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18-Month Follow-Up of Infants Cared for in a Single-Family Room Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

scientific article published on 25 July 2016

A care coordination program for substance-exposed newborns

scientific article published on January 1, 2011

A developmental origins perspective on the emergence of violent behavior in males with prenatal substance exposure

scientific article published on 21 December 2018

A flexible analysis tool for the quantitative acoustic assessment of infant cry.

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A preliminary study of cortisol reactivity and behavior problems in young children born premature

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A randomized control trial of integrated care for families managing infant colic

scientific article published on March 2012

Acute neonatal effects of cocaine exposure during pregnancy

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After family treatment drug court: maternal, infant, and permanency outcomes

scientific article published on January 1, 2010

An Initial Investigation of Baseline Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia as a Moderator of Treatment Outcome for Young Children Born Premature With Externalizing Behavior Problems ⬇️

scientific article published on January 2, 2012

Are epigenetic changes in the intrauterine environment related to newborn neurobehavior?

scientific article published on April 2014

Assessment and evaluation of the high risk neonate: the NICU Network Neurobehavioral Scale

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Assessment of infant cry: acoustic cry analysis and parental perception

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Association between patterns of maternal substance use and infant birth weight, length, and head circumference

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Association of a Simplified Finnegan Neonatal Abstinence Scoring Tool With the Need for Pharmacologic Treatment for Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

Attachment classifications among 18-month-old children of adolescent mothers

scientific article published on 01 January 2002

Attachment status in children prenatally exposed to cocaine and other substances

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Atypical cry acoustics in 6-month-old infants at risk for autism spectrum disorder.

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Behavioral epigenetics

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Building for the future of Rhode Island's newborns

scientific article published on May 2010

Buprenorphine versus methadone in the treatment of pregnant opioid-dependent patients: effects on the neonatal abstinence syndrome

scientific article published in July 2005

Children of addicted women

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Clinical use of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Network Neurobehavioral Scale

scientific article published on 01 March 2004

Co-morbidity of substance use disorder and psychopathology in women who use methamphetamine during pregnancy in the US and New Zealand

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Colic: What's maternal mental health got to do with it?

scientific article published on 15 June 2012

Comparison of Safety and Efficacy of Methadone vs Morphine for Treatment of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome: A Randomized Clinical Trial

Comparison of motor self-regulatory and stress behaviors of preterm infants across body positions

scientific article published in May 2003

Cortisol reactivity in two-year-old children prenatally exposed to methamphetamine

scientific article published on May 2013

Cortisol reactivity to social stress as a mediator of early adversity on risk and adaptive outcomes

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Cross-national comparison of prenatal methamphetamine exposure on infant and early child physical growth: a natural experiment

scientific article published on October 2014

DNA methylation of NR3c1 in infancy: Associations between maternal caregiving and infant sex

scientific article published on 08 May 2019

Demographic and psychosocial characteristics of mothers using methamphetamine during pregnancy: preliminary results of the infant development, environment, and lifestyle study (IDEAL).

scientific article published on January 2007

Developmental and behavioral consequences of prenatal methamphetamine exposure: A review of the Infant Development, Environment, and Lifestyle (IDEAL) study

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Developmental trajectories of autonomic functioning in autism from birth to early childhood

scientific article published on 11 January 2019

Diluted tincture of opium (DTO) and phenobarbital versus DTO alone for neonatal opiate withdrawal in term infants

scientific article published on 01 May 2002

Développement neurobiologique et émotions chez les nouveau-nés chimpanzés et humains

Early caregiving stress exposure moderates the relation between respiratory sinus arrhythmia reactivity at 1 month and biobehavioral outcomes at age 3.

scientific article published on January 2016

Early life stress and environmental influences on the neurodevelopment of children with prenatal opioid exposure

scholarly article by Elisabeth Conradt published in November 2018

Effects of prenatal cocaine exposure on special education in school-aged children

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Effects of prenatal methamphetamine exposure on behavioral and cognitive findings at 7.5 years of age.

