Publications
Braithwaite EC, Haftorn K, Oftedal A, Ayorech Z, Kaasen A, Murgatroyd C, Lyle R, Page C, Bekkhus M (2025) Associations between lifetime history of depression, OXTR DNA methylation, and breastfeeding outcomes. Clinical Epigenetics. Dec 30;18(1):14. doi: 10.1186/s13148-025-02030-8
Elizabeth C. Braithwaite, Esther Hargreaves, Jonathan Hill, Andrew Pickles, Helen Sharp, Nicky Wright (2025) Investigating sex differences in developmental origins of adolescent depression. Frontiers in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.3389/frcha.2025.1602523
Braithwaite EC, Oftedal A, Kaasen A, Ayorech Z, Bekkhus M (2024) A history of depression and prenatal depression are associated with a lower likelihood of breastfeeding initiation and maintenance, and more breastfeeding problems. Archives of Women’s Mental Health. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00737-024-01479-5
Davies LE, Turner M, Hopley R, Slater M, Braithwaite EC (2023) Psychological edictors of adolescent depression and anxiety symptoms across one season in grassroots netball. Mental Health Science. 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1002/mhs2.39
Braithwaite EC, Cole J, Murgatroyd C, Wright N, O’Farrelly C, Barker B, Ramchandani P (2023) Child DNA methylation in a randomized controlled trial of a video-feedback intervention to promote positive parenting and sensitive discipline (VIPP-SD). Frontiers in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.3389/frcha.2023.1175299
Oftedal A, Bekkhus M, Guttorm H, Braithwaite EC, Bollerslev J, Godang K, Thorsby PM, Kassen A (2022) Changes in maternal cortisol, cortisol binding globulin and cortisone levels following diagnosis of fetal anomaly. Psychoneuroendocrinology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2021.105574
Lees Thorne, R., Wright, N., De Los Reyes, A., Smith, I. M., Zaidman-Zait, A., Zwaigenbaum, L., … & Pathways in ASD Study Team. Profiles of parent–teacher discrepancy on autistic children’s adaptive functioning. Autism, 13623613251407310. https://doi.org/10.1177/13623613251407310
Blanco-Gomez, G., Wright, N., O’Reilly, C., Webb, S. J., & Elsabbagh, M. (2025). EEG neurosubtyping of infants predicts language trajectories. Journal of Neural Transmission, 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00702-025-03063-2
Sharp, H., Wright, N., Bozicevic, L., Thirumalai, S. A., Pickles, A., Hill, J., Chandra, P. (2024). Inequalities in COVID-19 impact on pre-school mental health in India: key moderators of adverse outcome. BMJ Global Health https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjph-2024-001209
Katalifos, A., Elsabbagh, M., Yusuf, A., Yamaguchi, S., Scorah, J., Wright, N., … & Shikako, K. (2024). Alignment of Canada’s COVID-19 policy response with barriers and facilitators for coping reported by caregivers of youth with developmental delays, disorders, and disabilities. Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences, 5, 1308062. https://doi.org/10.3389/fresc.2024.1308062
Wright, N., Hill, J., Sharp, H., Refberg-Brown, M., Crook, D., Kehl, S., & Pickles, A. (2024). Covid-19 pandemic impact on young adolescent mental health: A reassessment accounting for development. European Journal of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-023-02337-y
O’Reilly, C., Huberty, S., van Noordt, S., Desjardins, J., Wright, N., Scorah, J., … & Elsabbagh, M. (2023). EEG functional connectivity in infants at elevated familial likelihood for autism spectrum disorder. Molecular Autism, 14(1), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13229-023-00570-5
Bozicevic, L., Hill, J., Chandra, P. S., Omirou, A., Holla, C., Wright, N., & Sharp, H. (2023). Cross-cultural differences in early caregiving: levels of mind-mindedness and instruction in UK and India. Frontiers in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2, 1124883. https://doi.org/10.3389/frcha.2023.1124883
Wright, N., Courchesne, V., Pickles, A., Bedford, R., Duku, E., Hill, J., Georgiades, S., Kerns, C., Bennett, T., Mirenda, P., Smith, I., Scorah, J., Sharp, H., Szatmari, P., Ungar, W., Vaillancourt, T., Zaidman-Zait, A., Zwaigenbaum, L, & Elsabbagh, M.., Pathways Team. (2023). A longitudinal comparison of emotional, behavioral and attention problems in autistic and typically developing children. Psychological Medicine, First View, pp. 1 – 13. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291723001599
Wright, N., Sharp, H., Gay, J., Pickles, A. & Hill, J. (2023). Turning to friends in preference to parents for support in early adolescence: does this contribute to the gender difference in depressive symptoms?. Frontiers of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2:1150493. https://doi.org/10.3389/frcha.2023.1150493
Chatwin SCM, Pearson RM, Goswami H, Appleton PR (2026) Using think aloud with female adolescents to validate psychological well- and ill-being self-report measures. PLOS Ment Health 3(2): e0000551.
