ArticleJournal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines2020
Parent-child neural synchrony: a novel approach to elucidating dyadic correlates of preschool irritability.
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- A Systematic Review on Parent-Child Synchrony: The Role of Stress, Resilience and Psychopathology.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2026Pooled it
- Understanding irritability through the lens of self-regulatory control processes in children and adolescents: a systematic review.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- Interpersonal Synchrony in the Context of Caregiver-Child Interactions: A Document Co-citation Analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Pooled it
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- Parent-Child Neural Similarity and Synchrony: Toward an Integrative Framework.The Neuroscientist : a review journal bringing neurobiology, neurology and psychiatry · 2026Review
- Mother-Child Synchrony and Behavioral Problems in Chinese Children: A Preliminary fNIRS-Hyperscanning Study.Brain and behavior · 2026Article
- HRNeurophotonics · 2026Article
- Utilizing functional neuroimaging to study early language development.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2025Review
- A developmental framework of interpersonal neural synchrony.Developmental review : DR · 2025Article
- Constructing the "Family Personality": Can Family Functioning Be Linked to Parent-Child Interpersonal Neural Synchronization?Journal of personality · 2025Article
- Analytical pipeline optimisation in developmental fNIRS hyperscanning data: Neural coherence between 4- to 6-year old children collaborating with their mothers.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
- Inter-brain synchrony to delineate the social impairment in autism spectrum disorder: a systematic review on hyperscanning studies.Psychoradiology · 2025Review
- Synchrony Across Brains.Annual review of psychology · 2025Review
- Caregiver-child neural synchrony: Magic, mirage, or developmental mechanism?Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2025Review
- Capturing the complexity of child behavior and caregiver-child interactions in the HEALthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study using a rigorous and equitable approach.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2024Article
- Sensitive infant care tunes a frontotemporal interbrain network in adolescence.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- A network approach to the investigation of childhood irritability: probing frustration using social stimuli.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2024Article
- Interbrain substrates of role switching during mother-child interaction.Human brain mapping · 2024Article
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backgroundResearch to date has largely conceptualized irritability in terms of intraindividual differences. However, the role of interpersonal dyadic processes has received little consideration. Nevertheless, difficulties in how parent-child dyads synchronize during interactions may be an important correlate of irritably in early childhood. Innovations in developmentally sensitive neuroimaging methods now enable the use of measures of neural synchrony to quantify synchronous responses in parent-child dyads and can help clarify the neural underpinnings of these difficulties. We introduce the Disruptive Behavior Diagnostic Observation Schedule: Biological Synchrony (DB-DOS:BioSync) as a paradigm for exploring parent-child neural synchrony as a potential biological mechanism for interpersonal difficulties in preschool psychopathology.
methodsUsing functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) 4- to 5-year-olds (N = 116) and their mothers completed the DB-DOS:BioSync while assessing neural synchrony during mild frustration and recovery. Child irritability was measured using a latent irritability factor that was calculated from four developmentally sensitive indicators.
resultsBoth the mild frustration and the recovery contexts resulted in neural synchrony. However, less neural synchrony during the recovery context only was associated with more child irritability.
conclusionsOur results suggest that recovering after a frustrating period might be particularly challenging for children high in irritability and offer support for the use of the DB-DOS:BioSync task to elucidate interpersonal neural mechanisms of developmental psychopathology.
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