From June 3 to 5, 2026, the ESSMA team attended the Life History Research Society Conference in Oslo, where several members organized and participated in seminars, poster sessions, and oral presentations.
Susana BARBOSA: Perinatal mental health and the cumulative burden of occupational exposures: Social patterns and biological pathways.
Judith VAN DER WAERDEN: Prenatal stress and postpartum depression shape infant
temperament at twelve months.
Ketevan MARR: Treated and untreated maternal prenatal mental health difficulties
and child developmental outcomes in childhood.
Judith chaired a symposium titled Maternal adversity and early child development: exploring biopsychosocial pathways of intergenerational transmission.
On this occasion, several researchers and PhD students presented their work:
Romina BUFFARINI (Brésil) presented Maternal adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and child maltreatment: results from a Brazilian birth cohort.
Dayanne ORELLANA presented Intergenerational transmission of stress regulation via maternal prenatal HPA function.
Tina MONTREUIL (Canada) presentedUnderstanding the Interplay of Prenatal Health and Social Factors in Early Child Socioemotional and Behavioral Development.
Sara AVENDANNO presented Maternal ACEs and child neurodevelopmental outcomes: mediating pathways using data from the French EDEN cohort.
Judith VAN DER WAERDEN presented the poster Socioeconomic position, prenatal mental health, and psychotropic treatment: A Latent Class Analysis.
Mirna NADDOUR presented Family structure transitions and early adolescent mental health in the French EDEN cohort.
Susana BARBOSA presented Adolescent cannabis use and long-term school and employment outcomes: Evidence from the French TEMPO cohort.
