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Suzanne King

Suzanne King

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Psychology

D-Index
56
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13048
World Ranking
4190
National Ranking
279

Overview

Suzanne King is affiliated with McGill University in Canada and conducts research primarily in the fields of Medicine and Psychology. Their work spans a range of subfields including Clinical Psychology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Obstetrics and Gynecology, as well as Psychiatry and Mental Health.

The main topics explored in their research include:

  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • COVID-19 Impact on Reproduction
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Infant Development and Preterm Care

Some of the recent publications authored or coauthored by Suzanne King are:

  • Effectiveness of cognitive behavioral therapy for perinatal maternal depression, anxiety and stress: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (2022, Clinical Psychology Review)
  • Effect of Natural Disaster-Related Prenatal Maternal Stress on Child Development and Health: A Meta-Analytic Review (2021, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health)
  • Early Environmental Upheaval and the Risk for Schizophrenia (2021, Annual Review of Clinical Psychology)
  • Disaster-related prenatal maternal stress, and childhood HPA-axis regulation and anxiety: The QF2011 Queensland Flood Study (2020, Psychoneuroendocrinology)
  • Disaster-related prenatal maternal stress predicts HPA reactivity and psychopathology in adolescent offspring: Project Ice Storm (2020, Psychoneuroendocrinology)

Frequent collaborators include the following researchers:

  • Guillaume Elgbeili
  • David P. Laplante
  • Sue Kildea
  • Pedro Rosa-Neto
  • Vincent Paquin

The venues where Suzanne King has frequently published include:

  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Psychoneuroendocrinology
  • Schizophrenia Research

Best Publications

  • Prenatal developmental origins of behavior and mental health: The influence of maternal stress in pregnancy

    Bea R.H. van den Bergh;Marion I. van den Heuvel;Marius Lahti;Marijke A. K. A. Braeken

  • Can poverty get under your skin? basal cortisol levels and cognitive function in children from low and high socioeconomic status.

    Sonia J. Lupien;S. King;M. J. Meaney;B. S. McEwen

  • Child's stress hormone levels correlate with mother's socioeconomic status and depressive state

    Sonia J Lupien;Suzanne King;Michael J Meaney;Bruce S McEwen

  • Prenatal stress and brain development.

    Arnaud Charil;David P. Laplante;Cathy Vaillancourt;Suzanne King

  • Stress During Pregnancy Affects General Intellectual and Language Functioning in Human Toddlers

    David P Laplante;Ronald G Barr;Alain Brunet;Guillaume Galbaud Du Fort

  • Project Ice Storm: Prenatal Maternal Stress Affects Cognitive and Linguistic Functioning in 5½-Year-Old Children

    David P. Laplante;Alain Brunet;Norbert Schmitz;Antonio Ciampi

  • Validation of a French version of the impact of event scale-revised.

    Alain Brunet;Annie St-Hilaire;Louis Jehel;Suzanne King

  • The effects of prenatal maternal stress on children's cognitive development: Project Ice Storm.

    Suzanne King;David P Laplante

  • DNA methylation signatures triggered by prenatal maternal stress exposure to a natural disaster: Project Ice Storm.

    Lei Cao-Lei;Renaud Massart;Matthew J. Suderman;Ziv Machnes

  • Using Natural Disasters to Study the Effects of Prenatal Maternal Stress on Child Health and Development

    Suzanne King;Kelsey Dancause;Anne-Marie Turcotte-Tremblay;Franz Veru

  • Prenatal stress and epigenetics

    L Cao-Lei;S R de Rooij;S King;S G Matthews

  • Disaster-related prenatal maternal stress influences birth outcomes: project Ice Storm.

    Kelsey N. Dancause;David P. Laplante;Carolina Oremus;Sarah Fraser

  • Prenatal maternal stress predicts autism traits in 6½ year-old children: Project Ice Storm

    Deborah J. Walder;David P. Laplante;Alexandra Sousa-Pires;Franz Veru

  • Childhood abuse and dissociative symptoms in adult schizophrenia.

    Darren W Holowka;Suzanne King;Dominique Saheb;Monica Pukall

  • Sex Differences in a Causal Model of Career Maturity

    Suzanne King

  • Prenatal maternal stress exposure and immune function in the offspring.

    Franz Veru;David P. Laplante;Giamal Luheshi;Suzanne King

  • Genetic discrimination in life insurance: empirical evidence from a cross sectional survey of genetic support groups in the United Kingdom

    Lawrence Low;Suzanne King;Tom Wilkie

  • Effects of prenatal maternal stress on serotonin and fetal development.

    Joey St-Pierre;Laetitia Laurent;Suzanne King;Cathy Vaillancourt

  • Prenatal maternal stress from a natural disaster predicts dermatoglyphic asymmetry in humans.

    Suzanne King;Adham Mancini-Marïe;Alain Brunet;Elaine Walker

  • Expressed Emotion and Relapse in Young Schizophrenia Outpatients

    Suzanne King;Mike J. Dixon

Frequent Co-Authors

David P. Laplante
David P. Laplante Douglas Mental Health University Institute
Alain Brunet
Alain Brunet McGill University
Vanessa E. Cobham
Vanessa E. Cobham University of Queensland
Ashok Malla
Ashok Malla McGill University
Michael W. O'Hara
Michael W. O'Hara University of Iowa
Norbert Schmitz
Norbert Schmitz McGill University
Mike J. Dixon
Mike J. Dixon University of Waterloo
Marie-Paule Austin
Marie-Paule Austin University of New South Wales
Jens C. Pruessner
Jens C. Pruessner University of Konstanz
Howard Steiger
Howard Steiger Douglas Mental Health University Institute

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