My primary research interests lie in examining the motivational and emotional substrates of psychopathology in children. I am particularly interested in the contributions of specific neural systems to behavioral approach, avoidance, and self-regulation, and how individual differences in the functioning of these neural systems give rise to behavior problems, including ADHD, conduct disorder, substance abuse, anxiety, and depression. To assess the neural substrates of impulsivity and self regulation, we collect psychophysiological and neuroimaging data from children while they play both rewarding and frustrating games, and while they watch provocative social stimuli. These studies reveal how children_s central and autonomic nervous systems respond to incentive, mild punishment, and social threat. I am also interested in the development of central and autonomic nervous system functioning in impulsive children and adolescents, and in how environmental influences affect impulse control and self regulation. My interests focus on the mesolimbic and mesocortical dopamine systems, which have been tied to impulsive and aggressive behavior, and which are exquisitely sensitive to environmental effects. I am concerned with family interactional patterns that potentiate heritable risk for impulsive behavior, and with the role that these patterns play in children's social and emotional development. I see childhood as a particularly important period during which developing neural systems that contribute to self control may be vulnerable to potential long-term changes in functioning. In addition, I am interested in the development of advanced clinical research methods, including taxometric algorithms for identifying discrete behavioral traits. I have conducted a number of Monte Carlo investigations examining the operating characteristics of taxometric methods, and have written theoretical papers about their use.
- Crowell, S., Beauchaine, T. P., McCauley, E., & Smith, C., Stevens, A. L., & Sylvers, P. (2005). Psychological, autonomic, and serotonergic correlates of parasuicidal behavior in adolescent girls. Development and Psychopathology, 17, 1105-1127.
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- Beauchaine, T. P., Webster-Stratton, C., & Reid, M. J. (2005). Mediators, moderators, and predictors of one-year outcomes among children treated for early-onset conduct problems: A latent growth curve analysis. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 73, 371-388.
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- Beauchaine, T. P. (2007). A brief taxometrics primer. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 36, 654-676.
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- Shannon, K. E., Beauchaine, T. P., Brenner, S. L., Neuhaus, E., & Gatzke-Kopp, L. (2007). Familial and temperamental predictors of resilience in children at risk for conduct disorder and depression. Development and Psychopathology, 19, 701-727.
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- Gatzke-Kopp, L., & Beauchaine, T. P. (2007). Central nervous system substrates of impulsivity: Implications for the development of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and conduct disorder. In D. Coch, G. Dawson, & K. Fischer (Eds.), Human Behavior, Learning, and the Developing Brain: Atypical Development (pp. 239-263). New York: Guilford Press.
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- Beauchaine, T. P., Hong, J., & Marsh, P. (2008). Sex
differences in autonomic correlates of conduct problems and aggression.
Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 47,
788-796.
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- Crowell, S. E., Beauchaine, T. P., McCauley, M., Smith, C. J., Vasilev, C. A., & Stevens, A. L. (2008). Parent-child interactions, peripheral serotonin, and self-inflicted injury in adolescents. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 76, 15-21.
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- Beauchaine, T. P., & Hinshaw, S. (Eds.). (2008). Child psychopathology. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
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- Beauchaine, T. P., Neuhaus, E., Brenner, S. L., & Gatzke-Kopp, L. (2008). Ten good reasons to consider biological variables in prevention and intervention research. Development and Psychopathology, 20, 745-774.
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- Beauchaine, T. P., & Neuhaus, E. (2008). Impulsivity and vulnerability to psychopathology. In T. P. Beauchaine & S. P. Hinshaw (Eds.), Child psychopathology (pp. 129-156). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
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- Crowell, S. E., Beauchaine, T. P., & Lenzenweger, M. (2008). The development of borderline personality and self-injurious behavior. In T. P. Beauchaine & S. P. Hinshaw (Eds.), Child psychopathology (pp. 510-539). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
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- Beauchaine, T. P., Hinshaw, S. P., & Gatzke-Kopp, L. (2008). Genetic and environmental influences on behavior. In T. P. Beauchaine & S. P. Hinshaw (Eds.), Child psychopathology (pp. 58-90). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
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- Balsam, K. F., Beauchaine, T. P., Rothblum, E. D., & Solomon, S. E. (2008). Three-year follow-up of same-sex couples who had civil unions in Vermont, same-sex couples not in civil unions, and heterosexual married couples. Developmental Psychology, 44, 102-116.
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- Munson, J., Dawson, G., Sterling, L., Beauchaine, T. P., Zhou, A., Koehler, E., Lord, C., Rogers, S., Sigman, M., Estes, A. (2008). Evidence for latent classes of IQ in young children with autism spectrum disorder. American Journal on Mental Retardation, 113, 439-452.
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- Beauchaine, T. P., Klein, D. N., Crowell, S. E., Derbidge, C., & Gatzke-Kopp, L. M. (2009). Multifinality in the development of personality disorders: A Biology x Sex x Environment model of antisocial and borderline traits. Development and Psychopathology, 21, 735-770.
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- Gatzke-Kopp, L.
M., Beauchaine, T. P., Shannon, K. E., Chipman-Chacon, J., Fleming, A. P.,
Crowell, S. E., Liang, O., Johnson, C., & Aylward, E. (2009). Neurological correlates of reward responding in adolescents with and without externalizing behavior disorders. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 118, 203-213.
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- Beauchaine, T. P. (2009). Some difficulties in interpreting psychophysiological research with children. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 509, 80-88.
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- Beauchaine, T. P. (2009). The role of biomarkers and endophenotypes in prevention and treatment of
psychopathological disorders. Biomarkers in
Medicine, 3, 1-3.
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- Beauchaine, T. P. (in press). Physiological markers of emotional and behavioral
dysregulation in externalizing psychopathology. Monographs
of the Society for Research in Child Development.
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- Mead, H. K., Beauchaine, T. P., & Shannon, K. E. (in press). Neurobiological adaptations to violence across development. Development and Psychopathology.
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- Vasilev, C. A., Crowell, S. E., Beauchaine, T. P., Mead, H. K., & Gatzke-Kopp, L. M. (in press). Correspondence between physiological and self-report measures of emotion dysregulation: A longitudinal investigation of youth with and without psychopathology. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.
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- Shannon, K. E., Sauder, C., Beauchaine, T. P., & Gatzke-Kopp, L. (in press). Disrupted effective connectivity between the medial frontal cortex and the caudate in adolescent boys with externalizing behavior disorders. Criminal Justice and Behavior.
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- Beauchaine, T. P. (in press). Taxometric methods. In I. Weiner and E. Craighead (Eds.), The Corsini encyclopedia of psychology (4th ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
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- Neuhaus, E., Beauchaine, T. P., Reid, J., & Carolyn Webster-Stratton, C. (in press). Coercive processes and child vagal tone in families of preschoolers with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. In
S. M. Gordon & A. E. Mitchell (Eds.) Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. New York: Nova Science Publishers.
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- Szajnberg, N., Elliott-Wilson, M., Beauchaine, T. P., & Waters, E. (in press). Mothers of children with inflammatory bowel disease: A controlled study of adult attachment classifications and patterns of psychopathology. Israel Journal of Psychiatry.
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