Lab Publications

Below are selected recent publications produced by the Pediatric Health Lab:

Patwardhan, I., Guo, Y., Fleming, C. B., James, T. D., Nelson, J. M., Espy, K. A., Nelson, T. D., & Mason, W. A. (2024). Childhood executive control and adolescent substance use: Mediation via parent–child relationship quality. Family Relations. 

Laifer, L. M., Brock, R. L., Tomaso, C. C., James, T. D., Yaroch, A. L., Hill, J. L., Huang, T. T., Nelson, J. M., Mason, W. A., Espy, K. A., & Nelson, T. D. (2024). Exploring the interaction between preschool executive control and caregiver emotion socialization in predicting adolescent weight trajectories. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 53(3), 656–668. 

Phillips, E. M., Goldberg, E. L., Brock, R. L., Hamburger, E. R., Nelson, J. M., Mason, W. A., Espy, K. A., & Nelson, T. D. (2024). Adolescent sleep as a transdiagnostic factor: Associations between actigraphy-derived night-to-night sleep metrics and adolescent psychopathology. JAACAP Open. 

Mason, W. A., Fleming, C. B., Patwardhan, I., Guo, Y., James, T. D., Nelson, J. M., Espy, K. A., & Nelson, T. D. (2024). Associations between middle childhood executive control aspects and adolescent substance use and externalizing and internalizing problems. Journal of Research on Adolescence. 

Tomaso, C. C., James, T. D., Brock, R. L., Yaroch, A. L., Hill, J. L., Huang, T. T., Nelson, J. M., Mason, W. A., Espy, K. A., & Nelson, T. D. (2024). Early childhood executive control modulates negative affectivity’s role in increasing adolescent body mass index trajectories. Pediatric Obesity, 19(9), e13144-n/a. 

Nelson, T.D., & Stice, E. (2023). Contextualizing the neural vulnerabilities model of obesity. Nutrients, 15, 2988.

Kidwell, K.M., James, T.D., Brock, R.L., Yaroch, A.L., Hill, J.L., Nelson, J.M., Mason, W.A., Espy, K.A., & Nelson, T.D. (2023). Preschool executive control, temperament, and adolescent dietary behaviors. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 57(3), 260-268.

Laifer, L.M., Tomaso, C.C., Chang, O.D., Phillips, E.M., James, T.D., Nelson, J.M., Espy, K.A., Mason, W.A., & Nelson, T.D. (2023). Early executive control buffers risk for adolescent psychopathology during the Covid-19 pandemic. Journal of Adolescence, 95, 1205-1219.

Feghali, P.T., Iwamota, B.K., Triplett, O.M., Rockwood, N.J., Nelson, T.D., & Van Dyk, T.R. (2023). A daily-level, within-person examination of emotion regulation as a mediator of the relationship between sleep and behavior in youth. Frontiers in Sleep, 2, 1154638.

Phillips, E.M., Brock, R.L., James, T.D., Nelson, J.M., Mason, W.A., Espy, K.A., & Nelson, T.D. (2023). Does preschool executive control mediate the impact of early environmental unpredictability and deprivation on the general factor of psychopathology a decade later? Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 64(10), 1505-1516.

Guo, Y., Fleming, C. B., Patwardhan, I., James, T.D., Nelson, J.M., Espy, K.A., Nelson, T.D., & Mason, W.A. (2023). A comparison of task-based and questionnaire assessments of executive control aspects in relation to adolescent marijuana initiation. Cannabis, 6(1), 65-78.

Patwardhan, I., Guo, Y., Hamburger, E.R., Sarwar, S., Fleming, C.B., James, T.D., Nelson, J.M., Espy, K.A., Nelson, T.D., & Mason, W.A. (2023). Childhood executive control and adolescent substance use: The mediating roles of physical and relational aggression and prosocial behaviors. Child Neuropsychology, 29(2), 235-254.

Phillips, E.M., Brock, R.L., James, T.D., Nelson, J.M., Espy, K.A., & Nelson, T.D. (2022). Empirical support for a dual process model of the p-factor: Interaction effects between preschool executive control and preschool negative emotionality on general psychopathology. Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science (formerly Journal of Abnormal Psychology), 131(8), 817-829.

