Dr. James Edward Swain

(Reading, Writing, Speaking)

National Alliance for Research on Scizophrenia and Depression: Young Investigator Award, $59,773, 2007 to 2009.
Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto: Deans Fund: "Virtual" Computerized Simulation Tasks: A Pilot Study", Can$10,000, 2006 to 2007.
Tourette's Syndrome Association: Research Grant: "Functional Neuroimaging Studies of Prepulse Inhibition in Tourette's Syndrome", $68,004, 2005 to 2006.
National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression: Young Investigator Award: "Effects of Postpartum Depression on the Functional Neuroanatomy of Parenting", $59,202, 2004 to 2006.
The Institute for Research on Unlimited Love: Private Foundation Research Grant: "Toward an Understanding of the Neurobiology of Parental Love", US$99,956, 2003 to 2005.
Yale Child Study Center: Postdoctoral Fellowship Startup Grant, US$25,000, 2002 to 2004.
University of Toronto: Fidlar Doctoral Fellowship, Can$6,000, 1992 to 1993.
Savoy Epilepsy Foundation: Graduate Student Fellowship, Can$12-15,000, 1989 to 1992.
University of Toronto: Open Doctoral Fellowship, Can$10,000, 1988 to 1989.

• Swain JE, Tasgin E, Mayes LC, Feldman R, Constable RT, Leckman JF (2008) Cesarean Delivery Affects Maternal Brain Responses to Own Baby Cry, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Submitted
• Swain JE, Leckman JF, Mayes LC, Feldman R, Hoyt E, Kang H, Kim P, David D, Nguyen S, Constable RT, Schultz RT (2008) Parents Have Specific Brain Activations in Response to Own Baby Cry, Submitted
• Shulman S, Mayes LC, Cohen T, Swain JE, Leckman JF (2008) The Interplay between Love Relationships and Attraction among Late Adolescent and Early Adult Romantic Couples and Its Change Over-Time, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, In Press
• Swain JE, Mayes LC, Leckman JF (2008) Parent-Infant Attachment Systems Neural Circuits, Genes, and Early-Life Programming, Reflecting on the Future of Psychoanalysis: Mentalization, Internalization and Representation, New York, Karnac Press, In Press (bookchapter)
• Swain JE, Swain JD (2008) Creativity or Mental Illness: Possible Errors of Relational Priming In Neural Networks of the Brain, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, In Press
• Swain JE, Leckman JF, Mayes LC, Feldman R, Schultz RT (2007) The Development of Human Parent-Infant Attachment: Functional Brain Imaging During the Early Postpartum, American College of Neuropsychopharmacology 46th Annual Meeting, ACNP
• Swain JE, Leckman JF, Mayes LC, Feldman R, Hoyt E, Kang H, Kim P, Schultz RT (2007) Parent Brains are Activated by Baby Stimuli According to Relationship, Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 27th Annual Meeting, CPA
• Swain JE, Leckman JF, Mayes LC, Feldman R, Hoyt E, Kang H, Kim P, Schultz RT (2007) Baby cry and picture stimuli activate parent brains according to gender, experience, psychology and dyadic relationship, Society for Neuroscience 37th Annual Meeting, SFN
• Swain JE, Leckman JF, Mayes LC (2007) Own Baby Cry and Picture Stimuli Activate Parent Brains According to Gender, Experience, Psychology and Dyadic Relationship, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 54st Annual Meeting, APA
• Swain JE, Leckman JF, Mayes LC, Feldman R, Hoyt E, Kang H, Kim P, Schultz RT (2007) Own Baby Cry and Picture Stimuli Activate Parent Brains According to Gender, Experience, Psychology and Dyadic Relationship, European Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 13th International Congress, ESCAP
• Newman M.-A,, Kim P, Mayes LC, Feldman R, Leckman JF, Swain JE (2007) The Effect of Early Experience on Mental Health and Parental Sensitivity during Early Postpartum, Yale BioSTEP Research Program, Yale University
• Swain JE, Scahill LD, Lombroso PJ, King RA, Leckman, JF (2007) Tourette's Syndrome and Tic Disorders: Ten Years of Progress, Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 46 (8), 947-956