Hearn, J., Campbell, A., Fraser, H., Braithwaite, E., Wright, N., McGahan, J., . . . Pearson, R. (2026). The longitudinal association between pre-conception maternal perceptions of pain and perceived offspring pain responsivity in infancy. doi:10.31234/osf.io/3uxvg_v1
Huntley, F., Pearson, R. M., Constantini, I., Bornstein, M. H., Campbell, A., Cordero, M., & Wright, N. (2026). Mothers’ eating disorder history and mother and infant attention to food during infant meal times: a candidate for intergenerational transmission of eating disorder behaviours. Frontiers in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 4. doi:10.3389/frcha.2025.1699643
Costantini, I., Montout, A., Moran, P., Kounali, D., Pearson, R. M., & Ludwig, C. J. H. (2025). Investigating Learning, Decision-Making, and Mental Health in Pregnancy: Insights From a UK Cohort Study. Computational Psychiatry, 9(1), 142-158. doi:10.5334/cpsy.134
Culpin, I., Pearson, R. M., Wright, N., Stein, A., Bornstein, M. H., Tiemeier, H., . . . Hammerton, G. (2025). Paternal postnatal depression and child development at age 7 years in a UK-birth cohort: the mediating roles of paternal parenting confidence, warmth, and conflict. Frontiers in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 4, 16 pages. doi:10.3389/frcha.2025.1650799
Pearson, R., Braithwaite, E., Tim, C., Iryna, C., Ilaria, C., Miguel, C., . . . Sallis, H. (2025). The proportion of genetic similarity for liability for neuroticism in mother-child and mother-father dyads is associated with reported relationship quality. Scientific Reports, 15. Retrieved from https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-14137-2
Kwong, A. S. F., Edmondson-Stait, A., Xu, E., Thompson, E. J., Parker, R. M. A., Elhakeem, A., Pearson RM . . . Whalley, H. C. (2025). Software Application Profile: TIDAL—Tool to Implement Developmental Analysis of Longitudinal data. International Journal of Epidemiology, 54(4). doi:10.1093/ije/dyaf095
Cantrell, S. J., Pearson, R., & Prioreschi, A. (2025). Maternal perspectives on poor mental health and the impact on mother-infant relationships. Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology, 1-18. doi:10.1080/02646838.2025.2511797
Prioreschi, A., James, D. M., Pearson, R. M., Smith, A., Norris, S. A., & Rennie, K. L. (2025). “I always wondered if my baby is able to feel my love for them” -Development and pilot testing of two behavioural feedback strategies designed to improve maternal self-efficacy.. Wellcome Open Research, 10, 28 pages. doi:10.12688/wellcomeopenres.23564.2
Rowles, G., Keenan, J., Wright, N., Hughes, K., Pearson, R., Fawcett, H., & Braithwaite, E. (2025). Investigating the impact of breastfeeding difficulties on maternal mental health. Scientific Reports, 15(1). doi:10.1038/s41598-025-98357-6
Pearson, R. M., Coetzee, B., & Rochat, T. J. (2025). Editorial: The role of parent-child interactions in developmental psychopathology: methodological and intervention challenges and opportunities. Frontiers in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 3. doi:10.3389/frcha.2024.1489804
Braithwaite, E., Wright, N., Keenan, J., Fawcett, H., Kidd, A., Hughes, K., & Pearson, R. (2025). A mixed-methods dataset on maternal-reported experiences of breastfeeding difficulties and mental health. doi:10.31219/osf.io/47chn
Rowles, G., Keenan, J., Wright, N., Hughes, K., Pearson, R., Fawcett, H., & Braithwaite, E. (2025). “It was very traumatic”: Understanding the impact of breastfeeding difficulties on maternal mental health. doi:10.31234/osf.io/ebry5
Braithwaite, E., Campbell, A., Fraser, H., Wright, N., Hearn, J., McGahan, J., . . . Pearson, R. (2025). Maternal genetic liability for neuroticism and breastfeeding intention, initiation, and maintenance. doi:10.31219/osf.io/f3mvr
Wright, N., Kounali, D., Paul, E., Kwong, A. S. F., Major‐Smith, D., Costantini, I., . . . Pearson, R. M. (2025). Trajectories of child emotional and behavioural difficulties before and during the COVID‐19 pandemic in a longitudinal UK cohort. JCPP Advances, 12 pages. doi:10.1002/jcv2.70068
