Birth outcomes, health, and health care needs of childbearing women following wildfire disasters: an integrative, state-of-the-science review

J Evans, A Bansal, DAJM Schoenaker… - Environmental …, 2022 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background: The frequency and severity of extreme weather events such as wildfires are
expected to increase due to climate change. Childbearing women, that is, women who are …

Adverse prenatal exposures and fetal brain development: insights from advanced fetal magnetic resonance imaging

J De Asis-Cruz, N Andescavage… - Biological Psychiatry …, 2022 - Elsevier
Converging evidence from clinical and preclinical studies suggests that fetal vulnerability to
adverse prenatal exposures increases the risk for neuropsychiatric diseases such as autism …

Association of elevated maternal psychological distress, altered fetal brain, and offspring cognitive and social-emotional outcomes at 18 months

Y Wu, KM Espinosa, SD Barnett, A Kapse… - JAMA network …, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Prenatal maternal psychological distress is associated with disturbances in fetal
brain development. However, the association between altered fetal brain development …

Maternal psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic and structural changes of the human fetal brain

YC Lu, N Andescavage, Y Wu, K Kapse… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
Background Elevated maternal psychological distress during pregnancy is linked to adverse
outcomes in offspring. The potential effects of intensified levels of maternal distress during …

Network-specific selectivity of functional connections in the neonatal brain

CM Sylvester, S Kaplan, MJ Myers, EM Gordon… - Cerebral …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The adult human brain is organized into functional brain networks, groups of functionally
connected segregated brain regions. A key feature of adult functional networks is long-range …

The COVID-19 pandemic and early child cognitive development: a comparison of development in children born during the pandemic and historical references

SCL Deoni, J Beauchemin, A Volpe, V D'Sa… - MedRxiv, 2021 - medrxiv.org
Objective To characterize cognitive function in young children under 3 years of age over the
past decade, and test whether children exhibit different cognitive development profiles …

[HTML][HTML] Fetal brain tissue annotation and segmentation challenge results

K Payette, HB Li, P de Dumast, R Licandro, H Ji… - Medical image …, 2023 - Elsevier
In-utero fetal MRI is emerging as an important tool in the diagnosis and analysis of the
developing human brain. Automatic segmentation of the developing fetal brain is a vital step …

Perinatal infection, inflammation, preterm birth, and brain injury: A review with proposals for future investigations

JD Reiss, LS Peterson, SN Nesamoney, AL Chang… - Experimental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Preterm newborns are exposed to several risk factors for developing brain injury. Clinical
studies have suggested that the presence of intrauterine infection is a consistent risk factor …

Brain structural and functional outcomes in the offspring of women experiencing psychological distress during pregnancy

Y Wu, J De Asis-Cruz, C Limperopoulos - Molecular Psychiatry, 2024 - nature.com
In-utero exposure to maternal psychological distress is increasingly linked with disrupted
fetal and neonatal brain development and long‐term neurobehavioral dysfunction in …

[HTML][HTML] Intergenerational transmission of maternal childhood maltreatment prior to birth: effects on human fetal amygdala functional connectivity

MI van den Heuvel, C Monk, CL Hendrix, J Hect… - Journal of the American …, 2023 - Elsevier
Objective Childhood maltreatment (CM) is a potent risk factor for developing
psychopathology later in life. Accumulating research suggests that the influence is not …