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Overview

Deborah P. Waber is affiliated with Boston Children's Hospital in the United States. Their research spans several interrelated fields, primarily within psychology and medicine, with a focus on child development, maternal mental health, and trauma.

Their research contributions cover the following main fields of study:

  • Psychology
  • Medicine

Within these broader fields, Waber's work is situated in various subfields, including:

  • Clinical Psychology
  • Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology

The main topics explored in Waber's research encompass:

  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Infant Development and Preterm Care
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Digital Mental Health Interventions

Recent scholarly publications highlight the thematic breadth of Waber's research:

  • Consensus Parameter: Research Methodologies to Evaluate Neurodevelopmental Effects of Pubertal Suppression in Transgender Youth (2020) published in Transgender Health
  • A "Proof of Concept" Randomized Controlled Trial of a Video Game Requiring Emotional Regulation to Augment Anger Control Training (2021) published in Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Associations among maternal lifetime trauma, psychological symptoms in pregnancy, and infant stress reactivity and regulation (2022) published in Development and Psychopathology
  • Effects of Maternal and Child Lifetime Traumatic Stress Exposures, Infant Temperament, and Caregiving Quality on Preschoolers' Executive Functioning (2022) published in Developmental Neuropsychology
  • Special Education Services and School-Related Quality of Life in Children With Learning Disorders and Their Families: A One-Year Follow-Up Study (2021) published in Journal of Learning Disabilities

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Waber include:

  • Alexander Rotenberg
  • Sophie Foss
  • Carter R. Petty
  • Rosalind J. Wright
  • Michelle Bosquet Enlow

Waber's work has appeared multiple times in diverse peer-reviewed venues, demonstrating a multidisciplinary approach. Key publication venues are:

  • Transgender Health
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Development and Psychopathology
  • Developmental Neuropsychology
  • Journal of Learning Disabilities

Best Publications

  • Subcortical brain volume differences in participants with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children and adults: a cross-sectional mega-analysis

    Martine Hoogman;Janita Bralten;Derrek P. Hibar;Maarten Mennes

  • Sex differences in cognition: a function of maturation rate?

    Deborah P. Waber

  • Total and regional brain volumes in a population-based normative sample from 4 to 18 years: The NIH MRI study of normal brain development

    W. S. Ball;A. W. Byars;M. Schapiro;W. Bommer

  • Sex Differences in Mental Abilities, Hemispheric Lateralization, and Rate of Physical Growth at Adolescence.

    Deborah P. Waber

  • Assessing children's copy productions of the Rey-Osterrieth complex figure

    Deborah P. Waber;Jane M. Holmes

  • The NIH MRI study of normal brain development: performance of a population based sample of healthy children aged 6 to 18 years on a neuropsychological battery.

    Deborah P Waber;Carl De Moor;Peter W Forbes;C Robert Almli

  • Nutritional supplementation, maternal education, and cognitive development of infants at risk of malnutrition

    D P Waber;L Vuori-Christiansen;N Ortiz;J R Clement

  • Developmental Neuropsychological Assessment

    Jane Holmes-Bernstein;Deborah P. Waber

  • Neuropsychological aspects of Turner's syndrome

    Deborah P. Waber

  • Cognitive Sequelae in Children Treated for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia With Dexamethasone or Prednisone

    Deborah P. Waber;Sarah C. Carpentieri;Neil Klar;Lewis B. Silverman

  • Cognitive sequelae of treatment in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia: cranial radiation requires an accomplice

    D P Waber;N J Tarbell;D Fairclough;K Atmore

  • Cortical thickness correlates of specific cognitive performance accounted for by the general factor of intelligence in healthy children aged 6 to 18

    Sherif Karama;Roberto Colom;Wendy Johnson;Ian J. Deary

  • The relationship of sex and treatment modality to neuropsychologic outcome in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

    Deborah P. Waber;Nancy J. Tarbell;Cynthia M. Kahn;Richard D. Gelber

  • Infant Malnutrition Is Associated with Persisting Attention Deficits in Middle Adulthood

    Janina R. Galler;Cyralene P. Bryce;Miriam L. Zichlin;Garrett Fitzmaurice

  • Processing speed in children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, inattentive type.

    Michael D. Weiler;Jane Holmes Bernstein;David C. Bellinger;Deborah P. Waber

  • Cognitive ability changes and dynamics of cortical thickness development in healthy children and adolescents

    Miguel Burgaleta;Wendy Johnson;Deborah P. Waber;Roberto Colom

  • Executive functions and performance on high-stakes testing in children from urban schools.

    Deborah P. Waber;Emily B. Gerber;Viana Y. Turcios;Erin R. Wagner

  • DNA Methylation Signatures of Early Childhood Malnutrition Associated With Impairments in Attention and Cognition.

    Cyril J. Peter;Laura K. Fischer;Marija Kundakovic;Paras Garg

  • Late effects of central nervous system treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukemia in childhood are sex-dependent

    Deborah P. Waber;David K. Urion;Nancy J. Tarbell;Charlotte Niemeyer

  • Neuropsychological Outcomes From a Randomized Trial of Triple Intrathecal Chemotherapy Compared With 18 Gy Cranial Radiation As CNS Treatment in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: Findings From Dana-Farber Cancer Institute ALL Consortium Protocol 95-01

    Deborah P. Waber;Jennifer Turek;Lori Catania;Kristen Stevenson

  • AMITRIPTYLINE THERAPY IN PATIENTS WITH ANOREXIA NERVOSA

    HerbertL. Needleman;Deborah Waber

Frequent Co-Authors

Nancy J. Tarbell
Nancy J. Tarbell Harvard University
Garrett M. Fitzmaurice
Garrett M. Fitzmaurice Harvard University
Sherif Karama
Sherif Karama McGill University
Blaise F. D. Bourgeois
Blaise F. D. Bourgeois Boston Children's Hospital
Frank H. Duffy
Frank H. Duffy Boston Children's Hospital
Donna Neuberg
Donna Neuberg Harvard University
Tomáš Paus
Tomáš Paus University of Toronto
Alan C. Evans
Alan C. Evans McGill University
Linda Booij
Linda Booij Concordia University
Eric Vilain
Eric Vilain George Washington University

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