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Publications by Sarah J. Short

Kral, T.R.A., Williams, C.Y., Wylie, A.C., McLaughlin, K., Stephens, R. L., Mills-Koonce, W. R., Birn, R. B., Propper, C. B., & Short, S. J. (2024). Intergenerational effects of racism on amygdala and hippocampus resting state functional connectivity. Scientific Reports, 14, 17034. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-66830-3 PMCID: PMC11266580
West, N. T., Harmon, B. E., Rawlett, K., Short, S. J., Spanier, A., Mathews, S., Kimble, K., McGehee, C., Ratliff, M., & Puett, R. C. (2023). Perceptions of mindfulness practices as a support for individuals managing caregiving responsibilities and chronic disease: A qualitative study. Chronic Illness, 20(1), 159-172. doi: 10.1177/17423953231170401
Wylie A., Short S.J., Fry R., Mills-Koonce W.R., Propper C. (2024). Maternal prenatal lead levels and neonatal brain volumes: testing moderations by maternal depressive symptoms and family income. Neurotoxicology and Teratology, Special Issue: Effects of Stress Exposure During Development on Neurobehavioral and Neuroendocrine Function, 102, 107322. doi: 10.1016/j.ntt.2024.107322 PMCID: PMC10990786
Ferguson, S. E., Short, S.J., Huxtable, A., Guenther, C.H. (2023). How yoga helps the brain. Frontiers for Young Minds. doi: 10.3389/frym.2023.932145
Mills-Koonce, W. R., Bracy, M. K., Willoughby, M. T., Short, S. J., & Propper, C. B. (2023). The dark triad and intimate partner violence among pregnant women. Personality and Individual Differences, 214, 112332. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2023.112332
Williams, C.Y., Wylie, A., Ghobrial, V., Coe, C.L., Short, S.J. (2023). Racial differences in the associations between adiposity, placental growth hormone and inflammatory cytokines in pregnant women. Frontiers in Endocrinology, 14. https://doi.org/10.3389/fendo.2023.1100724 PMCID: PMC10072229
Wylie, A., Short, S.J. (2023). Environmental toxicants and the developing brain. Biological Psychiatry, 93(10), 921-933. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2023.01.007
Mills-Koonce, W., Willoughby, M., Short, S.J., & Propper, C. (2022). The brain and early experience study: Protocol for a prospective observational study. JMIR Research Protocols, 11(6), e34854. doi:10.2196/34854 PMCID: PMC9280455
Short, S.J., Jang, D.K., Steiner, R.J., Stephens, R.L., Girault, J.B., Styner, M., Gilmore, J.H. (2022). Diffusion tensor based white matter tract atlases for pediatric populations. Frontiers in Neuroscience – Brain Imaging Methods, 16, 806268. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2022.806268 PMCID: PMC8985548
Guenther, C.H., Stephens, R.L., Ratliff, M.L., Short, S.J. (2021). Parent-child mindfulness-based training: A feasibility and acceptability study. Journal of Evidence-Based Integrative Medicine, 26, 1-11. DOI: 10.1177/2515690X211002145 PMCID: PMC8082986
Perrier, M.F., Gurgel-Juarez, N., Flowers, H., McCormick, A., Short, S.J. (2020). Mindfulness-based interventions for children and adolescents across all settings: A scoping review protocol. Perrier, M.F., Gurgel-Juarez, N., Flowers, H., McCormick, A., Short, S.J. (2020). Mindfulness-based interventions for children and adolescents across all settings: A scoping review protocol. Systematic Reviews, 9, 286. DOI: 10.1186/s13643-020-01548-7 PMCID: PMC7722299
Stephens, R. L., Langworthy, B. W., Short, S. J., Girault, J. B., Styner, M. A., Gilmore, J. H. (2020). White Matter Development from Birth to 6 Years of Age: A Longitudinal Study. Cerebral Cortex, 30(12), 6152-6168. doi:10.1093/cercor/bhaa170
Green, C. S., Bavelier, D., Kramer, A. F., Vinogradov, S.,… Short, S. J.,… Witt, C. M. (2019). Improving methodological standards in behavioral interventions for cognitive enhancement. Journal of Cognitive Enhancement, 3, 2-29. doi:10.1007/s41465-018-0115-y
Short, S. J., Willoughby, M. T., Camerota, M., Stephens, R. L., Steiner, R. J., Styner, M., & Gilmore, J. H. (2019). Individual differences in neonatal white matter are associated with executive function at 3 years of age. Brain Structure and Function, 224(9), 3159-3169. doi:10.1007/s00429-019-01955-0
Dean III, D. C., Planalp, E. M., Wooten, W., Kecskemeti, S. R., Adluru, N., Schmidt, C. K., Frye, C., Birn, R. M., Burghy, C. A., Schmidt, N. L., Styner, M.A., Short, S. J., Kalin, N. H., Goldsmith, H. H., Alexander, A. L., & Davidson, R. J. (2018). Association of prenatal maternal depression and anxiety symptoms with infant white matter microstructure. JAMA Pediatrics, 172(10), 973-81. doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2018.2132 PMCID: PMC6190835
Murphy, V.A.*, Short, S.J.*, Cornea, E., Goldman, B.D., Girault, J.B., Jha, S.C., Shen, D., Jarskog, F., Styner M., Gilmore J.H. (2018). Early brain structure and cognitive development in children at risk for schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 44(Supplement 1), S103-S104. doi: 10.1093/schbul/sby015.255 *shared first author PMCID: PMC5887468
