Publications
^ International Collaborator, * Student trainee
In Press
Sloss, I., Wade, M., Prime, H., Browne, D.T. (in press). Two-year trajectories of psychopathology and differential parenting during COVID-19: A Sibling Study. Journal of Family Psychology.
2026
Johnson, D., *Parker, V., & Wade, M. (2026). Predicting Mental Health Risk from Early-Life Adversity: A Population-Based Study of Canadian Adults: Prédiction du risque pour la santé mentale liée à l’adversité en début de vie : Étude fondée sur une population d’adultes canadiens. The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 07067437261442418. https://doi.org/10.1177/07067437261442418
Johnson, D., *Finegold, K. E., Page, D., & Wade, M. (2026). The impact of COVID-19 on children and adolescents with neurodevelopmental disorders and their families. In J. Wiener (Ed.), Family and peer relationships of children and adolescents with neurodevelopmental disorders. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-03292-8_16
*Wright L, *Rebello G, Browne DT, Slavich GM, Wade M. Lifetime stressor exposure, executive functioning, and internalizing symptoms during emerging adulthood. Sci Rep. 2026 Mar 31. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-44738-4
*Finegold, K. E., Knight, J. A., Hung, R. J., Dennis, C.-L., Shah, P. S., Wong, J., Bertoni, K., Levitan, R. D., Jenkins, J. M., Matthews, S. G., & Wade, M. (2026). Maternal internalizing symptoms as a mechanism linking pre- and postnatal COVID-19 pandemic exposure with preschool-aged children’s neurodevelopment. Archives of Women’s Mental Health, 29(2), Article 55. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00737-026-01686-2
*Li, L. M, Lin, H., Georgiades, K., & Wade, M. (2026). Using machine learning to identify the strongest personal, school, and family correlates of youth mental health and well-being. Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/abn0001103
*Parker, V., Sloss, I., Browne, D., & Wade, M. (2026). A longitudinal exploration of pandemic stress and family adaptation on child coping: The protective role of caregiver social support. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/01650254251411150
*Li, L. M, Wade, M., Vigod, S., Brown, H., Brennenstuhl, S., Dennis-Grantham, A., Shorey, S., & Dennis, C.-L. (2026). Biopsychosocial vulnerability and parental behaviors, attitudes, beliefs, and well-being in first-time mothers and fathers: A nationwide Canadian longitudinal study. Developmental Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0002148
Wade M, *Li LM, Collishaw S. Editorial: Reflecting on child effects in psychology and psychiatry research. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 2025;67(2):153–7. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.70084
2025
*Johnson, D., Colman, I., Georgiades, K., Wade, M. (2025). Interactions between early-life adversity, pandemic stress, and social support on psychiatric disorders in a nationally representative sample of Canadian adults. Social Psychiatry & Psychiatric Epidemiology, PMID: 40304794.
Demy, J., Jambon, M., Wade, M., Muise, A., & Prime, H. (2025). Secondary Benefits of a Brief Couples Intervention on Coparenting Through Relationship Quality and Partner Conflict. Infant Mental Health Journal, PMID: 40490848.
Levitan, R. D., Zhang, C. X. W., Knight, J. A., Hung, R. J., Wade, M., *Finegold, K., Ameis, S., Bertoni, K., Wong, J., Murphy, K. E., Lye, S. J., & Matthews, S. G. (2025). A new model to study season-of-conception effects on child neurodevelopment based on maternal history of seasonal affective disorder. Psychiatry Research, 348, 116430.
*Finegold, K. E., Wade, M., Marini, F., Brown, H. K., Vigod, S. N., Shiri, R., & Dennis, C.-L. (2025). Associations between paternal and maternal ADHD and children’s socioemotional development during early childhood. Development and Psychopathology, 1–11.
*Johnson, D., Wade, M., Marini, F., Vigod, S., Brown, H. K., Grigoriadis, S., Shiri, R., & Dennis, C.-L. (2025). Associations between self-reported ADHD symptoms and depression and anxiety in mothers and fathers during the postpartum period: A Canadian nationwide longitudinal study. Journal of Affective Disorders, 378, 211–219.
