Aimed to drive multidisciplinary conversations about the effects of stressors on brain development, consider the impacts on individuals, families and communities, and spur discussions on possible strategies to address.
News
Poverty negatively impacts structural wiring in children’s brains, study indicates
Quinn awarded grant to compare neurotropic markers in human and primate milk
Children’s brain scans provide clues to processing of emotional cues
Rogers, Smyser awarded MERIT grant for research on preterm babies
WashU research spurs changes to global guidelines for feeding malnourished kids
Publications
Maternal prenatal stress modulates antibody levels in offspring
Yeramilli V, Harper M, Cheddadi R, Martin C. (2025) Clinical Immunology Communications, 7, pp. 27-33.
Associations between prenatal caffeine exposure and child development: Longitudinal results from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study
Modi H, Baranger DAA, Paul SE, Gorelik AJ, Hornstein A, Balbona JV, Agrawal A, Bijsterbosch JD, Bogdan R. (2025) Neurotoxicology and Teratology, 107, art. no. 107404
Prenatal social disadvantage is associated with alterations in functional networks at birth
Nielsen AN, Triplett RL, Bernardez LM, Tooley UA, Herzberg MP, Lean RE, Kaplan S, Meyer D, Kenley JK, Alexopoulos D, Losielle D, Latham A, Smyser TA, Agrawal A, Shimony JS, Jackson JJ, Miller JP, Raichle ME, Warner BB, Rogers CE, Sylvester CM, Barch DM, Luby JL, Smyser CD. (2024) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 121 (50), pp. e2405448121
Family income and polygenic scores are independently but not interactively associated with cognitive performance among youth genetically similar to European reference populations
Paul SE, Elsayed NM, Colbert SMC, Bogdan R, Hatoum AS, Barch DM. (2024) Development and Psychopathology, 5:1-15.
Breaking the cycle between caregiver mental health and child behavioral issues: Does food insecurity matter?
Chen J-H, Helton JJ, Chiang C-J, Wu C-F, Jonson-Reid M, Drake B. (2025) Social Science and Medicine, 364, art. no. 117488.