• Swain JE, Leckman JF, Mayes LC, Feldman R, Hoyt E, Kang H, Kim P, Schultz (2007) Own Baby Cry and Picture Stimuli Activate Parent Brains According to Gender, Experience, Psychology and Dyadic Relationship, Organization for Human Brain Mapping 13th Annual Meeting, OHBM
• Swain JE, Leckman JF, Mayes LC, Feldman R, Schultz (2007) Baby Cry and Picture Activations of Parent Brains Vary with Gender, Experience, and Dyadic Relationship, Society for Biological Psychiatry 62nd Annual Meeting, SOBP
• Swain JE, Leckman JF, Mayes LC, Feldman R, Hoyt E, Kang H, Kim P, Schultz (2007) Parental Brains Activate to Own Baby Cries and Pictures According to Psychology, Experience, Timing and Dyadic Relationship, Cognitive Neuroscience Society 14th Annual Meeting, CNS
• Swain, JE, Lorberbaum JP, Kose S, Strathearn L (2007) The Brain Basis of Early Parenthood: Psychology and in vivo Functional Neuroimaging Studies, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 43 (3), 262-287
• Swain JE, Leckman JF, Mayes LC, Hoyt E, Kim P, Schultz RT (2007) Longitudinal study of breastfeeding vs. formula-feeding mothers' brain response to infant stimuli during the early postpartum period, Society for Research on Child Development Biannual Meeting, SRCD
• Kim P, Mayes LC, Leckman JF, Feldman R, Swain JE (2007) Longitudinal study of breastfeeding vs. formula-feeding mothers' brain response to infant stimuli during the early postpartum period, Society for Research on Child Development Biannual Meeting, SRCD
• Kim P, Swain JE (2007) Sad Dads: Postpartum Paternal Depression, Psychiatry 2007, 4 (2), 36-47
• Leckman JF, Swain JE, Mayes LC (2007) Primary Parental Preoccupations: Revisited, Developmental Science and Psychoanalysis, London, Karnac Press, 89-108 pages, ISBN=1855754401 (bookchapter)
• Swain JE, Leckman JF, Mayes LC, Feldman R, Hoyt E, Kang H, Kim P, Schultz RT (2006) Baby Stimuli Activate Parental Brains According to Psychology, Experience, Postpartum Timing and Relationship, Canadian Psychiatric Association 56th Annual Meeting, CPA
• Crowley MJ, Bloch MH, Leckman JF, Mayes LC, Swain JE (2006) Functional Neuroimaging of Prepulse Inhibition in Tourette Syndrome, Society for Psychophysiological Research 46th Annual Meeting, SPR
• Swain JE, Leckman JF, Mayes LC, Feldman R, Hoyt E, Kang H, Kim P, Schultz RT (2006) Own baby stimuli activate parental brains according to psychology, experience, postpartum timing and relationship, 17th World Congress of the International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions, IACAPAP
• Taylor J, Kim P, Hoyt E, Swain JE (2006) Endocrine influence on the neural substrates of human parental behaviors, Yale BioSTEP Research Program, Yale University
• Swain JE, Leckman JF, Mayes LC, Feldman R, Hoyt E, Kang H, Kim P, Schultz RT (2006) Parental psychology, experience and postpartum timing influence brain response to own baby stimuli, World Psychiatric Association International Congress, World Psychiatric Association
• Swain JE (2006) Epigenetic Effects of Child Abuse and Neglect Propagate Human Cruelty, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 29 (3), 242-243
• Feygin D, Swain JE, Leckman, JF (2006) The Normalcy of Neurosis: Evolutionary Origins of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Related Behaviors, Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry, 5, 854-864
• Swain JE (2006) Critical Developmental Periods of Increased Plasticity Program Ritualized Behavior, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 29 (6), 630-631, In Press
• Swain JE, Leckman JF, Mayes, Feldman R, Hoyt E, Kang H, Kim P, Schultz RT (2006) Own baby stimuli activate parental emotion centers according to psychology, experience and postpartum timing, Organization for Human Brain Mapping 12th Annual Meeting, Organization for Human Brain Mapping
• Kim P, Leckman JF, Mayes LC, Swain JE (2006) Breastfeeding vs. formula-feeding mothers' brain response to infant cry during early postpartum period, Cognitive Neuroscience Society 13th Annual Meeting, Cognitive Neuroscience Society