Levitan, R.D, Zhang, C.X.W., Knight, J.A., Hung, R.J., Wade, M., *Finegold, K., Ameis, S., Bertoni, K., Wong, J., Murphy, K.E., Lye, S.J., & Matthews, S.G. (2025). A New Model to Study Season-of-Conception Effects on Child Neurodevelopment based on Maternal History of Seasonal Affective Disorder. Psychiatry Research, 348, 116430.
2024
*Martini, J., Wade, M., Prime, H., & Jenkins, J. (2024). Dimensions of parenting during infancy: Testing a latent bifactor model. Social Development, 33(4).
Wade, M., *Parker, V., Tang, A., Fox, N. A., Zeanah, C. H., & Nelson, C. A. (2024). Linking caregiving quality during infancy to brain activity in early childhood and later executive function. Developmental Science.
*Johnson, D., Wade, M. & Andrade, B.F. Threat, Emotion Dysregulation, and Parenting in a Clinical Sample of Children with Disruptive Behaviour (2024). Child Psychiatry Hum Dev.
Sloss, I. M., Smith, J., Sebben, S., Wade, M., Prime, H., & Browne, D. T. (2024). Family functioning in the context of current and historical stressors: Exploring the buffering role of social support. Child Abuse & Neglect, 106711–106711.
Wade, M., ^Sheridan, M.A., ^Drury, S.S., ^Tibu, F., ^Zeanah, C.H., ^Fox, N.A., ^Nelson, C.A., & ^McLaughlin, K.A. (2024). Blunted stress reactivity as a transdiagnostic mechanism linking early psychosocial deprivation to psychopathology during adolescence. Nature Mental Health, 2(6), 703-711.
Prime, H., Muise, A., Jambon, M., Koven, M., Markwell, A., & Wade, M. (2024). A pilot randomized controlled trial of a brief conflict reappraisal intervention for community couples with young children. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 48(5), 895-909.
Levitan, R.D, Atkinson, L. Knight, J.A., Hung, R.J., Wade, M., Bertoni, K., Wong, J., Murphy, K.E., Lye, S.J., & Matthews, S.G. (2024). Maternal major depression during early pregnancy is associated with impaired child executive functioning at 4.5 years of age. American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, 231(2), 246-e1.
*Johnson, D., Browne, D.T., Prime, H., Heron, J., & Wade, M. (2024). Parental mental health trajectories over the COVID-19 pandemic and links with childhood adversity and pandemic stress. Child Abuse & Neglect, 106554.
Rodriguez-Thompson, A.M., Miller, A.B., Wade, M., Meyer, K.N., Machlin, L., Bonar, A., Patel K.P., Giletta, M., Hastings, P.D., Nock, M.K., Rudolph, K.D., Slavich, G.M., Prinstein, M.J., & Sheridan, M.A. (2024). Neural correlates of p-factor in adolescence: Cognitive control with and without enhanced affective demands. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 9(1), 30-40.
2023
*Finegold K.E., Knight J.A., Hung R.J., Ssewanyana, D., Wong, J., Bertoni, K., Khani, N.A., Watson, H., Levitan, R.B., Jenkins, J.M., Matthews, S.G., Wade, M. (2023). Cognitive and Emotional Well-Being of Preschool Children Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic. JAMA Network Open, 6(11):e2343814.
Wade, M., ^McLaughlin, K.A., ^Buzzell, G.A., ^Fox, N.A., ^Zeanah, C.H., & ^Nelson, C.A. (2023). Family-based care buffers the stress sensitizing effect of early deprivation on executive functioning difficulties in adolescence. Child Development, 94(1), 43-56.
Wade, M., Prime, H., & Browne, D.T. (2023). Why we still need longitudinal mental health research with children and youth during (and after) the COVID-19 pandemic. Psychiatry Research, 323, 115126.
Wilkinson, C.L., Pierce, L.J., Sideridis, G., Wade, M., & Nelson, C.A. (2023). Associations between EEG trajectories, family income, and cognitive abilities over the first two years of life. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 61, 101260.
Prime, H., Muise, A., Markwell, A., Thabane, L., †Wade, M. (2023). Promoting conflict reappraisal in parenting couples: A feasibility study and preliminary evaluation of a brief writing intervention. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 32, 3042–3054.
