Leah H Somerville
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Recent Articles
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Valdivia-Moreno C, Sasse S, Lambert H, McLaughlin K, Somerville L, Nook E
Emotion
. 2025 Jan;
PMID: 39819067
Children are often instructed to "use their words" to communicate their emotions, which requires them to quickly access words that best describe their feelings. Adults vary in their ability to...
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Omary A, Curtis M, Cheng T, Mair P, Shirtcliff E, Barch D, et al.
Child Dev
. 2025 Jan;
PMID: 39777625
Using data from the Human Connectome Project in Development (N = 1304; ages 5-21 years; 50% male; 59% White, 17% Hispanic, 13% Black, 9% Asian), multiple measures (self-report, salivary hormones)...
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Curtis M, Flournoy J, Kandala S, Sanders A, Harms M, Omary A, et al.
Dev Cogn Neurosci
. 2024 Nov;
70:101473.
PMID: 39546965
Puberty and associated changes in pubertal hormones influence structural brain development. Hormones such as dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) and progesterone remain understudied, and it remains unclear how these aspects of puberty contribute...
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Clapham R, Ye Z, Somerville L, Miller A, Giletta M, Hastings P, et al.
Child Psychiatry Hum Dev
. 2024 Nov;
PMID: 39540975
The goal of this research was to expand theoretical models of adolescent suicide by exploring whether individual differences in adolescent girls' need for approval (NFA and NFA) contribute to risk...
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Reilly O, Somerville L, Hecht E
Animals (Basel)
. 2024 Oct;
14(20).
PMID: 39457966
An increasing body of evidence indicates that owning a pet dog is associated with improvements in child health and well-being. Importantly, the degree of the social bond between child and...
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Weissman D, Vartiainen H, Nook E, Lambert H, Sasse S, Somerville L, et al.
Emotion
. 2024 Oct;
25(3):588-600.
PMID: 39374138
This study investigates (a) age-related differences in how the intensity of stereotyped facial expressions influence the emotion label children, adolescents, and adults assign to that face and (b) how this...
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Weissman D, Baum G, Sanders A, Rosen M, Barch D, McLaughlin K, et al.
Imaging Neurosci (Camb)
. 2024 Jul;
1.
PMID: 39006919
Growing evidence indicates that brain development varies as a function of family socioeconomic status (SES). Numerous studies have demonstrated that children from low-SES backgrounds have thinner cortex than children from...
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Heffer T, Flournoy J, Baum G, Somerville L
J Youth Adolesc
. 2024 Mar;
53(6):1341-1354.
PMID: 38499821
Processing and learning from affective cues to guide goal-directed behavior may be particularly important during adolescence; yet the factors that promote and/or disrupt the ability to integrate value in order...
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Tervo-Clemmens B, Karim Z, Khan S, Ravindranath O, Somerville L, Schuster R, et al.
J Adolesc Health
. 2023 Dec;
74(3):613-616.
PMID: 38085210
Purpose: Risk-taking is thought to peak during adolescence, but most prior studies have relied on small convenience samples lacking participant diversity. This study tested the generalizability of adolescent self-reported risk-taking...
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Sanders A, Harms M, Kandala S, Marek S, Somerville L, Bookheimer S, et al.
Cereb Cortex
. 2023 Feb;
33(11):6928-6942.
PMID: 36724055
The human brain is active at rest, and spontaneous fluctuations in functional MRI BOLD signals reveal an intrinsic functional architecture. During childhood and adolescence, functional networks undergo varying patterns of...