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Infant Stress Physiology

• Sheinkopf, S.J., Levine, T., McCormick, C., Puggioni, G., Conradt, E., LaGasse, L.L., & Lester, B.M., & (2019). Developmental trajectories of autonomic functioning in autism from birth to early childhood. Biological Psychology, 142, 13-18.
• Conradt, E., & Ablow, J.C. (2010). Infant physiological response to the still face paradigm: Contributions of maternal sensitivity and infants’ early regulatory behavior. Infant Behavior and Development, 33, 251-265.
• Conradt, E., Ablow, J.C., & Measelle, J. (2013). Poverty, problem behavior and promise: Differential susceptibility among infants reared in poverty. Psychological Science, 24, 235-242.
• Conradt, E., Sheinkopf, S., Lester, B., Tronick, E., LaGasse, L.L., Shankaran, S., Bada, H., Bauer, C.R., Whitaker, T.M., & Hammond, J.A. (2013). Prenatal substance exposure: Neurobiologic organization at 1 month. The Journal of Pediatrics, 163, 989-994.
• Conradt, E., Abar, B., Sheinkopf, S., Lester, B., LaGasse, L.L., Seifer, R., Shankaran, S., Bada, H., Bauer, C.R., Whitaker, T.M., Hinckley, M., Hammond, J.A., & Higgins, R.D. (2014). The roles of prenatal substance exposure and early adversity on parasympathetic functioning from 3 to 6 years of age. Developmental Psychobiology, 56, 821-835.
• Conradt, E., Beauchaine, T., Abar, B., Lester, B.M., Lagasse, L.L., Shankaran, S., Bada, H., Bauer, C.R., Whitaker, T.M., & Hammond, J.A. (2016). RSA reactivity at one month moderates the relation between early caregiving stress exposure and biobehavioral outcomes at age three. Psychophysiology, 53, 83-96.
• Fong, M., Measelle, J., Conradt, E., & Ablow, J. (2017). Links between early baseline cortisol, attachment classification, and problem behaviors: A test of differential susceptibility versus diathesis-stress. Infant Behavior and Development, 46, 158-168.

Behavioral Epigenetics

• Lester, B., Marsit, C., Conradt, E., Bromer, C., & Padbury, J. (2012). Behavioral epigenetics and the developmental origins of child mental health disorders. Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease, 3, 395-408.
• Lester, B. Conradt, E., & Marsit, C. (2013). Epigenetic basis for the development of depression in children. Clinical Obstetrics & Gynecology, 56, 556-565.
• Conradt, E., Lester, B.M., Appleton, A.A., Armstrong, D.A., & Marsit, C.J. (2013). The roles of DNA methylation of NR3C1 and 11β-HSD2 and exposure to maternal mood disorder in utero on newborn neurobehavior. Epigenetics, 8, 1321-1329.
• Armstrong, D.A., Lesseur, C., Conradt, E., Lester, B.M., & Marsit, C.J. (2014). Global and gene-specific DNA methylation across multiple tissues in early infancy: Implications for children’s health research. The Journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology.
• Lester, B.M., Conradt, E., Marsit, C.H. (2014). Are epigenetic changes in the intrauterine environment related to newborn neurobehavior? Epigenomics, 6, 175-180.
• Conradt, E., *Fei, M., LaGasse, L., Tronick, E.Z., Guerin, D., Gorman, D., Marsit, C.J., & Lester. B. (2015). Prenatal predictors of infant self-regulation: The contributions of placental DNA methylation of NR3C1 and neuroendocrine activity. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 9.
• Conradt, E., Lester, B., Hawes, K., Tronick, E., & Marsit. C. (2016). The contributions of maternal sensitivity and maternal depressive symptoms to epigenetic processes and neuroendocrine functioning. Child Development, 87, 73-85.
• Lester, B.M., Conradt, E., & Marsit, C. (2016). Introduction to the special section on epigenetics and child development. Child Development, 87, 29-37.
• Ostlund, B.D., Conradt, E., Crowell, S.E., Tyrka, A.R., Marsit, C.M., & Lester. B.M. (2016). Prenatal stress, fearfulness, and the epigenome: Sex differences in DNA methylation of the glucocorticoid receptor gene. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 10.
• Conradt, E. (2017). Using principles of behavioral epigenetics to advance research on early-life stress. Child Development Perspectives, 11, 107-112.
• Conradt, E., Adkins, D.E., Crowell, S.E., Raby, K.L., Diamond, L., & Ellis, B. (2018) Incorporating epigenetic mechanisms to advance prenatal programming theories. Development and Psychopathology, 30, 807-824.
• Lester, B.M., Conradt, E., Padbury, J., Tronick, E.Z., & Marsit, C.M. (2018). Epigenetic programming by maternal behavior in the human infant. Pediatrics. 142, e20171890.
• Conradt, E., Brendan, B.D.**, Guerin, D., Armstrong, D.A., Marsit, C.J., Tronick, E., LaGasse, L., & Lester, B.M. (2019). DNA methylation of NR3c1 in infancy: associations between maternal caregiving and infant sex. Infant Mental Health Journal, 1-8.