Guyon-Harris, K.L., Plamondon, A., Humphreys, K.L., Wade, M., Gleason, M.M., Tibu, F., Nelson. C,A,, Fox, N.A., Zeanah, C.Z. (2023). Structure of Psychopathology in Romanian Preschool-Aged Children in an Epidemiological and a High-Risk Sample. JAACAP Open, 1(3), 173-183.
Dennis, C. L., Vigod, S., Grigoriadis, S., Brown, H., Brennenstuhl, S., Dol, J., Wade, M., Falah-Hassani, K., Shiri, R., & Marini, F. (2023). Cohort profile: Impact of Maternal and Paternal Mental Health–Assessing Concurrent Depression, Anxiety and Comorbidity in the Canadian Family (IMPACT study). BMJ open, 13(3), e071691.
2022
*Johnson, D., Browne, D.T., Meade, R.D., Prime, H., & Wade, M. (2022). Latent classes of adverse and benevolent childhood experiences in a multinational sample of parents and their relation to parent, child, and family functioning during the COVID-19 pandemic. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19, 13581.
^Sheridan, M.A., ^Mukerji, C.E., Wade, M., ^Humphreys, K.L., ^Garrisi, K., ^Goel, S., ^Patel, K., ^Fox, N.A., ^Zeanah, C.H., ^Nelson, C.A., & ^McLaughlin, K.A. (2022). Early Deprivation Alters Structural Brain Development from Middle Childhood to Adolescence. Science Advances, 8(40).
Prime, H., Wade, M., & Browne, D.T. (2022). Pandemic-related disruption and positive adaptation: Profiles of family function at the onset of the Pandemic. Adversity and Resilience Science, 3(4), 321-333.
Wade, M., ^*Parsons, J., ^Humphreys, K.L., ^McLaughlin, K.A., ^Sheridan, M.A., ^Zeanah, C.H., ^Nelson, C.A., & ^Fox, N.A. (2022). The Bucharest Early Intervention Project: Adolescent mental health and adaptation following early deprivation. Child Development Perspectives, 16(3), 157-164.
Prime, H., Muise, A., Benyamin, V., Thabane, L., & Wade, M. (2022). Love Together, Parent Together (L2P2): A protocol for a feasibility study of a conflict reappraisal writing intervention for interparental couples with young children. Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 8, 170.
Wade, M., *Wright, L., & *Finegold, K. (2022). The effects of early life adversity on children's mental health
effects of early life adversity on children's mental health and cognitive functioning. Translational Psychiatry, 12 (244).
Shoychet, G., Browne, D.T., Wade, M., Prime, H. (2022). Assessing positive adaptation during a global crisis: The development and validation of the family positive adaptation during COVID-19 scale. Frontiers in Psychology, 13: 886504.
*Venkadasalam, V., Jenkins, J.M., Ganea, P.A., Wade, M. (2022). Linking early maternal input during shared reading to later theory of mind through receptive language and executive function: A within- and between-family design. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 223, 105469.
*Martini, J., *Li, M., *Wright, L., *Johnson, D.J., Wade, M. (2022). Towards a dimensional model of family-based resilience: Sensitivity, stimulation, and stability as moderators of early life adversity. Canadian Psychology, 62(2), 214-232.
2021
Wade, M., ^Carroll, D., ^Fox, N.A., ^Zeanah, C.H., & ^Nelson, C.A. (2021). Associations between early psychosocial deprivation, cognitive and psychiatric morbidity, and risk-taking behavior in adolescence. Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology, 51(6), 850-863.
Wade, M., Prime, H., *Johnson, D., May, S.S., Jenkins, J.M., & Browne, D.T. (2021). The disparate impact of COVID-19 on the mental health of female and male caregivers. Social Science & Medicine, 275 (2021), 113801.
Wade, M., Plamondon, A., & Jenkins, J.M. (2021). A family socialization model of transdiagnostic risk for psychopathology in preschool children. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, 49, 975-988.
^Mukerji, C., Wade, M., ^Fox, N.A., ^Zeanah, C.H., & ^Nelson, C.A. (2021). Growth in self-regulation over the course of adolescence mediates the effect of foster care on psychopathology in post-institutionalized children: A randomized clinical trial. Clinical Psychological Science, 9(5), 810-822.
