Lab Publications

Nelson, T.D., & Stice, E. (2023). Contextualizing the neural vulnerabilities model of obesity. Nutrients, 15, 2988.

Kidwell, K.M., James, T.D., Brock, R.L., Yaroch, A.L., Hill, J.L., Nelson, J.M., Mason, W.A., Espy, K.A., & Nelson, T.D. (2023). Preschool executive control, temperament, and adolescent dietary behaviors. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 57(3), 260-268.

Laifer, L.M., Tomaso, C.C., Chang, O.D., Phillips, E.M., James, T.D., Nelson, J.M., Espy, K.A., Mason, W.A., & Nelson, T.D. (2023). Early executive control buffers risk for adolescent psychopathology during the Covid-19 pandemic. Journal of Adolescence, 95, 1205-1219.

Feghali, P.T., Iwamota, B.K., Triplett, O.M., Rockwood, N.J., Nelson, T.D., & Van Dyk, T.R. (2023). A daily-level, within-person examination of emotion regulation as a mediator of the relationship between sleep and behavior in youth. Frontiers in Sleep, 2, 1154638.

Phillips, E.M., Brock, R.L., James, T.D., Nelson, J.M., Mason, W.A., Espy, K.A., & Nelson, T.D. (2023). Does preschool executive control mediate the impact of early environmental unpredictability and deprivation on the general factor of psychopathology a decade later? Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 64(10), 1505-1516.

Guo, Y., Fleming, C. B., Patwardhan, I., James, T.D., Nelson, J.M., Espy, K.A., Nelson, T.D., & Mason, W.A. (2023). A comparison of task-based and questionnaire assessments of executive control aspects in relation to adolescent marijuana initiation. Cannabis, 6(1), 65-78.

Patwardhan, I., Guo, Y., Hamburger, E.R., Sarwar, S., Fleming, C.B., James, T.D., Nelson, J.M., Espy, K.A., Nelson, T.D., & Mason, W.A. (2023). Childhood executive control and adolescent substance use: The mediating roles of physical and relational aggression and prosocial behaviors. Child Neuropsychology, 29(2), 235-254.

Phillips, E.M., Brock, R.L., James, T.D., Nelson, J.M., Espy, K.A., & Nelson, T.D. (2022). Empirical support for a dual process model of the p-factor: Interaction effects between preschool executive control and preschool negative emotionality on general psychopathology. Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science (formerly Journal of Abnormal Psychology), 131(8), 817-829.

Tomaso, C.C., Yaroch, A.L., Hill, J.L., Jackson, T., Nelson, J.M., James, T.D., Mason, W.A., Espy, K.A., & Nelson, T.D. (2022). The roles of sleep and executive function in adolescent nighttime eating. Eating Behaviors, 46(2002), 101657. 

Stice, E., Yokum, S., Nelson, T.D., Berkman, E., Veiling, H., & Lawrence, N. (2022). Efficacy of a combined food response inhibition and attention training for weight loss. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 46, 101168.

Nelson, T.D., James, T.D., Nelson, J.M., Tomaso, C.C., & Espy, K.A. (2022). Executive control in elementary school: Factor structure and associations with early childhood executive control. Developmental Psychology, 58(4), 730-750.

Tomaso, C.C., James, T.D., Nelson, J.M., Espy, K.A., & Nelson, T.D. (2022). Longitudinal associations between executive control and body mass index across childhood. Pediatric Obesity, 17, e12866.

Nelson, T.D., Brock, R.L., Yokum, S., Tomaso, C.C., Savage, C.R., & Stice, E. (2021). Much ado about missingness: A demonstration of full information maximum likelihood versus listwise deletion to address missingness in fMRI data. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 15, 1-12.

Tomaso, C. C., James, T.D., Nelson, J.M., Espy, K.A., & Nelson, T.D. (2021). Associations between preschool sleep problems and observed dimensions of elementary classroom engagement. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 57, 251-259.

Tomaso, C. C., Johnson, A. B., James, T. D., Nelson, J. M., Mason, W. A., Espy, K. A., & Nelson, T. D. (2021). Emotion regulation strategies as mediators of the relationship between internalizing psychopathology and sleep-wake problems during the transition to adolescence: A longitudinal study. Journal of Early Adolescence, 41(5), 657-682.

Mason, W.A., Patwardhan, I., Fleming, C.B., Stevens, A.L., James, T.D., Nelson, J.M., Espy, K.A., & Nelson, T.D. (2021). Associations of childhood executive control with adolescent cigarette and e-cigarette use: Tests of moderation by poverty level. Addictive Behaviors, 119, 106923.

Patwardhan, I., Nelson, T.D., McClelland, M.M., & Mason, W.A., (2021). Childhood cognitive flexibility and externalizing and internalizing behavior problems: Examination of prospective bidirectional associations. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology (formerly Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology), 49(4), 413-427.

Tomaso, C. C., Johnson, A. B., & Nelson, T.D. (2021). The effect of sleep deprivation and restriction on mood, emotion, and emotion regulation: Three meta-analyses in one. SLEEP, 44(6), 1-30.

