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Charles A. Nelson III, PH.D.

TitleProfessor of Pediatrics
InstitutionChildren's Hospital Boston
DepartmentPediatrics
AddressChildren's Hospital Director of Research, Development
6th Floor
One Autumn Street
Boston MA 02215
Phone617/355-0401
Fax617/730-0518
Other Positions
TitleProfessor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry
InstitutionChildren's Hospital Boston
DepartmentPsychiatry

TitleMember of the Faculty of Education
InstitutionGraduate School of Education
DepartmentFaculty

Title'Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences'
InstitutionHarvard School of Public Health
DepartmentDept of Social and Behavioral Sciences


 Mentoring 
 current student opportunities
Infant Sib Project[login at prompt]
Available: 07/15/11, Expires: 07/12/13

The goal of this project is to use a variety of neuroimaging, behavioral and genetic assays to identify infants at high risk for developing autism - ideally within the first 6 months of life. Several populations of infants are targeted, including those with a family history of the disorder as well as those with known single gene variants. Following training in our neuroimaging methods, the student will assist lab staff and students in scheduling and testing study participants; will be involved in data processing and data analysis; depending on how much time the student has, may be involved in manuscript preparation.

 completed student projects
Investigation of the Reasons for Child Abandonment in Romania within the context of the Bucharest Early Intervention Project
International, 06/15/08 - 08/10/08
The use of event related potentials as a possible marker for the development of autism spectrum disorders.
Summer, 06/18/06 - 08/11/06
Memory and executive function in children with a history of early institutionalization
Full Time, 07/01/08 - 06/30/09

 Bibliographic 
 selected publications
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  1. Vanderwert RE, Marshall PJ, Nelson CA, Zeanah CH, Fox NA. Timing of intervention affects brain electrical activity in children exposed to severe psychosocial neglect. PLoS One. 2010; 5(7):e11415.
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  2. Melinder A, Gredebäck G, Westerlund A, Nelson CA. Brain activation during upright and inverted encoding of own- and other-age faces: ERP evidence for an own-age bias. Dev Sci. 2010 Jul; 13(4):588-98.
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  3. Bos KJ, Zeanah CH, Smyke AT, Fox NA, Nelson CA. Stereotypies in children with a history of early institutional care. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2010 May; 164(5):406-11.
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  4. Drury SS, Theall KP, Smyke AT, Keats BJ, Egger HL, Nelson CA, Fox NA, Marshall PJ, Zeanah CH. Modification of depression by COMT val158met polymorphism in children exposed to early severe psychosocial deprivation. Child Abuse Negl. 2010 Jun; 34(6):387-95.
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  5. Johnson DE, Guthrie D, Smyke AT, Koga SF, Fox NA, Zeanah CH, Nelson CA. Growth and associations between auxology, caregiving environment, and cognition in socially deprived Romanian children randomized to foster vs ongoing institutional care. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2010 Jun; 164(6):507-16.
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  6. Lukowski AF, Koss M, Burden MJ, Jonides J, Nelson CA, Kaciroti N, Jimenez E, Lozoff B. Iron deficiency in infancy and neurocognitive functioning at 19 years: evidence of long-term deficits in executive function and recognition memory. Nutr Neurosci. 2010 Apr; 13(2):54-70.
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  7. Balas BJ, Nelson CA, Westerlund A, Vogel-Farley V, Riggins T, Kuefner D. Personal familiarity influences the processing of upright and inverted faces in infants. Front Hum Neurosci. 2010; 4:1.
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  8. Burden MJ, Jacobson JL, Westerlund A, Lundahl LH, Morrison A, Dodge NC, Klorman R, Nelson CA, Avison MJ, Jacobson SW. An event-related potential study of response inhibition in ADHD with and without prenatal alcohol exposure. Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2010 Apr; 34(4):617-27.
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  9. Smyke AT, Zeanah CH, Fox NA, Nelson CA, Guthrie D. Placement in foster care enhances quality of attachment among young institutionalized children. Child Dev. 2010 Jan-Feb; 81(1):212-23.
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  10. Balas B, Nelson CA. The role of face shape and pigmentation in other-race face perception: an electrophysiological study. Neuropsychologia. 2010 Jan; 48(2):498-506.