^Colich, N.L., ^Sheridan, M.A., ^Humphreys, K.L., Wade, M., ^Tibu, F., ^Nelson, C.A., ^Zeanah, C.H., ^Fox, N.A., ^McLaughlin, K.A. (2021). Heightened sensitivity to the caregiving environment during adolescence: Implications for recovery following early-life adversity. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 62 (8).
*Johnson, D., *Policelli, J., *Li, M., *Dharamsi, A., *Hu, Q., ^Sheridan, M.A., ^McLaughlin, K.A, & Wade, M. (2021). Threat, deprivation, and executive functioning in childhood and adolescence: A meta-analysis. JAMA Pediatrics, 175(11), e212511-e212511.
Browne, D., Wade, M., May, S.S., Jenkins, J.M., & Prime, H.P (2021). COVID-19 disruption gets inside the family: A two-month multilevel study of family stress during the pandemic. Developmental Psychology, 57(10), 1681–1692.
Prime, H., Wade, M., May, S.S., Jenkins, J.M., & Browne, D.T. (2021). The COVID-19 Family Stressor Scale: Validation and measurement invariance in female and male caregivers. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12: 669106.
Browne, D.T., Wade, M., May, S., Maguire, N., Wise, D., Estey, K., & Frampton, P. (2021). Children’s mental health problems during the initial emergence of COVID-19. Canadian Psychology, 62(1), 65–72.
2020
Wade, M., ^Sheridan, M.A., ^Zeanah, C.H., ^Fox, N.A., ^Nelson, C.A., & ^McLaughlin, K.A. (2020). Environmental determinants of physiological reactivity to stress: The interacting effects of early life deprivation, caregiving quality, and stressful life events. Development and Psychopathology, 32(5), 1732-1742.
Wade, M., Prime, H., & Browne, D.T. (2020). Why we need longitudinal mental health research with children and youth during (and after) the COVID-19 pandemic. Psychiatry Research, 290, 113143.
Prime, H., Wade, M., & Browne, D.T. (2020). Risk and resilience in family well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic. American Psychologist, 75(5), 631–643.
Wade, M., ^Zeanah, C.H., ^Fox, N.A., & ^Nelson, C.A. (2020). Global deficits in executive functioning are transdiagnostic mediators between severe childhood neglect and psychopathology in adolescence. Psychological Medicine, 50(10), 1687-1694.
Wade, M., ^Fox, N.A., ^Zeanah, C.H., ^Nelson, C.A., & ^Drury, S.S. (2020). Telomere length and psychopathology: Specificity and direction of effects within the Bucharest Early Intervention Project. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 59(1), 140-148.e3.
Wade, M., ^Zeanah, C.H., ^Fox, N.A., & ^Nelson, C.A. (2020). Social communication deficits following early life deprivation and relation to psychopathology: A randomized clinical trial of foster care. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 61(12), 1360-1369.
^Tang, A., Wade, M., ^Fox, N.A., ^Nelson, C.A., ^Zeanah, C.H., & ^Slopen, N. (2020). The prospective association between stressful life events and inflammation among adolescents with a history of early institutional rearing. Development and Psychopathology, 32(5), 1715-1724.
Prime, H., Wade, M., & Gonzalez, A. (2020). The link between maternal and child verbal abilities: An indirect effect through maternal responsiveness. Developmental Science, 23(3), e12907.
^Behrendt, H., Wade, M., ^Bayet, L., ^Nelson, C.A. & ^Bosquet-Enlow, M. (2020). Pathways to social-emotional functioning in the preschool period: The role of child temperament and maternal anxiety in boys and girls. Development and Psychopathology, 32(3), 961-974.
^Buzzell, G., ^Troller-Renfree, S., Wade, M., ^Debnath, R., ^Morales, S., ^Zeanah, C.H., ^Nelson, C.A., & ^Fox, N.A. (2020). Adolescent cognitive control and mediofrontal theta oscillations are disrupted by neglect: Associations with transdiagnostic risk for psychopathology in a randomized controlled trial. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 43, 100777.
