Jeste, S., Hyde, C., Senturk, D., McDonald, N. M., Shih, W., Dong, M., Pizzano, M., Panganiban, J., Thiele, E. A., Nelson, C. A., Kasati, C. (2026). Results from an Early Behavioral Intervention Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial for Social Communication in Toddlers with Tuberous Sclerosis Complex. Annals of Child Neurology, 34(1):75-89. https://doi.org/10.26815/acn.2025.01032
Chung, H., Wilkinson, C. L., Liu, A., Job Said, A., Francis, B., Canaveral, G., Conroy, K., Tager-Flusberg, H., Nelson, C. A. (2026) Income Insufficiency Impacts Early Brain Development In Infants Facing Increased Psychosocial Adversity: A Network-based Approach. PNAS. 123 (2) e2513598123. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2513598123
M. Andujar, L. Liuzzi, D.S. Pine, C.A. Nelson, C.H. Zeanah, N.A. Fox, & B.B. Averbeck, (2026) Early psychosocial deprivation alters the refinement of neural dynamics across adolescence, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 123 (6) e2514979123, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2514979123 .
Valdes, V., Sacks, D. D., & Nelson, C. A. (2026) Latent Profiles of Maternal Psychopathology and Risk for Lifetime/Perinatal Substance Use: Findings from the HBCD Study. Journal of Affective Disorders, 398, 121043. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2025.121043.
Valdes, V., Jopling, E., Celestin, G., Sefia, L., Pierce, L., Near, J., Nelson, C. A. 2026) Pathways Linking Community-Level Social Determinants of Health to Infant Biological Markers and Early Childhood Psychopathology: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach. Developmental Psychobiology, 68(2): e70144. https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.70144
Kelsey, C., Sacks, D. D., Abron, A., Vartany, P., Mulligan, K., Bosquet Enlow, M., & Nelson, C. A. (2026). The development of electroencephalography microstates from infancy into middle childhood and their associations with behavior. Developmental Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0002183
Lutri, N., Shonukan, I., Nelson, C. A., Valdes, V. (2026) Timing of Early Maternal Stress and Transdiagnostic Psychopathology in Toddlers: Longitudinal Associations Across Internalizing, Dysregulation, and Maladaptive Symptom Domains. Infant Mental Health Journal, 47(3). e70085. DOI: 10.1002/imhj.70085
2025 Presented Conference Papers
Wakif, Z.*, Desrocher, M., Silveira, P., Nelson, C., Levitt, P., Pierce, L. (2025). Environmental
and genetic risk on infant neurodevelopment: Frontal alpha and parietal asymmetries. Let’s Talk About Youth: A Clinical Developmental Psychology Conference., Toronto, Canada, April 2025. *Awarded Best Oral Presentation and Outstanding Contribution Award.
Woodruff Carr, K. & Nelson, C. A. (2025) Developmental trajectories of EEG activity predict language delay in toddlers growing up in low-resource homes. Presented as part of Symposium: Early Neural Development in Low-Resourced Settings: Implications for Child Outcomes in Domestic and International Cohorts. Society for Research in Child Development. Minneapolis, MN. May 2025.
Badal, A., Asaad, L., Pierce, L. J., Nelson, C. A., Levitt, P. (2025). Exploring associations
between socioeconomic stress, engagement in joint attention, and infant neurodevelopment. Poster presented at Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 2025.
Baker, R., Prime, H., Lipton, L., Nelson, C. A., & Pierce, L. (2025). Adapting and validating a
brief measure of caregiver responsivity during dyadic free-play interactions. Poster presented at Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 2025.
Wakif, Z., Desrocher, M., Silveira, P., Nelson, C., Levitt, P., Pierce, L. (2025). Delays in
infant neurodevelopment: Examining the interaction between genetic risk and environmental stressors. Poster presented at Canadian Association for Neuroscience (CAN) 18th Annual Meeting, Toronto, ON, Canada, May 2025.
Wakif, Z., Desrocher, M., Silveira, P., Nelson, C., Levitt, P., Pierce, L. (2025). Associations between maternal depression, environmental stressors, polygenic risk, and infant neurodevelopment: An EEG study. Poster presented virtually at Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) 86th Annual National Convention, St. John’s, NL, Canada, June 2025.
Pierce, L., Badal, A., & Nelson, C. A. (2025). Associations between SES, Caregiver interactions, and Development of Neural Processes during Infancy. Part of symposium: From the Microsystem to the Exosystem: Ecological Influences on Neurodevelopment Across Infancy, Childhood, and Adolescence. Presented at Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR), Montreal, Canada, October 2025.
Selected Book Publications
Gunnar MR, & Nelson CA (1992). Developmental Behavioral Neuroscience. The Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology (Vol. 24). New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Nelson CA (1993). Memory and Affect in Development. The Minnesota Symposia onChild Psychology (Vol. 26).New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Nelson CA (1994) Threats to Optimal Development: Integrating Biological, Psychological, and Social Risk Factors. The Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology (Vol. 27). New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Nelson CA (1995). Basic and Applied Perspectives on Learning, Cognition, and Development.Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology (Vol. 28). New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Nelson CA (2000). The Effects of Early Adversity on Neurobehavioral Development. Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology (Vol. 31). New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Nelson CA & Luciana M+ (2001). Handbook of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (Winner of the 2001 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Award competition.)
Bloom FE, Nelson CA, & Lazerson A (2001). Brain, Mind, and Behavior (3rd ed). New York: Worth Publishing.
Reiser J, Lockman J, & Nelson CA (2005). Action as an Organizer of Learning and Development: The Minnesota Symposium on Child Psychology (Vol. 33). New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Nelson CA, de Haan M+, & Thomas KM+ (2006). Neuroscience and Cognitive Development: The Role of Experience and the Developing Brain. New York: John Wiley & Sons.
Nelson CA & Luciana M+ (2008). Handbook of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 2nd Edition. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Nelson CA, Fox NA, & Zeanah, CH (2014). Romania’s Abandoned Children: Deprivation, Brain Development and the Struggle for Recovery. Harvard University Press: Cambridge, MA