Developmental Psychobiology: A Field Whose Time Has Come?

1977 ◽  
Vol 22 (9) ◽  
pp. 662-663
Author(s):  
LOUISE HAINLINE
Keyword(s):  
Developmental Psychobiology

Review of Developmental Psychobiology.

1993 ◽  
Vol 38 (12) ◽  
pp. 1337-1337
Author(s):  
Terri Gullickson ◽  
Pamela Ramser
Keyword(s):  
Developmental Psychobiology

INTRODUCTION

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 90 (3) ◽  
pp. V-V
Author(s):  
ROBERT J. HAGGERTY
Keyword(s):  
Animal Models ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Developmental Psychobiology ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Older Children ◽  
Pediatric Practice ◽  
The Past ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
And Child Health ◽  
Made In

The William T. Grant Foundation supports eight consortia, each devoted to a specific issue, and each consisting of ten to twenty members from a Variety of scientific disciplines. Our purpose is to provide a forum for discussion of ideas, research, and conceptual and theoretical bases of that research to individuals who work in related areas, but who might not under other circumstances have easy communication with each other, especially in the preliminary stages of the development of their research projects. By the time national meetings occur, projects are of necessity completed, and there is no chance for modification using an interdisciplinary approach. We have been very pleased with this device to bring research workers of different disciplines together. The newest of these consortia is devoted to the Developmental Psychobiology of Stress and includes pediatricians, psychologists, and anthropologists who work on both human and animal models. This group moved promptly in their first meeting to bring together a talented group of researchers from different disciplines; the results of their research are presented in this supplement. They well exemplify the advances that have been made in recent years in methodology to study mind-body interactions in infants and older children. Methodologic barriers in the past have limited research on stress in humans. It is stimulating and exciting to see that these barriers are beginning to be overcome, and that research such as is presented here is illuminating this exciting new field. It has enormous application to pediatric practice and child health in the future.

Developmental Psychobiology

2005 ◽  
Vol 66 (09) ◽  
pp. 1196
Author(s):  
Theodore A. Petti
Keyword(s):  
Developmental Psychobiology

scholarly journals Marital conflict, respiratory sinus arrhythmia, and allostatic load: Interrelations and associations with the development of children's externalizing behavior

2011 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 815-829 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mona El-Sheikh ◽  
J. Benjamin Hinnant
Keyword(s):  
Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia ◽  
Marital Conflict ◽  
Externalizing Behavior ◽  
Repeated Measures ◽  
Allostatic Load ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Developmental Psychobiology ◽  
Sinus Arrhythmia ◽  
Change Over Time ◽  
Over Time

AbstractAllostatic load theory hypothesizes that stress and the body's responses to stressors contribute to longer term physiological changes in multiple systems over time (allostasis), and that shifts in how these systems function have implications for adjustment and health. We investigated these hypotheses with longitudinal data from two independent samples (n = 413; 219 girls, 194 boys) with repeated measures at ages 8, 9, 10, and 11. Initial parental marital conflict and its change over time indexed children's exposure to an important familial stressor, which was examined in interaction with children's respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) reactivity to laboratory tasks (stress response) to predict children's basal levels of RSA over time. We also investigated children's sex as an additional possible moderator. Our second research question focused on examining whether initial levels and changes in resting RSA over time predicted children's externalizing behavior. Boys with a strong RSA suppression response to a frustrating laboratory task who experienced higher initial marital conflict or increasing marital conflict over time showed decreases in their resting RSA over time. In addition, boys' initial resting RSA (but not changes in resting RSA over time) was negatively related to change over time in externalizing symptoms. Findings for girls were more mixed. Results are discussed in the context of developmental psychobiology, allostatic load, and implications for the development of psychopathology.

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