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Overview

Laura M. Glynn is affiliated with Chapman University in the United States and has a research focus spanning medicine and psychology, with significant contributions in clinical psychology. Their work extensively covers topics related to child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum, and child abuse and trauma. Additional areas of interest include stress responses and cortisol, birth, development, and health, early childhood education and development, and infant development and preterm care.

The scientist's publication record includes papers in notable journals such as the Journal of Affective Disorders, Development and Psychopathology, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Psychoneuroendocrinology, and Neurobiology of Stress. The most frequent venues of publication are the Journal of Affective Disorders and Development and Psychopathology, with five publications each, followed by bioRxiv with five, Psychoneuroendocrinology with four, and Neurobiology of Stress with two.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Laura M. Glynn include:

  • A predictable home environment may protect child mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic, 2021, Neurobiology of Stress
  • Contribution of early-life unpredictability to neuropsychiatric symptom patterns in adulthood, 2022, Depression and Anxiety
  • The acute and persisting impact of COVID-19 on trajectories of adolescent depression: Sex differences and social connectedness, 2021, Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Aberrant Maturation of the Uncinate Fasciculus Follows Exposure to Unpredictable Patterns of Maternal Signals, 2020, Journal of Neuroscience
  • Development of the infant gut microbiome predicts temperament across the first year of life, 2021, Development and Psychopathology

Collaborations are a notable aspect of their research activity. Frequent co-authors include Elysia Poggi Davis, Curt A. Sandman, Tallie Z. Baram, Hal S. Stern, and Sabrina R. Liu.

Best Publications

  • Prenatal exposure to maternal depression and cortisol influences infant temperament.

    Elysia Poggi Davis;Laura M. Glynn;Christine Dunkel Schetter;Calvin Hobel

  • When stress happens matters: effects of earthquake timing on stress responsivity in pregnancy.

    Laura M. Glynn;Pathik D. Wadhwa;Christine Dunkel-Schetter;Aleksandra Chicz-DeMet

  • Increase in US medication-error deaths between 1983 and 1993

    David P Phillips;Nicholas Christenfeld;Laura M Glynn

  • Prenatal maternal stress programs infant stress regulation

    Elyssia Poggi Davis;Laura M. Glynn;Laura M. Glynn;Feizal Waffarn;Curt A. Sandman

  • Elevated maternal cortisol early in pregnancy predicts third trimester levels of placental corticotropin releasing hormone (CRH): priming the placental clock.

    Curt A. Sandman;Laura Glynn;Christine Dunkel Schetter;Pathik Wadhwa

  • Perceived partner support in pregnancy predicts lower maternal and infant distress.

    Lynlee R. Tanner Stapleton;Christine Dunkel Schetter;Erika Westling;Christine Rini

  • Racial differences in birth outcomes: the role of general, pregnancy, and racism stress.

    Tyan Parker Dominguez;Christine Dunkel-Schetter;Laura M. Glynn;Calvin Hobel

  • Stress, infection and preterm birth: a biobehavioural perspective

    Pathik D. Wadhwa;Jennifer F. Culhane;Virginia Rauh;Shirish S. Barve

  • Pattern of perceived stress and anxiety in pregnancy predicts preterm birth.

    Laura M. Glynn;Christine Dunkel Schetter;Calvin J. Hobel;Curt A. Sandman

  • The role of rumination in recovery from reactivity: cardiovascular consequences of emotional states.

    Laura M. Glynn;Nicholas Christenfeld;William Gerin

  • Familialism, Social Support, and Stress: Positive Implications for Pregnant Latinas

    Belinda Campos;Christine Dunkel Schetter;Cleopatra M. Abdou;Calvin J. Hobel

  • Prenatal Maternal Anxiety and Depression Predict Negative Behavioral Reactivity in Infancy

    Elysia Poggi Davis;Nancy Snidman;Pathik D. Wadhwa;Laura M. Glynn

  • Effective social support: Antecedents and consequences of partner support during pregnancy

    Christine Marie Rini;Christine Dunkel Schetter;Calvin J. Hobel;Laura M. Glynn

  • Is there a viability-vulnerability tradeoff? Sex differences in fetal programming.

    Curt A. Sandman;Laura M. Glynn;Laura M. Glynn;Elyssia Poggi Davis;Elyssia Poggi Davis

  • Exposure to prenatal psychobiological stress exerts programming influences on the mother and her fetus.

    Curt A. Sandman;Elyssia P. Davis;Claudia Buss;Laura M. Glynn

  • Gender, social support, and cardiovascular responses to stress.

    Laura M. Glynn;Nicholas Christenfeld;William Gerin

  • Poor sleep quality is associated with preterm birth.

    Michele L. Okun;Christine Dunkel Schetter;Laura M. Glynn;Laura M. Glynn

  • New insights into the role of perinatal HPA-axis dysregulation in postpartum depression.

    Laura M. Glynn;Elysia Poggi Davis;Elysia Poggi Davis;Curt A. Sandman

  • Prenatal Programming of Human Neurological Function

    Curt A. Sandman;Elyssia Poggi Davis;Elyssia Poggi Davis;Claudia Buss;Claudia Buss;Laura M. Glynn;Laura M. Glynn

  • Risk of Postpartum Depressive Symptoms With Elevated Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone in Human Pregnancy

    Ilona S. Yim;Laura M. Glynn;Christine Dunkel Schetter;Calvin J. Hobel

Frequent Co-Authors

Curt A. Sandman
Curt A. Sandman University of California, Irvine
Elysia Poggi Davis
Elysia Poggi Davis University of Denver
Christine Dunkel Schetter
Christine Dunkel Schetter University of California, Los Angeles
Nicholas Christenfeld
Nicholas Christenfeld University of California, San Diego
William Gerin
William Gerin Pennsylvania State University
Claudia Buss
Claudia Buss University of California, Irvine
Victoria B. Risbrough
Victoria B. Risbrough University of California, San Diego
Benjamin L. Hankin
Benjamin L. Hankin University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
David Sheffield
David Sheffield University of Derby
Elizabeth H. Blackburn
Elizabeth H. Blackburn University of California, San Francisco

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