W Boyce, MD

Honors and Awards
  • Distinguished Contributions to Interdisciplinary Understanding of Child Development Award, Society for Research in Child Development, 2015
  • Board on Children, Youth and Families, National Academies of Science, 2013-now
  • Institute of Medicine, National Academies of Science, 2011
  • Alvin P. Shapiro Research Award, American Psychosomatic Society, 2009
  • Co-Director, Child and Brain Development Program, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, 2008-now
  • National Scientific Council on the Developing Child, Harvard University, 2005-2013
  • Alfred Childs Distinguished Service Award, UC Berkeley School of Public Health, 2005
  • American Pediatric Society, 1994-now
  • Research Network on Psychopathology and Development, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, 1994-2004







  1. Razaz N, Hertzman C, Marrie RA, Tremlett H, Boyce WT. Children of chronically ill parents: the silence of research. Child: care, health and development 2014. PMID: 25109854



  2. Quas JA, Yim IS, Oberlander TF, Nordstokke D, Essex MJ, Armstrong JM, Bush N, Obradovic J, Boyce WT. The symphonic structure of childhood stress reactivity: patterns of sympathetic, parasympathetic, and adrenocortical responses to psychological challenge. Development and psychopathology 2014. PMID: 24909883


  3. Razaz N, Nourian R, Marrie RA, Boyce WT, Tremlett H. Children and adolescents adjustment to parental multiple sclerosis: a systematic review. BMC neurology 2014. PMID: 24886162


  4. Alkon A, Harley KG, Neilands TB, Tambellini K, Lustig RH, Boyce WT, Eskenazi B. Latino children's body mass index at 2-3.5 years predicts sympathetic nervous system activity at 5 years. Childhood obesity (Print) 2014. PMID: 24745554






  5. Thomas MR, Wara D, Saxton K, Truskier M, Chesney MA, Boyce WT. Family adversity and autonomic reactivity association with immune changes in HIV-affected school children. Psychosomatic medicine 2013. PMID: 23766380








  6. Sheridan MA, Sarsour K, Jutte D, D'Esposito M, Boyce WT. The impact of social disparity on prefrontal function in childhood. PloS one 2012. PMID: 22563395





  7. Rintala P, Välimaa R, Tynjälä J, Boyce W, King M, Villberg J, Kannas L. Physical activity of children with and without long-term illness or disability. Journal of physical activity & health 2011. PMID: 22039124


  8. Essex MJ, Boyce WT, Hertzman C, Lam LL, Armstrong JM, Neumann SM, Kobor MS. Epigenetic vestiges of early developmental adversity: childhood stress exposure and DNA methylation in adolescence. Child development 2011. PMID: 21883162


  9. Kroenke CH, Epel E, Adler N, Bush NR, Obradovic J, Lin J, Blackburn E, Stamperdahl JL, Boyce WT. Autonomic and adrenocortical reactivity and buccal cell telomere length in kindergarten children. Psychosomatic medicine 2011. PMID: 21873585


  10. Quirós-Alcalá L, Alkon AD, Boyce WT, Lippert S, Davis NV, Bradman A, Barr DB, Eskenazi B. Maternal prenatal and child organophosphate pesticide exposures and children's autonomic function. Neurotoxicology 2011. PMID: 21741403


  11. Treadwell MJ, Alkon A, Styles L, Boyce WT. Autonomic nervous system reactivity: children with and without sickle cell disease. Nursing research 2011. PMID: 21532352




  12. Ellis BJ, Boyce WT, Belsky J, Bakermans-Kranenburg MJ, van Ijzendoorn MH. Differential susceptibility to the environment: an evolutionary--neurodevelopmental theory. Development and psychopathology 2011. PMID: 21262036







  13. Boyce WT, Den Besten PK, Stamperdahl J, Zhan L, Jiang Y, Adler NE, Featherstone JD. Social inequalities in childhood dental caries: the convergent roles of stress, bacteria and disadvantage. Social science & medicine (1982) 2010. PMID: 20870333





  14. Doméjean S, Zhan L, DenBesten PK, Stamper J, Boyce WT, Featherstone JD. Horizontal transmission of mutans streptococci in children. Journal of dental research 2010. PMID: 19918090



  15. Oveis C, Gruber J, Keltner D, Stamper JL, Boyce WT. Smile intensity and warm touch as thin slices of child and family affective style. Emotion (Washington, D.C.) 2009. PMID: 19653777






  16. Kishiyama MM, Boyce WT, Jimenez AM, Perry LM, Knight RT. Socioeconomic disparities affect prefrontal function in children. Journal of cognitive neuroscience 2009. PMID: 18752394


  17. Essex MJ, Kraemer HC, Slattery MJ, Burk LR, Boyce WT, Woodward HR, Kupfer DJ. Screening for childhood mental health problems: outcomes and early identification. Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines 2009. PMID: 19432682







  18. Essex MJ, Kraemer HC, Armstrong JM, Boyce WT, Goldsmith HH, Klein MH, Woodward H, Kupfer DJ. Exploring risk factors for the emergence of children's mental health problems. Archives of general psychiatry 2006. PMID: 17088505



  19. Alkon A, Lippert S, Vujan N, Rodriquez ME, Boyce WT, Eskenazi B. The ontogeny of autonomic measures in 6- and 12-month-old infants. Developmental psychobiology 2006. PMID: 16568414













  20. Alkon A, Goldstein LH, Smider N, Essex MJ, Kupfer DJ, Boyce WT. Developmental and contextual influences on autonomic reactivity in young children. Developmental psychobiology 2003. PMID: 12471637