• Swain JE, Leckman JF, Mayes LC, Feldman R, Schultz RT (2006) Own baby pictures induce parental brain activations according to psychology, experience and postpartum timing, Society for Biological Psychiatry 61st Annual Meeting, Society for Biological Psychiatry
• Swain JE, Leckman, JF, Volkmar, FR (2005) The Wolf-Boy: A Case of Reactive Attachment Disorder in an Adolescent Boy, Psychiatry 2005, 2 (11), 55-61
• Mayes, LC, Swain, JE, Leckman, JF (2005) Parental Attachment Systems: Neural Circuits, Genes, and Experiential, Clinical Neuroscience Research, 4, 301-313
• Koszycki D, Torres, S, Swain, JE, Bradwejn, J (2005) Central Cholecystokinin Activity in Irritable Bowel, Psychosomatic Medicine, 67, 590-595
• Swain, JE, Leckman, JF (2005) Tourette Syndrome and Tic Disorders: Overview and Practical Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment, Psychiatry 2005, 1 (7), 26-36
• Swain, JE, Mayes, LC, Leckman, JF (2005) Endogenous and Exogenous Opiates Modulate the Development of Parent-Infant Attachment, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 28 (3), 367-368
• Swain JD, Swain JE (2005) "To do or not to do?" Modeling the control of behavior, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 28 (5), 662-663
• Feldman R, Swain JE, Mayes JE (2005) Interaction Synchrony and Neural Circuits Contribute to Shared Intentionality, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 28 (5), 697-698
• Swain JE, King RA, Leckman JF (2005) Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome and Tic Disorders: From the Molecules and Cells to Symptoms and Management, Manual of Neuropsychiatric Disorders, New York, Humana Press, 151-170 pages, ISBN=1-58829-369-6 (bookchapter)
• Swain JE (2005) Parental and Romantic Attachment Systems Neural Circuits, Genes and Experiential Contributions to Interpersonal Engagement, 2nd International Congress on Brain & Behaviour, International Society on Brain & Behaviour
• Swain JE, Leckman JF, Mayes LC, Feldman, Constable RT, Schultz RT (2005) Early Human Parent-Infant Bond Development: fMRI, thoughts and behaviors, Society for Biological Psychiatry 60th Annual Meeting, Society for Biological Psychiatry
• Swain JE, Leckman JF, Mayes LC, Feldman R, Constable RT, Schultz RT (2005) The development of parental brain circuits correlated with the thoughts and behaviors in mothers and fathers after the birth of a baby, Organization for Human Brain Mapping 11th Annual Meeting, Organization for Human Brain Mapping
• Swain JE, Leckman JF, Mayes LC, Feldman R, Constable RT, Schultz RT (2005) Functional Neuroimaging and Psychology of Parent-Infant Attachment, Joint Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (51st) and Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (25th), American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry + Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
• Swain JE, Leckman JF, Mayes LC, Feldman R, Schultz RT (2005) The Development of Human Parent-Infant Attachment: Functional Brain Imaging During the Early Postpartum, American College of Neuropsychopharmacology 44th Annual Meeting, American College of Neuropsychopharmacology
• Swain JE, Leckman JF, Mayes LC, Feldman R, Constable, RT, Schultz RT (2005) Longitudnal Functional Brain Imaging of the Postpartum Human Parent-Infant Bond, Cognitive Neuroscience Society 12th Annual Meeting, Cognitive Neuroscience Society
• Swain JE (2005) Functional Neuroimaging and Psychology of Parent-Infant Attachment, Joint Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (51st) and Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (25th), American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry + Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
• Gallardo, KA, Swain, JE, Leckman, JF (2004) Developmental Psychobiology of Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome, APPI Review of Psychiatry, 23, 111-141
• Leckman, JF, Feldman, R, Swain, JE, Eicher, VE, Thompson, N, Mayes, LC (2004) Primary Parental Preoccupation:, Journal of Neural Transmission, 111, 753-771
