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Tara Perrot
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Latest papers
Linking maternal childhood maltreatment to infant socioemotional development through perinatal mental health.
Child abuse & neglect · 2026 · senior author
Low Pregnancy Cortisol and Infant Socioemotional Problems: The Mediating Role of Postpartum Depressive Symptoms.
Developmental psychobiology · 2026 · senior author
Pregnancy cortisol and postpartum depression: The moderating role of optimism.
Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2026
Latest funding
- $120,000
Understanding Vulnerability to Hormone-Related Mood Disorders: The Role of Early Adversity, Stress Biology, and Hormone Sensitivity
CIHR · 2025 · Supervisor
- $105,000
Reducing Postpartum Depression Risk and Promoting Infant Biopsychosocial Development: Identifying Protective Factors and Establishing Assessments
CIHR · 2023 · Supervisor
- $62,997
Critical need for cryostat to support research in behavioural neuroscience
NSERC · 2018 · Co-investigator
8 publications.
Linking maternal childhood maltreatment to infant socioemotional development through perinatal mental health.
Khoury JE, Nguyen M, Baker N, Giles L, Tulipan T, Campbell-Yeo M, Allen VM, Perrot T
Low Pregnancy Cortisol and Infant Socioemotional Problems: The Mediating Role of Postpartum Depressive Symptoms.
Khoury JE, Giles L, Pattison M, Tulipan T, Allen V, Campbell-Yeo M, Perrot T
Pregnancy cortisol and postpartum depression: The moderating role of optimism.
Giles L, Perrot T, Tulipan T, Allen VM, Campbell-Yeo M, Khoury JE
Resilience in the early postpartum period: Buffering the impact of maternal ACEs on infant socioemotional development.
Pattison M, Giles L, Gill S, Tulipan T, Campbell-Yeo M, Allen VM, Perrot T, Khoury JE
Psychobiotics and the Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis: Where Do We Go from Here?
Binda S, Tremblay A, Iqbal UH, Kassem O, Le Barz M, Thomas V, Bronner S, Perrot T, Ismail N, Parker JA
Sleep Architecture and EEG Power Spectrum Following Cumulative Sleep Restriction: A Comparison between Typically Developing Children and Children with ADHD.
Speth T, Rusak B, Perrot T, Cote K, Corkum P
Changes in coping and social motives for drinking and alcohol consumption across the menstrual cycle.
Joyce KM, Hudson A, O'Connor R, Thompson K, Hodgin M, Perrot T, Stewart SH
Impact of menstrual cycle phase on endocrine effects of partial sleep restriction in healthy women.
LeRoux A, Wright L, Perrot T, Rusak B
Understanding Vulnerability to Hormone-Related Mood Disorders: The Role of Early Adversity, Stress Biology, and Hormone Sensitivity
Principal investigators: Pattison, Mackenna
Keywords: Adverse Childhood Experiences; Cortisol; Hormone Sensitivity; Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis; Menstrual Cycle; Mood Disorders; Postpartum; Postpartum Depression; Prementrual Syndrome; Reproductive Mental Health
Reducing Postpartum Depression Risk and Promoting Infant Biopsychosocial Development: Identifying Protective Factors and Establishing Assessments
Principal investigators: Giles, Lauren
Keywords: Biopsychosocial; Cortisol; Dohad; Factor Analysis; Infant Health; Meta-Analysis; Perinatal Mental Health; Postpartum Depression; Pregnancy; Resilience
Critical need for cryostat to support research in behavioural neuroscience
Principal investigators: Phillmore, Leslie
Effects of prenatal and continued postnatal probiotic treatment on physiological and behavioural outcomes with implications for the stress response
Principal investigators: Perrot, Tara
Effects of prenatal and continued postnatal probiotic treatment on physiological and behavioural outcomes with implications for the stress response
Principal investigators: Perrot, Tara
Development and mechanisms of stress resiliency.
Principal investigators: Perrot, Tara
Measuring stress-related responding using a natural model
Principal investigators: Perrot, Tara
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
Frequent collaborators
- Sherry Stewart and Kara Thompson: 40 shared papers
- Sherry Stewart and Roisin O'Connor: 25 shared papers
- Sherry Stewart and Amanda Hudson: 14 shared papers
- Sherry Stewart and Kayla Joyce: 13 shared papers
- Penny Corkum and Benjamin Rusak: 12 shared papers
- Amanda Hudson and Kara Thompson: 8 shared papers
- Sherry Stewart and Penny Corkum: 5 shared papers
- Marsha Campbell-Yeo and Tara Perrot: 4 shared papers
- Marsha Campbell-Yeo and Jennifer Khoury: 3 shared papers
- Amanda Hudson and Kayla Joyce: 3 shared papers
- Roisin O'Connor and Amanda Hudson: 2 shared papers
- Roisin O'Connor and Kayla Joyce: 2 shared papers
- Benjamin Rusak and Tara Perrot: 2 shared papers
- Jennifer Khoury and Tara Perrot: 2 shared papers
- Kara Thompson and Kayla Joyce: 2 shared papers
- Sherry Stewart and Marsha Campbell-Yeo: 1 shared paper
- Sherry Stewart and Tara Perrot: 1 shared paper
- Kimberly Cote and Penny Corkum: 1 shared paper
- Kimberly Cote and Benjamin Rusak: 1 shared paper
- Kimberly Cote and Tara Perrot: 1 shared paper
- Penny Corkum and Tara Perrot: 1 shared paper
- Roisin O'Connor and Tara Perrot: 1 shared paper
- Amanda Hudson and Tara Perrot: 1 shared paper
- Nafissa Ismail and Tara Perrot: 1 shared paper
- Nafissa Ismail and Annie Tremblay: 1 shared paper
- Kara Thompson and Tara Perrot: 1 shared paper
- Kayla Joyce and Tara Perrot: 1 shared paper
- Tara Perrot and Annie Tremblay: 1 shared paper
- Psychology
- Department of Psychology & Neuroscience
- School of Nursing
- Département de médecine
- Department of Psychology
- Department of Psychiatry
- Other
Co-authors at Dalhousie University, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Marsha Campbell-Yeo
School of Nursing
4 shared papers, latest 2026
Benjamin Rusak
Department of Psychology & Neuroscience
2 shared papers, latest 2023
Jennifer Khoury
Psychology
2 shared papers, latest 2026
Annie Tremblay
Département de médecine
1 shared papers, latest 2024
Roisin O'Connor
Department of Psychology
1 shared papers, latest 2018
Amanda Hudson
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2018
Nafissa Ismail
Psychology
1 shared papers, latest 2024
Kara Thompson
Psychology
1 shared papers, latest 2018
Sherry Stewart
Department of Psychiatry
1 shared papers, latest 2018
Kayla Joyce
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2018
Kimberly Cote
Psychology
1 shared papers, latest 2023
Penny Corkum
Department of Psychology & Neuroscience
1 shared papers, latest 2023
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