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Effects of prenatal substance exposure on infant temperament vary by context

scientific article published on 3 June 2015

Emotional expression and heart rate in high-risk infants during the face-to-face/still-face

scientific article published on 02 October 2013

Epigenetic Programming by Maternal Behavior in the Human Infant

scientific article published on 01 October 2018

Epigenetic Regulation of Placental NR3C1: Mechanism Underlying Prenatal Programming of Infant Neurobehavior by Maternal Smoking?

scientific article published on January 2016

Epigenetic basis for the development of depression in children

scientific article published on September 2013

Epigenetic mechanisms in the placenta related to infant neurodevelopment.

scientific article published on 30 January 2018

Epigenetic variation in the mu-opioid receptor gene in infants with neonatal abstinence syndrome

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Epigenome-wide Analysis Identifies Genes and Pathways Linked to Neurobehavioral Variation in Preterm Infants

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Erratum to “Prenatal cocaine use and maternal depression: Effects on infant neurobehavior”⁎ [Neurotoxicol. Teratol. 29 (2007) 331–340]

scholarly article by Amy L. Salisbury et al published January 2009 in Neurotoxicology and Teratology

Evidence-based intervention for young children born premature: Preliminary evidence for associated changes in physiological regulation ⬇️

scientific article published on June 19, 2012

Examining the joint contribution of placental NR3C1 and HSD11B2 methylation for infant neurobehavior

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Examining the relationships between prenatal methamphetamine exposure, early adversity, and child neurobehavioral disinhibition

scientific article published on 15 October 2012

Expression of imprinted genes in placenta is associated with infant neurobehavioral development.

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Fetal effects of psychoactive drugs

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Fetal origin of childhood disease: intrauterine growth restriction in term infants and risk for hypertension at 6 years of age

scientific article published on 01 September 2006

Functional MRI and response inhibition in children exposed to cocaine in utero. Preliminary findings

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Genetic and epigenetic variation of the glucocorticoid receptor (NR3C1) in placenta and infant neurobehavior

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Gestational cocaine exposure and intrauterine growth: maternal lifestyle study

scientific article published in November 2002

Global and gene-specific DNA methylation across multiple tissues in early infancy: implications for children's health research

scientific article published on 29 January 2014

Global motion perception is independent from contrast sensitivity for coherent motion direction discrimination and visual acuity in 4.5-year-old children.

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Global motion perception is related to motor function in 4.5-year-old children born at risk of abnormal development.

scientific article published on 20 April 2017

Grandchild of the NBAS: the NICU network neurobehavioral scale (NNNS): a review of the research using the NNNS.

scientific article published on August 2013

Growth trajectories of preterm infants: birth to 12 years

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Health-care utilization among mothers and infants following cocaine exposure

scientific article published in July 2003

Healthy Newborns' Neurobehavior: Norms and Relations to Medical and Demographic Factors ⬇️

scientific article published on June 23, 2012

History and description of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Network Neurobehavioral Scale.

scientific article published on March 2004

Identification of prenatal amphetamines exposure by maternal interview and meconium toxicology in the Infant Development, Environment and Lifestyle (IDEAL) study

scientific article published on December 2009

Impact of maternal substance use during pregnancy on childhood outcome

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Impact of prenatal exposure to cocaine and tobacco on diffusion tensor imaging and sensation seeking in adolescents

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Importance of stability of early living arrangements on behavior outcomes of children with and without prenatal drug exposure

scientific article published on June 2008

Infant Neurobehavioral Development ⬇️

scientific article published on February 1, 2011

Infant colic and maternal depression

scientific article published in January 2005

Infant neurobehavioral dysregulation: behavior problems in children with prenatal substance exposure

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Infant peripheral blood repetitive element hypomethylation associated with antiretroviral therapy in utero

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Infant temperament and high-risk environment relate to behavior problems and language in toddlers