• Swain, JE, Mayes, LC, Leckman, JF (2004) The Development of Parent-Infant Attachment through Dynamic and, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 27 (4), 472-473
• Swain JE, Leckman JF, Mayes LC, Feldman R, Constable RT, Schultz RT (2004) Functional Brain Imaging and Psychology of Human Parent Infant Attachment, American College of Neuropsychopharmacology 43nd Annual Meeting, American College of Neuropsychopharmacology
• Swain JE, Leckman JF, Mayes LC, Feldman R, Constable RT, Schultz RT (2004) Functional Brain Imaging and Psychology of Human Parent Infant Attachment, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 51st Annual Meeting, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
• Swain JE, Leckman JF, Mayes LC, Feldman R, Constable RT, Schultz RT (2004) Brain Circuitry and Psychology of Postpartum Human Parent-Infant Attachment, International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Profession 16th World Congress, International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions
• Swain JE, Leckman JF, Mayes LC, Feldman R, Constable RT, Schultz RT (2004) Functional Brain Imaging of Postpartum Human Parent-Infant Attachment, American Psychiatric Association 157th Annual Meeting, American Psychiatric Association
• Swain JE, Leckman JF, Mayes LC, Feldman R, Constable RT, Schultz RT (2004) Human Brain Physiology and Psychology of Parent-Infant Attachment in the Postpartum, Canadian Psychiatric Association 54th Annual Meeting, Canadian Psychiatric Association
• Swain JE, Leckman JF, Mayes LC, Feldman R, Constable RT, Schultz RT (2004) Functional Brain Imaging of Postpartum Human Parent-Infant Attachment, American Psychiatric Association 157th Annual Meeting, American Psychiatric Association
• Swain JE, Leckman JF, Mayes LC, Feldman R, Constable RT, Schultz RT (2004) Neural Substrates of Human Parent-Infant Attachment in the Postpartum, Society for Biological Psychiatry 59th Annual Meeting, Society for Biological Psychiatry
• Swain, JE, Leckman, MP (2003) Tourette's Syndrome in Children., Current Treatment Options in Neurology, 5 (4), 299-308
• Swain JE, Schlik J, Koszycki D, Bradwejn J (2003) Pharmacological challenge agents in Anxiety, Anxiety Disorders, London, Blackwell Press, 269-295 pages, ISBN=0632059389 (bookchapter)
• Swain JE (2003) Frontiers in Psychiatric Computerology, American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting 156th Annual Meeting, American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting
• Swain JE, Leckman JF, Mayes LC, Feldman R, Eicher V, Schultz RT (2003) Neural Circuitry of Human Parent-Infant Attachment in the Early Postpartum, American College of Neuropsychopharmacology 42nd Annual Meeting, American College of Neuropsychopharmacology
• Swain JE, Charlton MP (1993) Protein Phosphatses and Synaptic Transmission, Neuroscience Facts, 4 (3), 2-4
• Swain JE, Robitaille R, Charlton MP (1992) Phosphatase Inhibitors Interact With Protein Kinases to Regulate Neurotransmitter Release, But Do Not Affect Ca++ Homeostasis, Society for Neuroscience 22nd Annual Meeting, Society for Neuroscience
• Swain JE, Robitaille R, Dass, GR, Charlton MP (1991) Phosphatases Modulate Inhibitor Okadaic Acid, Journal of Neurobiology, 22 (8), 855-864
• Swain JE, Robitaille R, Charlton MP (1991) Effects of Okadaic Acid, a Phosphatase Inhibitor, on Synaptic Transmission at Crayfish Neuromuscular Junction, Biophysical Society 36th Annual Meeting, Biophysical Society
• Swain JE, Robitaille R, Dass, GR, Charlton. MP (1991) The Effects of Okadaic Acid, a Protein Phosphatase Inhibitor, on Neurotransmitter Release at the Crayfish Neuromuscular Junction, International Brain Research Organization World Congress of Neuroscience, International Brain Research Organization
• Swain JE, Charlton MP (1990) Phosphatase Inhibitor Okadaic Acid Increases Synaptic Transmission at the Crayfish Neuromuscular Junction, Society for Neuroscience 20th Annual Meeting, Society for Neuroscience