The oral microbiome is associated with stress, adversity, and mental health in young adults
Gancz, N. N., Savoca, P. W., & Callaghan, B. L.
Scientific Reports (2026)
Does sex moderate health and Alzheimer's disease risk tied to early educational experiences? The reducing inequities through social and educational change follow-up in early adulthood extension study…
Coury, S. M., Lopez, S. D., Savoca, P.W., Gaines, E. M., Parenti, B., Razon, A., Dosanjh, K. K., Labus, J. S., Jacobs, J. P., Eich, T. S., Wong, M. D., Callaghan, B. L.,* & Silvers, J. A.*
A protocol for the Teen Bugs study
Flores, G. D., Damon, Z. F., Ford, M., Gancz, N. N., Savoca, P. W., Esfand, S. M., Chu, K. A., Querdasi, F. R., McCann, C. F., Westman, J. G., Labus, J. S., Clewett, D., Parr, A. C., Hsiao, E. Y., Jacobs, J., Silvers, J., & Callaghan, B. L.
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.
Social Science & Medicine (2026)
Examining associations among caregiver stress, social support, and the infant gut microbiota.
Vogel, S. C., Querdasi, F. R., Callaghan, B. L., & Brito, N.
Scientific Reports (2025)
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.
Nature Communications (2025)
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.
Exploring the relationships between discrimination, alexithymia, 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.
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)