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  1. Prenatal exposure to environmental air pollution and psychosocial stress jointly contribute to the epigenetic regulation of the serotonin transporter gene in newborns
  2. Sex-dimorphic pathways in the associations between maternal trait anxiety, infant BDNF methylation, and negative emotionality
  3. The Family Caregiving Environment Associates with Adolescent Patients’ Severity of Eating Disorder and Interpersonal Problems: A Cross-Sectional Study
  4. Envisioning translational hyperscanning:How applied neuroscience might improve family-centered care
  5. Patient- and parent-reported outcome measures of developmental adaptive abilities in visually impaired children: The Visual Impairment Developmental Autonomy (VIDA) scale
  6. Behavioral problems in psychotic, clinically high-risk, and non-psychotic adolescent patients
  7. Sex-dependent association between variability in infants’ OXTR methylation at birth and negative affectivity at 3 months
  8. Case report: Dancing in the dark: A critical single case study engaging a blind father in the rehabilitation journey of his visually impaired child
  9. Determinants of emotional distress in neonatal healthcare professionals: An exploratory analysis
  10. Post-partum Women’s Anxiety and Parenting Stress: Home-Visiting Protective Effect During the COVID-19 Pandemic
  11. Maternal and infant NR3C1 and SLC6A4 epigenetic signatures of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown: when timing matters
  12. An Update on Social Touch
  13. The COVID-related mental health load of neonatal healthcare professionals: a multicenter study in Italy
  14. Maternal and infant NR3C1 and SLC6A4 epigenetic signatures of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown: When timing matters
  15. Is Brain-Derived Neurotropic Factor Methylation Involved in the Association Between Prenatal Stress and Maternal Postnatal Anxiety During the COVID-19 Pandemic?
  16. Family Dysfunctional Interactive Patterns and Alexithymia in Adolescent Patients with Restrictive Eating Disorders
  17. Did COVID-19 and the lock down that came with it affected fathers with ill babies?
  18. Flexibility and organization in parent-child interaction through the lens of the dynamic system approach: A systematic review of State Space Grid studies
  19. Editorial: Neural and Epigenetic Factors in Parenting, Individual Differences and Dyadic Processes
  20. Exclusive breastfeeding and maternal postnatal anxiety contributed to infants' temperament issues at 6 months of age
  21. The Need to Study Developmental Outcomes of Children Born During the COVID-19 Pandemic
  22. Supporting Parenting at Home-Empowering Rehabilitation through Engagement (SPHERE): study protocol for a randomised control trial
  23. Systematic review of executive functions in children with self-limited epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes
  24. The porridge-like framework: A multidimensional guidance to support parents of children with developmental disabilities
  25. Depression and Anxiety in Mothers Who Were Pregnant During the COVID-19 Outbreak in Northern Italy: The Role of Pandemic-Related Emotional Stress and Perceived Social Support
  26. More than words: methodological potentials of graphical elicitation with parents of preterm infants
  27. Hidden pandemic: COVID-19-related stress, SLC6A4 methylation, and infants’ temperament at 3 months
  28. Togetherness, beyond the eyes: A systematic review on the interaction between visually impaired children and their parents
  29. Prenatal maternal stress during the COVID-19 pandemic and infant regulatory capacity at 3 months: A longitudinal study
  30. The COVID-related mental health load of neonatal healthcare professionals: A multicentre study in Italy
  31. Reading Skills of Children with Dyslexia Improved Less Than Expected during the COVID-19 Lockdown in Italy
  32. The Paternal Brain in Action: A Review of Human Fathers’ fMRI Brain Responses to Child-Related Stimuli
  33. Assessing Family Functioning Before and After an Integrated Multidisciplinary Family Treatment for Adolescents With Restrictive Eating Disorders
  34. Glucocorticoid receptor gene (NR3C1) methylation during the first thousand days: Environmental exposures and developmental outcomes
  35. Challenges and resources in adult life with Joubert syndrome: issues from an international classification of functioning (ICF) perspective
