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Acute salivary cortisol response in children with ADHD during psychosocial intervention with and without therapy dogs
November 20, 2024Children with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) participated in a randomized clinical trial comparing animal-assisted intervention (AAI) to psychosocial treatment as usual (TAU). This brief report describes effects of AAI on…
Exploring Differences in Children’s Stress Physiology Using a Person-Centered Approach
November 7, 2024Our understanding of associations between family-level risk factors and children’s stress physiology is largely derived from studies that apply “mean-based” rather than…
Salivary Osteocalcin and its association to psychiatric disorders
October 24, 2024Osteocalcin is a bone-derived hormone implicated in the acute stress response and recently linked to adult depression. Yet it is unclear whether osteocalcin is a biomarker of other forms of…
Salivary and serum inflammatory markers relate to worse self rated health
September 27, 2024Understanding the biological processes underlying poor self-rated health (SRH) can inform prevention efforts. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the importance of using self-reported measures and self-collected biospecimens, such as saliva, to understand…
Understanding Salivary C-Reactive Protein as a Biomarker in Military Personnel
September 11, 2024C-reactive protein is a systemic inflammatory biomarker that is positively associated with the development of disease. Salivary C-reactive protein (sCRP) has previously been reported to have a diurnal rhythm with higher levels upon…
Exploring Salivary Metabolomes in Child-Caregiver Dyads: Insights from the Family Life Project
August 20, 2024Human metabolism is complex, and is impacted by genetics, cohabitation, diet, health, and environmental inputs. As such, we applied untargeted LC-MS metabolomics to 1425 saliva samples from a diverse group of…
Assessing Maternal Control Strategies Through Infant-Mother Salivary Cortisol Levels
August 5, 2024Maternal control strategy refers to a mother’s practices used to impel, inhibit, guide, or shape their children’s behaviors during mother-child interaction. The present study examined control strategies used by Chinese urban mothers and how they associated with…
Evaluating Salivary Uric Acid and Stress Hormones Using the Trier Social Stress Test
July 19, 2024Acute physiological responses to psychosocial stressors are a potential pathway underlying racial disparities in stress-related illnesses. Uric acid (UA) is a potent antioxidant that has been linked to disparities in stress-related illnesses, and recent research has shown that UA is…
Fathers’ Alexithymia and Salivary Testosterone Influence Toddlers’ Prosocial Behavior
June 14, 2024The development of prosocial skills in children is a key predictor of long-term social, cognitive, and emotional functioning. However, the role of fathers’ psychological characteristics in …
Assessment of the Relationship Between Behavioral and Physiological Parameters and the Emotional Valence and Arousal in Dogs
June 4, 2024A complete assessment of animal welfare requires not just an understanding of negative emotional states, such as fear and anxiety, but also of positive states, such as…