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  11. Aflaki P, Nelson C, Balas B, Pomahac B. Simulated central face transplantation: age consideration in matching donors and recipients. J Plast Reconstr Aesthet Surg. 2010 Mar; 63(3):e283-5.
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  12. Burden MJ, Andrew C, Saint-Amour D, Meintjes EM, Molteno CD, Hoyme HE, Robinson LK, Khaole N, Nelson CA, Jacobson JL, Jacobson SW. The effects of fetal alcohol syndrome on response execution and inhibition: an event-related potential study. Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2009 Nov; 33(11):1994-2004.
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  13. Peltola MJ, Leppänen JM, Vogel-Farley VK, Hietanen JK, Nelson CA. Fearful faces but not fearful eyes alone delay attention disengagement in 7-month-old infants. Emotion. 2009 Aug; 9(4):560-5.
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  14. Smyke AT, Zeanah CH, Fox NA, Nelson CA. A new model of foster care for young children: the Bucharest early intervention project. Child Adolesc Psychiatr Clin N Am. 2009 Jul; 18(3):721-34.
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  15. Richmond J, Nelson CA. Relational memory during infancy: evidence from eye tracking. Dev Sci. 2009 Jul; 12(4):549-56.
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  16. Moulson MC, Westerlund A, Fox NA, Zeanah CH, Nelson CA. The effects of early experience on face recognition: an event-related potential study of institutionalized children in Romania. Child Dev. 2009 Jul-Aug; 80(4):1039-56.
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  17. Tottenham N, Tanaka JW, Leon AC, McCarry T, Nurse M, Hare TA, Marcus DJ, Westerlund A, Casey BJ, Nelson C. The NimStim set of facial expressions: judgments from untrained research participants. Psychiatry Res. 2009 Aug 15; 168(3):242-9.
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  18. Zeanah CH, Egger HL, Smyke AT, Nelson CA, Fox NA, Marshall PJ, Guthrie D. Institutional rearing and psychiatric disorders in Romanian preschool children. Am J Psychiatry. 2009 Jul; 166(7):777-85.
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  19. Pomahac B, Aflaki P, Nelson C, Balas B. Evaluation of appearance transfer and persistence in central face transplantation: a computer simulation analysis. J Plast Reconstr Aesthet Surg. 2010 May; 63(5):733-8.
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  20. Riggins T, Miller NC, Bauer PJ, Georgieff MK, Nelson CA. Electrophysiological indices of memory for temporal order in early childhood: implications for the development of recollection. Dev Sci. 2009 Mar; 12(2):209-19.
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  21. Ghera MM, Marshall PJ, Fox NA, Zeanah CH, Nelson CA, Smyke AT, Guthrie D. The effects of foster care intervention on socially deprived institutionalized children's attention and positive affect: results from the BEIP study. J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2009 Mar; 50(3):246-53.
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  22. Cordón IM, Georgieff MK, Nelson CA. Neural correlates of emotion processing in typically developing children and children of diabetic mothers. Dev Neuropsychol. 2009; 34(6):683-700.
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  23. Moulson MC, Fox NA, Zeanah CH, Nelson CA. Early adverse experiences and the neurobiology of facial emotion processing. Dev Psychol. 2009 Jan; 45(1):17-30.
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  24. Riggins T, Miller NC, Bauer PJ, Georgieff MK, Nelson CA. Consequences of low neonatal iron status due to maternal diabetes mellitus on explicit memory performance in childhood. Dev Neuropsychol. 2009; 34(6):762-79.
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  25. Leppänen JM, Nelson CA. Tuning the developing brain to social signals of emotions. Nat Rev Neurosci. 2009 Jan; 10(1):37-47.
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  26. Nelson CA, McCleery JP. Use of event-related potentials in the study of typical and atypical development. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2008 Nov; 47(11):1252-61.
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  27. Jeste SS, Nelson CA. Event related potentials in the understanding of autism spectrum disorders: an analytical review. J Autism Dev Disord. 2009 Mar; 39(3):495-510.
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  28. Wolf SM, Lawrenz FP, Nelson CA, Kahn JP, Cho MK, Clayton EW, Fletcher JG, Georgieff MK, Hammerschmidt D, Hudson K, Illes J, Kapur V, Keane MA, Koenig BA, Leroy BS, McFarland EG, Paradise J, Parker LS, Terry SF, Van Ness B, Wilfond BS. Managing incidental findings in human subjects research: analysis and recommendations. J Law Med Ethics. 2008; 36(2):219-48, 211.