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Infants' early visual attention and social engagement as developmental precursors to joint attention

scientific article published on November 2016

Interactions between maternal characteristics and neonatal behavior in the prediction of parenting stress and perception of infant temperament.

scientific article published on 12 April 2005

Intrauterine growth of infants exposed to prenatal methamphetamine: results from the infant development, environment, and lifestyle study

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Introduction to the Special Section on Epigenetics

scientific article published on January 2016

Long-term impact of maternal substance use during pregnancy and extrauterine environmental adversity: stress hormone levels of preadolescent children

scientific article published on August 2011

Longitudinal study of maternal report of sleep problems in children with prenatal exposure to cocaine and other drugs

scientific article published on January 2009

Low birth weight and preterm births: etiologic fraction attributable to prenatal drug exposure

scientific article published in October 2005

Low-level prenatal exposure to nicotine and infant neurobehavior

scientific article published on 17 July 2009

MSJAMA. Maternal-fetal attachment

scientific article published in April 2003

Major depressive disorder during pregnancy and emotional attachment to the fetus ⬇️

scientific article published on September 22, 2011

Maternal and infant affect at 4 months predicts performance and verbal IQ at 4 and 7 years in a diverse population

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Maternal depression and anxiety are associated with altered gene expression in the human placenta without modification by antidepressant use: Implications for fetal programming ⬇️

scientific article published on May 5, 2011

Maternal depression and neurobehavior in newborns prenatally exposed to methamphetamine

scientific article published on 03 December 2008

Maternal depression and prenatal exposure to methamphetamine: neurodevelopmental findings from the infant development, environment, and lifestyle (ideal) study

scientific article published on 03 May 2012

Maternal methamphetamine use during pregnancy and child outcome: what do we know?

scientific article published on 26 November 2004

Maternal pre-pregnancy obesity and gestational weight gain influence neonatal neurobehaviour

scientific article published on 10 May 2016

Maternal smoking during pregnancy and infant stress response: test of a prenatal programming hypothesis

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Maternal smoking during pregnancy and newborn neurobehavior: effects at 10 to 27 days

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Medical morbidities and DNA methylation of NR3C1 in preterm infants.

scientific article published on 21 September 2016

Methamphetamine and other substance use during pregnancy: preliminary estimates from the Infant Development, Environment, and Lifestyle (IDEAL) study

scientific article published on 5 January 2006

Methylation of the Glucocorticoid Receptor (NR3C1) in Placenta Is Associated with Infant Cry Acoustics

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Mother-infant consultation during drug treatment: research and innovative clinical practice

scientific article published on 6 February 2008

Motor and cognitive outcomes through three years of age in children exposed to prenatal methamphetamine.

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Neonatal neurobehavior effects following buprenorphine versus methadone exposure ⬇️

scientific article published on November 1, 2012

Neonatal neurobehavior predicts medical and behavioral outcome

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Neurobehavior related to epigenetic differences in preterm infants

scientific article published on 20 November 2015

Neurobehavioral Integrity of Chimpanzee Newborns: Comparisons across groups and across species reveal gene-environment interaction effects

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Neurobehavioral assessment from fetus to infant: the NICU Network Neurobehavioral Scale and the Fetal Neurobehavior Coding Scale

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Neurobehavioral assessment predicts motor outcome in preterm infants

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Neurobehavioral disinhibition predicts initiation of substance use in children with prenatal cocaine exposure ⬇️

scientific article published on May 18, 2012

Neuroimaging of children following prenatal drug exposure

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New meconium biomarkers of prenatal methamphetamine exposure increase identification of affected neonates.

