Publications
We explore the ways everyday experiences impact the brains of new parents and their babies. Our research has been published in encyclopedias, handbooks and journals including Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Frontiers in Psychology and many others. Learn more about our recent publications.
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2023 and in press
Chin, J., Lee, S., Ashraf, M., Zago, M., Xie, Y., Wolfgram, E, Yeh, T., & Kim, P. (in press). Interactive Storytelling with the Generative AI vs. Parent: Comparing Interactive Styles. In CHI EA '24: Extended Abstracts of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Acceptance Rate: 33.88%).
Swain, J.E., Shaun Ho, S., Nakamura, Y., Patterson, G., Gopang, M., & Kim, P. (2024). Parent-Infant Adaptive Biobehavioral Intersubjectivity. In: Osofsky, J.D., Fitzgerald, H.E., Keren, M., Puura, K. (eds) WAIMH Handbook of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health (pp. 205-226). Springer, Cham.
Powers, S., Han, X., Martinez, J., Dufford, A. J., Metz, T. D., Yeh, T., & Kim, P. (2023). Cannabis use during pregnancy and hemodynamic responses to infant cues in pregnancy: an exploratory study. Frontiers in psychiatry, 14, 1180947.
Haring, K., Kim, P., & Pittman, D. (2023). Explainable Robot Design Based on a Robot Theory of Mind: A Web-Based Platform to systematically evaluate Robot Designs. ICRA2023 Workshop on Explainable Robotics.
Powers, S., Han, X., Martinez, J., Dufford, A. J., Metz, T.D., Yeh, T., & Kim, P. (in press). Cannabis Use during Pregnancy and Hemodynamic Responses to Infant Cues in Pregnancy: An Exploratory Study. Frontiers in Psychiatry.
Dufford, A. J., Evans, G. W., & Kim, P. (in press). Poverty and Socioeconomic Adversity. In Bornstein, M. H. & Shah, P. E. (Eds.), APA Handbook of Pediatric Psychology, Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics, and Developmental Science.
Ashraf, M., Patterson, G., Kilhoffer, Z., Han, X., Brady, N., Rahn, A., Atluri, N., Oliver, V., Huang, Y., Wang, Y., Kim, P., & Yeh, T. (2023). Using fNIRS To Understand Adults’ Empathy for Children in AI and Cybersecurity Scenarios. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference, Chicago, IL
Alex, A. M., Buss, C., Davis, E. P., de los Campos, G., Donald, K. A., Fair, D. A., ..., Kim, P.,…& Knickmeyer, R. (2023). Genetic Influences on the Developing Young Brain and Risk for Neuropsychiatric Disorders. Biological Psychiatry, 93, 905-920.
&Aran, Ö., &Phu, T., Erhart, A., Watamura, S. E., & Kim, P. (2023). Neural activation to infant cry among Latina and White American mothers. Behavioural Brain Research, 441, 114298 &Equal Contributions
Kilhoffer, Z., Zhou, Z., Wang, F., Tamton, F., Huang, Y., Kim, P., Yeh, T., & Wang, Y. (2023). How technical do you get? I'm an English teacher": Teaching and Learning Cybersecurity and AI Ethics in High School. Proceedings of the 44th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P 2023).
Chin, J., Haring, K. S., & Kim, P. (2023). Understanding the Neural Mechanisms of Robot Empathy to shape Future Applications. Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 17, 1145989
Doherty, E. J., Spencer, C. A., Burnison, J., Čeko, M., Chin, J., Eloy, L., Haring, K., Kim, P., Pittman, D., Powers, S., Pugh, S. L., Roumis, D., Stephens, J. A., Yeh, T., & Hirshfield, L. (2023). Interdisciplinary views of fNIRS: Current advancements, equity challenges, and an agenda for future needs of a diverse fNIRS research community [Review]. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 17.
Kim, P., Grande, L. A., Dufford, A. J., Erhart, A., Tribble, R., & Yeh, T. (2022). Trait coping styles and the maternal neural and behavioral sensitivity to an infant. Scientific reports, 12(1), 1-12.
