Muriel Ferrer

ORCID: 0009-0007-3326-2890
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Research Areas
  • Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
  • Infant Development and Preterm Care
  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Breastfeeding Practices and Influences
  • Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
  • Infant Nutrition and Health
  • Neonatal and fetal brain pathology
  • Nutritional Studies and Diet

Barcelona Institute for Global Health
2018-2024

Universitat Pompeu Fabra
2011-2024

Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Epidemiología y Salud Pública
2011-2024

Center for Research in Environmental Epidemiology
2011-2013

Hospital Del Mar
2011

Breastfeeding has been associated with improved neurodevelopment in children. However, it remains unknown to what extent nutritional advantages of breast milk may explain this relationship.

10.1542/peds.2010-1633 article EN PEDIATRICS 2011-09-20

Journal Article Cohort Profile: Barcelona Life Study (BiSC) Get access Payam Dadvand, Dadvand ISGlobal, Barcelona, SpainUniversitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), SpainCIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain Corresponding author. Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Parc de Recerca Biomèdica Barcelona—PRBB, C/Doctor Aiguader, 88, 08003 Spain. E-mail: payam.dadvand@isglobal.org Search other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Mireia Gascon, Gascon...

10.1093/ije/dyae063 article EN International Journal of Epidemiology 2024-04-11

Recently, an association was reported between prenatal and postnatal exposure to cell phones neurobehavioral problems in children at the age of 7 years.A birth cohort established Sabadell, Spain 2004 2006. Mothers completed questions about phone use week 32 pregnancy (n = 587). Neurodevelopment their tested 14 months using Bayley Scales Infant Development 530).We observed only small differences neurodevelopment scores offspring users nonusers. Those had higher mental development lower...

10.1097/ede.0b013e3181cb41e0 article EN Epidemiology 2010-02-10

To examine the relationship between maternal intelligence-mental health and neuropsychological development at age 14 months in a normal population, taking into account occupational social class education.We prospectively studied population-based birth cohort, which forms part of INMA (Environment Childhood) Project. Cognitive psychomotor was assessed using Bayley Scales Infant Development. Maternal intelligence mental were by Cattell test General Health Questionnaire-12 respectively.We...

10.1016/j.gaceta.2011.10.011 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Gaceta Sanitaria 2012-01-31

Exposure to highly elevated levels of cortisol has been linked with impairments in cognitive capacities both children and adults. By contrast, moderate may engender beneficial effects. The main aim this study was assess the association between child neuropsychological development during second year life. A population-based birth cohort established city Sabadell (Catalonia, Spain) as part INMA (Environment Childhood) Project. We assessed psychomotor at age 14 months using Bayley Scales Infant...

10.1002/smi.2504 article EN Stress and Health 2013-07-01

ABSTRACT Cognitive skills are a strong predictor of wide range later life outcomes. Genetic and epigenetic associations across the genome explain some variation in general cognitive abilities population it is plausible that might arise from prenatal environmental exposures and/or genetic early life. We investigated association between cord blood DNA methylation at birth assessed children eight pregnancy cohorts (N=2196-3798) within Pregnancy And Childhood Epigenetics (PACE) Consortium...

10.1101/2020.12.18.423421 preprint EN cc-by bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 2020-12-20
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