Tomaso, C.C., Yaroch, A.L., Hill, J.L., Jackson, T., Nelson, J.M., James, T.D., Mason, W.A., Espy, K.A., & Nelson, T.D. (2022). The roles of sleep and executive function in adolescent nighttime eating. Eating Behaviors, 46(2002), 101657. 

Stice, E., Yokum, S., Nelson, T.D., Berkman, E., Veiling, H., & Lawrence, N. (2022). Efficacy of a combined food response inhibition and attention training for weight loss. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 46, 101168.

Nelson, T.D., James, T.D., Nelson, J.M., Tomaso, C.C., & Espy, K.A. (2022). Executive control in elementary school: Factor structure and associations with early childhood executive control. Developmental Psychology, 58(4), 730-750.

Tomaso, C.C., James, T.D., Nelson, J.M., Espy, K.A., & Nelson, T.D. (2022). Longitudinal associations between executive control and body mass index across childhood. Pediatric Obesity, 17, e12866.

Nelson, T.D., Brock, R.L., Yokum, S., Tomaso, C.C., Savage, C.R., & Stice, E. (2021). Much ado about missingness: A demonstration of full information maximum likelihood versus listwise deletion to address missingness in fMRI data. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 15, 1-12.

Tomaso, C. C., James, T.D., Nelson, J.M., Espy, K.A., & Nelson, T.D. (2021). Associations between preschool sleep problems and observed dimensions of elementary classroom engagement. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 57, 251-259.

Tomaso, C. C., Johnson, A. B., James, T. D., Nelson, J. M., Mason, W. A., Espy, K. A., & Nelson, T. D. (2021). Emotion regulation strategies as mediators of the relationship between internalizing psychopathology and sleep-wake problems during the transition to adolescence: A longitudinal study. Journal of Early Adolescence, 41(5), 657-682.

Mason, W.A., Patwardhan, I., Fleming, C.B., Stevens, A.L., James, T.D., Nelson, J.M., Espy, K.A., & Nelson, T.D. (2021). Associations of childhood executive control with adolescent cigarette and e-cigarette use: Tests of moderation by poverty level. Addictive Behaviors, 119, 106923.

Patwardhan, I., Nelson, T.D., McClelland, M.M., & Mason, W.A., (2021). Childhood cognitive flexibility and externalizing and internalizing behavior problems: Examination of prospective bidirectional associations. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology (formerly Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology), 49(4), 413-427.

Tomaso, C. C., Johnson, A. B., & Nelson, T.D. (2021). The effect of sleep deprivation and restriction on mood, emotion, and emotion regulation: Three meta-analyses in one. SLEEP, 44(6), 1-30.

Cheadle, J. E., Goosby, B. J., Jochman, J.J., Tomaso, C.C., Kozikowski, C. & Nelson, T.D. (2020). Race and ethnic variation in college student’s allostatic regulation and racism-related stress. PNAS, 117(49), 31053-31062.

Tomaso, C.C., Nelson, J.M., Espy, K.A., & Nelson, T.D. (2020). Associations between different components of executive control in childhood and sleep problems in early adolescence: A longitudinal study. Journal of Health Psychology, 25, 2440-2452.

Johnson, A. B., Nelson, J. M., Tomaso, C. C., James, T., Espy, K. A., & Nelson, T. D. (2020). Executive control in preschool as a predictor of social information processing in early elementary school. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 71, 1-11.

Fleming, C.B., Stevens, A.L., Vivero, M., Patwardhan, I., Nelson, T.D., Nelson, J.M., James, T.D., Espy, K.A., & Mason, W.A. (2020). Executive control in early childhood as an antecedent of adolescent problem behaviors: A longitudinal study with performance-based measures of early childhood cognitive processes. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 49(12), 2429-2440.

Nelson, T.D., James, T.D., Nelson, J.M., Johnson, A.B., Mason, W.A., Yaroch, A.L., & Espy, K.A. (2020). Associations between specific components of executive control and eating behaviors in adolescence: A study using objective and subjective measures. Appetite, 154(1), 1-10.

