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Kate Keenan is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States. Their research spans multiple domains within medicine and psychology, with a particular focus on clinical psychology and public health as well as environmental and occupational health. Their work incorporates aspects of sociology, political science, social psychology, and cognitive neuroscience.

Their recent publications explore a range of topics related to child and adolescent health, obesity, mental health, and psychosocial development. Notable papers include:

  • "The Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO)-Wide Cohort" (2023) published in American Journal of Epidemiology
  • "Associations of Neighborhood Opportunity and Social Vulnerability With Trajectories of Childhood Body Mass Index and Obesity Among US Children" (2022) published in JAMA Network Open
  • "Neighborhood Opportunity and Vulnerability and Incident Asthma Among Children" (2023) published in JAMA Pediatrics
  • "Suicide in African American Adolescents: Understanding Risk by Studying Resilience" (2021) published in Annual Review of Clinical Psychology
  • "The longitudinal stability of fMRI activation during reward processing in adolescents and young adults" (2021) published in NeuroImage

Keenan's main research topics cover:

  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
  • LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
  • Migration, Health and Trauma

Frequent coauthors of Keenan include:

  • Alison E. Hipwell
  • Irene Tung
  • Anne L. Dunlop
  • Stephanie D. Stepp
  • Kimberley Mbayiwa

Key publication venues where Keenan's research appears regularly include:

  • JAMA Pediatrics
  • Emotion
  • American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
  • Current Developments in Nutrition
  • JPGN Reports

Their academic focus is concentrated within the fields of Medicine and Psychology, with 57 publications categorized primarily under Medicine and 50 under Psychology. Within subfields, there are 34 publications in Clinical Psychology and 22 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

Best Publications

  • Developmental and social influences on young girls' early problem behavior.

    Kate Keenan;Daniel Shaw

  • Further evidence for family-genetic risk factors in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: Patterns of comorbidity in probands and relatives in psychiatrically and pediatrically referred samples.

    Joseph Biederman;Stephen V. Faraone;Kate Keenan;Jonathan Benjamin

  • Developmental pathways in disruptive child behavior

    Rolf Loeber;Phen Wung;Kate Keenan;Bruce Giroux

  • Interaction between conduct disorder and its comorbid conditions: Effects of age and gender

    Rolf Loeber;Kate Keenan

  • Family-genetic and psychosocial risk factors in DSM-III attention deficit disorder.

    Joseph Biederman;Stephen V. Faraone;Kate Keenan;Debra Knee

  • Which Boys Will Fare Worse? Early Predictors of the Onset of Conduct Disorder in a Six-Year Longitudinal Study

    Rolf Loeber;Stephanie M. Green;Kate Keenan;Benjamin B. Lahey

  • Developmental precursors of externalizing behavior: Ages 1 to 3.

    Daniel S. Shaw;Kate Keenan;Joan I. Vondra

  • More than the terrible twos: the nature and severity of behavior problems in clinic-referred preschool children.

    Kate Keenan;Lauren S. Wakschlag

  • Early risk factors and pathways in the development of early disruptive behavior problems

    Daniel S. Shaw;Elizabeth B. Owens;Joan I. Vondra;Kate Keenan

  • The influence of deviant peers on the development of boys' disruptive and delinquent behavior: A temporal analysis

    Kate Keenan;Rolf Loeber;Quanwu Zhang;Magda Stouthamer-Loeber

  • Evidence for the Continuity of Early Problem Behaviors: Application of a Developmental Model

    Kate Keenan;Daniel Shaw;Eric Delliquadri;Joyce Giovannelli

  • Gender differences in physical aggression: A prospective population-based survey of children before and after 2 years of age

    Raymond H. Baillargeon;Mark Zoccolillo;Kate Keenan;Sylvana Côté

  • Reciprocal influences between girls’ conduct problems and depression, and parental punishment and warmth: A six year prospective analysis

    Alison Hipwell;Kate Keenan;Kristen Kasza;Rolf Loeber

  • Emotion Dysregulation as a Risk Factor for Child Psychopathology

    Kate Keenan

  • Evidence of Familial Association Between Attention Deficit Disorder and Major Affective Disorders

    Joseph Biederman;Stephen V. Faraone;Kate Keenan;Ming T. Tsuang

  • Conduct disorder in girls: A review of the literature.

    Kate Keenan;Rolf Loeber;Stephanie Green

  • Risk and protective factors of child delinquency

    G.A. Wasserman;K. Keenan;R.E. Tremblay;J. Coie

  • DSM-III-R disorders in preschool children from low-income families.

    Kate Keenan;Daniel S. Shaw;Brenda Walsh;Eric Delliquadri

  • Familial association between attention deficit disorder and anxiety disorders.

    Joseph Biederman;Stephen V. Faraone;Kate Keenan;Ron Steingard

  • Evidence for the independent familial transmission of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and learning disabilities : results from a family genetic study

    Stephen V. Faraone;Joseph Biederman;Belinda K. Lehman;Kate Keenan

Frequent Co-Authors

Alison E. Hipwell
Alison E. Hipwell University of Pittsburgh
Stephanie D. Stepp
Stephanie D. Stepp University of Pittsburgh
Rolf Loeber
Rolf Loeber University of Pittsburgh
Amanda E. Guyer
Amanda E. Guyer University of California, Davis
Lauren S. Wakschlag
Lauren S. Wakschlag Northwestern University
Erika E. Forbes
Erika E. Forbes University of Pittsburgh
Daniel S. Shaw
Daniel S. Shaw University of Pittsburgh
Magda Stouthamer-Loeber
Magda Stouthamer-Loeber University of Pittsburgh
Benjamin B. Lahey
Benjamin B. Lahey University of Chicago
Andrea B. Goldschmidt
Andrea B. Goldschmidt University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

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