Dr. Thomas Boyce is the Sunny Hill Health Centre/BC Leadership Chair in Child Development in the Human Early Learning Partnership and the Centre for Community Child Health Research at the University of British Columbia. He is also Co-Director of CIFAR's Experience-Based Brain and Biological Development Program and a member of Harvard University's National Scientific Council on the Developing Child.

Publications

• Autonomic nervous system reactivity: Children with and without sickle cell disease

  • 2011 Nursing Research
  • Treadwell M. , Alkon A. , Styles L. , Boyce T.

• Developmental changes in autonomic nervous system resting and reactivity measures in Latino children from 6 to 60 months of age

  • 2011 Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics
  • Alkon A. , Boyce T. , Davis N. , Eskenazi B.

• Epigenetic vestiges of early developmental adversity: Childhood stress exposure and DNA methylation in adolescence

  • 2011 Child Development
  • Essex M. J. , Boyce T. , Hertzman C. , Lam L. , Armstrong J. M. , Neumann S.

• Maternal prenatal and child organophosphate pesticide exposures and children's autonomic function

  • 2011 Neurotoxicology
  • Quirós-Alcalá L. , Alkon A. , Boyce T. , Lippert S. , Davis N. , Bradman A.

• Kindergarten stressors and cumulative adrenocortical activation: The “first straws” of allostatic load?

  • 2011 Development & Psychopathology
  • Bush N. R. , Obradović J. , Adler N. E. , Boyce T.

• Family socioeconomic status and child executive functions: The roles of language, home environment, and single parenthood

  • 2011 Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society
  • Sarsour K. , Sheridan M. , Jutte D. , Nuru-Jeter A. , Hinshaw S. , Boyce T.

• Autonomic and adrenocortical reactivity and buccal cell telomere length in kindergarten children

  • 2011 Psychosomatic Medicine
  • Kroenke C. H. , Epel E. , Adler N. E. , Bush N. R. , Obradović J. , Lin J. , Boyce T.

• Differentiating challenge reactivity from psychomotor activity in studies of children’s psychophysiology: Considerations for theory and measurement

  • 2011 Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
  • Bush N. R. , Alkon A. , Obradović J. , Stamperdahl J. , Boyce T.

• Biological sensitivity to context moderates the effects of the early teacher–child relationship on the development of mental health by adolescence

  • 2011 Development and Psychopathology
  • Essex M. J. , Armstrong J. M. , Burk L. R. , Goldsmith H. H. , Boyce T.

• Differential susceptibility to the environment: Toward an understanding of sensitivity to developmental experiences and context

  • 2011 Development and Psychopathology
  • Ellis B. J. , Boyce T.

• Quality of early family relationships and the timing and tempo of puberty: Effects depend on biological sensitivity to context

  • 2011 Development and Psychopathology
  • Ellis B. J. , Shirtcliff E. A. , Boyce T. , Deardorff J. , Essex M. J.

• The interactive effect of marital conflict and stress reactivity on externalizing and internalizing symptoms: The role of laboratory stressors

  • 2011 Development and Psychopathology
  • Obradović J. , Bush N. R. , Boyce T.

• Horizontal transmission of mutans streptococci in children

  • 2010 Journal of Dental Research
  • Doméjean S. , Zhan L. , Den Besten P. , Stamper J. , Boyce T. , Featherstone J.

• How experience gets under the skin to create gradients in developmental health

  • 2010 Annual Review Of Public Health
  • Hertzman C. , Boyce T.

• Rethinking what is important: Biologic versus social predictors of childhood health and educational outcomes

  • 2010 Epidemiology
  • Jutte D. , Brownell M. , Roos N. , Schippers C. , Boyce T. , Syme S.

• Social inequalities in childhood dental caries: The convergent roles of stress, bacteria and disadvantage

  • 2010 Social Science & Medicine
  • Boyce T. , Den Besten P. , Stamperdahl J. , Zhan L. , Jiang Y. , Adler N. E.

• Socioeconomic predictors of health and development in middle childhood: Variations by socioeconomic status measure and race

  • 2010 Issues in Comprehensive Pediatric Nursing
  • Nuru-Jeter A. , Sarsour K. , Jutte D. , Boyce T.

• Stress reactivity as a moderator of family stress, physical and mental health, and functional impairment for children with sickle cell disease

  • 2010 Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics
  • Treadwell M. , Alkon A. , Quirolo K. , Boyce T.

• Baroreflex modeling in the genesis of stress reactivity using sigmoidal characteristic

  • 2010
  • Ataee P. , Dumont G. , Boyce T.

• Biological sensitivity to context: The interactive effects of stress reactivity and family adversity on socioemotional behavior and school readiness

  • 2010 Child Development
  • Obradović J. , Bush N. R. , Stamperdahl J. , Adler N. E. , Boyce T.

• Neuroscience, molecular biology, and the childhood roots of health disparities

  • 2009 Journal of the American Medical Association
  • Shonkoff J. P. , Boyce T. , McEwen B. S.

• The childhood roots of health disparities

  • 2009 Zero to Three
  • Shonkoff J. P. , Boyce T. , McEwen B. S.

• The use of population-level data to advance interdisciplinary methodology: A cell-through-society sampling framework for child development research

  • 2009 International Journal of Social Research Methodology
  • Kershaw P. , Forer B. , Lloyd J. , Hertzman C. , Boyce T. , Zumbo B. , Guhn M. , Milbrath C. , Irwin L. , Harvey J. , Hershler R. , Smith A. N.

Projects

• GECKO