Linda Mayes, M.D.

Arnold Gesell Professor of Child Psychiatry,
Pediatrics and Psychology, Child Study Center

Email:
linda.mayes@yale.edu

URL:
Child Study Center

 

Linda Mayes is involved in several areas of research including: early development of attention and arousal regulatory mechanisms in normal and high risk infants; developmental outcome of infants and young children with increased perinatal risks from both specific biological, potentially neurotoxic exposures or increased psychosocial stress; and early parent-child interaction and the effects of disrupted parental behaviors on the developmental of arousal and attention regulatory mechanisms. Dr. Mayes also examines stress-response and regulatory mechanisms in young children at both biological and psychosocial risk; the startle response in children as a window on arousal regulatory mechanisms; the relation between dysfunctional arousal regulation and impairments in prefrontal cortical function in children; psychological and pharmacological interventions for arousal and attentional regulatory impairments in young children; anxiety disorders in young children as manifestations of arousal regulatory impairments; and dynamic, self ordering systems as models for early developmental processes.

 

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Mayes, L.C., Feldman, R., Granger, R.H., Haynes, O.M., Bornstein, M.H. and 55. Schottenfeld, R. (1997). The effects of polydrug use with and without cocaine on mother-infant interaction at 3 and 6 months. Infant behavior and Development, 20:4: 489-502.

Mayes, L.C. (1999). Developing brain and in-utero cocaine exposure: Effects on neural ontogeny. Development and Psychopathology. (Special Issue) 11: 685-714

Mayes, L.C. and Cohen, D.J. with Schowalter, J. and Granger, R. 2002. The Yale Child Study Center Guide to Understanding Your Child: Healthy Development from Birth to Adolescence. New York: Little, Brown and Company.

Mayes L.C. (2002). A behavioral teratogenic model of the impact of prenatal Cocaine exposure on arousal regulatory systems. Neurotoxicology and Teratology. 12: 384-396.

Mayes, L.C., Cicchetti, D., Acharyya, S., Zhang, H. (2003). Developmental Trajectories of Cocaine-and-Other-Drug-Exposed and Non-Cocaine-Exposed Children. Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics. 24: 323-335.

Molitor, A., Mayes, L.C., Ward, A. (2003) Emotion regulation behavior during a separation procedure in 18-month-old children of mothers using cocaine and other drugs. Development and Psychopathology, 15: 39-54.

Schroder, M., Snyder, P., Sielski, I. & Mayes, L.C. (2004). Impaired performance of children exposed in-utero to cocaine on a novel test of visuospatial working memory. Brain and Cognition. 55 (2): 409-12.

Mayes, L.C., Molfese, D.L., Key, A.F. , & Hunter, N. (2005). Event-Related Potentials In Cocaine-Exposed Children During A Stroop Task. Neurotoxicology and Teratology. 27: 797-813.

Mayes, L.C., Swain, J.E., & Leckman, J.F. (2005). Parental Attachment Systems: Neural Circuits, Genes, and Experiential Contributions to Parental Engagement. Clinical Neuroscience Research. 4: 301-313.

Mayes, L.C. and Suchman, N. (2006). Developmental pathways to substance abuse. In Cicchetti, D. and Cohen, D., eds. Developmental Psychopathology, Volume 3. Pp. 599-619. New York: John Wiley and Sons.