{"id":22,"date":"2012-09-05T11:22:33","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T15:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/template\/?page_id=22"},"modified":"2026-03-19T08:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:38:10","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/dkertes\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Interests"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<section class=\"fullwidth-text-block\">\r\n\t<div class=\"container px-0 pt-5\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"row align-items-start\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research Interests<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Parenting and life experience effects on activity of children\u2019s biological stress responses, particularly activity of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical system.<\/li>\n<li>The effects of prenatal exposure to maternal stress and war-related trauma on biological and behavioral functioning in young children.<\/li>\n<li>Epigenetic mechanisms, including DNA methylation and telomere length, of environmental influence on the developing stress system and mental health.<\/li>\n<li>Genetic, epigenetic, and environment interactions in stress-related mental health outcomes from childhood, adolescence, and adulthood.<\/li>\n<li>Emotional and health outcomes related to stress, particularly major depression, anxiety, and delinquency.<\/li>\n<li>Impacts of protective effects of family and neighborhood on behavioral adjustment and biological changes in youth experiencing adversity.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":738,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-22","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/dkertes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/dkertes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/dkertes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/dkertes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/738"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/dkertes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/dkertes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/dkertes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions\/302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/dkertes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}