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Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
Researcher at Columbia University
Publications - 670
Citations - 79194
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn is an academic researcher from Columbia University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Child development & Poison control. The author has an hindex of 137, co-authored 664 publications receiving 75265 citations. Previous affiliations of Jeanne Brooks-Gunn include Washington University in St. Louis & Johns Hopkins University.
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Head Start and Urban Children's School Readiness: A Birth Cohort Study in 18 Cities.
TL;DR: Investigating the links between Head Start and school readiness in a large and diverse sample of urban children at age 5 found that Head Start attendance was associated with enhanced cognitive ability and social competence and reduced attention problems but not reduced internalizing or externalizing behavior problems.
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Maternal Mental Health during Children's First Year of Life: Association with Receipt of Section 8 Rental Assistance
Arvin Garg,Lori Burrell,Yorghos Tripodis,Elizabeth Goodman,Jeanne Brooks-Gunn,Anne K. Duggan +5 more
TL;DR: Receipt of Section 8 rental assistance in the first year of a child's life may reduce the risk of poor mental health for mothers in housing need.
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WITHDRAWN:Childhood violence exposure and social deprivation predict adolescent amygdala-orbitofrontal cortex white matter connectivity.
Leigh G. Goetschius,Tyler C. Hein,Colter Mitchell,Nestor L. Lopez-Duran,Vonnie C. McLoyd,Jeanne Brooks-Gunn,Sara McLanahan,Luke W. Hyde,Christopher S. Monk +8 more
TL;DR: In this article, the effects of childhood exposure to two dimensions of adversity, violence exposure and social deprivation, on the adolescent amygdala-PFC white matter connectivity were examined. And the negative correlation between amygdala-orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) connectivity and amygdala activation to threat faces was found.
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Differential associations of parental harshness and parental disengagement with overall cortisol output at 15 years: Implications for adolescent mental health.
Jenalee R. Doom,Melissa K. Peckins,Tyler C. Hein,Tyler C. Hein,Hailey L. Dotterer,Colter Mitchell,Nestor L. Lopez-Duran,Jeanne Brooks-Gunn,Sara McLanahan,Luke W. Hyde,James L. Abelson,Christopher S. Monk +11 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that the unique variances of parental harshness and disengagement may have opposing associations with cortisol output at 15 years, with unclear implications for adolescent mental health.
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Adolescent mothers in later life: The intersecting life courses of adolescent mothers and their children
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the occurrence, timing, and sequencing of these early events in the mother's life course, and examined whether these same life-course events also explain children's outcomes.