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Research
Latest papers
Is there experimental evidence for the effectiveness of disciplinary spanking? A review and Meta-analysis of four controlled trials
Child Abuse and Neglect · 2026
Sensitive periods for the link between childhood maltreatment and brain aging during adulthood.
Neurobiology of stress · 2025
Maternal caregiving moderates relations between maternal childhood maltreatment and infant cortisol regulation.
Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2025
Latest funding
- $120,000
Understanding Vulnerability to Hormone-Related Mood Disorders: The Role of Early Adversity, Stress Biology, and Hormone Sensitivity
CIHR · 2025 · Supervisor
- $23,036
Developing accessible perinatal mental health resources: a co-design approach
CIHR · 2025 · Nominated PI
- $36,000
Understanding the neural, physiological, and behavioural components of social buffering in children and adolescents
NSERC · 2024 · Principal investigator
4 publications.
Is there experimental evidence for the effectiveness of disciplinary spanking? A review and Meta-analysis of four controlled trials
Atkinson L, Khoury J, Kenny M, Gonzalez A
Sensitive periods for the link between childhood maltreatment and brain aging during adulthood.
Fleming LL, Ohashi K, Bosquet Enlow M, Khoury J, Klengel T, Lyons-Ruth K, Teicher M, Ressler KJ
Maternal caregiving moderates relations between maternal childhood maltreatment and infant cortisol regulation.
Chasson M, Khoury J, Bosquet Enlow M, Lyons-Ruth K
Social support buffers the impact of pregnancy stress on perceptions of parent–infant closeness during the COVID‐19 pandemic
Becker E, Atkinson L, Gonzalez A, Khoury J
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
Developing accessible perinatal mental health resources: a co-design approach
Principal investigators: Khoury, Jennifer E
Keywords: Co-Design; Mental Health; Perinatal; Postpartum; Pregnant; Social Media; Wellbeing
Understanding the neural, physiological, and behavioural components of social buffering in children and adolescents
Principal investigators: Khoury, Jennifer
Keywords: social buffering; neuroimaging; stress; hypothalamic pituitary adrenal (hpa) axis; sympathetic nervous system; cortisol; fmri; parenting; friendship; attachment
Understanding the neural, physiological, and behavioural components of social buffering in children and adolescents
Principal investigators: Khoury, Jennifer
Keywords: social buffering; neuroimaging; stress; hypothalamic pituitary adrenal (hpa) axis; sympathetic nervous system; cortisol; fmri; parenting; friendship; attachment
Pregnant during the COVID-19 pandemic: Continuing a longitudinal study examining the impact of chronic prenatal stress on child biopsychosocial outcomes at ages 5 and 6
Principal investigators: Khoury, Jennifer E
Keywords: Child Health; Cortisol; Maternal Stress; Parenting; Prenatal Stress; Psychosocial Development; Stress Biomarkers; Telomeres
"The Conditional Release": Indigenous Prison Newsletter Creation as Community Organizing
Principal investigators: Van Styvendale, Nancy L.
Keywords: Indigenous literary studies; prison newsletters; prison arts; prison education; prison writing; anti-colonial abolition; Indigenous research methodologies
Parental Smartphone Use and Child Wellbeing
Principal investigators: Meier, Sandra M.
Keywords: parental smartphone use; child socio-emotional development; immersion; technoference; motives; attachment; mobile sensing
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
Social Work Knowledge Mobilization to Support Vulnerable and Marginalized Nova Scotians in Disaster Settings
Principal investigators: MacDonald, Judy E.
Keywords: Climate Change and Disaster; Social Work; Vulnerable and Marginalized Populations; Practice-Oriented Research; Nova Scotia; Community-Driven Workshop; Community of Practice
A multi-method and multi-caregiver study to understand the socialization of child emotion regulation and social-emotional development within family and early education contexts
Principal investigators: Khoury, Jennifer E.
Keywords: emotion regulation; social-emotional development; social determinants of child development; family; parenting; early education; multi-method
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
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