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Happening in the lab
Never a dull moment with such a vibrant team committed to discovery. Here is some of what has been happening lately!
EXAMINING PRENATAL STRESS IN THE CONTEXT OF HEALTH EQUITY
June 2022
Cassie's invited commentary considers entanglement of health disparities with prenatal stress, and the need to acknowledge the structural inequity involved
Dr. Cassie Hendrix won a FIT'NG young investigator award
June 2022
Dr. Cassie Hendrix won a Young Investigator Award from the Fetal, Infant, and Toddler Neuroimaging Group for her work at the SCAN Lab.
INTRODUCING "OWLET" AN AI SOLUTION for eye-tracking
June 2022
Denise Werchan has launched a new tech "owlet" that can be used to code infant eye movements recorded during zoom testing sessions
Healthy moms, healthy babies, and healthY poop!
June 2022
Denise Werchan received a BBRF award to study interactions between maternal mental health, nutrition and programming of her child's microbiome with an eye on modifiable factors!
EXAMINING PRENATAL STRESS IN THE CONTEXT OF HEALTH EQUITY
June 2022
Cassie's invited commentary considers entanglement of health disparities with prenatal stress, and the need to acknowledge the structural inequity involved
Dr. Cassie Hendrix won a FIT'NG young investigator award
June 2022
Dr. Cassie Hendrix won a Young Investigator Award from the Fetal, Infant, and Toddler Neuroimaging Group for her work at the SCAN Lab.
Dani bengoa is a 2022 nida intern!
June 2022
Dani Bengoa, a research assistant at the SCAN Lab working on the HBCD study, is one of 80 undergraduate students selected for the National Institute of Drug Abuse summer internship. Click on the link below to read Dani's bio!
MORIAH ASSUMES ROLE AS VICE CHAIR OF RESEARCH FOR DCAP
June 2022
Dr. Moriah Thomason recently became a tenured professor of child & adolescent psychiatry at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, as well as becoming Director of Research!
the scan lab team had a paint party at muse paintbar
June 2022
Click on the link below to see team photos from their paint party!
NEW TRANSLATIONAL PSYCHIATRY PAPER
Jan 2022
Perceived discrimination as a modifier of health, disease, and medicine: Discoveries from those infected with COVID-19
ONE OF THE TOP SCIENTIFIC REPORTS NEUROSCIENCE PAPER @2021
Jan 2022
Dr. Marion van den Heuvel (former postdoc of the lab) led a study on prenatal stress, fetal fMRI and childhood sleep that was in the top 100 out of 3,460 most downloaded neuro papers in 2021
COLLABORATOR amber Boots examines the brain at age 68 in the dutch hunger winter cohort
Jan 2022
Amber Boots visited our New York lab in 2019, learned about resting-state fMRI analysis and taught Moriah's dogs about the "gentle leader" - this great work is the result!
A scientific approach to navigating the academic job market
Jan 2022
Apt tips for those ready for next steps, a helpful guide
NEW PREPRINT FROM OUR GROUP REVEALS MH x C19 = RISK
Jan 2022
Dr. Denise Werchan reports on her new study showing that prenatal depression and SARS-CoV-2 infection interact and influence infant visual attention outcomes
Maternal Mental Health Starts with Addressing Structural Inequities
Jan 2022
Drs. Lauren Shuffrey, Moriah Thomason and Natalie Brito publish a viewpoint in JAMA Psychiatry with actionable suggestions for improving current policies
NATURE MAGAZINE REPORTS ON THE COVID GENERATION
Jan 2022
We enjoyed being interviewed (along with many colleagues and friends!) in a piece about the effects of the pandemic on early child development
OUR TEAM PUBLISHES TIPS FOR INFANT MRI SUCCESS
Jan 2022
A new report by Dr. Cassie Hendrix compiles and shares best practices across more than 50 pediatric imaging labs (open data also available!)
MAKING SCIENTIFIC DATA OPENLY AVAILABLE
Jan 2022
Proud to report that the first lab paper on a clinical science dataset compiled and released by our group is now on-line: patient accounts of COVID-19
short URL: https://rdcu.be/cEGqL
UP, UP, AND AWAY! LAUNCH of the COMET KIDS STUDY!
Dec 2021
Thank you to our community families for "joining our mission" NY area kids that had COVID-19 join our science team
Making pandemic lemons into lemonade
Dec 2021
Dr. Thomason's commentary in JAMA Pediatrics encourages research about ways in which children are thriving during the pandemic
TRAINEES DIVE BACK INTO IN- PERSON SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS
Nov 2021
10+ students/trainees excitedly presented research discoveries at the ISDP and COVGEN meetings in Chicago
COVID GENERATION (COVGEN) RESEARCH SUMMIT 2021
Nov 2021
It was a thrill to conviene with our colleagues from around the globe to unite in a single conversation supporting children and families
We found coping strategies that work!
Nov 2021
Pregnant and new moms have improved mood if they choose to cope with stress in specific ways - more on our new study here!
PROUDLY LEARNING ABOUT RECOVERY FROM COVID
Nov 2021
We are happy to join the Recover COVID National Study, recruiting kiddos that had COVID infection and siblings, beginning in 2022!
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW DR. LANXIN JI JOINS THE LAB!
Oct 2021
Delighted to welcome Dr. Lanxin Ji as a new postdoctoral fellow in the lab - already she is innovating our fetal processing pipelines.
FETAL BRAIN TISSUE SEGMENTATION CHALLENGE (FeTA)
Oct 2021
So glad to participate in the multi-class image segmentation challenge organized as part of MICCAI 2021 - Bright minds to advance the field
NIH HEALTHY BRAINS AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT STUDY (HBCD)
Oct 2021
NYU is pleased to be selected as 1 of the 25 recruitment sites for the 10-year neurodevelopment HBCD study!
DYAD LAB AND SCANLAB IN DETROIT TO LAUNCH AGE 10 VISIT
Sept 2021
Thankful for amazing students and collaborators at Wayne State University and to NIMH for support - let's get going!
LAB RETREAT - PADDLE-
BOARDING AND MAPLE FROSTIES
Jul 2021
In the winter we walked on a frozen lake and dressed the part in a murder mystery - summer bring sun and sports
NIH SUPPORTS THE NYU COPE STUDY!
May 2021
NIH and reviewers recognized need at a time time when funding was rapidly needed - the COPE study is possible because we are a community
