Research
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Latest papers
An integrated parenting intervention for maternal depression and child development in a low-resource setting: Cluster randomized controlled trial.
Depression and anxiety · 2021
Efficacy of learning through play plus intervention to reduce maternal depression in women with malnourished children: A randomized controlled trial from Pakistan✰.
Journal of affective disorders · 2021
15.2 Implications of Higher-Order Language Problems for Adolescent Mental Health and Psychiatric Treatment
Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry · 2016 · first author
Latest funding
- $204,770
Toward Standardizing a Test of Higher Order Language
SSHRC · 2020 · Co-investigator
- $63,726
Development of Test of Higher Order Language: Tryout Testing and Final Item Selection
SSHRC · 2015 · Co-investigator
- $188,437
11 years later: academic achievement and peer relationships of children adopted from China
SSHRC · 2012 · Principal investigator
21 publications.
An integrated parenting intervention for maternal depression and child development in a low-resource setting: Cluster randomized controlled trial.
Husain N, Kiran T, Fatima B, Chaudhry IB, Husain M, Shah S, Bassett P, Cohen N, Jafri F, Naeem S, Zadeh Z, Roberts C, Rahman A, Naeem F, Husain MI, Chaudhry N
Efficacy of learning through play plus intervention to reduce maternal depression in women with malnourished children: A randomized controlled trial from Pakistan✰.
Husain N, Kiran T, Shah S, Rahman A, Raza-Ur-Rehman, Saeed Q, Naeem S, Bassett P, Husain M, Haq SU, Jaffery F, Cohen N, Naeem F, Chaudhry N
15.2 Implications of Higher-Order Language Problems for Adolescent Mental Health and Psychiatric Treatment
Nancy J. Cohen, Fataneh Farnia
Functional MRI of facial emotion processing in left temporal lobe epilepsy
Jerzy P. Szaflarski, Jane B. Allendorfer, Heidi Heyse, Lucy Mendoza, Basia A. Szaflarski, Nancy J. Cohen
Mother–Child Synchrony and Child Problem Behavior
Nancie Im‐Bolter, Muniq Anam, Nancy J. Cohen
I thought we were good: social cognition, figurative language, and adolescent psychopathology.
Im-Bolter N, Cohen NJ, Farnia F
Children adopted from China: Attachment security two years later
Nancy J. Cohen, Fataneh Farnia
The emerging attachment relationship between adopted Chinese infants and their mothers
Mirella Pugliese, Nancy J. Cohen, Fataneh Farnia, Mirek Lojkasek
Six‐month follow‐up of two mother–infant psychotherapies: Convergence of therapeutic outcomes
Nancy J. Cohen, Mirek Lojkasek, Elisabeth Muir, Roy C. Muir, Carol Jane Parker
LANGUAGE IMPAIRMENTS AND PSYCHOPATHOLOGY
Nancy J. Cohen, Naomi B. Horodezky
Toward Standardizing a Test of Higher Order Language
Principal investigators: Geva, Esther
Keywords: higher order language; higher order thinking; pragmatics; figurative language; language ambiguity; metaphor; hyperbole; personification; idioms
Development of Test of Higher Order Language: Tryout Testing and Final Item Selection
Principal investigators: Farnia, Fataneh
Keywords: (1) Figuarative Language; (2) Language ambiguity; (3) Metaphor; (4) Hyperbole; (5) Personification; (6) Idioms; (7) Higher order language; (8) Higher order thinking; (9) Pragmatics; (10) Semantic-Pragmatic
11 years later: academic achievement and peer relationships of children adopted from China
Principal investigators: Cohen, Nancy J.
Keywords: academic achievement; peer relationships; children adopted from China; developmental trajectories; preadolescence; early childhood experiences
The relationship between language and literacy: examining models of development
Principal investigators: Im-Bolter, Nancie
Keywords: literacy development; oral language development; language impairment; reading disability; phonological processing; processing capacity; executive function
Deficits in the construction of narrative coherence associated with typical and atypical language and behaviour functioning
Principal investigators: Cohen, Nancy
Keywords: Behaviour problems; language impairments; developmental psychopathology; narrative emotional problems
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.
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