A5066347164- Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Family and Disability Support Research
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Infant Development and Preterm Care
- Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
- Infant Health and Development
- Neonatal and fetal brain pathology
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Neuroscience of respiration and sleep
- Behavioral and Psychological Studies
- Prenatal Substance Exposure Effects
- Language Development and Disorders
- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Child Development and Digital Technology
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
- Birth, Development, and Health
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
- Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Gestational Diabetes Research and Management
University of Missouri
2022-2025
Center for Autism and Related Disorders
2022-2025
Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island
2013-2025
Cohort (United Kingdom)
2024
Brown University
2012-2022
John Brown University
2014-2022
Providence College
2007-2021
Bradley Hospital
2006-2021
Association for Children at Risk
2021
Allen Institute for Brain Science
2020
This study examined differences in acoustic characteristics of infant cries a sample babies at risk for autism and low‐risk comparison group. Cry samples derived from vocal recordings 6‐month‐old infants spectrum disorder ( ASD ; n = 21) 18) were subjected to analyses using analysis software designed this purpose. Cries categorized as either pain‐related or non‐pain‐related based on videotape coding. At‐risk produced with higher more variable fundamental frequency F 0 ) than infants. later...
ABSTRACT We investigated longitudinal relations among gaze following and face scanning in infancy later language development. At 12 months, infants watched videos of a woman describing an object while their passive viewing was measured with eye-tracker. examined the relation between infants' behavior tendency to follow speaker's attentional shift she describing. also collected outcome measures on same at 18 24 months. Attention mouth months both predicted productive vocabulary. The results...
Introduction Societal perceptions and lack of understanding autism spectrum disorder can be stigmatizing for autistic individuals their families. This may particularly the case who meet criteria profound autism. Despite considerable service needs this marginalized group, there is little data on prevalence autism, nor experiences those with Methods The current study leveraged a mixed-methods approach to address these gaps. First, was examined in six samples—three from United States three...
Objective: To examine the initial efficacy of parent-child interaction therapy (PCIT) for treating behavior problems in young children who were born premature. Method: In this randomized, controlled trial, 28 between ages 18 and 60 months, <37 weeks gestation presented with clinically significant externalizing problems, randomly assigned to an immediate treatment (IT) or waitlist (WL) control group. Results: After 4 received PCIT reported by their mother have less attention aggressive...
This study examined whether infant joint attention (JA) skills predicted social behaviors in a sample of at-risk preschool children (n = 30) with history prenatal exposure to cocaine. JA were assessed the Early Social and Communication Scales at 12, 15, 18 months age. Three classes measured: Initiating (IJA), Responding (RJA), Requests. Behavioral outcomes measured 36 included ratings disruptive withdrawn competence. related behavioral after controlling for language cognitive ability. The...
Animal studies have suggested that prenatal cocaine exposure (PCE) deleteriously influences the developing nervous system, in part attributable to its site of action blocking function monoamine reuptake transporters, increasing synaptic levels serotonin and dopamine.To examine brain morphologic features associated impulsive behaviors adolescents following and/or tobacco.Magnetic resonance imaging data behavioral measures were collected from followed up longitudinally Maternal Lifestyle...
Background: Extremely preterm (EP) infants screen positive for autism spectrum disorders (ASD) at high rates. However, it is not clear whether this because of rates ASD in EPs or to false-positive screens children with a rate underlying neurodevelopmental impairments. Combining parent questionnaire designed distinguish developmental delay from direct observation infant behavior may more accurately EPs. Objectives: To determine 18 22 months(m) using 3 screens; factors associated screen....
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is often accompanied by deficits in speech and language processing. Speech processing relies heavily on the integration of auditory visual information, it has been suggested that ability to detect correspondence between signals helps lay foundation for successful development. The goal present study was examine whether young children with ASD show reduced sensitivity temporal asynchronies a task when compared typically developing controls, how this might relate...
Previous work has demonstrated that patterns of social attention hold predictive value for language development in typically developing infants. The goal this research was to explore how autistic, delayed, and children relate early word learning abilities. We tracked eye movements faces objects while watched videos a woman teaching them series new words. Subsequent test trials measured participants' recognition these novel word-object pairings. Results indicated greater the speaker's mouth...
The objective of this study was to establish a large, densely sampled, U.S. population‐based cohort people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Rhode Island Consortium for Autism Research and Treatment (RI‐CART) represents unique public‐private‐academic collaboration involving all major points service families in affected by ASD. Diagnosis based on direct behavioral observation via the Diagnostic Observation Schedule, Second Edition. For first 1,000 participants, ages ranged from 21 months...
Clinical Genetic Testing in Autism Spectrum Disorder a Large Community-Based Population SampleAutism spectrum disorder (ASD) is among the most strongly genetic neuropsychiatric conditions, with an increased frequency of rare, deleterious copy number variants and single-nucleotide variants.Because this, several medical professional societies have recommended offering chromosomal microarray (CMA) testing Fragile X for people ASD, 1 growing support exome sequencing as first-tier test. 2 To...
ABSTRACT Prevalence of autism diagnosis has historically differed by demographic factors. Using data from 8224 participants drawn the Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Program, we examined relationships between factors and parent‐reported autism‐related traits as captured Social Responsiveness Scale (SRS; T score > 65) compared these to relations with clinician ASD, in generalized linear mixed effects regression analyses. Results suggested lower odds diagnosis, but...
This study investigated the potential long-term effects of cocaine exposure on brain functioning using fMRI in school-aged children. The sample included 12 children with prenatal and non-exposed (8-9 years old). Groups did not differ IQ, socioeconomic status, or perinatal risk factors. A response inhibition task was administered during an scan a 1.5-T MRI system. Task performance differentiate groups, but groups were differentiated by patterns task-related activity. Cocaine-exposed showed...
Prenatal cocaine exposure is a marker of developmental risk. Social environmental risk factors may include maternal stress and perceptions difficult infant temperament.To examine that predict or moderate ratings parenting temperament in cocaine-exposed (CE) infants.Neonatal behavior, temperament, stress, psychopathology were measured large sample infant-mother dyads with prenatal CE nonexposed comparison sample. Participants drawn from an existing longitudinal data set (Maternal Lifestyle...