The Maternal Affect, Mood, and Attention (MAMA) study is a cornerstone longitudinal project that follows families from the prenatal period through age 5.5. By tracking development over these formative years, we investigate how maternal mental health, including symptoms of depression and ADHD, shapes the early caregiving environment and children’s emerging self-regulation. By using a multi-method approach, this study will enable us to examine how physiological, neural and behavioral factors interact and unfold into developmental outcomes over time.

In today’s world, digital devices are an integral part of the family ecosystem. The MEDIA (Media Exposure, Dyadic Interaction & Attention) study explores how multiple levels of children's media exposure are associated with preschool children’s executive functions and emotion regulation over time. By employing a differential susceptibility to media approach, we aim to examine how individual characteristics, such as child and parental ADHD and physiological reactivity interact with families' media use to predict children's cognitive and emotional regulatory capacities.

The BRIDGE (Building Resilience and Integrating Developmental Growth in Early Childhood) is a large-scale, multi-year intervention study designed to examine the efficiency of a new daycare-based intervention designed to promote children's developmental milestone achievement in high-risk populations. The study evaluates how system-level implementations influence children’s developmental progress, educators’ professional well-being, and the overall classroom climate in early childhood daycare centers. By strengthening education systems and supporting the professionalization of the childcare workforce, BRIDGE aims to foster resilience particularly within high-stress communities.