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A recent study from Dr. Lara Pierce and collaborators has been published in PLOS Global Public Health.

“The goal of this two-site longitudinal study was to determine if the gold standard measure of oxidative stress, F2-Isoprostanes, is potentially a reliable measure of a physiological response to adversity of the infant and mother. The study evaluated the independent relationships between F2-Isoprostanes, perinatal adversity and infant neurocognitive development.”

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Collaborators: Kameelah Gateau, Lisa Schlueter, Barbara Thompson, Alma Gharib,
Ramon Durazo-Arvizu, Charles Nelson, Pat Levitt.

On July 31st, Dr. Lara Pierce presented her work, Latent profile analysis as a data-driven approach to characterize infant baseline Electroencephalography (EEG) in a webinar series for the International Congress of Infant Studies. The event was focused on cutting edge approaches in developmental EEG.

Read about it here.

A recent study from Dr. Lara Pierce and collaborators has been published in EBioMedicine, Part of The Lancet Discovery Science (Volume 94, August 2023).

“The objective of this study was to determine if cerebral oxygen metabolism (CMRO₂) in the days after therapeutic hypothermia (HE) is associated with 18-month neurodevelopmental outcomes as the first step in evaluating CMRO₂‘s potential as a diagnostic for HIE.”

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Collaborators: Jason Sutin, Ruti Vyas, Henry A. Feldman, Silvina Ferradal, Chuan-Heng Hsiao, Lucca Zampolli, Lara. J Pierce, Charles A. Nelson, Sarah U. Morton, Susanne Hay, Mohammed El-Dib, Janet S. Soul, Pei-Yi Lin, Patricia E. Grant.

A recent study from Dr. Lara Pierce and collaborators has been published in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience (Volume 61, June 2023). The paper explores EEG trajectories and links to SES across the first 2 years of life. Click Here to read the full article.

Collaborators: Carol L. Wilkinson, Lara J. Pierce, Georgios Sideridis, Mark Wade, Charles A. Nelson

The lab congratulates Ana Badal on being awarded an Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) for her studies this upcoming year!

Ana Badal presented her work this past weekend (May 25-28, 2023) at the Association for Psychological Science (APS) in Washington, D.C. Her work explores Socioeconomic Stress, Caregiver Responsivity and Infant Neurodevelopment. You can view her poster on our website, here.

It is with great pleasure that we announce that Ana Badal has been awarded the Faculty of Health, Meighen Wright Foundation Maternal-Child Health Graduate Scholarship! Congratulations, Ana! Click here to learn more about this award.

Congratulations to Angelina Heidebrecht who shared the results of her honours thesis at the Department of Psychology, Undergraduate Thesis Poster day this past Tuesday, April 11, 2023!

You can find more photos from the event here.

Our lab director, Dr. Lara Pierce will present her work at the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology’s 55th Annual (hybrid) meeting in San Diego, California, USA. On Friday, November 11, 2022 she will give a virtual talk that focuses on the Identification of longitudinal infant EEG gamma power profiles using Latent Profile Analysis which is a part of Oral Session 4: Regulation & Cognitive Control.

Rhonda Baker’s abstract: “Maternal Cognitive Sensitivity During Free-Play as a Predictor of Language Outcomes in the Context of Maternal Depression” was accepted for a poster presentation at the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology’s 55th Annual (hybrid) meeting in San Diego, California, USA. She will be available to speak about her work during virtual session 1 at the conference on November 10th, 2022 from 10:00-12:00PM (EST).