ArticleDevelopment and psychopathology2022
Getting in synch: Unpacking the role of parent-child synchrony in the development of internalizing and externalizing behaviors.
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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
- A developmental framework of interpersonal neural synchrony.Developmental review : DR · 2025Article
- Emotion and Feeling in Parent-Child Dyads: Neurocognitive and Psychophysiological Pathways of Development.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Adding to the burden: the tendency to resonate with others' stress is linked to higher PTSD symptom severity in individuals with war-related trauma.Translational psychiatry · 2025Article
- Constructing the "Family Personality": Can Family Functioning Be Linked to Parent-Child Interpersonal Neural Synchronization?Journal of personality · 2025Article
- Neural hyperscanning in caregiver-child dyads: A paradigm for studying the long-term effects of facilitated vs. disrupted attention on working memory and executive functioning in young children.Developmental review : DR · 2025Article
- Mother-Infant Dyadic Neural Synchrony Measured Using EEG Hyperscanning and Validated Using Behavioral Measures.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Caregiver-child neural synchrony: Magic, mirage, or developmental mechanism?Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2025Review
- Synchrony Across Brains.Annual review of psychology · 2025Review
- Dance with me? Analyzing interpersonal synchrony and quality of interaction during joint dance.Behavior research methods · 2024Article
- Sensitive infant care tunes a frontotemporal interbrain network in adolescence.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- How parent-child brain-to-brain synchrony can inform the study of child development.Child development perspectives · 2024Article
- It takes a village: A multi-brain approach to studying multigenerational family communication.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2024Article
- From behavioral synchrony to language and beyond.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2024Review
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Abstract
While substantial research supports the role of parent-child interactions on the emergence of psychiatric symptoms, few studies have explored biological mechanisms for this association. The current study explored behavioral and neural parent-child synchronization during frustration and play as predictors of internalizing and externalizing behaviors across a span of 1.5 years. Parent-child dyads first came to the laboratory when the child was 4-5 years old and completed the Disruptive Behavior Diagnostic Observation Schedule: Biological Synchrony (DB-DOS: BioSync) task while functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) data were recorded. Parents reported on their child's internalizing and externalizing behaviors using the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) four times over 1.5 years. Latent growth curve (LGC) modeling was conducted to assess neural and behavioral synchrony as predictors of internalizing and externalizing trajectories. Consistent with previous investigations in this age range, on average, internalizing and externalizing behaviors decreased over the four time points. Parent-child neural synchrony during a period of play predicted rate of change in internalizing but not externalizing behaviors such that higher parent-child neural synchrony was associated with a more rapid decrease in internalizing behaviors. Our results suggest that a parent-child dyad's ability to coordinate neural activation during positive interactions might serve as a protective mechanism in the context of internalizing behaviors.
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