Costantini, I., Kounali, D., Culpin, I., Bornstein, M. H., & Pearson, R. M. (2025). Longitudinal associations between parental mental health and the duration of visual attention and facial expressions during at-home parent–infant interactions: a UK birth cohort study. Frontiers in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 4. doi:10.3389/frcha.2025.1638234
Ly, A., Fisher, E., P Dunham, J., Attermo Dufva, J., Northstone, K., Jordan, A., . . Pearson R M. Sallis, H. (2024). A summary of pain and pain-related variables in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children. Wellcome Open Research, 9. doi:10.12688/wellcomeopenres.22815.1
López-López, J. A., Tilling, K., Pearson, R. M., Fazel, M. S., Washbrook, E., Zhu, Y., . . . Smith, A. D. A. C. (2024). Depressive symptoms in adolescence and adult educational and employment outcomes: a structured life course analysis. Psychological Medicine, 54(11), 3007-3014. doi:10.1017/S0033291724001090
Pettersen, J. H., Hannigan, L. J., Gustavson, K., Lund, I. O., Pearson, R. M., Jensen, P., . . . Ask, H. (2024). COVID-19 pandemic quarantines and mental health among adolescents in Norway. JAMA Network Open, 7(7). doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.22189
Wright, N., Pearson, R. M., Crook, D., Bond, A., & Jewell, T. (2024). Through each other’s eyes: initial results and protocol for the co-design of an observational measure of adolescent-parent interaction using first-person perspective. Frontiers in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2. doi:10.3389/frcha.2023.1214890
Cadman, T., Strandberg-Larsen, K., Calas, L., Christiansen, M., Culpin, I., Dadvand, P., . . .Pearson R M Pedersen, M. (2024). Urban environment in pregnancy and postpartum depression: An individual participant data meta-analysis of 12 European birth cohorts. Environment International, 185. doi:10.1016/j.envint.2024.108453
Agius, C., Eve, Z., & Pearson, R. (2024). Exploring the lived experiences of compassion fatigue in parents who adopt children with trauma histories. The British Journal of Social Work, 54(1), 147-167. doi:10.1093/bjsw/bcad185
Lees, V., Hay, R., Bould, H., Kwong, A. S. F., Major-Smith, D., Kounali, D., & Pearson, R. M. (2023). The impact of routines on emotional and behavioural difficulties in children and on parental anxiety during COVID-19. Frontiers in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2. doi:10.3389/frcha.2023.1114850
Costantini, I., López-López, J. A., Caldwell, D., Campbell, A., Hadjipanayi, V., Cantrell, S. J., . . . Pearson, R. M. (2023). Early parenting interventions to prevent internalising problems in children and adolescents: a global systematic review and network meta-analysis. BMJ Mental Health, 26(1), e300811. doi:10.1136/bmjment-2023-300811
Lekhuleni, F., Desai, R., Coetzee, B., Pearson, R., & Rochat, T. J. (2023). Testing the acceptability and feasibility of video observational methodology to measure parent-adolescent communication and interaction. Frontiers in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2. doi:10.3389/frcha.2023.1122841
Burgess, R., Culpin, I., Costantini, I., Bould, H., Nabney, I., & Pearson, R. M. (2023). Quantifying the efficacy of an automated facial coding software using videos of parents. Frontiers in Psychology, 14. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1223806
Skinner, A., Costantini, I., Stone, C., Darios, J., Gray, M., Culpin, I., & Pearson, R. M. (2023). Identifying stakeholder priorities in use of wearable cameras for researching parent-child interactions. Frontiers in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2. doi:10.3389/frcha.2023.1111299
Burgess, R., Costantini, I., Bornstein, M. H., Campbell, A., Cordero Vega, M. A., Culpin, I., . . . R M Pearson Nabney, I. (2023). A quantitative evaluation of thin slice sampling for parent–infant interactions. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 47(2), 117-210. doi:10.1007/s10919-022-00420-7
Bornstein, M. H., Putnick, D. L., Esposito, G., & Pearson, R. M. (2023). The nature and structure of maternal parenting practices and infant behaviors in U.S. national and international samples. Frontiers in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2. doi:10.3389/frcha.2023.1124037