Maternal Mood Disorder

• Conradt, E., Manian, N., & Bornstein, M.H. (2012). Screening for depression in the postpartum using the Beck Depression Inventory-II: What logistic regression reveals. Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology, 30, 427-435.
• Conradt, E., Lester, B.M., Appleton, A.A., Armstrong, D.A., & Marsit, C.J. (2013). The roles of DNA methylation of NR3C1 and 11β-HSD2 and exposure to maternal mood disorder in utero on newborn neurobehavior. Epigenetics, 8, 1321-1329.
• Conradt, E., Lester, B., Hawes, K., Tronick, E., & Marsit. C. (2016). The contributions of maternal sensitivity and maternal depressive symptoms to epigenetic processes and neuroendocrine functioning. Child Development, 87, 73-85.
• Ostlund, B.D.*, Measelle, J., Laurent, H., Conradt, E., & Ablow, J. (2017). Shaping emotion regulation: Attunement, symptomatology, and stress recovery within mother-infant dyads. Developmental Psychobiology, 59, 15-25.
• Conradt, E., Adkins, D. E., Crowell, S.E., Monk, C., & Kobor, M.S. (2018). An epigenetic pathway approach to investigating associations between prenatal exposure to maternal mood disorder and newborn neurobehavior. Development and Psychopathology 30, 881-890.

Prenatal Opioid and Other Substance Exposure

• Conradt, E., Sheinkopf, S., Lester, B., Tronick, E., LaGasse, L.L., Shankaran, S., Bada, H., Bauer, C.R., Whitaker, T.M., & Hammond, J.A. (2013). Prenatal substance exposure: Neurobiologic organizationat 1 month. The Journal of Pediatrics, 163, 989-994.
• Conradt, E., LaGasse, L.L., Shankaran, S., Bada, H., Bauer, C.R., Whitaker, T.M., Hammond, J.A., & Lester, B.M. (2013). Physiologic correlates of neurobehavioral disinhibition that relate to drug use and risky sexual behavior in adolescents with prenatal substance exposure. Developmental Neuroscience, 36, 306-315.
• Conradt, E., Abar, B., Sheinkopf, S., Lester, B., LaGasse, L.L., Seifer, R., Shankaran, S., Bada, H., Bauer, C.R., Whitaker, T.M., Hinckley, M., Hammond, J.A., & Higgins, R.D. (2014). The roles of prenatal substance exposure and early adversity on parasympathetic functioning from 3 to 6 years of age. Developmental Psychobiology, 56, 821-835.
• Conradt, E., Fisher, P., DeGarmo, D., Abar, B., Lester, B., LaGasse, L.L., Shankaran, S., Bada, H., Bauer, C.R., Whitaker, T.M., & Hammond, J.A. (2014). The contributions of early adverse experiences and trajectories of RSA on the development of neurobehavioral disinhibition among children with prenatal substance exposure. Development and Psychopathology, 26, 901-916.
• Conradt, E., Abar, B., Lester, B.M., LaGasse, L.L., Shankaran, S., Bada, H., Bauer, C.R., Whitaker, T.M., & Hammond, J.A. (2014). Cortisol reactivity to social stress as a mediator of early adversity on risk and adaptive outcomes, Child Development, 85, 2279-2298.
• Conradt, E., Beauchaine, T., Abar, B., Lester, B.M., Lagasse, L.L., Shankaran, S., Bada, H., Bauer, C.R., Whitaker, T.M., & Hammond, J.A. (2016). RSA reactivity at one month moderates the relation between early caregiving stress exposure and biobehavioral outcomes at age three. Psychophysiology, 53, 83-96.
• Conradt, E.**, LaGasse, L.**, Karalunas, S.L., Dansereau, L.M., Butner, J.E., & Lester, B.M. (2016). Transactional relations between caregiving stress, executive functioning, and problem behavior from early childhood to adolescence. Development and Psychopathology 28, 743-756.
• Conradt, E., Crowell, S.E., & Lester, B.M. (2018). Early life stress and environmental influences on the neurodevelopment of children with prenatal opioid exposure. Neurobiology of Stress, 9, 48-54.
• Lin, B.**, Ostlund, B.D.**, Conradt, E., LaGasse, L., & Lester, B. (2018). Testing the programming of temperament and psychopathology in two independent samples of children with prenatal substance exposure. Development and Psychopathology, 30, 1023-1040
• Terrell, S.**, Conradt, E., LaGasse, L., & Lester, B.M. (2019). A developmental origins perspective on the emergence of violent behavior in males. Infant Mental Health Journal 40, 54-66.
• Conradt, E., Flannery, T., Aschner, J., Croen, L., Duarte, C., Friedman, A., Guiille, C., Hedderson, M., Hofheimer, J., Jones, M., Ladd-Acosta, C., McGrath, M., Moreland, A., Neiderhiser, J., Nguyen, R., Posner, J., Ross, J., Savitz, D., Ondersma, S., & Lester, B.M. (2019). Prenatal opioid exposure: Neurodevelopmental consequences and future research priorities. Pediatrics, 144.