  36. Links between television exposure and toddler dysregulation: Does culture matter?
  37. Characterization of Speech and Language Phenotype in GLUT1DS
  38. The Experience of Child Neuropsychiatry Residents who Volunteered in Italian COVID-19-Designated Hospitals
  39. Rating behavioral problems in adolescent eating disorders: Parent-child differences
  40. A systematic review of human paternal oxytocin: Insights into the methodology and what we know so far
  41. Adrenocortical interdependence in father‐infant and mother‐infant dyads: Attunement or something more?
  42. Self-Report and Biological Indexes of Work-Related Stress in Neonatal Healthcare Professionals
  43. The Three-Plague Nature of COVID-19 Pandemic
  44. Prioritizing Family-Centered Mental Health Care for Pediatric Patients With Eating Disorders
  45. Challenges and opportunities for early intervention and neurodevelopmental follow‐up in preterm infants during the COVID‐19 pandemic
  46. Reliability and Validity of the Arabic Version of the Parental Stressor Scale and Nurse Parental Support Tool
  47. Measuring the Outcomes of Maternal COVID-19-related Prenatal Exposure (MOM-COPE): study protocol for a multicentric longitudinal project
  48. Rehabilitation services lockdown during the COVID-19 emergency: the mental health response of caregivers of children with neurodevelopmental disabilities
  49. Italian parents welcomed a telehealth family‐centred rehabilitation programme for children with disability during COVID‐19 lockdown
  50. Guardians of Care Humanization during the Pandemic: Child Neuropsychiatry Residents’ Experience as Volunteers in Italian COVID-19-Designated Hospitals
  51. Migraine Symptoms Improvement During the COVID-19 Lockdown in a Cohort of Children and Adolescents
  52. Parents' experiences of emotional closeness to their infants in the neonatal unit: A meta-ethnography
  53. Alone With the Kids: Tele-Medicine for Children With Special Healthcare Needs During COVID-19 Emergency
  54. A global perspective on parental stress in the neonatal intensive care unit: a meta-analytic study
  55. Potentials of Telerehabilitation for Families of Children With Special Health Care Needs During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Emergency
  56. The Little Professor and the Virus: Scaffolding Children’s Meaning Making During the COVID-19 Emergency
  57. The power of disconnection during the COVID-19 emergency: From isolation to reparation.
  58. Pathways to quality of life in adolescents with genetic generalized epilepsy: The role of seizure features and affective symptoms
  59. Early Parenting Intervention – Biobehavioral Outcomes in infants with Neurodevelopmental Disabilities (EPI-BOND): study protocol for an Italian multicentre randomised controlled trial
  60. Evidence and Open Questions for the Use of Video-Feedback Interventions With Parents of Children With Neurodevelopmental Disabilities
  61. The Science of the Future: Establishing a Citizen-Scientist Collaborative Agenda After Covid-19
  62. Early parenting intervention promotes 24‐month psychomotor development in preterm children
  63. The burden of Europe's immigration crisis on mother‐child healthcare services and opportunities for culturally sensitive family‐centred care
  64. Does preterm birth affect child temperament? A meta-analytic study
  65. Understanding the role and function of maternal touch in children with neurodevelopmental disabilities
  66. Editorial: Risk and Protective Factors Associated With Early Adversity and Development: Evidence From Human and Animal Research
  67. Clinical features of adolescents diagnosed with eating disorders and at risk for psychosis
  68. Pain‐related increase in serotonin transporter gene methylation associates with emotional regulation in 4.5‐year‐old preterm‐born children
  69. Maternal caregiving and DNA methylation in human infants and children: Systematic review
  70. Exploring the EEG mu rhythm associated with observation and execution of a goal-directed action in 14-month-old preterm infants
  71. Functional Evaluation of Eating Difficulties Scale to predict oral motor skills in infants with neurodevelopmental disorders: a longitudinal study
  72. Telomere length and salivary cortisol stress reactivity in very preterm infants
  73. The dual nature of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis regulation in dyads of very preterm infants and their mothers
  74. Fathers in neonatal units:Supporting the baby-father bond
  75. Methodological Challenges in Developmental Human Behavioral Epigenetics: Insights Into Study Design
  76. Very preterm birth is associated with PLAGL1 gene hypomethylation at birth and discharge
  77. NICU Network Neurobehavioral Scale: 1-month normative data and variation from birth to 1 month
  78. The Face-to-Face Still-Face (FFSF) Paradigm in Clinical Settings: Socio-Emotional Regulation Assessment and Parental Support With Infants With Neurodevelopmental Disabilities
  79. Early career investigator highlight–June
  80. Do mothers sound good? A systematic review of the effects of maternal voice exposure on preterm infants’ development
  81. Predictors and outcomes of the Neonatal Oral Motor Assessment Scale (NOMAS) performance: a systematic review
  82. Disentangling the Dyadic Dance: Theoretical, Methodological and Outcomes Systematic Review of Mother-Infant Dyadic Processes
  83. Pain exposure associates with telomere length erosion in very preterm infants
  84. Maternal sociodemographic factors differentially affect the risk of behavioral problems in Brazilian and Italian preterm toddlers
  85. From early stress to 12-month development in very preterm infants: Preliminary findings on epigenetic mechanisms and brain growth
  86. Preterm behavioral epigenetics: A systematic review
  87. The Functional Evaluation of Eating Difficulties Scale: Study Protocol and Validation in Infants with Neurodevelopmental Impairments and Disabilities
  88. Telomere Length in Preterm Infants: A Promising Biomarker of Early Adversity and Care in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit?