Cheadle, J. E., Goosby, B. J., Jochman, J.J., Tomaso, C.C., Kozikowski, C. & Nelson, T.D. (2020). Race and ethnic variation in college student’s allostatic regulation and racism-related stress. PNAS, 117(49), 31053-31062.

Tomaso, C.C., Nelson, J.M., Espy, K.A., & Nelson, T.D. (2020). Associations between different components of executive control in childhood and sleep problems in early adolescence: A longitudinal study. Journal of Health Psychology, 25, 2440-2452.

Johnson, A. B., Nelson, J. M., Tomaso, C. C., James, T., Espy, K. A., & Nelson, T. D. (2020). Executive control in preschool as a predictor of social information processing in early elementary school. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 71, 1-11.

Fleming, C.B., Stevens, A.L., Vivero, M., Patwardhan, I., Nelson, T.D., Nelson, J.M., James, T.D., Espy, K.A., & Mason, W.A. (2020). Executive control in early childhood as an antecedent of adolescent problem behaviors: A longitudinal study with performance-based measures of early childhood cognitive processes. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 49(12), 2429-2440.

Nelson, T.D., James, T.D., Nelson, J.M., Johnson, A.B., Mason, W.A., Yaroch, A.L., & Espy, K.A. (2020). Associations between specific components of executive control and eating behaviors in adolescence: A study using objective and subjective measures. Appetite, 154(1), 1-10.

Mason, W.A., Fleming, C.B., Tomaso, C.C., James, T.D., Nelson, J.M., Espy, K.A., & Nelson, T.D. (2020). Associations of early socio-familial stress with maladaptive and adaptive functioning in middle childhood: Roles of executive control and foundation cognitive abilities. Prevention Science, 21(5), 681-690.

Kidwell, K.M., Tomaso, C., Lundahl, A., & Nelson, T.D. (2020). Confirmatory factor analysis of the Parental Feeding Style Questionnaire with a preschool sample. Eating and Weight Disorders – Studies on Anorexia, Bulimia and Obesity, 25(2), 407-414.

Nelson, T.D., Nelson, J.M., Mason, W.A., Kozikowski, C.B., Tomaso, C.C., & Espy. K.A. (2019). Executive control and adolescent health: Toward a conceptual framework. Adolescent Research Review, 4(1), 31-43.

Jochman, J., Cheadle, J., Goosby, B.J., Tomaso, C., Kozikowski, C., & Nelson, T.D. (2019). Mental health outcomes of discrimination among college students on a predominantly white campus: A prospective study. Socius, 5, 1-16.

Kidwell, K.M., McGinnis, J.C., Nguyen, A.V., Arcidiacono, S., & Nelson, T.D. (2019). A pilot study examining the effectiveness of brief sleep treatment to improve children’s emotional and behavioral functioning. Children’s Health Care, 48(3), 314-331.

Roth, T.C., Kozikowski, C., & Nelson, T.D. (2019). From clinic to community: Translating obesity intervention research findings to applications. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 44(8), 902-904.

Nelson, T.D., Kidwell, K. M., Hankey, M., Nelson, J. M., & Espy, K. A. (2018). Preschool executive control and sleep problems in early adolescence. Behavioral Sleep Medicine, 16(5), 494-503.

Kidwell, K.M., Kozikowski, C., Roth, T., Lundahl, A., & Nelson, T.D. (2018). Concurrent and longitudinal associations among temperament, parental feeding styles, and selective eating in a preschool sample. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 43(5), 572-583.

Goosby, B.J., Cheadle, J.E., Strong, W., Roth, T., & Nelson, T.D. (2018). Perceived discrimination and adolescent sleep in a community sample. Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 4(4), 43-61.

Nelson, T.D., Kidwell, K.M., Nelson, J.M., Tomaso, C.C., Hankey, M., & Espy, K.A. (2018). Preschool executive control and internalizing symptoms in elementary school. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 46(7), 1509-1520.

Aylward, B.S., Nelson, T.D., & Hommel, K. (2017). Realizing the potential of mobile health technology in behavioral medicine. Journal of Mobile Technology in Medicine, 6(1), 46-48.

Kidwell, K.M., Hankey, M., Nelson, J.M., Espy, K.A., & Nelson, T.D. (2017). Child executive control as a moderator of the longitudinal association between sleep problems and subsequent attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder symptoms. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 42(10), 1144-1155.

Nelson, T.D., James, T.D., Hankey, M., Nelson, J.M., Lundahl, A., & Espy, K.A. (2017). Early executive control and risk for overweight and obesity in elementary school. Child Neuropsychology, 23(8), 994-1002.

Nelson, T.D., Nelson, J.M., James, T.D., Clark, C.A., Kidwell, K.M., & Espy, K.A. (2017). Executive control goes to school: Implications of preschool executive performance for observed elementary classroom learning engagement. Developmental Psychology, 53(5), 836-844.

Hankey, M., Kidwell, K.M., Nelson, J.M., Espy, K.A., & Nelson, T.D. (2017). Weight status as a mediator of the association between preschool extraversion and adolescent restrained eating. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 42(8), 882-891.

Kidwell, K.M., Nelson, T. D., Nelson, J.M., & Espy, K.A. (2017). A longitudinal study of maternal and child internalizing symptoms predicting early adolescent emotional eating. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 42(4), 445-456.