Newborn Neurobehavior

• Conradt, E., Sheinkopf, S., Lester, B., Tronick, E., LaGasse, L.L., Shankaran, S., Bada, H., Bauer, C.R., Whitaker, T.M., & Hammond, J.A. (2013). Prenatal substance exposure: Neurobiologic organization at 1 month. The Journal of Pediatrics, 163, 989-994.
• Conradt, E., Lester, B.M., Appleton, A.A., Armstrong, D.A., & Marsit, C.J. (2013). The roles of DNA methylation of NR3C1 and 11β-HSD2 and exposure to maternal mood disorder in utero on newborn neurobehavior. Epigenetics, 8, 1321-1329.
• Lester, B.M., Conradt, E., Marsit, C.H. (2014). Are epigenetic changes in the intrauterine environment related to newborn neurobehavior? Epigenomics, 6, 175-180.
• Hogan, W., Winter, S., Pinto, N., Weng, C., Sheng, X., Conradt, E., Wood, J., Puchalski, M., Tani, L., & Miller, T.A. (2018). Neurobehavioral evaluation of neonates with congenital heart disease. Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology 60, 1225-1231.
• Ostlund, B.**, Vlisides-Henry, R.D., Crowell, S.E., Raby, K.L., Terrell, S., Brown, M.**, Tinajero, R., Shakiba, N.**, Monk, C., Shakib, J., Buchi, K.F., & Conradt, E. (2019). Intergenerational transmission of emotion dysregulation part II: Developmental origins of newborn neurobehavioral risk for psychopathology. Development and Psychopathology.

Emotion Dysregulation

• Ostlund, B.**, Vlisides-Henry, R.D., Crowell, S.E., Raby, K.L., Terrell, S., Brown, M.**, Tinajero, R., Shakiba, N.**, Monk, C., Shakib, J., Buchi, K.F., & Conradt, E. (2019). Intergenerational transmission of emotion dysregulation part II: Developmental origins of newborn neurobehavioral risk for psychopathology. Development and Psychopathology.
• Lin, B.**, Kaliush, P.R., Conradt, E., Terrell, S.M.**, Neff, D.**, Allen, A.**, Smid, M.C., Monk, C., & Crowell, S.E. (2019). Intergenerational transmission of emotion dysregulation part I: Psychopathology, self-injury, and parasympathetic responsivity among pregnant women. Development and Psychopathology.

*Denotes student co-author **The first and second authors contributed equally to this work