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  29. Marshall PJ, Reeb BC, Fox NA, Nelson CA, Zeanah CH. Effects of early intervention on EEG power and coherence in previously institutionalized children in Romania. Dev Psychopathol. 2008; 20(3):861-80.
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  30. Nelson CA. Incidental findings in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) brain research. J Law Med Ethics. 2008; 36(2):315-9, 213.
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  31. Nelson CA, Zeanah CH, Fox NA, Marshall PJ, Smyke AT, Guthrie D. Cognitive recovery in socially deprived young children: the Bucharest Early Intervention Project. Science. 2007 Dec 21; 318(5858):1937-40.
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  32. Burden MJ, Westerlund AJ, Armony-Sivan R, Nelson CA, Jacobson SW, Lozoff B, Angelilli ML, Jacobson JL. An event-related potential study of attention and recognition memory in infants with iron-deficiency anemia. Pediatrics. 2007 Aug; 120(2):e336-45.
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  33. Smyke AT, Koga SF, Johnson DE, Fox NA, Marshall PJ, Nelson CA, Zeanah CH. The caregiving context in institution-reared and family-reared infants and toddlers in Romania. J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2007 Feb; 48(2):210-8.
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  34. Leppänen JM, Moulson MC, Vogel-Farley VK, Nelson CA. An ERP study of emotional face processing in the adult and infant brain. Child Dev. 2007 Jan-Feb; 78(1):232-45.
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  35. deRegnier RA, Long JD, Georgieff MK, Nelson CA. Using event-related potentials to study perinatal nutrition and brain development in infants of diabetic mothers. Dev Neuropsychol. 2007; 31(3):379-96.
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  36. Macchi Cassia V, Kuefner D, Westerlund A, Nelson CA. Modulation of face-sensitive event-related potentials by canonical and distorted human faces: the role of vertical symmetry and up-down featural arrangement. J Cogn Neurosci. 2006 Aug; 18(8):1343-58.
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  37. Benedict L, Nelson CA, Schunk E, Sullwold K, Seaquist ER. Effect of insulin on the brain activity obtained during visual and memory tasks in healthy human subjects. Neuroendocrinology. 2006; 83(1):20-6.
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  38. Seaquist ER, Chen W, Benedict LE, Ugurbil K, Kwag JH, Zhu XH, Nelson CA. Insulin reduces the BOLD response but is without effect on the VEP during presentation of a visual task in humans. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab. 2007 Jan; 27(1):154-60.
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  39. Curtis WJ, Zhuang J, Townsend EL, Hu X, Nelson CA. Memory in early adolescents born prematurely: a functional magnetic resonance imaging investigation. Dev Neuropsychol. 2006; 29(2):341-77.
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  40. Bauer PJ, Wiebe SA, Carver LJ, Lukowski AF, Haight JC, Waters JM, Nelson CA. Electrophysiological indexes of encoding and behavioral indexes of recall: examining relations and developmental change late in the first year of life. Dev Neuropsychol. 2006; 29(2):293-320.
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  41. Quinn PC, Westerlund A, Nelson CA. Neural markers of categorization in 6-month-old infants. Psychol Sci. 2006 Jan; 17(1):59-66.
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  42. Cassia VM, Kuefner D, Westerlund A, Nelson CA. A behavioural and ERP investigation of 3-month-olds' face preferences. Neuropsychologia. 2006; 44(11):2113-25.
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  43. Scott LS, Shannon RW, Nelson CA. Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence of species-specific face processing. Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci. 2005 Dec; 5(4):405-16.
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  44. Nelson CA, Parker SW, Guthrie D. The discrimination of facial expressions by typically developing infants and toddlers and those experiencing early institutional care. Infant Behav Dev. 2006 Apr; 29(2):210-9.
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  45. Webb SJ, Long JD, Nelson CA. A longitudinal investigation of visual event-related potentials in the first year of life. Dev Sci. 2005 Nov; 8(6):605-16.
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  46. Lukowski AF, Wiebe SA, Haight JC, DeBoer T, Nelson CA, Bauer PJ. Forming a stable memory representation in the first year of life: why imitation is more than child's play. Dev Sci. 2005 May; 8(3):279-98.
