Maternal Response Latency & Childhood Psychiatric Prediction
Maternal Response Latency & Childhood Psychiatric Prediction
Articles on early parent-child interaction timing as a predictor of childhood psychiatric conditions, including maternal vocal response latency to infant vocalizations, serve-and-return synchrony, and objective behavioral markers for ADHD and disruptive behavior disorders.
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The One-Second Sync: How Mother-Child Turn-Taking Predicts Childhood ADHD
A 2026 PLOS ONE study using ALSPAC cohort data found that slower maternal vocal response times to 12-month-old infants' babbles predict higher odds of ADHD and disruptive behavior disorders by age 7, with a 17% odds reduction per 10% increase in sub-second response probability.