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Overview

James E. Swain is affiliated with Stony Brook University in the United States. Their research spans the fields of psychology and medicine, with a particular focus on social psychology, clinical psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. The scientist has contributed significantly to studies within public health, environmental and occupational health, as well as pediatrics, perinatology, and child health.

Their work explores a variety of topics, including:

  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development
  • Maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum
  • Functional brain connectivity studies
  • Psychology of moral and emotional judgment
  • Prenatal substance exposure effects
  • Psychosomatic disorders and their treatments

Frequent coauthors in their publications include S. Shaun Ho, Yoshio Nakamura, Israel Liberzon, Meroona Gopang, and Helen Fox. This collaboration network reflects cross-disciplinary efforts within neuroscience and psychological research.

The venues where James E. Swain has most commonly published are Frontiers in Psychology, Drug and Alcohol Dependence, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, Human Brain Mapping, and Developmental Psychobiology.

Recent published papers highlight several areas of study:

  • The neuroscience of social feelings: mechanisms of adaptive social functioning, 2021, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Prospective associations, longitudinal patterns of childhood socioeconomic status, and white matter organization in adulthood, 2020, Human Brain Mapping
  • Potential Neural Mediators of Mom Power Parenting Intervention Effects on Maternal Intersubjectivity and Stress Resilience, 2020, Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Neurobiology of peripartum mental illness, 2021, Handbook of clinical neurology
  • Childhood socioeconomic status is prospectively associated with surface morphometry in adulthood, 2021, Developmental Psychobiology

Best Publications

  • Brain basis of early parent-infant interactions: psychology, physiology, and in vivo functional neuroimaging studies

    James E. Swain;Jeffrey P. Lorberbaum;Jeffrey P. Lorberbaum;Samet Kose;Lane Strathearn

  • Effects of childhood poverty and chronic stress on emotion regulatory brain function in adulthood

    Pilyoung Kim;Gary W. Evans;Michael Angstadt;S. Shaun Ho

  • The plasticity of human maternal brain: longitudinal changes in brain anatomy during the early postpartum period.

    Pilyoung Kim;James F. Leckman;Linda C. Mayes;Ruth Feldman

  • Breastfeeding, brain activation to own infant cry, and maternal sensitivity

    Pilyoung Kim;Pilyoung Kim;Ruth Feldman;Ruth Feldman;Linda C. Mayes;Linda C. Mayes;Virginia Eicher

  • Approaching the biology of human parental attachment: brain imaging, oxytocin and coordinated assessments of mothers and fathers.

    J. E. Swain;Pilyoung Kim;J. Spicer;S. S. Ho

  • The Maternal Brain and its Plasticity in Humans

    Pilyoung Kim;Lane Strathearn;James E. Swain

  • Primary parental preoccupation: circuits, genes, and the crucial role of the environment.

    J. F. Leckman;R. Feldman;J. E. Swain;V. Eicher

  • Tourette syndrome and tic disorders: a decade of progress.

    James E. Swain;Lawrence Scahill;Paul J. Lombroso;Robert A. King

  • Maternal brain response to own baby‐cry is affected by cesarean section delivery

    James E. Swain;Esra Tasgin;Linda C. Mayes;Linda C. Mayes;Ruth Feldman

  • Sad dads: paternal postpartum depression.

    Pilyoung Kim;James E Swain

  • The human parental brain: in vivo neuroimaging.

    James E. Swain

  • Neural plasticity in fathers of human infants

    Pilyoung Kim;Paola Rigo;Linda C. Mayes;Ruth Feldman

  • Parenting and Beyond: Common Neurocircuits Underlying Parental and Altruistic Caregiving.

    James E. Swain;Sara H. Konrath;Stephanie L. Brown;Eric D. Finegood

  • Perceived quality of maternal care in childhood and structure and function of mothers' brain

    Pilyoung Kim;James F. Leckman;Linda C. Mayes;Linda C. Mayes;Michal Ann Newman

  • Poverty and language development: roles of parenting and stress.

    Suzanne C Perkins;Eric D Finegood;James E Swain

  • In Search of Neural Endophenotypes of Postpartum Psychopathology and Disrupted Maternal Caregiving

    E. L. Moses-Kolko;M. S. Horner;M. L. Phillips;M. L. Phillips;A. E. Hipwell

  • Childhood Poverty and Stress Reactivity Are Associated with Aberrant Functional Connectivity in Default Mode Network

    Rebecca K Sripada;James E Swain;Gary W Evans;Robert C Welsh

  • Empathy and stress related neural responses in maternal decision making

    S. Shaun Ho;Sara H. Konrath;Sara H. Konrath;Stephanie Brown;Stephanie Brown;James E. Swain

  • The development of parent-infant attachment through dynamic and interactive signaling loops of care and cry

    James Edward Swain;Linda C. Mayes;James F. Leckman

  • Neuroendocrinology of Parental Response to Baby-Cry

    J. E. Swain;P. Kim;S. S. Ho

  • Review: Sad dads: Paternal postpartum depression.

    Pilyoung Kim;James E. Swain

Frequent Co-Authors

Pilyoung Kim
Pilyoung Kim University of Denver
Linda C. Mayes
Linda C. Mayes Yale University
Ruth Feldman
Ruth Feldman Reichman University
K. Luan Phan
K. Luan Phan The Ohio State University
Gary W. Evans
Gary W. Evans Cornell University
Israel Liberzon
Israel Liberzon Texas A&M University
Katherine L. Rosenblum
Katherine L. Rosenblum University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Maria Muzik
Maria Muzik University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Autumn Kujawa
Autumn Kujawa Vanderbilt University
Mary L. Phillips
Mary L. Phillips University of Pittsburgh

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