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2021–2022
Crume, T. L., Powers, S., Dufford, A. J., & Kim, P. (2022). Cannabis and Pregnancy: factors associated with cannabis use among pregnant women and the consequences for offspring neurodevelopment and early postpartum parenting behavior. Current Addition Reports, 9(3), 195-202
&Capistrano, C. G., &Grande, L., McRae, K., Phan, K. L., & Kim, P. (2022). Maternal Socioeconomic Disadvantage, Neural Function During Volitional Emotion Regulation, and Parenting. Social Neuroscience, 17(3), 276-292. &Equal Contributions
Kim, P., Chen, H, Dufford, A. J., Tribble, R., Gilmore, J., & Gao, W. (2022). Intergenerational Neuroimaging Study: Mother-Infant Functional Connectivity Similarity and the Role of Infant and Maternal Factors. Cerebral Cortex, 32(15), 3175-3186
Pittman, D., Haring, K. S., Kim, P., Dossett, B., Ehman, G., Gutierrez-Gutierrez, E., Patil, S., & Sanchez, A. (2022). A Novel Online Robot Design Research Platform to Determine Robot Mind Perception. In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction.
Dufford, A. J., Salzwedelb, A. P., Gilmore, J. H., Gao, W., & Kim, P. (2021) Maternal Trait Anxiety Symptoms, Frontolimbic Resting-State Functional Connectivity, and Cognitive Development in Infancy. Developmental Psychobiology, 63(6), e22166.
Grande, L., Olsavsky, A., Erhart, A., Dufford, A.J., Tribble, R., Phan, K.L., & Kim, P. (2021). Postpartum stress and neural regulation of emotion among first-time mothers. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 21(5), 1066-1082.
Hubbard, L. J., Ding, S., Le, V., Kim, P., & Yeh, T. (2021). Who’s Talking to Me? Supporting Young Children’s Agency in Child-Agent Interaction. CUI ’21: Proceedings of the ACM 3rd Conference on Conversational User Interfaces.
Hubbard, L. J., Chen, Y., Colunga, E., Kim, P., & Yeh, T. (2021). Child-robot interaction to integrate reflective storytelling into early childhood creative play. CUI ’21: Proceedings of the ACM 13th Conference on Creativity and Cognition.
Olsavsky, A. K., Stoddard, J., Erhart, A., Tribble, R., & Kim, P. (2021). Maternal childhood maltreatment exposure, amygdala activation and functional connectivity to infant cry. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 16, 418-427.
Kim, P. (2021). How stress can influence brain adaptations to motherhood. Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology, 60, 100875.
Kim, P., Tribble, R., Olsavsky, A., Dufford, A. J., Erhart, A., Hansen, M., Grande, L., & Gonzalez, D. M. (2020). Associations between stress exposure and new mothers' brain responses to infant cry sounds. NeuroImage, 223, 117360.
Grande, L., Tribble, R. C., & Kim, P. (2020). Maternal and Paternal Brain Plasticity, In H. E. Fitzgerald, K. von Klitzing, N. Cabrera, T. Skjothaug, & J. S. de Nendonca (Eds.), Handbook of Fathers and Child Development - Prenatal to Preschool (pp. 153-171). New York: Springer Nature.
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2018–2020
Phu, T., Erhart, A., Kim, P., & Watamura, S.E. (2020).Two open windows: Part II – New Research on Infant and Caregiver Neurobiological Change. Ascend: the Aspen Institute.
Grande, L., Tribble, R. C., & Kim, P. (in press). Maternal and Paternal Brain Plasticity, In H. E. Fitzgerald, K. von Klitzing, N. Cabrera, T. Skjothaug, & J. S. de Nendonca (Eds.), Handbook of Fathers and Child Development - Prenatal to Preschool. New York: Springer Nature.