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  47. Parker SW, Nelson CA. The impact of early institutional rearing on the ability to discriminate facial expressions of emotion: an event-related potential study. Child Dev. 2005 Jan-Feb; 76(1):54-72.
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  48. Parker SW, Nelson CA. An event-related potential study of the impact of institutional rearing on face recognition. Dev Psychopathol. 2005; 17(3):621-39.
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  49. Black LS, deRegnier RA, Long J, Georgieff MK, Nelson CA. Electrographic imaging of recognition memory in 34-38 week gestation intrauterine growth restricted newborns. Exp Neurol. 2004 Nov; 190 Suppl 1:S72-83.
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  50. Nelson CA. Brain development during puberty and adolescence: comments on part II. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2004 Jun; 1021:105-9.
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  51. Siddappa AM, Georgieff MK, Wewerka S, Worwa C, Nelson CA, Deregnier RA. Iron deficiency alters auditory recognition memory in newborn infants of diabetic mothers. Pediatr Res. 2004 Jun; 55(6):1034-41.
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  52. Goldman DZ, Shapiro EG, Nelson CA. Measurement of vigilance in 2-year-old children. Dev Neuropsychol. 2004; 25(3):227-50.
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  53. Nelson CA. Can we develop a neurobiological model of human social-emotional development? Integrative thoughts on the effects of separation on parent-child interactions. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2003 Dec; 1008:48-54.
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  54. Nelson CA, Wewerka SS, Borscheid AJ, Deregnier RA, Georgieff MK. Electrophysiologic evidence of impaired cross-modal recognition memory in 8-month-old infants of diabetic mothers. J Pediatr. 2003 May; 142(5):575-82.
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  55. Zeanah CH, Nelson CA, Fox NA, Smyke AT, Marshall P, Parker SW, Koga S. Designing research to study the effects of institutionalization on brain and behavioral development: the Bucharest Early Intervention Project. Dev Psychopathol. 2003; 15(4):885-907.
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  56. Costello EJ, Pine DS, Hammen C, March JS, Plotsky PM, Weissman MM, Biederman J, Goldsmith HH, Kaufman J, Lewinsohn PM, Hellander M, Hoagwood K, Koretz DS, Nelson CA, Leckman JF. Development and natural history of mood disorders. Biol Psychiatry. 2002 Sep 15; 52(6):529-42.
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  57. Curtis WJ, Lindeke LL, Georgieff MK, Nelson CA. Neurobehavioural functioning in neonatal intensive care unit graduates in late childhood and early adolescence. Brain. 2002 Jul; 125(Pt 7):1646-59.
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  58. Monk CS, Nelson CA. The effects of hydrocortisone on cognitive and neural function: a behavioral and event-related potential investigation. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2002 Apr; 26(4):505-19.
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  59. Nelson CA, Bloom FE, Cameron JL, Amaral D, Dahl RE, Pine D. An integrative, multidisciplinary approach to the study of brain-behavior relations in the context of typical and atypical development. Dev Psychopathol. 2002; 14(3):499-520.
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  60. Luciana M, Nelson CA. Assessment of neuropsychological function through use of the Cambridge Neuropsychological Testing Automated Battery: performance in 4- to 12-year-old children. Dev Neuropsychol. 2002; 22(3):595-624.
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  61. Webb SJ, Nelson CA. Perceptual priming for upright and inverted faces in infants and adults. J Exp Child Psychol. 2001 May; 79(1):1-22.
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  62. Nelson CA, Wewerka S, Thomas KM, Tribby-Walbridge S, deRegnier R, Georgieff M. Neurocognitive sequelae of infants of diabetic mothers. Behav Neurosci. 2000 Oct; 114(5):950-6.
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  63. Wegesin DJ, Nelson CA. Effects of inter-item lag on recognition memory in seizure patients preceding temporal lobe resection: evidence from event-related potentials. Int J Psychophysiol. 2000 Sep; 37(3):243-55.
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  64. de Deungria M, Rao R, Wobken JD, Luciana M, Nelson CA, Georgieff MK. Perinatal iron deficiency decreases cytochrome c oxidase (CytOx) activity in selected regions of neonatal rat brain. Pediatr Res. 2000 Aug; 48(2):169-76.