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Newborn neurobehavioral patterns are differentially related to prenatal maternal major depressive disorder and serotonin reuptake inhibitor treatment ⬇️

scientific article published on September 2, 2011

Normative neurobehavioral performance of healthy infants on the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Network Neurobehavioral Scale

scientific article published on 01 March 2004

Novel biomarkers of prenatal methamphetamine exposure in human meconium

scientific article published on February 2009

Orientation to social and nonsocial stimuli in neonatal chimpanzees and humans

Parasympathetic response profiles related to social functioning in young children with autistic disorder

scientific article published on 30 September 2013

Parent-Child Interaction Therapy for Children Born Premature: A Case Study and Illustration of Vagal Tone as a Physiological Measure of Treatment Outcome

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Parenting intervention for externalizing behavior problems in children born premature: an initial examination

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Patterning in placental 11-B hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase methylation according to prenatal socioeconomic adversity

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Patterns of methamphetamine use during pregnancy: results from the Infant Development, Environment, and Lifestyle (IDEAL) Study

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Perceived child behavior problems, parenting stress, and maternal depressive symptoms among prenatal methamphetamine users

scientific article published on December 2012

Perception of Cry Characteristics in 1-Month-Old Infants Later Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder

scholarly article by M Samantha English et al published 25 October 2018 in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

Permanency planning and social service systems: A comparison of two families with prenatally substance exposed infants

scientific article published on 01 May 2005

Pharmacologic treatment of infants with neonatal abstinence syndrome in community hospitals compared to academic medical centers

scientific article published on 20 September 2018

Physiologic arousal to social stress in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: A pilot study ⬇️

scientific article published on January 1, 2012

Physiological correlates of neurobehavioral disinhibition that relate to drug use and risky sexual behavior in adolescents with prenatal substance exposure

scientific article published on 15 July 2014

Placenta-imprinted gene expression association of infant neurobehavior.

scientific article published on 6 December 2011

Placental 11-beta hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase methylation is associated with newborn growth and a measure of neurobehavioral outcome

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Placental DNA Methylation Related to Both Infant Toenail Mercury and Adverse Neurobehavioral Outcomes

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Placental FKBP5 genetic and epigenetic variation is associated with infant neurobehavioral outcomes in the RICHS cohort

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Placental HTR2A methylation is associated with infant neurobehavioral outcomes

scientific article published on 19 June 2013

Placental epigenetic patterning of glucocorticoid response genes is associated with infant neurodevelopment.

scientific article published on 7 September 2015

Placental miRNA expression profiles are associated with measures of infant neurobehavioral outcomes

scientific article published on 19 June 2013

Poor actigraphic and self-reported sleep patterns predict delinquency and daytime impairment among at-risk adolescents

scientific article published on 14 August 2015

Preadolescent behavior problems after prenatal cocaine exposure: Relationship between teacher and caretaker ratings (Maternal Lifestyle Study)

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Predictors of inadequate prenatal care in methamphetamine-using mothers in New Zealand and the United States.

scientific article published on April 2013

Predictors of motor development in children prenatally exposed to cocaine

scientific article published on 25 November 2004

Prenatal Cocaine Exposure and Motor Performance at 4 Months

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Prenatal Major Depressive Disorder, Placenta Glucocorticoid and Serotonergic Signaling, and Infant Cortisol Response.

scientific article published on 19 October 2016

Prenatal Stress, Fearfulness, and the Epigenome: Exploratory Analysis of Sex Differences in DNA Methylation of the Glucocorticoid Receptor Gene.

scientific article published on 12 July 2016

Prenatal cocaine exposure and BMI and blood pressure at 9 years of age.

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Prenatal cocaine exposure and childhood obesity at nine years ⬇️

scientific article published on November 23, 2010

Prenatal cocaine exposure and small-for-gestational-age status: Effects on growth at 6years of age ⬇️

scientific article published on August 16, 2011

Prenatal cocaine exposure related to cortisol stress reactivity in 11-year-old children

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Prenatal cocaine exposure: cardiorespiratory function and resilience.

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Prenatal cocaine use and maternal depression: effects on infant neurobehavior

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Prenatal exposure to maternal depression and anxiety on imprinted gene expression in placenta and infant neurodevelopment and growth.

scientific article published on 14 March 2018

Prenatal methamphetamine exposure and childhood behavior problems at 3 and 5 years of age

scientific article published on 19 March 2012

Prenatal methamphetamine exposure and inhibitory control among young school-age children

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Prenatal methamphetamine exposure and neonatal and infant neurobehavioral outcome: results from the IDEAL study.

scientific article published on January 2014

Prenatal methamphetamine exposure and neonatal neurobehavioral outcome in the USA and New Zealand.