Stephens, B.L., Langworthy, B., Short, S.J., Goldman, B.D., Bullins, J.N., Fine, J.P., Reznick, J.S., Gilmore, J.H. (2018). Verbal and nonverbal predictors of executive function in early childhood. Journal of Cognition and Development, 19(2), 182-200. doi:10.1080/15248372.2018.1439493
Lee, S. J., Steiner, R. J., Yu, Y., Short, S. J., Neale, M. C., Styner, M., Zhu, H., & Gilmore, J. H. (2017). Common and heritable components of white matter microstructure predict cognitive function at 1 and 2 years. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(1), 148-53. doi:10.1073/pnas.1604658114 PMCID: PMC5224366
Short, S. J., Stalder, T., Marceau, K., Entringer, S., Moog, N. K., Shirtcliff, E. A., Wadhwa, P. D., & Buss, C. (2016). Correspondence between hair cortisol concentrations and 30-day integrated daily salivary and weekly urinary cortisol measures. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 71, 12-18. doi:10.1016/j.psyneuen.2016.05.007 PMCID: PMC495574
Emerson, R. W., Short, S. J., Lin, W., Gilmore, J. H., & Gao, W. (2015). Network-level connectivity dynamics of movie watching in 6-year-old children. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 9, 631. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2015.00631 PMCID: PMC4658779
Alcauter, S., Lin, W., Smith, J. K., Short, S. J., Goldman, B. D., Reznick, J. S., Gilmore, J. H., & Gao, W. (2014). Development of thalamocortical connectivity during infancy and its cognitive correlations. Journal of Neuroscience, 34(27), 9067-9075. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0796-14.2014 PMCID: PMC4078084
Short, S. J., Lubach, G. R., Shirtcliff, E. A., Styner, M. A., Gilmore, J. H., & Coe, C. L. (2014). Population variation in neuroendocrine activity is associated with behavioral inhibition and hemispheric brain structure in young rhesus monkeys. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 47, 56-67. doi:10.1016/j.psyneuen.2014.05.002 PMCID: PMC4205758
Lyall, A. E., Geng, X., Short, S. J., Ballan, M., Gilmore, J. H. (2013). Imaging Early Childhood Brain Development. The Oxford Handbook of Infant, Toddler, and Preschool Mental Health Assessment, Second Edition.
Short, S. J., Elison, J. T., Goldman, B. D., Styner, M., Gu, H., Connelly, M., Maltbie, E., Woolson, S., Lin, W., Gerig, G., Reznick, J. S., & Gilmore, J. H. (2013). Associations between white matter microstructure and infants' working memory. Neuroimage, 64, 156-166. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.09.021 PMCID: PMC3838303
Shi, Y., Short, S.J., Knickmeyer, R., Wang, J., Coe, C.L., Zhu, H., Gilmore, J.H., Styner, M.S. (2012). Diffusion tensor imaging based characterization of neurodevelopment in primates. Cerebral Cortex, 23(1), 36-48. doi:10.1093/cercor/bhr372 PMCID: PMC3513950
Shirtcliff, E. A., Allison, A. L., Armstrong, J. M., Slattery, M. J., Kalin, N. H., & Essex, M. J. (2012).. Longitudinal stability and developmental properties of salivary cortisol levels and circadian rhythms from childhood to adolescence. Developmental psychobiology, 54(5), 493-502. doi:10.1002/dev.20607 PMCID: PMC3270212
Gilmore, J. H., Shi, F., Woolson, S. L., Knickmeyer, R. C., Short, S. J., Lin, W., Zhu, H., Hamer, R. M., Styner, M. & Shen, D. (2011). Longitudinal development of cortical and subcortical gray matter from birth to 2 years. Cerebral Cortex, 22(11), 2478-2485. doi:10.1093/cercor/bhr327 PMCID: PMC3464410
Willette, A. A., Lubach, G. R., Knickmeyer, R. C., Short, S. J., Styner, M., Gilmore, J. H., & Coe, C. L. (2011). Brain enlargement and increased behavioral and cytokine reactivity in infant monkeys following acute prenatal endotoxemia. Behavioural Brain Research, 219(1), 108-115. doi:10.1016/j.bbr.2010.12.023 PMCID: PMC3662233
Short, S. J., Lubach, G. R., Karasin, A. I., Olsen, C. W., Styner, M., Knickmeyer, R. C., Gilmore, J. H., & Coe, C. L. (2010). Maternal influenza infection during pregnancy impacts postnatal brain development in the rhesus monkey. Biological Psychiatry, 67(10), 965-973. doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2009.11.026 PMCID: PMC3235476
Knickmeyer, R. C., Styner, M., Short, S. J., Lubach, G. R., Kang, C., Hamer, R., Coe, C. L., & Gilmore, J. H. (2009). Maturational trajectories of cortical brain development through the pubertal transition: Unique species and sex differences in the monkey revealed through structural magnetic resonance imaging. Cerebral Cortex, 20(5), 1053-1063. doi:10.1093/cercor/bhp166 PMCID: PMC2852502
Nitschke, J. B., Dixon, G. E., Sarinopoulos, I., Short, S. J., Cohen, J. D., Smith, E. E., Kosslyn, S. M., Rose, R. M., & Davidson, R. J. (2006). Altering expectancy dampens neural response to aversive taste in primary taste cortex. Nature Neuroscience, 9(3), 435-42. doi:10.1038/nn1645
Sarinopoulos, I., Dixon, G. E., Short, S. J., Davidson, R. J., & Nitschke, J. B. (2006). Brain mechanisms of expectation associated with insula and amygdala response to aversive taste: Implications for placebo. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 20, 120-132. doi:10.1016/j.bbi.2005.11.006