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Lea R. Dougherty is affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on child and adolescent development, with a strong emphasis on psychological and psychiatric aspects within early life stages.

The scientific output features publications in key venues, including:

  • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Development and Psychopathology
  • Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • Developmental Psychobiology

Their recent scholarly articles include:

  • "Irritability in Youths: A Critical Integrative Review," 2024, American Journal of Psychiatry
  • "A Transdiagnostic Perspective on Youth Irritability," 2021, Current Directions in Psychological Science
  • "Preschool Irritability Predicts Adolescent Psychopathology and Functional Impairment: A 12-Year Prospective Study," 2021, Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • "Using Item Response Theory to Compare Irritability Measures in Early Adolescent and Childhood Samples," 2020, Assessment
  • "Early childhood cumulative risk is associated with decreased global brain measures, cortical thickness, and cognitive functioning in school-age children," 2020, Developmental Psychobiology

Frequent collaborators in their work include:

  • Daniel N. Klein
  • Jillian Lee Wiggins
  • Gabrielle A. Carlson
  • Thomas M. Olino
  • Sara J. Bufferd

The breadth of disciplinary engagement spans the following main fields of study:

  • Psychology
  • Medicine

Their investigations also extend into these subfields of study:

  • Clinical Psychology
  • Psychiatry and Mental Health
  • Education
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Social Psychology

Lea R. Dougherty's research covers multiple significant topics, such as:

  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
  • Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
  • Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
  • Infant Health and Development

Best Publications

  • Toward Guidelines for Evidence-Based Assessment of Depression in Children and Adolescents

    Daniel N. Klein;Lea R. Dougherty;Thomas M. Olino

  • Psychiatric Disorders in Preschoolers: Continuity From Ages 3 to 6

    Sara J. Bufferd;Lea R. Dougherty;Gabrielle A. Carlson;Suzanne Rose

  • Parent-reported mental health in preschoolers: findings using a diagnostic interview.

    Sara J. Bufferd;Lea R. Dougherty;Gabrielle A. Carlson;Daniel N. Klein

  • Temperamental Positive and Negative Emotionality and Children's Depressive Symptoms: A Longitudinal Prospective Study from Age Three to Age Ten

    Lea R. Dougherty;Daniel N. Klein;C. Emily Durbin;Elizabeth P. Hayden

  • DSM-5 disruptive mood dysregulation disorder: correlates and predictors in young children.

    L. R. Dougherty;V. C. Smith;S. J. Bufferd;G. A. Carlson

  • Children's Emotionality and Social Status: A Meta-analytic Review

    Lea R. Dougherty

  • Preschool Anxiety Disorders: Comprehensive Assessment of Clinical, Demographic, Temperamental, Familial, and Life Stress Correlates

    Lea R. Dougherty;Marissa R. Tolep;Sara J. Bufferd;Thomas M. Olino

  • Preschool Irritability: Longitudinal Associations With Psychiatric Disorders at Age 6 and Parental Psychopathology

    Lea R. Dougherty;Victoria C. Smith;Sara J. Bufferd;Argyris Stringaris

  • Preschool irritability predicts child psychopathology, functional impairment, and service use at age nine.

    Lea R. Dougherty;Victoria C. Smith;Sara J. Bufferd;Ellen Kessel

  • Preliminary evaluation of a multimodal early intervention program for behaviorally inhibited preschoolers.

    Andrea Chronis-Tuscano;Kenneth H. Rubin;Kelly A. O'Brien;Robert J. Coplan

  • The dopamine D2 receptor gene and depressive and anxious symptoms in childhood: associations and evidence for gene–environment correlation and gene–environment interaction

    Elizabeth P. Hayden;Daniel N. Klein;Lea R. Dougherty;Thomas M. Olino

  • Preschoolers' Observed Temperament and Psychiatric Disorders Assessed with a Parent Diagnostic Interview

    Lea R. Dougherty;Sara J. Bufferd;Gabrielle A. Carlson;Margaret Dyson

  • Testing models of psychopathology in preschool-aged children using a structured interview-based assessment.

    Thomas M. Olino;Lea R. Dougherty;Sara J. Bufferd;Gabrielle A. Carlson

  • Social and non-social behavioral inhibition in preschool-age children: differential associations with parent-reports of temperament and anxiety.

    Margaret W. Dyson;Daniel N. Klein;Thomas M. Olino;Lea R. Dougherty

  • Early exposure to parental depression and parenting: associations with young offspring's stress physiology and oppositional behavior

    Lea R. Dougherty;Marissa R. Tolep;Victoria C. Smith;Suzanne Rose

  • The influence of sexual orientation and masculinity on young men's tobacco smoking.

    John E. Pachankis;J. Lee Westmaas;Lea R. Dougherty

  • Advances and Directions in Preschool Mental Health Research

    Lea R. Dougherty;Katherine A. Leppert;Stephanie M. Merwin;Victoria C. Smith

  • Correlates of the CBCL-dysregulation profile in preschool-aged children

    Jiyon Kim;Gabrielle A. Carlson;Stephanie E. Meyer;Sara J. Bufferd

  • Increased waking salivary cortisol and depression risk in preschoolers: the role of maternal history of melancholic depression and early child temperament.

    Lea R. Dougherty;Daniel N. Klein;Thomas M. Olino;Margaret W. Dyson

  • Temperamental fearfulness in childhood and the serotonin transporter promoter region polymorphism: a multimethod association study.

    Elizabeth P. Hayden;Lea R. Dougherty;Bryan Maloney;C. Emily Durbin

  • Preschool Irritability: Longitudinal Associations With Psychiatric Disorders at Age 6 and

    Lea R. Dougherty;Victoria C. Smith;Sara J. Bufferd;Argyris Stringaris

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel N. Klein
Daniel N. Klein Stony Brook University
Thomas M. Olino
Thomas M. Olino Temple University
Gabrielle A. Carlson
Gabrielle A. Carlson Stony Brook University
C. Emily Durbin
C. Emily Durbin Michigan State University
Candice A. Alfano
Candice A. Alfano University of Houston
Andrea Chronis-Tuscano
Andrea Chronis-Tuscano University of Maryland, College Park
Argyris Stringaris
Argyris Stringaris National Institutes of Health
Autumn Kujawa
Autumn Kujawa Vanderbilt University
Andres De Los Reyes
Andres De Los Reyes University of Maryland, College Park
Kenneth H. Rubin
Kenneth H. Rubin University of Maryland, College Park

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