 190(6), 1101-1112. https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwaa246

The structured life course modeling approach (SLCMA) is a theory-driven analytic method that empirically compares multiple prespecified life course hypotheses characterizing time-dependent exposure-outcome relationships to determine which theory best... Read More about A structured approach to evaluating life course hypotheses: Moving beyond analyses of exposed versus unexposed in the omics context.

Exposure to early childhood maltreatment and its effect over time on social cognition (2020)
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Crawford, K. M., Choi, K., Davis, K. A., Zhu, Y., Soare, T. W., Smith, A. D., …Dunn, E. C. (2022). Exposure to early childhood maltreatment and its effect over time on social cognition. Development and Psychopathology, 34(1), 409 - 419. https://doi.org/10.1017/s095457942000139x

Social cognitive deficits can have many negative consequences, spanning social withdrawal to psychopathology. Prior work has shown that child maltreatment may associate with poorer social cognitive skills in later life. However, no studies have exami... Read More about Exposure to early childhood maltreatment and its effect over time on social cognition.

The mental health effects of pet death during childhood: Is it better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all? (2020)
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Crawford, K. M., Zhu, Y., Davis, K. A., Ernst, S., Jacobsson, K., Nishimi, K., …Dunn, E. C. (2021). The mental health effects of pet death during childhood: Is it better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all?. European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 30, 1547–1558. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-020-01594-5

Pet ownership is common. Growing evidence suggests children form deep emotional attachments to their pets. Yet, little is known about children’s emotional reactions to a pet’s death. The goal of this study was to describe the relationship between exp... Read More about The mental health effects of pet death during childhood: Is it better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all?.

Population implications of cessation of IVF during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020)
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Smith, A. D., Gromski, P. S., Al Rashid, K., Tilling, K., Lawlor, D. A., & Nelson, S. M. (2020). Population implications of cessation of IVF during the COVID-19 pandemic. Reproductive BioMedicine Online, 41(3), 428-430. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rbmo.2020.07.002

Research question: Discontinuation of IVF cycles has been part of the radical transformation of healthcare provision to enable reallocation of staff and resources to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. This study sought to estimate the impact of cessati... Read More about Population implications of cessation of IVF during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Live birth rates and perinatal outcomes when all embryos are frozen compared with conventional fresh and frozen embryo transfer: a cohort study of 337,148 in vitro fertilisation cycles (2019)
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Smith, A., Tilling, K., Lawlor, D. A., & Nelson, S. M. (2019). Live birth rates and perinatal outcomes when all embryos are frozen compared with conventional fresh and frozen embryo transfer: a cohort study of 337,148 in vitro fertilisation cycles. BMC Medicine, 17(1), Article 202. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-019-1429-z

BACKGROUND: It is not known whether segmentation of an in vitro fertilisation (IVF) cycle, with freezing of all embryos prior to transfer, increases the chance of a live birth after all embryos are transferred. METHODS: In a prospective study of UK H... Read More about Live birth rates and perinatal outcomes when all embryos are frozen compared with conventional fresh and frozen embryo transfer: a cohort study of 337,148 in vitro fertilisation cycles.

Adversity exposure during sensitive periods predicts accelerated epigenetic aging in children (2019)
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Marini, S., Davis, K. A., Soare, T. W., Zhu, Y., Suderman, M. J., Simpkin, A. J., …Dunn, E. C. (2020). Adversity exposure during sensitive periods predicts accelerated epigenetic aging in children. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 113, Article 104484. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2019.104484

Objectives: Exposure to adversity has been linked to accelerated biological aging, which in turn has been shown to predict numerous physical and mental health problems. In recent years, measures of DNA methylation-based epigenetic age––known as “epig... Read More about Adversity exposure during sensitive periods predicts accelerated epigenetic aging in children.

Sensitive periods for the effect of childhood adversity on DNA methylation: Results from a prospective, longitudinal study (2019)
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Dunn, E. C., Soare, T. W., Zhu, Y., Simpkin, A. J., Suderman, M. J., Klengel, T., …Relton, C. L. (2019). Sensitive periods for the effect of childhood adversity on DNA methylation: Results from a prospective, longitudinal study. Biological Psychiatry, 85(10), 838-849. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2018.12.023

Background: Exposure to "early life" adversity is known to predict DNA methylation (DNAm) patterns that may be related to psychiatric risk. However, few studies have investigated whether adversity has time-dependent effects based on the age at exposu... Read More about Sensitive periods for the effect of childhood adversity on DNA methylation: Results from a prospective, longitudinal study.

Exposure to childhood adversity and deficits in emotion recognition: results from a large, population-based sample (2018)
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Dunn, E. C., Crawford, K. M., Soare, T. W., Button, K. S., Raffeld, M. R., Smith, A. D. A. C., …Munafò, M. R. (2018). Exposure to childhood adversity and deficits in emotion recognition: results from a large, population-based sample. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 59(8), 845-854. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.12881

© 2018 Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health. Background: Emotion recognition skills are essential for social communication. Deficits in these skills have been implicated in mental disorders. Prior studies of clinical and high-risk sampl... Read More about Exposure to childhood adversity and deficits in emotion recognition: results from a large, population-based sample.

What life course theoretical models best explain the relationship between exposure to childhood adversity and psychopathology symptoms: Recency, accumulation, or sensitive periods? (2018)
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Dunn, E. C., Soare, T. W., Raffeld, M. R., Busso, D. S., Crawford, K. M., Fisher, V. A., …Susser, E. S. (2018). What life course theoretical models best explain the relationship between exposure to childhood adversity and psychopathology symptoms: Recency, accumulation, or sensitive periods?. Psychological Medicine, 48(15), 2562-2572. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291718000181

Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018Â. Background Although childhood adversity is a potent determinant of psychopathology, relatively little is known about how the characteristics of adversity exposure, including its developmental timing or du... Read More about What life course theoretical models best explain the relationship between exposure to childhood adversity and psychopathology symptoms: Recency, accumulation, or sensitive periods?.