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35
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4888
World Ranking
9901
National Ranking
5223

Overview

Camelia E. Hostinar is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their research spans diverse fields including psychology, neuroscience, and medicine, with significant contributions to clinical psychology and behavioral neuroscience.

The scientist's work extensively covers topics related to stress responses and cortisol, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, heart rate variability and autonomic control, as well as neuroendocrine regulation and behavior. They have also contributed to understanding health, environment, cognitive aging, birth development, health, toxicology, and mutagenesis alongside research on tryptophan and brain disorders.

Frequent publication venues include:

  • Psychoneuroendocrinology
  • 2022 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM)
  • Development and Psychopathology
  • Brain Behavior and Immunity
  • Brain Behavior & Immunity - Health

Their recent notable papers include:

  • A review of mental health disparities during COVID-19: Evidence, mechanisms, and policy recommendations for promoting societal resilience (2022, Development and Psychopathology)
  • The Role of Childhood Executive Function in Explaining Income Disparities in Long-Term Academic Achievement (2020, Child Development)
  • Parenting matters: Parents can reduce or amplify children's anxiety and cortisol responses to acute stress (2020, Development and Psychopathology)
  • Associations between peripheral inflammation and resting state functional connectivity in adolescents (2021, Brain Behavior and Immunity)
  • Heart rate variability and circulating inflammatory markers in midlife (2021, Brain Behavior & Immunity - Health)

Collaborations have included work with researchers such as Anna M. Parenteau, LillyBelle K. Deer, Nicholas V. Alen, Sally Hang, and Paul D. Hastings.

Hostinar has also contributed to book literature, including a forthcoming work titled Stress in Childhood, published by Cambridge University Press and expected in 2025.

Best Publications

  • Psychobiological Mechanisms Underlying the Social Buffering of the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenocortical Axis: A Review of Animal Models and Human Studies Across Development

    Camelia E. Hostinar;Regina M. Sullivan;Megan R. Gunnar

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

    Camelia E. Hostinar;Sarah A. Stellern;Catherine Schaefer;Stephanie M. Carlson

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

    Camelia E. Hostinar;Anna E. Johnson;Megan R. Gunnar

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

    Megan R. Gunnar;Camelia E. Hostinar

  • Additive contributions of childhood adversity and recent stressors to inflammation at midlife: Findings from the MIDUS study

    Camelia E. Hostinar;Margie E. Lachman;Daniel K. Mroczek;Teresa E. Seeman

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

    Camelia E. Hostinar;Megan R. Gunnar

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

    Megan R. Gunnar;Camelia E. Hostinar;Mar M. Sanchez;Nim Tottenham

  • Intervention effects on diurnal cortisol rhythms of Child Protective Services-referred infants in early childhood: preschool follow-up results of a randomized clinical trial.

    Kristin Bernard;Camelia E. Hostinar;Mary Dozier

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

    Camelia E. Hostinar;Megan R. Gunnar

  • Social Support Can Buffer Against Stress and Shape Brain Activity

    Camelia E. Hostinar;Megan R. Gunnar

  • Conceptualizing Puberty as a Window of Opportunity for Impacting Health and Well-Being Across the Life Span.

    Lorah D. Dorn;Camelia E. Hostinar;Elizabeth J. Susman;Panagiota Pervanidou

  • Social deprivation and the HPA axis in early development

    Kalsea J. Koss;Camelia E. Hostinar;Bonny Donzella;Megan R. Gunnar

  • Psychosocial functioning and the cortisol awakening response: Meta-analysis, P-curve analysis, and evaluation of the evidential value in existing studies

    Ian Andres Boggero;Camelia E. Hostinar;Eric A. Haak;Michael L. M. Murphy

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

    Camelia E. Hostinar;Anna E. Johnson;Megan R. Gunnar

  • Oxytocin receptor gene polymorphism, perceived social support, and psychological symptoms in maltreated adolescents.

    Camelia E. Hostinar;Dante Cicchetti;Fred A. Rogosch

  • Future Directions in the Study of Early-Life Stress and Physical and Emotional Health: Implications of the Neuroimmune Network Hypothesis.

    Camelia E. Hostinar;Robin Nusslock;Gregory E. Miller

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

    Jenalee R. Doom;Camelia E. Hostinar;Camelia E. Hostinar;Adrienne A. VanZomeren-Dohm;Megan R. Gunnar

  • Protective factors for youth confronting economic hardship: Current challenges and future avenues in resilience research.

    Camelia E. Hostinar;Gregory E. Miller

  • A review of mental health disparities during COVID-19: Evidence, mechanisms, and policy recommendations for promoting societal resilience

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  • The emergence of attachment following early social deprivation

    Elizabeth A. Carlson;Camelia E. Hostinar;Shanna B. Mliner;Megan R. Gunnar

  • Early Social Deprivation and the Social Buffering of Cortisol Stress Reponses in Late Childhood

    Camelia E. Hostinar;A. E. Johnson;Megan R Gunnar

  • Development and Psychopathology

    Elizabeth P. Hayden;C. Emily Durbin

Frequent Co-Authors

Megan R. Gunnar
Megan R. Gunnar University of Minnesota
Gregory E. Miller
Gregory E. Miller Northwestern University
Grant S. Shields
Grant S. Shields University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
Edith Chen
Edith Chen Northwestern University
Paul D. Hastings
Paul D. Hastings University of California, Davis
Kristin Bernard
Kristin Bernard Stony Brook University
Teresa E. Seeman
Teresa E. Seeman University of California, Los Angeles
Mary Dozier
Mary Dozier University of Delaware
Dante Cicchetti
Dante Cicchetti University of Minnesota
Brian C. Trainor
Brian C. Trainor University of California, Davis

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