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  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Lauren S. Wakschlag is affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields with an emphasis on psychology and medicine, including subfields such as clinical psychology, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, psychiatry and mental health, cognitive neuroscience, and public health, environmental and occupational health.

Their work primarily addresses topics related to child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, infant development and preterm care, maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum, child nutrition and feeding issues, infant health and development, family and disability support research, and child abuse and trauma.

Frequent publication venues for their research include the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, Journal of Pediatric Psychology, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, and Developmental Psychobiology.

Notable recent papers authored by or associated with them include:

  • Childhood Risk Factors and Adulthood Cardiovascular Disease: A Systematic Review (2021), published in The Journal of Pediatrics
  • Family Environment, Neurodevelopmental Risk, and the Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Initiative: Looking Back and Moving Forward (2020), published in Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Adversity is Linked with Decreased Parent-Child Behavioral and Neural Synchrony (2021), published in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Irritability in Youths: A Critical Integrative Review (2024), published in American Journal of Psychiatry
  • Toward a Developmental Nosology for Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder in Early Childhood (2020), published in Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Lauren S. Wakschlag has collaborated frequently with other researchers including Elizabeth S. Norton, Sheila Krogh-Jespersen, Margaret J. Briggs-Gowan, Leigha A. MacNeill, and Jillian Lee Wiggins.

Their professional recognitions include being named a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 2008.

Best Publications

  • Maternal smoking during pregnancy and severe antisocial behavior in offspring: a review.

    Lauren S. Wakschlag;Kate E. Pickett;Edwin Cook;Neal L. Benowitz

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

    Kate Keenan;Lauren S. Wakschlag

  • Maternal Smoking During Pregnancy and the Risk of Conduct Disorder in Boys

    Lauren S. Wakschlag;Benjamin B. Lahey;Rolf Loeber;Stephanie M. Green

  • Linking Informant Discrepancies to Observed Variations in Young Children’s Disruptive Behavior

    Andres De Los Reyes;David B. Henry;Patrick H. Tolan;Lauren S. Wakschlag

  • Relation of maternal responsiveness during infancy to the development of behavior problems in high-risk youths.

    Lauren S. Wakschlag;Sydney L. Hans

  • Annual Research Review: Embracing not erasing contextual variability in children’s behavior – theory and utility in the selection and use of methods and informants in developmental psychopathology

    Melanie A. Dirks;Andres De Los Reyes;Margaret Briggs-Gowan;David Cella

  • Defining the Developmental Parameters of Temper Loss in Early Childhood: Implications for Developmental Psychopathology

    Lauren S. Wakschlag;Seung W. Choi;Alice S. Carter;Heide Hullsiek

  • Research Review: 'Ain't misbehavin': Towards a developmentally-specified nosology for preschool disruptive behavior.

    Lauren S. Wakschlag;Patrick H. Tolan;Bennett L. Leventhal

  • Self-reported smoking, cotinine levels, and patterns of smoking in pregnancy.

    Kate E. Pickett;Paul J. Rathouz;Kristen Kasza;Lauren S. Wakschlag

  • Observational Assessment of Preschool Disruptive Behavior, Part I: Reliability of the Disruptive Behavior Diagnostic Observation Schedule (DB-DOS)

    Lauren S. Wakschlag;Carri Hill;Alice S. Carter;Barbara Danis

  • Can a valid diagnosis of disruptive behavior disorder be made in preschool children

    Kate Keenan;Lauren S. Wakschlag

  • A psychological perspective on the development of caring in children and youth: the role of the family

    P.Lindsay Chase-Lansdale;Lauren S. Wakschlag;Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

  • A developmental framework for distinguishing disruptive behavior from normative misbehavior in preschool children

    Lauren S. Wakschlag;Margaret J. Briggs-Gowan;Alice S. Carter;Carri Hill

  • Clinical Implications of a Dimensional Approach: The Normal:Abnormal Spectrum of Early Irritability.

    Lauren S. Wakschlag;Ryne Estabrook;Amelie Petitclerc;David Henry

  • Developmental toxicity of nicotine: A transdisciplinary synthesis and implications for emerging tobacco products.

    Lucinda J. England;Kjersti Aagaard;Michele Bloch;Kevin Conway

  • The Neurodevelopmental Basis of Early Childhood Disruptive Behavior: Irritable and Callous Phenotypes as Exemplars.

    Lauren S. Wakschlag;Susan B. Perlman;R. James Blair;Ellen Leibenluft

  • Maternal smoking during pregnancy and conduct problems in high-risk youth: a developmental framework.

    Lauren S. Wakschlag;Sydney L. Hans

  • Advancing a multidimensional, developmental spectrum approach to preschool disruptive behavior

    Lauren S. Wakschlag;Margaret J. Briggs-Gowan;Seung W. Choi;Sara R. Nichols

  • Fluctuations of maternal smoking during pregnancy

    Kate E Pickett;Lauren S Wakschlag;Lanting Dai;Bennett L Leventhal

  • Attention bias and anxiety in young children exposed to family violence

    Margaret J. Briggs-Gowan;Seth D. Pollak;Damion Grasso;Joel Voss

  • Autism and tuberous sclerosis.

    Lauren S. Wakschlag;Edwin H. Cook;David N. Hammond;Bennett L. Leventhal

Frequent Co-Authors

Margaret J. Briggs-Gowan
Margaret J. Briggs-Gowan University of Connecticut
Daniel S. Pine
Daniel S. Pine National Institutes of Health
Kate Keenan
Kate Keenan University of Chicago
Alice S. Carter
Alice S. Carter University of Massachusetts Boston
Edwin H. Cook
Edwin H. Cook University of Illinois at Chicago
Kimberly Andrews Espy
Kimberly Andrews Espy Wayne State University
Robin J. Mermelstein
Robin J. Mermelstein University of Illinois at Chicago
Joel L. Voss
Joel L. Voss Northwestern University
Justin D. Smith
Justin D. Smith University of Utah
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn Columbia University

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