Dufford, A. J., Evans, G. W., Dmitrieva, J., Swain, J. E., Liberzon, I., & Kim, P. (2020). Prospective associations, longitudinal patterns of childhood socioeconomic status, and white matter organization in adulthood. Human Brain Mapping, 41, 3580-3593
Dufford, A. J., Kim, P., & Evans, G. W. (2020). The impact of childhood poverty on brain health: Emerging evidence from neuroimaging across the lifespan. International Review of Neurobiology, 152, 77-105.
Olsavsky, A. K., Stoddard, J., Erhart, A., Tribble, R. C., & Kim, P. (2019). Neural processing of infant and adult face emotion and maternal exposure to childhood maltreatment. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 14, 997-1008.
Dufford, A. J., Erhart, A., & Kim, P. (2019). Maternal brain resting‐state connectivity in the postpartum period. Journal of Neuroendocrinology, e12737.
Erhart, A., Dmitrieva, J., Blair, R.J., Kim, P. (2019) Intensity, not emotion: The role of poverty in emotion labeling ability in middle childhood, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 180, 131-140.
Dufford, A. J., Bianco, H., & Kim, P. (2019) Socioeconomic disadvantage, brain morphology, and attentional bias to threat in middle childhood, Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience. 19, 309-326.
Rigo, P., Kim, P., Esposito, G., Putnick, D., Venuti, P., & Bornstein, M. (2019) Specific maternal brain responses to their own baby's face: An fMRI meta-analysis. Developmental Review, 51, 58-69.
Erhart, A., Olsavsky, A., & Kim, P. (2019). Bonding, In S. Hupp & J. Jewell (Eds.), The Encyclopedia of Child and Adolescent Development (pp. 1-13). West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons.
Tribble, R. C. & Kim, P. (2019). Intergenerational transmission of poverty: How low socioeconomic status impacts the neurobiology of two generations. In A. W. Harrist & S. M. Wilson (Series Eds.) and B. Gardner & A. W. Harrist (Vol. Eds.), Emerging Issues in Family and Individual Resilience: Vol. 3. Biobehavioral markers in risk and resilience research. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International, pp. 49-67.
Kim, P., Dufford, A. J., & Tribble, R. C. (2018). Cortical thickness variation of the maternal brain in the first 6 months postpartum: associations with parental self-efficacy. Brain Structure and Function, 1-11.
Kim, P., Evans, G. W., Chen, E., Miller, G. E., & Seeman, T. E. (2018). How socioeconomic disadvantages get under the skin and into the brain across the lifespan. In N. Halfon, C. Forrest, R. Lerner, & E. Faustman (Eds.), The Handbook of Life Course Health Development (pp. 463-497). New York, NY: Springer.
Ganzel, B. L. &, Kim, P. (2018). Allostatic Load. In M. Arterberry, M. H. Bornstein, K. Fingerman, & J. E. Lansford (Eds.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of Lifespan Human Development.
Kim, P., Evans, G. W., & Dufford, A. J. (2018). Poverty and Brain Development. In M. Arterberry, M. H. Bornstein, K. Fingerman, & J. E. Lansford (Eds.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of Lifespan Human Development.
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2015–2017
Dufford, A. J., & Kim, P. (2017). Family Income, Cumulative Risk Exposure, and White Matter Structure in Middle Childhood. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 11.
Kim, P., Capistrano, C., Erhart, A., Gray-Schiff, R., & Xu, N. (2017). Socioeconomic Disadvantage, Neural Responses to Infant Emotions, and Emotional Availability among First-time New Mothers. Behavioral Brain Research.
Stoddard, J., Tseng, W., Kim, P., Yi, J., Donahue, L., Brotman, M. A., Towbin, K., Pine, D. S., Leibenluft, E. (2017). Association of Irritability and Anxiety With the Neural Mechanisms of Implicit Face Emotion Processing in Youths With Psychopathology, Jama psychiatry.
Wiggins, J.L., Brotman, M.A., Adleman, N.E., Kim, P., Wambach, C.G., Reynolds, R.C., Chen, G., Towbin, K., Pine, D.S., Leibenluft, E. (2017). Neural markers in pediatric bipolar disorder and familial risk for bipolar disorder, Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
Javanbakht, A., Kim, P., Swain, J. E., Evans, G. W., & Liberzon, I. (2016). Sex Specific Effects of Childhood Poverty on Neurocircuitry of Emotional Processing of Social Cues: A Neuroimaging Study. Behavioral Science, 6(4).
