Congratulations to Leen Asaad, Shany Marks, Melissa Perez, and Diana Pombo, who all presented the results of their honours thesis projects at the Department of Psychology Undergraduate Thesis Poster Day this past Tuesday, April 9, 2024!
News
New Study from Dr. Lara Pierce and collaborators: Association of Neighbourhood Opportunity with Infant Brain Activity and Cognitive Development
A recent study from Dr. Lara Pierce and collaborators has been published in the Journal of Development & Behavioral Paediatrics.
“We examined direct and indirect associations between neighbourhood opportunity, brain activity, and cognitive development.”
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Collaborators: Mei Elansary, Wendy Wei, Dana McCoy, Charles Nelson
New study from Dr. Lara Pierce and collaborators: A Qualitative Study of Maternal Perceptions of Stress and Parenting During Early Childhood
A recent study from Dr. Lara Pierce and collaborators has been published in Academic Paediatrics.
“Our study qualitatively explored maternal perceptions of stressors’ impacts on caregiving and mothers’ strategies for supporting their children in the context of stress. This study builds upon developmental science research relating maternal stress to child neurodevelopment to investigate maternal-reported pathways between perceived stress and caregiving strategies.”
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Collaborators: Mei Elansary, Annelise Brochier, Saul Urbina-Johanson, Mikayla Gordon Wexler, Emily Messmer, Dana Charles McCoy.
New study from Dr. Lara Pierce and collaborators: Exploratory study evaluating the relationships between perinatal adversity, oxidative stress, and infant neurodevelopment across the first year of life
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.
Lab Director, Dr. Lara Pierce presents her work at the International Congress of Infant Studies: Cutting edge approaches in developmental EEG
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.
New Study from Dr. Lara Pierce and collaborators: Association of cerebral metabolic rate following hypothermia with 18-month neurodevelopmental outcomes after neonatal hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy
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.
New study from Dr. Lara Pierce and collaborators: Associations between EEG trajectories, family income, and cognitive abilities over the first two years of life.
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
Ana Badal Awarded Ontario Graduate Scholarship
The lab congratulates Ana Badal on being awarded an Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) for her studies this upcoming year!
Ana Badal presents her work at the Association for Psychological Science (APS)
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.
Ana Badal bestowed with Meighen Wright Foundation Maternal-Child Health Graduate Scholarship!
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.
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