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Overview

Linda C. Mayes is affiliated with Yale University in the United States, focusing on research primarily within the field of Psychology. Their scholarly work spans a range of subfields including Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, Genetics, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

Their research interests encompass several topics, notably:

  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Craniofacial Disorders and Treatments
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Older Adults Driving Studies
  • Traffic and Road Safety

Linda C. Mayes has published extensively in different venues, with frequent publications appearing in:

  • Traffic Injury Prevention
  • Child's Nervous System
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • British Journal of Developmental Psychology
  • Attachment & Human Development

Recent papers from their research include:

  • "Parental reflective functioning and theory of mind acquisition: A developmental perspective," 2021, British Journal of Developmental Psychology
  • "Adult attachment is related to maternal neural response to infant cues: an ERP study," 2021, Attachment & Human Development
  • "Long-term neurocognitive outcomes in 204 single-suture craniosynostosis patients," 2023, Child's Nervous System
  • "Examining Mothers' Childhood Maltreatment History, Parental Reflective Functioning, and the Long-Term Effects of the Minding the Baby® Home Visiting Intervention," 2021, Child Maltreatment
  • "Riding with an impaired driver and driving while impaired among adolescents: Longitudinal trajectories and their characteristics," 2021, Traffic Injury Prevention

Collaborations have been a significant part of Linda C. Mayes's research activities. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Helena J. V. Rutherford
  • Marc N. Potenza
  • Amanda Lowell
  • Deepa R. Camenga
  • Barbara C. Banz

The diversity of topics, venues, and collaborations reflects a multidisciplinary approach centered on psychological and neurodevelopmental aspects, with particular attention to early childhood, maternal mental health, and behavioral outcomes related to health and safety.

Best Publications

  • Preoperative Anxiety, Postoperative Pain, and Behavioral Recovery in Young Children Undergoing Surgery

    Zeev N. Kain;Linda C. Mayes;Alison A. Caldwell-Andrews;David E. Karas

  • Preoperative Anxiety in Children: Predictors and Outcomes

    Zeev N. Kain;Linda C. Mayes;Theresa Z. O'Connor;Domenic V. Cicchetti

  • Preoperative Anxiety and emergence delirium and postoperative maladaptive behaviors

    Zeev N. Kain;Alison A. Caldwell-Andrews;Inna Maranets;Brenda McClain

  • The Yale Preoperative Anxiety Scale : How does it compare with a gold standard?

    Zeev N. Kain;Linda C. Mayes;Domenic V. Cicchetti;Andrea L. Bagnall

  • 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

  • Emotion Regulation in Parenthood.

    Helena J.V. Rutherford;Norah S. Wallace;Heidemarie K. Laurent;Linda C. Mayes

  • Family-centered preparation for surgery improves perioperative outcomes in children: a randomized controlled trial.

    Zeev N. Kain;Alison A. Caldwell-Andrews;Linda C. Mayes;Megan E. Weinberg

  • 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

  • The parental reflective functioning questionnaire: Development and preliminary validation.

    Patrick Luyten;Linda C. Mayes;Liesbet Nijssens;Peter Fonagy

  • Inscapes: A movie paradigm to improve compliance in functional magnetic resonance imaging.

    Tamara Vanderwal;Clare Kelly;Jeffrey Eilbott;Linda C. Mayes

  • How does social support enhance resilience in the trauma-exposed individual?

    Lauren Sippel;Robert Pietrzak;Dennis Charney;Linda Mayes

  • Distress During the Induction of Anesthesia and Postoperative Behavioral Outcomes

    Zeev N. Kain;Shu Ming Wang;Linda C. Mayes;Lisa A. Caramico

  • Corticostriatal-Limbic Gray Matter Morphology in Adolescents With Self-reported Exposure to Childhood Maltreatment

    Erin E. Edmiston;Fei Wang;Carolyn M. Mazure;Joanne Guiney

  • Race/ethnicity and internalizing disorders in youth: a review.

    Emily R. Anderson;Linda C. Mayes

  • Minding the Baby: Enhancing Reflectiveness to Improve Early Health and Relationship Outcomes in an Interdisciplinary Home‐Visiting Program

    Lois S. Sadler;Arietta Slade;Nancy Close;Denise L. Webb

  • Subcortical Discrimination of Unperceived Objects during Binocular Rivalry

    Brian N Pasley;Linda C Mayes;Robert T Schultz

  • Parental presence during induction of anesthesia versus sedative premedication : Which intervention is more effective?

    Zeev N. Kain;Linda C. Mayes;Shu-Ming Wang;Lisa A. Caramico

  • Preoperative anxiety and postoperative pain in women undergoing hysterectomy. A repeated-measures design.

    Zeev N Kain;Ferne Sevarino;Gerianne M Alexander;Sharon Pincus

  • Israeli Preschool Children Under Scuds: A 30-Month Follow-up

    Nathaniel Laor;Leo Wolmer;Linda C. Mayes;Avner Gershon

  • Center differences and outcomes of extremely low birth weight infants.

    Betty R. Vohr;Linda L. Wright;Anna M. Dusick;Rebecca Perritt

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael J. Crowley
Michael J. Crowley Yale University
Zeev N. Kain
Zeev N. Kain University of California, Irvine
Marc N. Potenza
Marc N. Potenza Yale University
James F. Leckman
James F. Leckman Yale University
Peter J. Snyder
Peter J. Snyder University of Rhode Island
Ruth Feldman
Ruth Feldman Reichman University
Rajita Sinha
Rajita Sinha Yale University
Patrick Luyten
Patrick Luyten University College London
Nicole Landi
Nicole Landi University of Connecticut

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