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J. Steven Reznick was affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Their research primarily focused on various aspects of medicine, particularly within psychiatry and mental health, clinical psychology, pediatrics, perinatology, child health, developmental and educational psychology, and statistics and probability.

The scientist contributed significantly to topics related to Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, infant development and preterm care, child and animal learning development, cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills, infant health and development, and autism spectrum disorder research.

Reznick's published work appeared frequently in the following venues:

  • UNC Libraries
  • Journal of Attention Disorders
  • Frontiers in Pediatrics

Notable papers by J. Steven Reznick included:

  • "Infant Attentional behaviors Are Associated With ADHD Symptomatology and Executive Function in Early Childhood" (2020) published in Journal of Attention Disorders
  • "Measurement of Cognition for the National Children's Study" (2021) published in Frontiers in Pediatrics
  • "Understanding the Role of Nutrition in the Brain & Behavioral Development of Toddlers and Preschool Children: Identifying and Overcoming Methodological Barriers" (2020) published by UNC Libraries
  • "Infant Attentional Behaviors Are Associated with ADHD Symptomatology and Executive Function in Early Childhood" (2022) published by UNC Libraries
  • "Repetitive Behavior in 12-Month-Olds Later Classified With Autism Spectrum Disorder" (2020) published by UNC Libraries

Throughout the course of this research, Reznick collaborated frequently with other scientists including Elizabeth R. Crais, Linda R. Watson, Rebecca Stephens, Heba Elsayed, and Jed T. Elison.

Best Publications

  • Biological bases of childhood shyness.

    J Kagan;JS Reznick;N Snidman

  • Early development of executive function: A problem-solving framework.

    Philip David Zelazo;Alice Carter;J. Steven Reznick;Douglas Frye

  • Behavioral inhibition to the unfamiliar.

    Jerome Kagan;J. Steven Reznick;Charlotte Clarke;Nancy Snidman

  • Developmental and Stylistic Variation in the Composition of Early Vocabulary.

    Elizabeth Bates;Virginia A. Marchman;Donna Thal;Larry Fenson

  • Behavioral inhibition in young children.

    Cynthia Garcia Coll;Jerome Kagan;J. Steven Reznick

  • Psychiatric Correlates of Behavioral Inhibition in Young Children of Parents With and Without Psychiatric Disorders

    Joseph Biederman;Jerrold F. Rosenbaum;Dina R. Hirshfeld;Stephen V. Faraone

  • Early lexical acquisition: rate, content, and the vocabulary spurt.

    Beverly A. Goldfield;J. Steven Reznick

  • Ritual, habit, and perfectionism : The prevalence and development of compulsive-like behavior in normal young children

    David W. Evans;James F. Leckman;Alice Carter;J. Steven Reznick

  • The validity of a parent report instrument of child language at twenty months.

    Philip S. Dale;Elizabeth Bates;J. Steven Reznick;Colleen Morisset

  • Inhibited and uninhibited types of children.

    Kagan J;Reznick Js;Gibbons J

  • Temperament, emotion, and cognition at fourteen months: the MacArthur Longitudinal Twin Study.

    Robert N. Emde;Robert Plomin;JoAnn Robinson;Robin Corley

  • Behavioral Inhibition in Children of Parents With Panic Disorder and Agoraphobia: A Controlled Study

    Jerrold F. Rosenbaum;Joseph Biederman;Michelle Gersten;Dina R. Hirshfeld

  • Genetic Change and Continuity from Fourteen to Twenty Months: The MacArthur Longitudinal Twin Study

    Robert Plomin;Jerome Kagan;Robert N. Emde;J. Steven Reznick

  • The heritability of inhibited and uninhibited behavior: A twin study.

    JoAnn L. Robinson;Jerome Kagan;J. Steven Reznick;Robin Corley

  • Inhibited and uninhibited children: A follow-up study.

    J. Steven Reznick;Jerome Kagan;Nancy Snidman;Michelle Gersten

  • White Matter Microstructure and Atypical Visual Orienting in 7-Month-Olds at Risk for Autism

    Jed T. Elison;Sarah J. Paterson;Jason J. Wolff;J. Steven Reznick

  • MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories, Second Edition

    Larry Fenson;Virginia A. Marchman;Donna J. Thal;Philip S. Dale

  • Further evidence of an association between behavioral inhibition and anxiety disorders: Results from a family study of children from a non-clinical sample

    Jerrold F. Rosenbaum;Joseph Biederman;Dina R. Hirshfeld;Elizabeth A. Bolduc

  • Rapid change in lexical development in comprehension and production

    J. Steven Reznick;Beverly A. Goldfield

  • Genetic etiology of behavioral inhibition among 2-year-old children

    Lisabeth Fisher Dilalla;Jerome Kagan;J.Steven Reznick

Frequent Co-Authors

Philip David Zelazo
Philip David Zelazo University of Minnesota
Jerome Kagan
Jerome Kagan Harvard University
Elizabeth Bates
Elizabeth Bates University of California, San Diego
Philip S. Dale
Philip S. Dale University of New Mexico
Robert N. Emde
Robert N. Emde University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
JoAnn Robinson
JoAnn Robinson University of Connecticut
Robert Plomin
Robert Plomin King's College London
Alice S. Carter
Alice S. Carter University of Massachusetts Boston
Robin P. Corley
Robin P. Corley University of Colorado Boulder
Joseph J. Campos
Joseph J. Campos University of California, Berkeley

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