  89. Study Protocol for the Preschooler Regulation of Emotional Stress (PRES) Procedure
  90. Maternal Sensitivity Buffers the Association between SLC6A4 Methylation and Socio-Emotional Stress Response in 3-Month-Old Full Term, but not very Preterm Infants
  91. Paediatricians should encourage the parents of children with special healthcare needs to disclose their use of complementary and alternative medicine
  92. Fertilizing a Patient Engagement Ecosystem to Innovate Healthcare: Toward the First Italian Consensus Conference on Patient Engagement
  93. The BDNF val66met polymorphism and individual differences in temperament in 4-month-old infants: A pilot study
  94. An Educational Intervention to Train Professional Nurses in Promoting Patient Engagement: A Pilot Feasibility Study
  95. Implications of Epigenetics in Developmental Care of Preterm Infants in the NICU: Preterm Behavioral Epigenetics
  96. Psychological assessment as an intervention with couples: Single case application of collaborative techniques in clinical practice.
  97. Why Are Prospective Longitudinal Studies Needed in Preterm Behavioral Epigenetic Research?
  98. Very Preterm and Full-Term Infants’ Response to Socio-Emotional Stress: The Role of Postnatal Maternal Bonding
  99. Do infants exhibit significant cortisol reactivity to the Face-to-Face Still-Face paradigm? A narrative review and meta-analysis
  100. SLC6A4 methylation as an epigenetic marker of life adversity exposures in humans: A systematic review of literature
  101. COMT val158met polymorphism is associated with behavioral response and physiologic reactivity to socio-emotional stress in 4-month-old infants
  102. Pain-related stress in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and salivary cortisol reactivity to socio-emotional stress in 3-month-old very preterm infants
  103. SLC6A4promoter region methylation and socio-emotional stress response in very preterm and full-term infants
  104. A Comparison of Maternal and Paternal Experiences of Becoming Parents of a Very Preterm Infant
  105. Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) for children with special health care needs: A comparative usage study in Italy
  106. Percezione e meaning making: riflessioni epistemologiche e teoriche e una proposta tecnica alla luce del metodo in Psicoanalisi della Relazione
  107. Serotonin Transporter Gene (SLC6A4 ) Methylation Associates With Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Stay and 3-Month-Old Temperament in Preterm Infants
  108. Infants, mothers, and dyadic contributions to stability and prediction of social stress response at 6 months.
  109. Mother–infant dyadic reparation and individual differences in vagal tone affect 4-month-old infants’ social stress regulation
  110. Epigenethics in NICU
  111. Behavioral Epigenetics of Family-Centered Care in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
  112. Pain-related stress during the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit stay and SLC6A4 methylation in very preterm infants
  113. A review of fathers' NICU experience
  114. Implications of Epigenetics and Stress Regulation on Research and Developmental Care of Preterm Infants
  115. Social stress regulation in 4-month-old infants: Contribution of maternal social engagement and infants' 5-HTTLPR genotype
  116. A dynamic system analysis of dyadic flexibility and stability across the Face-to-Face Still-Face procedure: Application of the State Space Grid
  117. A categorical approach to infants’ individual differences during the Still-Face paradigm
  118. Caregiver Engagement in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: Parental Needs, Engagement Milestones, and Action Priorities for Neonatal Healthcare of Preterm Infants
  119. Vagal tone as a biomarker of long‐term memory for a stressful social event at 4 months
  120. Measuring maternal stress and perceived support in 25 Italian NICUs
  121. International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health in children with congenital central hypoventilation syndrome
  122. The Light Side of Preterm Behavioral Epigenetics: