Extracellular Vesicles as Candidate Mediators of Brain–Body Communication Following Early-Life Adversity.
Callaghan, B. L. (in press). Biological Psychiatry
Striving and thriving: Gender differences in the effects of climbing the socioeconomic ladder on stress and discrimination.
Wong, M. D., Meza B. P. L., Callaghan B. L., Silvers J. A., Tomiyama A. J., Narain K., & Dudovitz R. N., (2026). Social Science and Medicine, 391:118923. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.118923.
Examining associations among caregiver stress, social support, and the infant gut microbiota.
Vogel, S. C., Querdasi, F. R., Callaghan, B. L., & Brito, N. (2025). Scientific Reports.
Childhood gut microbiome is linked to internalizing symptoms at school age via the functional connectome.
Querdasi, F. R., Uy, J. P., Labus, J. S., Xu, J., Karnani, N. Tan, A. P., Broekman, B. B. F. P., Luckman, P. D., Chong, Y. S., Chen, H., Fortier, M. V., Daniel, M. L., Yap, F., Eriksson, J. G., Cai, S., Chong, M. F-F., Toh, J. Y., Godfrey, K. M., Meaney, M. J., Callaghan, B. L. (2025). Nature Communications, 16 (1), 9359.
Conflict resolution dynamics with stable caregivers confer resilience for youth exposed to early caregiving-related adversity.
Somers, J. A., Querdasi, F. R., Xu, S., Aghajani, M., Sun, Q. C., Li, W. L., Nussbaum, S., Chu, K. A., Gancz, N., Towner, E. & Callaghan, B. L. (2025). Development and Psychopathology, 1-15. 5.
Alexithymia mediates the relationship between discrimination and anxiety in women.
Savoca, P. W., Esfand, S., Fabian, A., & Callaghan, B. L.
Stigma & Health (2025)
Development and validation of a novel microcoding system for caregiver and child behavior
Somers, J. A., Querdasi, F.R., Aghajani, M., Sun, Q. C., Xu, S., Li, L. W., Nussbaum, S., Chu, K., Gancz, N., Towner, E. & Callaghan, B. L.
Developmental Psychology (2025)
A call to integrate measures of environmental context into research on maternal brain health.
Cárdenas, S. I., & Callaghan, B. L.
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (2025)
Understanding the development of a functional brain circuit: Reward processing as an illustration.
Opendak, M., Meyer, H., Callaghan, B. L., Abramson, L., Bath, K., Lee, F., Tottenham, N., Sullivan, R., & John, S.
Translational Psychiatry (2025)
Cognition and motherhood: A key to understanding perinatal mental health.
Callaghan, B. L. & Pawluski, J.L.
The mind, brain, and body study: A protocol for examining the effects of the gut-brain-immune axis on internalizing symptoms in youth exposed to caregiving-related early adversity
Esfand, S.M., Querdasi, F.R., Gancz, N.N., Savoca, P.W., Nussabaum, S., Somers, J.A., Ditzer, J., Figueroa, Chu, K., Towner, E., & Callaghan, B.L. Brain, Behavioral, and Immunity - Health (2024)
Interoception in pregnancy: Implications for peripartum depression
Savoca, P. W., Glynn, L. M., Fox, M. M., Richards, M. C., & Callaghan, B. L.
Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews (2024)
Transactional models of depression via caregiver-child interactions: Evaluating conflict resolution as a source of resilience in adversity-exposed families.
Somers, J.A., Querdasi, F.R., Chu, K.A., Gancz, N., Towner, E. & Callaghan, B. L.
Characteristics of the oral microbiome in youth exposed to caregiving adversity
Gancz, N. N., Querdasi, F. R., Chu, K. A., Towner, E., Taylor, E., & Callaghan, B. L.
Brain, Behavior, Immunity: Health (2024)
Exploring the impact of maternal early life adversity on interoceptive sensibility in pregnancy: Implications for prenatal depression
Savoca, P. W., Glynn, L. M., Fox, M. M., Richards, M. C., & Callaghan, B. L.
Archives of Women’s Mental Health (2024)
No association found: Adverse childhood experiences and cognitive impairment in older Australian adults
Lian, J., Kiely, K. M., Callaghan, B. L., Eramudugolla, R., Mortby, M., & Anstey, K. J.
The Journal for the Prevention of Alzheimer’s Disease (2024)
Understanding the maternal brain in the context of the mental load of motherhood
Callaghan, B. L., McCormack, C., Kim, P., & Pawluski, J.
Nature Mental Health (2024)
The effects of parental presence on amygdala and mPFC activation during fear conditioning: An exploratory study
Abramson, L., Callaghan, B. L., Silvers, J. A., Choy, T., Van Tieghem, M., Vannucci, A., Fields, A., & Tottenham, N.
Developmental Science (2024)
MEDIC: Development and validation of a new instrument to assess emotional reactivity to medical stimuli in a representative community sample of adults
Phillips, K., Callaghan, B. L., Webb, A., Kan, J., Ooi, C. Y., & Kasparian, N. A.
Journal of Psychiatric Research (2024)
Childhood adversity is associated with anxiety and depression in older adults: A cumulative risk and latent class analysis
Lian, J., Kiely, K. M., Callaghan, B. L., & Anstey, K. J.
Journal of Affective Disorders (2024)