^Esteves, K.C., ^Jones, C.W., Wade, M., ^Callerame, K., ^Smith, A.K., ^Theall, K.P., & ^Drury, S.S. (2020). Adverse childhood experiences: implications for offspring telomere length and psychopathology. American Journal of Psychiatry, 177(1), 47-57.
^Humphreys, K.L., ^Guyon-Harris, K.L., ^Tibu, F., Wade, M., ^Nelson, C.A., ^Fox, N.A., & ^Zeanah, C.H. (2020). Psychiatric outcomes following severe deprivation in early childhood: Follow-up of a randomized controlled trial at age 16. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 88(12), 1079-1090.
Select Earlier Publications
Wade, M., ^Zeanah, C.H., ^Fox, N.A., ^Tibu, F., ^Ciolan, L. & ^Nelson, C.A. (2019). Stress sensitization among severely neglected children and protection by social enrichment. Nature Communications, 10, 5771.
Wade, M., ^Fox, N.A., ^Zeanah, C.H., & ^Nelson, C.A. (2019). Long-term effects of institutional rearing, foster care, and brain activity on memory and executive functioning. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(5), 1808-1813.
^Xie, W., ^Jensen, S.K., Wade, M., ^Kumar, S., ^Westerlund, A., ^Kakon, S.H., ^Haque, R., ^Petri, W.A., & ^Nelson, C.A. (2019). Growth faltering is associated with altered brain functional connectivity and cognitive outcomes in urban Bangladeshi children exposed to early adversity. BMC Medicine, 17, 199.
Browne, D.T., Dadashadeh, S., Wade, M., & Jenkins, J.M. (2019). Cogntive sensitivity and child receptive vocabulary: A between- and within-family study of mothers and sibling pairs. Developmental Psychology, 55(10), 2123-2134.
Wade, M., ^Fox, N.A., ^Zeanah, C.H., & ^Nelson, C.A. (2018). Effect of foster care intervention on trajectories of general and specific psychopathology among children with histories of institutional rearing: A randomized clinical trial. JAMA Psychiatry, 75(11),1137-1145.
Wade, M., Madigan, S., Plamondon, A., Rodrigues, M., Browne, D.T., & Jenkins, J.M. (2018). Cumulative psychosocial risk, parental socialization, and child cognitive functioning: A longitudinal cascade model. Developmental Psychology, 54(6), 1038-1050.
Wade, M., Prime, H., Jenkins, J.M., Yeates, K.O., Williams, T., & Lee, K. (2018). On the relation between theory of mind and executive functioning: A developmental cognitive neuroscience perspective. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 25(6), 2119-2140.
Wade, M., Prime, H., ^Hoffmann, T.J., Schmidt, L.A., ^O’Connor, T.G., & Jenkins, J.M. (2018). Birth weight interacts with a functional variant of the oxytocin receptor gene (OXTR) to predict executive functioning in children. Development and Psychopathology, 30(1), 203-211.
Wade, M., Jenkins, J.M., Venkadasalam, V., Binnoon-Erez, N., & Ganea, P.A. (2018). The role of maternal responsiveness and linguistic input in pre-academic skill development: A longitudinal analysis of pathways. Cognitive Development, 45, 125-140.
Browne, D., Wade, M., Prime, H., & Jenkins, J.M. (2018). School readiness amongst urban Canadian families: Risk profiles and family mediation. Journal of Educational Psychology, 110(1), 133-146.
Browne, D.T., Wade, M., Plamondon, A., ^Leckie, G., Perlman, M., Madigan, S., & Jenkins, J.M. (2018). Child and contextual effects in the emergence of differential maternal sensitivity across siblings. Developmental Psychology, 54(7), 1265-1276.
Madigan, S., Wade, M., Plamondon, A., & Jenkins, J.M. (2017). Trajectories of maternal depressive symptoms in the postpartum period and family-wide clustering of risk. Journal of Affective Disorders, 215, 49-55.
Madigan, S., Wade, M., Plamondon, A., Maguire, J.L., & Jenkins, J.M. (2017). Maternal adverse childhood experiences and infant health: Biomedical and psychosocial risks as intermediary mechanisms. Journal of Pediatrics, 187, 282-289.e1.