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Maternal Pre-pregnancy Body Mass Index and Offspring Temperament and Behavior at 1 and 2 Years of Age

Recent research suggests that fetal exposure to increased maternal body mass index (BMI) during pregnancy may be associated with psychopathology late…

Associations between anxious-depressed symptoms and cardiovascular risk factors in a longitudinal childhood study

The objective of the study was to examine the influence of anxious/depressed scores on cardiovascular risk factors throughout childhood.

Early mental health morbidity and later smoking at age 17 years

We examined the relationship between the onset and pattern of childhood mental health disorders and subsequent current smoking status at age 17 years.

Intellectual disability and other neuropsychiatric outcomes in high-risk children of mothers with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and unipolar major depression

We examined risk of intellectual disability and other neuropsychiatric outcomes in children of mothers with and without schizophrenia, bipolar or dep…

Father mental health during the early parenting period: results of an Australian population based longitudinal study

The primary objective of this study was to report on the occurrence of mental health difficulties for a large national sample of Australian fathers o…

Premature to conclude no genetic basis to the association between smoking and major depressive disorder

We analyzed two large-scale surveys, and found high rates of smoking in people with mood disorders and both with and without substance dependence dis…

Empathy, Perspective Taking and Prosocial Behaviour: The Importance of Parenting Practices

The current study analyzed the relationships among maternal empathy, parenting that encourages the child to take the perspective of others andcogniti…

Do hypertensive diseases of pregnancy disrupt neurocognitive development in offspring?

The current study sought to determine whether gestational hypertension and pre-eclampsia are associated with neurocognitive outcomes in middle childh…

Maternal life stress events in pregnancy link to children's school achievement at age 10 years

To test the hypothesis that maternal antenatal exposure to life stress events is associated with lower achievement in literacy and numeracy at age 10…