Wiggins, J.L., Brotman, M.A., Adleman, N.E., Kim, P., Oakes, A.H., Reynolds, R.C., Chen, G., Pine, D.S., Leibenluft, E. (2016). Neural correlates of irritability in disruptive mood dysregulation and bipolar disorders. American Journal of Psychiatry, 173(7), 722-730.
Kim, P., Capistrano, C., & Congleton, C. (2016). Socioeconomic Disadvantages and Neural Sensitivity to Infant Cry: Role of Maternal Distress. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (SCAN), 11, 1597-1607
Capistrano, C., Bianco, H., & Kim, P. (2016). Poverty and internalizing symptoms: The indirect effect of middle childhood poverty on internalizing symptoms via an emotional response inhibition pathway, Frontiers in Psychology.
Kim, P. (2016). Human Maternal Brain Plasticity: Adaptation to Parenting, New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 153, 47-58.
Kim, P., Neuendorf, C. L., Bianco, H., & Evans, G. W. (2016). Exposure to Childhood Poverty and Mental Health Symptomatology in Adolescence: A Role of Coping Strategies. Stress and Health, 32, 494-502.
Du, X., Li, Y., Ran, Q., Kim, P., Ganzel, B. L., Liang, G., Hao, L., Zhang, Q., Meng, H., & Qiu, J (2016). Subliminal trauma reminders impact neural processing of cognitive control in adults with developmental earthquake trauma: a preliminary report, Experimental Brain Research, 234, 905-916.
Kim, P. , Strathearn, L., & Swain, J. E. (2016). The maternal brain and its plasticity in humans. Hormones and Behavior , 77 , 113-123.
Wiggins, J. L., Adleman, N. E., Kim, P., Oakes, A. H., Hsu, D., Reynolds, R. C., Chen, G., Pine, D. S., Brotman, M. A., Leibenluft, E. (2016). Developmental differences in the neural mechanisms of facial emotion labeling . Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 11 , 172-181.
Kim, P., Ho, S. S., Evans, G. W., Liberzon, I., & Swain, J. E. (2015). Childhood social inequalities influence neural processes in young adult caregiving. Developmental psychobiology, 57(8), 948-960.
Kim, P., Rigo, P., Leckman, J. F., Mayes, L. C., Cole, P. M., Feldman, R., & Swain, J. E. (2015). A Prospective and Longitudinal Study of Perceived Infant Outcomes at 18-24 months: Neural and Psychological Correlates of Parental Thoughts and Actions Assessed During the First Month Postpartum. Frontiers in Psychology, 6:1772.
Du, X., Wei, D., Ganzel, B. L., Kim, P ., Zhang, Q., & Qiu, J. (2015). Adolescent earthquake survivors’ show increased prefrontal cortex activation to masked earthquake images as adults , International Journal of Psychophysiology, 95, 292-298 .
White Papers
Kim, P. & Watamura, S. E. (2015). 2GEN Intervention Approaches: Maximizing Investment by Supporting Change during Paired Biologically Meaningful Sensitive Periods. Ascend: the Aspen Institute. -
2012–2014
Kim, P., Rigo, P., Mayes, L. C., Feldman, R, Leckman, J. F., & Swain, J. E. (2014). Neural Plasticity in Fathers of Human Infants, Social Neuroscience, 9, 522-535.
Swain, J. E., Dayton, C. J., Kim, P., Ho, S. S., Tolman, R. M., & Volling, B. L. (2014). Progress on the Paternal Brain: Theory, Animal Models, Human Brain Research and Mental Health Implications. Infant Mental Health Journal, 35, 394-408.
Swain, J. E., Kim, P., Spicer, J. Ho, S. S., Dayton, C. J., Elmadih, A., & Abel, K. M . (2014). Approaching the biology of human parental attachment: brain imaging, oxytocin and coordinated assessments of mothers and fathers, Brain Research, 1580, 78-101.
