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Charles A. Nelson

Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences

Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences

Other Positions

Temp Exec Educ Instructor

Faculty, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry

Psychiatry-Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Professor of Education

Faculty, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Professor of Pediatrics

Pediatrics-Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Biography

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Publications

Stress timing, trauma exposure, and family resilience differentially affect internalizing and externalizing symptoms at 3, 5, and 7 years of age.

Valdes V, Sacks DD, Nelson CA, Enlow MB. Commun Psychol 2024 Oct 29
Correction: Resting Frontal Gamma Power is Associated with Both Expressive Language and Non-verbal Cognitive Abilities in Young Autistic Children.

Mukerji CE, Wilson JS, Wilkinson CL, Krol MA, Nelson CA, Tager-Flusberg H. J Autism Dev Disord 2024
Longitudinal interactions between maternal depression symptoms and familial stressful life events on child anxiety symptoms at 5 years of age.

Valdes V, Craighead LW, Nelson CA, Bosquet Enlow M. Infancy 2024 Sep 28
The Influence of Temperament, Theory of Mind, Inhibitory Control, and Prosocial Behavior on Child Anxiety Symptoms in the First Five Years of Life.

Valdes V, Craighead LW, Nelson CA, Enlow MB. Res Child Adolesc Psychopathol 2024 Sep 27
Examining the relationship between psychosocial adversity and inhibitory control: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study of children growing up in extreme poverty.

Surani Z, Turesky TK, Sullivan E, Shama T, Haque R, Islam N, Hafiz Kakon S, Yu X, Petri WA, Nelson C, Gaab N. J Exp Child Psychol 2025

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