Culpin, I., Hammerton, G., Stein, A., Bornstein, M. H., Tiemeier, H., Cadman, T., . . . Pearson, R. (2023). Maternal postnatal depressive symptoms and offspring emotional and behavioral development at age 7 years in a U.K. birth cohort: The role of paternal involvement. Developmental Psychology, 59(4), 770-785. doi:10.1037/dev0001482
Prioreschi, A., Pearson, R., Richter, L., Bennin, F., Theunissen, H., Cantrell, S. J., . . . Norris, S. A. (2023). Protocol for the PLAY Study: A randomised controlled trial of an intervention to improve infant development by encouraging maternal self-efficacy using behavioural feedback. BMJ Open, 13(3). doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2022-064976
Costantini, I., Sallis, H., Tilling, K., Major‐Smith, D., Pearson, R. M., & Kounali, D. (2023). Childhood trajectories of internalising and externalising problems associated with a polygenic risk score for neuroticism in a UK birth cohort study. JCPP Advances, 3(1), e12141. doi:10.1002/jcv2.12141
Burgess, R., Culpin, I., Bould, H., Pearson, R., & Nabney, I. (2023). A Quantitative Comparison of Manual vs. Automated Facial Coding Using Real Life Observations of Fathers. In Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcarer: 16th EAI International Conference, PervasiveHealth 2022, Thessaloniki, Greece, December 12-14, 2022, Proceedings (pp. 379-396). Thessaloniki, Greece: Springer Nature Switzerland. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-34586-9_25
Szekely, E., Laplante, D. P., Tiemeier, H., Evans, J., Pearson, R. M., Bekkhus, M., . . . Wazana, A. (2023). The DREAM BIG project as a model for harmonizing early measures of parental care and parent-child interactions across epidemiological cohorts. Frontiers in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2. doi:10.3389/frcha.2023.1206922
Parry, S., Oakes, L., Eve, Z., Edwards, S., Lobban, F., Chitsabesan, P., & Wong, G. (2025). Realist Review Protocol for Understanding Young People’s Experiences of Engaging with Police Mental Health Practitioner Collaborations in Emergency Responses to Mental Health Crises. Systematic Reviews, 14, 173.
Eve, Z. (2025). Exploring Multiplicity Beyond Medicalisation: A Constructivist Grounded Theory Approach. SAGE Research Methods Cases: Doing Research Online.
Bussu, S., Rubin, K., Carroll, N., & Eve, Z. (2025). It’s a mindset revolution! Co-creating inclusive spaces of participation on youth mental health. Action Research, online first.
Bussu, S., Hidalgo, E. S., Schulbaum, O., & Eve, Z. (2024). Make (digital) space for and with the young: Arts-inspired co-design of civic tech for youth mental health policies. Convergence, online first.
McCulloch, A., Eve, Z., & Parry, S. (2024). Debate: How much should nonspecialists be involved in mental health care for children and young people when resources are limited? Working with police forces to improve mental health crisis care for young people. Child and Adolescent Mental Health [online first].
Eve, Z., Heyes, K., & Parry, S. (2024). “Here’s Dissociative Identity Disorder, and we’re not that”: A constructivist grounded theory exploration of multiplicity experiences. Psychosis, 1-14.
Eve, Z., Duggan, J., & Jay, B. (2024). Worth My Wellbeing Service Evaluation. National Lottery Community Funding.
Eve, Z., Turner, M., Di Basilio, D., et al. (2023). Therapeutic games to reduce anxiety and depression in young people: A systematic review and exploratory meta-analysis of their use and effectiveness. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, 1–14.
Agius, C., Eve, Z., & Pearson, R. (2023). Exploring the Lived Experiences of Compassion Fatigue in Parents who Adopt Children with Trauma Histories. The British Journal of Social Work, bcad185.
Parry, S., Eve, Z., Brockway, A., Di Basilio, D., & Stamou, V. (2023) Exploring the workplace well-being of staff at a new integrated community mental health service for children and young people. Mental Health Practice.
Parry, S., Eve, Z., Stamou, V., Brockway, A., & Di Basilio, D. (2023). “Friendly, local and welcoming” – evaluation of a community mental health early intervention service. Journal of Children’s Services.
Eve, Z., Heyes, K., & Parry, S. (2023). Conceptualizing multiplicity spectrum experiences: A systematic review and thematic synthesis. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, 31(1), e2910