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  65. Nelson CA, Monk CS, Lin J, Carver LJ, Thomas KM, Truwit CL. Functional neuroanatomy of spatial working memory in children. Dev Psychol. 2000 Jan; 36(1):109-16.
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  66. de Haan M, Nelson CA. Brain activity differentiates face and object processing in 6-month-old infants. Dev Psychol. 1999 Jul; 35(4):1113-21.
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  67. Rao R, de Ungria M, Sullivan D, Wu P, Wobken JD, Nelson CA, Georgieff MK. Perinatal brain iron deficiency increases the vulnerability of rat hippocampus to hypoxic ischemic insult. J Nutr. 1999 Jan; 129(1):199-206.
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  68. Nelson CA, Thomas KM, de Haan M, Wewerka SS. Delayed recognition memory in infants and adults as revealed by event-related potentials. Int J Psychophysiol. 1998 Jul; 29(2):145-65.
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  69. Luciana M, Nelson CA. The functional emergence of prefrontally-guided working memory systems in four- to eight-year-old children. Neuropsychologia. 1998 Mar; 36(3):273-93.
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  70. Boyce WT, Frank E, Jensen PS, Kessler RC, Nelson CA, Steinberg L. Social context in developmental psychopathology: recommendations for future research from the MacArthur Network on Psychopathology and Development. The MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Psychopathology and Development. Dev Psychopathol. 1998; 10(2):143-64.
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  71. Nelson CA, Carver LJ. The effects of stress and trauma on brain and memory: a view from developmental cognitive neuroscience. Dev Psychopathol. 1998; 10(4):793-809.
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  72. de Haan M, Nelson CA. Recognition of the mother's face by six-month-old infants: a neurobehavioral study. Child Dev. 1997 Apr; 68(2):187-210.
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  73. Biederman I, Gerhardstein PC, Cooper EE, Nelson CA. High level object recognition without an anterior inferior temporal lobe. Neuropsychologia. 1997 Mar; 35(3):271-87.
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  74. deRegnier RA, Georgieff MK, Nelson CA. Visual event-related brain potentials in 4-month-old infants at risk for neurodevelopmental impairments. Dev Psychobiol. 1997 Jan; 30(1):11-28.
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  75. Matthews A, Ellis AE, Nelson CA. Development of preterm and full-term infant ability on AB, recall memory, transparent barrier detour, and means-end tasks. Child Dev. 1996 Dec; 67(6):2658-76.
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  76. Nelson CA, De Haan M. Neural correlates of infants' visual responsiveness to facial expressions of emotion. Dev Psychobiol. 1996 Nov; 29(7):577-95.
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  77. Gunnar MR, Nelson CA. Event-related potentials in year-old infants: relations with emotionality and cortisol. Child Dev. 1994 Feb; 65(1):80-94.
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  78. Kestenbaum R, Nelson CA. Neural and behavioral correlates of emotion recognition in children and adults. J Exp Child Psychol. 1992 Aug; 54(1):1-18.
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  79. Nelson CA, Collins PF. Neural and behavioral correlates of visual recognition memory in 4- and 8-month-old infants. Brain Cogn. 1992 May; 19(1):105-21.
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  80. Lang SF, Nelson CA, Collins PF. Event-related potentials to emotional and neutral stimuli. J Clin Exp Neuropsychol. 1990 Dec; 12(6):946-58.
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  81. Nelson CA, Collins PF, Torres F. The lateralization of language comprehension using event-related potentials. Brain Cogn. 1990 Sep; 14(1):92-112.
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  82. Nelson CA, Salapatek P. Electrophysiological correlates of infant recognition memory. Child Dev. 1986 Dec; 57(6):1483-97.
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  83. Nelson CA, Dolgin KG. The generalized discrimination of facial expressions by seven-month-old infants. Child Dev. 1985 Feb; 56(1):58-61.
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  84. Nelson CA, Horowitz FD. The perception of facial expressions and stimulus motion by two- and five-month-old infants using holographic stimuli. Child Dev. 1983 Aug; 54(4):868-77.
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  85. Nelson CA, Morse PA, Leavitt LA. Recognition of facial expressions by seven-month-old infants. Child Dev. 1979 Dec; 50(4):1239-42.
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