Rebecca Brooker

Emotional and Biological Risk Factors for Anxiety Problems in Early Life Neurodevelopmental Correlates of Risk for Psychopathology Identifying Normative and Atypical Developmental Trajectories of Emotion Development Gene-environment Interplay in the Development of Risk for Anxiety Problems Transactional mechanisms of risk for anxiety in parents and offspring Plasticity of the maternal brain during the perinatal period Affiliated Research Cluster Personality Processes, & Affective Science. Developmental psychology; emotional and biological risk factors for anxiety and psychopathology in early life.

Mistry-Patel, S. & Brooker, R.J. (2023). Socioeconomic status as a moderator of neural and parental pathways to anxiety risk in early childhood. Developmental Psychology, 59(5), 801-812. doi:10.1037/dev0001461 Brooker, R.J., Mistry, S., Kiel, E.J., Liu, S., VanLieshout, R.J., Schmidt, L.A., & John-Henderson, N. (2023). Infant negative reactivity modulates trajectories of maternal mental health symptoms during the pre- to postpartum period. Journal of Affective Disorders Reports, 11, 100481. doi: 10.1016/j.jadr.2023.100481 Kling, J.L., Mistry-Patel, S., Peoples, S.G., Caldera, D.R., & Brooker, R.J. (2023) Prenatal maternal depression predicts neural maturation and negative emotion and emotion in infants. Infant Behavior and Development, 70, 101802. doi: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2022.101802