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Overview

Edward D. Barker is affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple areas within psychology and medicine, focusing particularly on child and adolescent development and mental health.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Psychology
  • Medicine

Within these broader fields, Barker specializes in several subfields, such as:

  • Clinical Psychology
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Psychiatry and Mental Health
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

The topics that Barker's work addresses most frequently cover:

  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
  • Cognitive Abilities and Testing

A selection of recent papers authored or co-authored by Barker includes:

  • Association between DNA methylation and ADHD symptoms from birth to school age: a prospective meta-analysis (2020) published in Translational Psychiatry
  • Comorbidity Between Depression and Anxiety in Adolescents: Bridge Symptoms and Relevance of Risk and Protective Factors (2021) published in Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment
  • Global urbanicity is associated with brain and behaviour in young people (2021) published in Nature Human Behaviour
  • Adverse childhood experiences and global mental health: avenues to reduce the burden of child and adolescent mental disorders (2022) published in Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences
  • Why does early childhood deprivation increase the risk for depression and anxiety in adulthood? A developmental cascade model (2020) published in Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry

Barker frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Jean-Luc Martinot
  • Tobias Banaschewski
  • Arun L.W. Bokde
  • Charlotte A. M. Cecil
  • Hugh Garavan

Barker has multiple publications in notable venues such as:

  • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
  • Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology
  • Translational Psychiatry
  • Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences
  • Biological Psychiatry

Best Publications

  • Controlling HIV pathogenesis: the role of the noncytotoxic anti-HIV response of CD8+ T cells

    Jay A. Levy;Carl E. Mackewicz;Edward Barker

  • The persisting effect of maternal mood in pregnancy on childhood psychopathology

    Kieran J. O'Donnell;Vivette Glover;Edward D. Barker;Thomas G. O'Connor

  • Subtypes of Aggressive Behaviors: A Developmental Perspective.

    Frank Vitaro;Mara Brendgen;Edward D. Barker

  • The Timing of Middle-Childhood Peer Rejection and Friendship: Linking Early Behavior to Early-Adolescent Adjustment

    Sara Pedersen;Frank Vitaro;Edward D. Barker;Anne I. H. Borge

  • The joint development of physical and indirect aggression: Predictors of continuity and change during childhood

    Sylvana M. Côté;Tracy Vaillancourt;Edward D. Barker;Daniel Nagin

  • Joint development of bullying and victimization in adolescence: Relations to delinquency and self-harm.

    Edward D. Barker;Louise Arseneault;Mara Brendgen;Nathalie Fontaine

  • The contribution of prenatal and postnatal maternal anxiety and depression to child maladjustment

    Edward D. Barker;Sara R. Jaffee;Rudolf Uher;Barbara Maughan

  • The Impact of Prenatal Maternal Risk, Fearless Temperament and Early Parenting on Adolescent Callous-Unemotional Traits: A 14-Year Longitudinal Investigation.

    Edward D. Barker;Bonamy R. Oliver;Essi Viding;Randall T. Salekin

  • Peer Victimization, Poor Academic Achievement, and the Link Between Childhood Externalizing and Internalizing Problems

    Pol A. C. van Lier;Frank Vitaro;Edward D. Barker;Mara Brendgen

  • Developmental trajectories of DSM-IV symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: genetic effects, family risk and associated psychopathology

    Henrik Larsson;Rezin Dilshad;Paul Lichtenstein;Edward D. Barker

  • Predictive validity and early predictors of peer-victimization trajectories in preschool.

    Edward D. Barker;Michel Boivin;Mara Brendgen;Nathalie Fontaine

  • Effect of a Chimeric Anti-Ganglioside GD2 Antibody on Cell-mediated Lysis of Human Neuroblastoma Cells

    Edward Barker;Barbara M. Mueller;Rupert Handgretinger;Michael Herter

  • Developmental trajectories of male physical violence and theft: relations to neurocognitive performance.

    Edward D. Barker;Jean R. Séguin;Helene Raskin White;Marsha E. Bates

  • HIV modulates the expression of ligands important in triggering natural killer cell cytotoxic responses on infected primary T-cell blasts

    Jeffrey Ward;Matthew Bonaparte;Jennifer Sacks;Jacqueline Guterman

  • Differentiating early-onset persistent versus childhood-limited conduct problem youth.

    Edward D. Barker;Barbara Maughan

  • Intergenerational transmission of maltreatment and psychopathology: the role of antenatal depression.

    Dominic Plant;Edward Barker;C S Waters;Susan Pawlby

  • Relative impact of maternal depression and associated risk factors on offspring psychopathology

    Edward D. Barker;William Copeland;Barbara Maughan;Sara R. Jaffee

  • Degranulation of natural killer cells following interaction with HIV-1-infected cells is hindered by downmodulation of NTB-A by Vpu.

    Ankur H. Shah;Bharatwaj Sowrirajan;Zachary B. Davis;Jeffrey P. Ward

  • Do early difficult temperament and harsh parenting differentially predict reactive and proactive aggression

    Frank Vitaro;Edward Dylan Barker;Michel Boivin;Mara Brendgen

  • Development of male proactive and reactive physical aggression during adolescence

    Edward D. Barker;Richard E. Tremblay;Daniel S. Nagin;Frank Vitaro

  • Controlling Parenting and Physical Aggression During Elementary School

    Mireille Joussemet;Frank Vitaro;Edward D. Barker;Sylvana Côté

  • Research review: a critical review of studies on the developmental trajectories of antisocial behavior in females.

    Nathalie Fontaine;Nathalie Fontaine;René Carbonneau;Frank Vitaro;Edward D. Barker

  • Environmental risk, Oxytocin Receptor Gene (OXTR) methylation and youth callous-unemotional traits a 13-year longitudinal study

    Charlotte Am Cecil;Laura J. Lysenko;Sara R. Jaffee;Jean-Baptiste Pingault

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard E. Tremblay
Richard E. Tremblay University of Montreal
Barbara Maughan
Barbara Maughan King's College London
Frank Vitaro
Frank Vitaro University of Montreal
Randall T. Salekin
Randall T. Salekin University of Alabama
Herta Flor
Herta Flor Heidelberg University
Gunter Schumann
Gunter Schumann King's College London
Jean-Luc Martinot
Jean-Luc Martinot École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay
Essi Viding
Essi Viding University College London
Sara R. Jaffee
Sara R. Jaffee University of Pennsylvania
Luise Poustka
Luise Poustka University of Göttingen

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