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Heidemarie K. Laurent is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research spans primarily across the fields of Psychology and Medicine, with a strong focus on Clinical Psychology and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. This cross-disciplinary work reflects a concentration on mental health, particularly in maternal and child health contexts.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics including Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, and Infant Development and Preterm Care. Other areas of research interest involve Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, Family and Disability Support Research, Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions, and Stress Responses and Cortisol.

Frequent collaborators in their research work include Marissa D. Sbrilli, Sherryl H. Goodman, Megan Finnegan, Katherine Haigler, and Danyelle N. Dawson. Together, these coauthors have produced numerous publications exploring the intersections of psychological well-being, developmental processes, and health interventions.

Laurent has published research in various academic journals, with multiple articles appearing in venues such as BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, Journal of Affective Disorders, and European Neuropsychopharmacology. Other journals featuring their work include Frontiers in Psychology and Health Affairs.

  • Can Simulated Nature Support Mental Health? Comparing Short, Single-Doses of 360-Degree Nature Videos in Virtual Reality With the Outdoors, 2020, Frontiers in Psychology
  • Patients' Perceptions Of Perinatal Depression Screening: A Qualitative Study, 2021, Health Affairs
  • Effects of prenatal mindfulness-based childbirth education on child-bearers' trajectories of distress: a randomized control trial, 2020, BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Racial differences in immediate postpartum depression and suicidal ideation among women in a Midwestern delivery hospital, 2020, Journal of Affective Disorders Reports
  • The Indirect Effect of Parental Intolerance of Uncertainty on Perinatal Mental Health via Mindfulness During COVID-19, 2021, Mindfulness

The scientist's scholarly output indicates a focus on understanding psychological conditions associated with childbirth and parenting, the effects of mindfulness and compassion interventions, and the neurobiological and social factors influencing mental health outcomes in perinatal populations.

Best Publications

  • Emotion Regulation in Parenthood.

    Helena J.V. Rutherford;Norah S. Wallace;Heidemarie K. Laurent;Linda C. Mayes

  • Can Simulated Nature Support Mental Health? Comparing Short, Single-Doses of 360-Degree Nature Videos in Virtual Reality With the Outdoors.

    Matthew H.E.M. Browning;Katherine J. Mimnaugh;Katherine J. Mimnaugh;Carena J. van Riper;Heidemarie K. Laurent

  • Prevention of behavior problems for children in foster care: Outcomes and mediation effects

    Patricia Chamberlain;Joe Price;Leslie D. Leve;Heidemarie Laurent

  • Effects of a foster parent training intervention on placement changes of children in foster care.

    Joseph M. Price;Patricia Chamberlain;John Landsverk;John B. Reid

  • A cry in the dark: depressed mothers show reduced neural activation to their own infant’s cry

    Heidemarie K. Laurent;Jennifer C. Ablow

  • Men's Aggression Toward Women: A 10-Year Panel Study.

    Hyoun K. Kim;Heidemarie Kaiser Laurent;Deborah M. Capaldi;Alan Feingold

  • Emotion regulation in emerging adult couples: temperament, attachment, and HPA response to conflict.

    Heidemarie Laurent;Sally Powers

  • A face a mother could love: Depression-related maternal neural responses to infant emotion faces

    Heidemarie K. Laurent;Jennifer C. Ablow

  • Risky shifts: how the timing and course of mothers' depressive symptoms across the perinatal period shape their own and infant's stress response profiles.

    Heidemarie Kaiser Laurent;Jennifer C. Ablow;Jeffrey Measelle

  • Effects of prenatal and postnatal parent depressive symptoms on adopted child HPA regulation: independent and moderated influences.

    Heidemarie K. Laurent;Leslie D. Leve;Jenae M. Neiderhiser;Misaki N. Natsuaki

  • Taking stress response out of the box: stability, discontinuity, and temperament effects on HPA and SNS across social stressors in mother-infant dyads.

    Heidemarie Kaiser Laurent;Jennifer C. Ablow;Jeffrey Measelle

  • Perceived Discrimination, Racial Identity, and Multisystem Stress Response to Social Evaluative Threat Among African American Men and Women.

    Todd Lucas;Rhiana Wegner;Jennifer Pierce;Mark A. Lumley

  • Depression and anxiety predict sex-specific cortisol responses to interpersonal stress.

    Sally I. Powers;Heidemarie K. Laurent;Heidemarie K. Laurent;Meredith L Gunlicks-Stoessel;Susan Balaban

  • The missing link: Mothers’ neural response to infant cry related to infant attachment behaviors

    Heidemarie K. Laurent;Jennifer C. Ablow

  • The Effects of Intimate Partner Violence on Relationship Satisfaction Over Time for Young At-Risk Couples: The Moderating Role of Observed Negative and Positive Affect.

    Joann Wu Shortt;Deborah M. Capaldi;Hyoun K. Kim;Heidemarie K. Laurent

  • Neural Correlates of Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Regulation of Mothers with Their Infants

    Heidemarie Kaiser Laurent;Alexander Stevens;Jennifer C. Ablow

  • Prospective Effects of Interparental Conflict on Child Attachment Security and the Moderating Role of Parents' Romantic Attachment

    Heidemarie Kaiser Laurent;Hyoun K. Kim;Deborah M. Capaldi

  • Shaping emotion regulation: attunement, symptomatology, and stress recovery within mother-infant dyads.

    Brendan D. Ostlund;Jeffrey R. Measelle;Heidemarie K. Laurent;Elisabeth Conradt

  • Child anxiety symptoms related to longitudinal cortisol trajectories and acute stress responses: Evidence of developmental stress sensitization

    Heidemarie K. Laurent;Kathryn S. Gilliam;Dorianne B. Wright;Philip A. Fisher

  • Refining the multisystem view of the stress response: Coordination among cortisol, alpha-amylase, and subjective stress in response to relationship conflict

    Heidemarie K. Laurent;Sally I. Powers;Douglas A. Granger

Frequent Co-Authors

Douglas A. Granger
Douglas A. Granger University of California, Irvine
Leslie D. Leve
Leslie D. Leve University of Oregon
Misaki N. Natsuaki
Misaki N. Natsuaki University of California, Riverside
Daniel S. Shaw
Daniel S. Shaw University of Pittsburgh
Jenae M. Neiderhiser
Jenae M. Neiderhiser Pennsylvania State University
David Reiss
David Reiss Yale University
Philip A. Fisher
Philip A. Fisher Stanford University
Deborah M. Capaldi
Deborah M. Capaldi University of Oregon
Nicholas B. Allen
Nicholas B. Allen University of Oregon
Hyoun K. Kim
Hyoun K. Kim Yonsei University

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