Mason, W.A., Fleming, C.B., Tomaso, C.C., James, T.D., Nelson, J.M., Espy, K.A., & Nelson, T.D. (2020). Associations of early socio-familial stress with maladaptive and adaptive functioning in middle childhood: Roles of executive control and foundation cognitive abilities. Prevention Science, 21(5), 681-690.

Kidwell, K.M., Tomaso, C., Lundahl, A., & Nelson, T.D. (2020). Confirmatory factor analysis of the Parental Feeding Style Questionnaire with a preschool sample. Eating and Weight Disorders – Studies on Anorexia, Bulimia and Obesity, 25(2), 407-414.

Nelson, T.D., Nelson, J.M., Mason, W.A., Kozikowski, C.B., Tomaso, C.C., & Espy. K.A. (2019). Executive control and adolescent health: Toward a conceptual framework. Adolescent Research Review, 4(1), 31-43.

Jochman, J., Cheadle, J., Goosby, B.J., Tomaso, C., Kozikowski, C., & Nelson, T.D. (2019). Mental health outcomes of discrimination among college students on a predominantly white campus: A prospective study. Socius, 5, 1-16.

Kidwell, K.M., McGinnis, J.C., Nguyen, A.V., Arcidiacono, S., & Nelson, T.D. (2019). A pilot study examining the effectiveness of brief sleep treatment to improve children’s emotional and behavioral functioning. Children’s Health Care, 48(3), 314-331.

Roth, T.C., Kozikowski, C., & Nelson, T.D. (2019). From clinic to community: Translating obesity intervention research findings to applications. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 44(8), 902-904.

Nelson, T.D., Kidwell, K. M., Hankey, M., Nelson, J. M., & Espy, K. A. (2018). Preschool executive control and sleep problems in early adolescence. Behavioral Sleep Medicine, 16(5), 494-503.

Kidwell, K.M., Kozikowski, C., Roth, T., Lundahl, A., & Nelson, T.D. (2018). Concurrent and longitudinal associations among temperament, parental feeding styles, and selective eating in a preschool sample. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 43(5), 572-583.

Goosby, B.J., Cheadle, J.E., Strong, W., Roth, T., & Nelson, T.D. (2018). Perceived discrimination and adolescent sleep in a community sample. Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 4(4), 43-61.

Nelson, T.D., Kidwell, K.M., Nelson, J.M., Tomaso, C.C., Hankey, M., & Espy, K.A. (2018). Preschool executive control and internalizing symptoms in elementary school. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 46(7), 1509-1520.

Aylward, B.S., Nelson, T.D., & Hommel, K. (2017). Realizing the potential of mobile health technology in behavioral medicine. Journal of Mobile Technology in Medicine, 6(1), 46-48.

Kidwell, K.M., Hankey, M., Nelson, J.M., Espy, K.A., & Nelson, T.D. (2017). Child executive control as a moderator of the longitudinal association between sleep problems and subsequent attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder symptoms. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 42(10), 1144-1155.

Nelson, T.D., James, T.D., Hankey, M., Nelson, J.M., Lundahl, A., & Espy, K.A. (2017). Early executive control and risk for overweight and obesity in elementary school. Child Neuropsychology, 23(8), 994-1002.

Nelson, T.D., Nelson, J.M., James, T.D., Clark, C.A., Kidwell, K.M., & Espy, K.A. (2017). Executive control goes to school: Implications of preschool executive performance for observed elementary classroom learning engagement. Developmental Psychology, 53(5), 836-844.

Hankey, M., Kidwell, K.M., Nelson, J.M., Espy, K.A., & Nelson, T.D. (2017). Weight status as a mediator of the association between preschool extraversion and adolescent restrained eating. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 42(8), 882-891.

Kidwell, K.M., Nelson, T. D., Nelson, J.M., & Espy, K.A. (2017). A longitudinal study of maternal and child internalizing symptoms predicting early adolescent emotional eating. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 42(4), 445-456.

**The members of the lab are actively involved in disseminating our research in peer-reviewed journals. We currently have several papers either “under review” or “in preparation” for publication, including papers with graduate students as the lead author. Check back often for updates on the latest lab publications.