Publications

BRIDGET CALLAGHAN BRIDGET CALLAGHAN

Alexithymia mediates the relationship between discrimination and anxiety in women.

Savoca, P. W., Esfand, S., Fabian, A., & Callaghan, B. L.

Stigma & Health (2025)

Read More
BRIDGET CALLAGHAN BRIDGET CALLAGHAN

Development and validation of a novel microcoding system for caregiver and child behavior

Somers, J. A., Querdasi, F.R., Aghajani, M., Sun, Q. C., Xu, S., Li, L. W., Nussbaum, S., Chu, K., Gancz, N., Towner, E. & Callaghan, B. L.

Developmental Psychology (2025)

Read More
BRIDGET CALLAGHAN BRIDGET CALLAGHAN

A call to integrate measures of environmental context into research on maternal brain health.

Read More
BRIDGET CALLAGHAN BRIDGET CALLAGHAN

Understanding the development of a functional brain circuit: Reward processing as an illustration.

Opendak, M., Meyer, H., Callaghan, B. L., Abramson, L., Bath, K., Lee, F., Tottenham, N., Sullivan, R., & John, S.

Translational Psychiatry (2025)

Read More
BRIDGET CALLAGHAN BRIDGET CALLAGHAN

Cognition and motherhood: A key to understanding perinatal mental health.

Callaghan, B. L. & Pawluski, J.L.

Archives of Women’s Mental Health (2025)

Read More
BRIDGET CALLAGHAN BRIDGET CALLAGHAN

The mind, brain, and body study: A protocol for examining the effects of the gut-brain-immune axis on internalizing symptoms in youth exposed to caregiving-related early adversity

Esfand, S.M., Querdasi, F.R., Gancz, N.N., Savoca, P.W., Nussabaum, S., Somers, J.A., Ditzer, J., Figueroa, Chu, K., Towner, E., & Callaghan, B.L. Brain, Behavioral, and Immunity -  Health (2024)

Read More
Stellate Comms Stellate Comms

Interoception in pregnancy: Implications for peripartum depression

Savoca, P. W., Glynn, L. M., Fox, M. M., Richards, M. C., & Callaghan, B. L.
Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews (2024)

Read More
BRIDGET CALLAGHAN BRIDGET CALLAGHAN

Transactional models of depression via caregiver-child interactions: Evaluating conflict resolution as a source of resilience in adversity-exposed families. 

Somers, J.A., Querdasi, F.R., Chu, K.A., Gancz, N., Towner, E. & Callaghan, B. L.

Children and Youth Services Review (2024)

Read More
Stellate Comms Stellate Comms

Characteristics of the oral microbiome in youth exposed to caregiving adversity

Gancz, N. N., Querdasi, F. R., Chu, K. A., Towner, E., Taylor, E., & Callaghan, B. L.
Brain, Behavior, Immunity: Health (2024)

Read More
Stellate Comms Stellate Comms

Exploring the impact of maternal early life adversity on interoceptive sensibility in pregnancy: Implications for prenatal depression

Savoca, P. W., Glynn, L. M., Fox, M. M., Richards, M. C., & Callaghan, B. L.
Archives of Women’s Mental Health (2024)

Read More
Stellate Comms Stellate Comms

No association found: Adverse childhood experiences and cognitive impairment in older Australian adults

Lian, J., Kiely, K. M., Callaghan, B. L., Eramudugolla, R., Mortby, M., & Anstey, K. J.
The Journal for the Prevention of Alzheimer’s Disease (2024)

Read More
Stellate Comms Stellate Comms

Understanding the maternal brain in the context of the mental load of motherhood

Callaghan, B. L., McCormack, C., Kim, P., & Pawluski, J.
Nature Mental Health (2024)

Read More
Stellate Comms Stellate Comms

The effects of parental presence on amygdala and mPFC activation during fear conditioning: An exploratory study

Abramson, L., Callaghan, B. L., Silvers, J. A., Choy, T., Van Tieghem, M., Vannucci, A., Fields, A., & Tottenham, N.
Developmental Science (2024)

Read More
Stellate Comms Stellate Comms

MEDIC: Development and validation of a new instrument to assess emotional reactivity to medical stimuli in a representative community sample of adults

Phillips, K., Callaghan, B. L., Webb, A., Kan, J., Ooi, C. Y., & Kasparian, N. A.
Journal of Psychiatric Research (2024)

Read More
Stellate Comms Stellate Comms

Childhood adversity is associated with anxiety and depression in older adults: A cumulative risk and latent class analysis

Lian, J., Kiely, K. M., Callaghan, B. L., & Anstey, K. J.
Journal of Affective Disorders (2024)

Read More
Stellate Comms Stellate Comms

Neuroimaging and neurodevelopmental outcomes among individuals with complex congenital heart disease: JACC State-of-the-Art Review

Phillips, K., Callaghan, B. L., Rajagopalan, V., Akram, F., Newburger, J. W., & Kasparian, N. A.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology (2023)

Read More
Stellate Comms Stellate Comms

A comparison of the infant gut microbiome before vs. after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic

Querdasi, F., Vogel, S., Thomason, M., Callaghan, B. L., & Brito, N. H.
Scientific Reports (2023)

Read More
Stellate Comms Stellate Comms

Sex and gender as critical and distinct contributors to the human brain-gut-microbiome axis

Gancz, N. N., Levinson, J. A., & Callaghan, B. L.
Brain Research Bulletin (2023)

Read More
Stellate Comms Stellate Comms

Multigenerational adversity impacts on human gut microbiome composition and socioemotional functioning in early childhood

Querdasi, F., Enders, C., Karnani, N., Broekman, B., Yap-Seng, C., Gluckman, P. D., Daniel, L. M., Yap, F., Eriksson, J. G., Cai, S., Chong, M. F-F., Toh, J. Y., Colega, M. T., Godfrey, K., Meaney, M., & Callaghan, B. L.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2023)

Read More
Stellate Comms Stellate Comms

It’s time to rebrand 'mommy brain'

McCormack, C., Callaghan, B. L., & Pawluski, J. L.
Journal of the American Medical Association: Neurology (2023)

Read More