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Annual Research Review 2024

“Time may change me”: Developmental change across multiple time scales

Editorial by Sara R. Jaffee

"Two years ago, the title of my editorial (with thanks to Edmund Sonuga-Barke and Bob Dylan) was ‘The times they are a-changin’. This title was meant to highlight the paradigm shifts in the field reflected in the papers included in that year's Annual Research Review. This year's editorial is instead titled ‘The people, they are a-changin’. This is because, overwhelmingly, the papers in the 2024 Annual Research Review describe how people and systems change each other, how people change over developmental and historical time, and how environments characterized by change impact human development."

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Contribution of childhood lead exposure to psychopathology in the US population over the past 75 years

Michael J. McFarland, Aaron Reuben, Matt Hauer, 
  •  4 December 2024
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Associations of socioeconomic status with cognitive function, language ability, and academic achievement in youth: a systematic review of mechanisms and protective factors

Divyangana Rakesh, Paris Anne Lee, Amruta Gaikwad, Katie A. McLaughlin, 
  •  3 December 2024
Open access

Neural correlates of children with avoidant restrictive food intake disorder symptoms: large‐scale neuroanatomical analysis of a paediatric population

Michelle Sader, Holly A. Harris, Gordon D. Waiter, Pauline W. Jansen, Justin H.G. Williams, Tonya White, 
  •  2 December 2024

Daily fluctuations in adolescents' sleep predict next-day attention, sleepiness, and fatigue: an ecological momentary assessment study over 28 days

Lin Shen, Jessica Nicolazzo, Tracey L. Sletten, Clare Anderson, Yang Yap, Joshua F. Wiley, Bei Bei, 
  •  1 December 2024

No associations between neuroborreliosis in children and psychiatric neurodevelopmental disorders: a nationwide, population‐based, matched cohort study

Malte M. Tetens, Emma E. Graham, Nanna S. Andersen, Jette Bangsborg, Jacob Bodilsen, Ram B. Dessau, Svend Ellermann-Eriksen, Charlotte Sværke Jørgensen, Jens Kjølseth Møller, Alex Christian Yde Nielsen, Michael Pedersen, Kirstine K. Søgaard, Dorrit Obel, Ulrikka Nygaard, Niels Obel, Anne-Mette Lebech, Lars Haukali Omland, 
  •  1 December 2024
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Oral language intervention in the late primary school years is effective: evidence from a randomised control trial

Rosanne Esposito, Arne Lervag, Charles Hulme, 
  •  1 December 2024
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The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire: A Research Note

Robert Goodman, 
  •  581-586
  •  7 December 2006

Annual Research Review: A meta‐analysis of the worldwide prevalence of mental disorders in children and adolescents

Guilherme V. Polanczyk, Giovanni A. Salum, Luisa S. Sugaya, Arthur Caye, Luis A. Rohde, 
  •  345-365
  •  3 February 2015

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The “Reading the Mind in the Eyes” Test Revised Version: A Study with Normal Adults, and Adults with Asperger Syndrome or High‐functioning Autism

Simon Baron-Cohen, Sally Wheelwright, Jacqueline Hill, Yogini Raste, Ian Plumb, 
  •  241-251
  •  7 October 2003
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THE ROLE OF TUTORING IN PROBLEM SOLVING*

David Wood, Jerome S. Bruner, Gail Ross, 
  •  89-100
  •  April 1976
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Cyberbullying: its nature and impact in secondary school pupils

Peter K. Smith, Jess Mahdavi, Manuel Carvalho, Sonja Fisher, Shanette Russell, Neil Tippett, 
  •  376-385
  •  19 March 2008

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