Kim, P. & Bianco, H. (2014). How Motherhood and Poverty Change the Brain. Zero to Three, 34(4), 29-36.
Sripada, C., Angstadt, M., Kessler, D., Phan, K. L., Liberzon, I., Evans, G. W., Welsh, R., Kim, P., & Swain, J. E. (2014). Altered interrelationships between visual, attention control, and default networks during volitional regulation of emotion,NeuroImage, 89, 110-121.Kim, P., Evans, G. W., Angstadt, M., Ho, S., Sripada, C., Swain, J. E., Liberzon, I., & Phan, K. L. (2013). Effects of Childhood Poverty and Chronic Stress on Emotion Regulatory Brain Function in Adulthood, The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), 110(46), 18442-18447.
Kim, P., Arizpe, J., Razdan, V., Rosen, B. H., Haring, C., Jenkins, S. E., Deveney, C. M., Brotman, M. A., Blair, R. J. R., Pine, D. S., Baker, C. I., & Leibenluft, E. (2013). Impaired fixation to eyes during facial emotion labelling in children with bipolar disorder or severe mood dysregulation. Journal of Psychiatry & Neuroscience, 38(6), 407-416.
Ganzel, B. L., Casey, B.J., Kim, P., Gilmore, H., Tottenham, N., & Temple, E. (2013). Stress and the healthy adolescent brain: Evidence for the neural embedding of life events. Development & Psychopathology, 25(4 Pt 1), 879-889.
Deveney, C. M., Connolly, M. E., Haring, C. T., Bones, B. L., Reynolds, R. C., Kim, P., Pine, D., & Leibenluft, E. (2013). Neural Mechanisms of Frustration in Chronically Irritable Children. American Journal of Psychiatry, 170(10), 1186-1194.
Kim, P., Mayes, L. C., Leckman, J. F., Feldman, R., & Swain, J. E. (2013). Early postpartum parental preoccupation and positive parenting thoughts: Relationship with parent-infant interaction. Infant Mental Health Journal, 34, 104–116.
*Thomas, L.A., *Kim, P., Bones, B.L., Hinton, K.E., Milch, H.S., Reynolds, R.C., Adleman, N.E., Marsh, A.A., Blair, R.J.R., Pine, D.S., & Leibenluft, E. (2013) Elevated amygdala responses to emotional faces in youths with chronic irritability or bipolar disorder. Neuroimage Clinical, 2; 637-645.
*Equal Contributions
Evans, G. W., Exner-Cortens, D., Kim, P., & Bartholomew, D. (2013). Childhood poverty and blood pressure reactivity to and recovery from an acute stressor in late adolescence: the mediating role of family conflict. Psychosomatic Medicine, 75, 691-700.
Weathers, J. D., Brotman, M., A., Deveney, C. M., Kim, P., Zarate, C. A., Fromm, S. J., Pine, D. S., & Leibenluft, E. (2013). A Developmental Study on the Neural Circuitry Mediating Response Flexibility in Bipolar Disorder, Psychiatric Research Neuroimaging, 214, 56-65.
Evans, G. W. & Kim, P. (2013). Childhood poverty, chronic stress, self-regulation, and coping. Child Development Perspectives. 7, 43–48.Evans, G. W. & Kim, P. (2012). Childhood poverty and young adults' allostatic load: The mediating role of childhood cumulative risk exposure. Psychological Science, 23, 979-983.
Kim, P., Thomas, L. A., Rosen, B. H., Moscicki, A. M., Brotman, M. A., Blair, R. J. R., Zarate, C. S., Pine, D. S., & Leibenluft, E. (2012). Differing amygdala responses to facial expressions in children vs. adults with bipolar disorder. American Journal of Psychiatry, 69, 642-649.
Kim, P., Jenkins, S. E., Connolly, M. E., Deveney, C. M., Fromm, S. J., Brotman, M. A., Nelson, E. E., Pine, D. S., & Leibenluft, E. (2012). Neural Correlates of Cognitive Flexibility in Children At Risk for Bipolar Disorder. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 46, 22-30.
