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Pilyoung Kim is affiliated with the University of Denver in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Psychology, with significant contributions to Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health; Social Psychology; Clinical Psychology; Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health; and Pharmacy.

Their work focuses on a diverse range of topics related to maternal and child health, neuroendocrine regulation, and developmental processes. Key research themes include:

  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Infant Health and Development
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Prenatal Substance Exposure Effects
  • Birth, Development, and Health

They have published numerous papers in reputable scientific journals. Notable recent publications include:

  • How stress can influence brain adaptations to motherhood, 2020, Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology
  • Associations between stress exposure and new mothers' brain responses to infant cry sounds, 2020, NeuroImage

Frequent publication venues include:

  • Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
  • Developmental Psychobiology
  • Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology
  • Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience
  • Biological Psychiatry

Collaboration is a component of their research activity, with frequent co-authors identified as:

  • Alexander J. Dufford
  • Andrew Erhart
  • Tom Yeh
  • Rebekah Tribble
  • Aviva K. Olsavsky

Best Publications

  • Childhood Poverty, Chronic Stress, Self-Regulation, and Coping

    Gary W. Evans;Pilyoung Kim

  • Childhood Poverty and Health Cumulative Risk Exposure and Stress Dysregulation

    Gary W. Evans;Pilyoung Kim

  • Effects of childhood poverty and chronic stress on emotion regulatory brain function in adulthood

    Pilyoung Kim;Gary W. Evans;Michael Angstadt;S. Shaun Ho

  • 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

  • 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

  • Cumulative risk, maternal responsiveness, and allostatic load among young adolescents.

    Gary W. Evans;Pilyoung Kim;Albert H. Ting;Harris B. Tesher

  • Approaching the biology of human parental attachment: brain imaging, oxytocin and coordinated assessments of mothers and fathers.

    J. E. Swain;Pilyoung Kim;J. Spicer;S. S. Ho

  • Multiple risk exposure as a potential explanatory mechanism for the socioeconomic status-health gradient.

    Gary W. Evans;Pilyoung Kim

  • The Maternal Brain and its Plasticity in Humans

    Pilyoung Kim;Lane Strathearn;James E. Swain

  • Sad dads: paternal postpartum depression.

    Pilyoung Kim;James E Swain

  • Neural plasticity in fathers of human infants

    Pilyoung Kim;Paola Rigo;Linda C. Mayes;Ruth Feldman

  • Perceived quality of maternal care in childhood and structure and function of mothers' brain

    Pilyoung Kim;James F. Leckman;Linda C. Mayes;Linda C. Mayes;Michal Ann Newman

  • Childhood Poverty and Young Adults’ Allostatic Load The Mediating Role of Childhood Cumulative Risk Exposure

    Gary W. Evans;Pilyoung Kim

  • Neural mechanisms of frustration in chronically irritable children

    Christen M. Deveney;Megan E. Connolly;Catherine T. Haring;Brian L. Bones

  • Neuroendocrinology of Parental Response to Baby-Cry

    J. E. Swain;P. Kim;S. S. Ho

  • Resilience after 9/11: Multimodal neuroimaging evidence for stress-related change in the healthy adult brain

    Barbara L. Ganzel;Pilyoung Kim;Gary H. Glover;Elise Temple

  • Progress on the paternal brain: theory, animal models, human brain research, and mental health implications.

    J.E. Swain;C.J. Dayton;P. Kim;R.M. Tolman

  • Neural Correlates of Irritability in Disruptive Mood Dysregulation and Bipolar Disorders

    Jillian Lee Wiggins;Melissa A. Brotman;Nancy E. Adleman;Pilyoung Kim

  • EARLY POSTPARTUM PARENTAL PREOCCUPATION AND POSITIVE PARENTING THOUGHTS: RELATIONSHIP WITH PARENT-INFANT INTERACTION

    Pilyoung Kim;Linda Mayes;Ruth Feldman;James F. Leckman

  • Association of irritability and anxiety with the neural mechanisms of implicit face emotion processing in youths with psychopathology

    Joel Stoddard;Wan Ling Tseng;Pilyoung Kim;Gang Chen

  • Review: Sad dads: Paternal postpartum depression.

    Pilyoung Kim;James E. Swain

Frequent Co-Authors

James E. Swain
James E. Swain Stony Brook University
Gary W. Evans
Gary W. Evans Cornell University
Ellen Leibenluft
Ellen Leibenluft National Institutes of Health
Daniel S. Pine
Daniel S. Pine National Institutes of Health
Ruth Feldman
Ruth Feldman Reichman University
Linda C. Mayes
Linda C. Mayes Yale University
Melissa A. Brotman
Melissa A. Brotman National Institutes of Health
K. Luan Phan
K. Luan Phan The Ohio State University
Stephen J. Fromm
Stephen J. Fromm National Institutes of Health
Jiang Qiu
Jiang Qiu Southwest University

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