Deveney, C. M., Jenkins, S. E., Connolly, M. E., Kim, P., Fromm, S. J., Brotman, M. A., Nelson, E. E., Pine, D. S., & Leibenluft, E. (2012). Striatal dysfunction during failed motor inhibition in children at risk for Bipolar Disorder. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry, 38, 127-133.
Deveney, C. M., Jenkins, S. E., Connolly, M. E., Kim, P., Fromm, S. J., Pine, D. S., & Leibenluft, E. (2012). Neural recruitment during failed motor inhibition differentiates youths with Bipolar Disorder and Severe Mood Dysregulation. Biological Psychology, 89, 148-155. -
2009–2011
Kim, P., Feldman, R., Mayes, L. C., Eicher, V., Thompson, N., Leckman, J. F., & Swain, J. E. (2011). Breastfeeding, brain activation to own infant cry, and maternal sensitivity. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 52, 907-915.
Kim, P. & Evans, G. W. (2011). Family resources, genes, and human development. In A. Booth, S. McHale, & N. Landale (Eds.) Biosocial Research Contributions to Understanding Family Processes and Problems (pp. 221-230). New York, NY: Springer.
Swain, J. E., *Kim, P, & *Ho, S. (2011). Neuroendocrinology of parental response to baby-cry. Journal of Neuroendocrinology. 23, 1036-1041.
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2010 and before
Kim, P., Leckman, J. F., Mayes, L. C., Feldman, R, Wang, X., & Swain, J. E. (2010). The plasticity of human maternal brain: longitudinal changes in brain anatomy during the early postpartum period. Behavioral Neuroscience, 124, 695-700.
Kim, P., Leckman, J. F., Mayes, L. C., Newman, M., Feldman, R. & Swain, J. E. (2010) Perceived quality of maternal care in childhood and structure and function of mothers’ brain in the postpartum. Developmental Science, 13, 662-673.
Evans, G. W. & Kim, P. (2010) Multiple risk exposure as a potential explanatory mechanism for the SES-health gradient. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1186, 174-189.Evans, G. W. & Kim, P. (2009). The built environment and children. In R. Shweder, & P. J. Miller (Eds.), The Chicago Companion to the Child. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Ferguson, K. T., Kim, P., Dunn, J. R., & Evans, G. W. (2009). The health and well-Being of urban children: An ecological model. In N. Freudenberg, S. Saegert, & S. Klitzman (Eds.), Interdisciplinary Urban Health Research and Practice (pp. 63-92).Ganzel, B. L., Kim, P., Glover, G. H., & Temple, E. (2008). Resilience after 9/11: Multimodal neuroimaging evidence for stress-related change in the healthy adult brain. NeuroImage, 40, 788-795.
Kim, P. & Swain, J. E. (2007). Sad Dads: Paternal postpartum depression. Psychiatry, 4, 36-47.
Evans, G. W., Kim, P., Ting, A. H., & Tesher, H. B. (2007). Cumulative Risk, Maternal Responsiveness, and Allostatic Load Among Young Adolescents. Developmental Psychology, 43, 341-351.
Evans, G. W. & Kim, P. (2007). Childhood poverty and health: Cumulative risk exposure and stress dysregulation. Psychological Science, 18, 953-957.
Ganzel, B., Kim, P., Altemus, M., Voss, H.U., & Temple, E. (2007). After 9/11: Grey matter density in right ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) predicts salivary cortisol levels in healthy trauma-exposed adults. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1121, 664-665.
Ganzel, B. L., Eckenrode, J. J., Kim, P., Wethington, E., Horowitz, E., & Temple, E. (2007). Salivary cortisol levels and mood vary by lifetime trauma exposure in a sample of healthy women. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 20, 689-699.Kim, P. & Swain, J. E. (2006). [Review of the book, Why Love Matters: How affection shapes a baby's brain]. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 45, 122-123.