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Prenatal methamphetamine exposure and neurodevelopmental outcomes in children from 1 to 3 years

scientific article published on 22 February 2014

Prenatal methamphetamine exposure and short-term maternal and infant medical outcomes

scientific article published on 07 March 2012

Prenatal methamphetamine exposure, home environment, and primary caregiver risk factors predict child behavioral problems at 5 years.

scientific article published on January 2013

Prenatal methamphetamine use and neonatal neurobehavioral outcome

scientific article published on 3 October 2007

Prenatal predictors of infant self-regulation: the contributions of placental DNA methylation of NR3C1 and neuroendocrine activity.

scientific article published on 29 May 2015

Prenatal substance exposure: neurobiologic organization at 1 month

scientific article published on 04 June 2013

Protective factors can mitigate behavior problems after prenatal cocaine and other drug exposures

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Psychopathology and Special Education Enrollment in Children With Prenatal Cocaine Exposure ⬇️

scientific article published on June 1, 2012

Psychosocial and medical adversity associated with neonatal neurobehavior in infants born before 30 weeks gestation

scientific article published on 10 October 2019

Reactivity and regulation of motor responses in cocaine-exposed infants

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Reconceptualizing in a dual-system model the effects of prenatal cocaine exposure on adolescent development: a short review

scientific article published on 19 September 2011

Refining Neurobehavioral Assessment of the High‐Risk Infant Using the NICU Network Neurobehavioral Scale ⬇️

scientific article published on January 1, 2012

Regional brain morphometry and impulsivity in adolescents following prenatal exposure to cocaine and tobacco.

scientific article published on April 2013

Regions of variable DNA methylation in human placenta associated with newborn neurobehavior

scientific article published on July 2016

Risk of neurobehavioral disinhibition in prenatal methamphetamine-exposed young children with positive hair toxicology results

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Risk-taking behavior among adolescents with prenatal drug exposure and extrauterine environmental adversity

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School-Aged Outcomes following Prenatal Methamphetamine Exposure: 7.5-Year Follow-Up from the Infant Development, Environment, and Lifestyle Study.

scientific article published on 9 January 2016

Selenium-associated DNA methylation modifications in placenta and neurobehavioral development of newborns: An epigenome-wide study of two U.S. birth cohorts

scientific article published on 31 January 2020

Serial pediatric symptom checklist screening in children with prenatal drug exposure

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Services used by perinatal substance-users with child welfare involvement: a descriptive study ⬇️

scientific article published on August 31, 2010

Sex-specific associations between placental leptin promoter DNA methylation and infant neurobehavior

scientific article published on 30 October 2013

Single-family room care and neurobehavioral and medical outcomes in preterm infants

scientific article published on 22 September 2014

Sleep problems in children with prenatal substance exposure: the Maternal Lifestyle study

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Small for gestational age and higher birth weight predict childhood obesity in preterm infants

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Smoking during pregnancy and newborn neurobehavior

scientific article published in June 2003

Social Stress-Related Epigenetic Changes Associated With Increased Heart Rate Variability in Infants

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Sociodemographic and medical influences on neurobehavioral patterns in preterm infants: A multi-center study

scientific article published on 30 January 2020

Stimulants: How big is the problem and what are the effects of prenatal exposure?

scientific article published on 05 February 2019

Structural brain imaging in children and adolescents following prenatal cocaine exposure: preliminary longitudinal findings

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Subcortical and cortical structural central nervous system changes and attention processing deficits in preschool-aged children with prenatal methamphetamine and tobacco exposure.

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Substance use during pregnancy: time for policy to catch up with research

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Substance use in HIV-Infected women during pregnancy: self-report versus meconium analysis

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Summary statistics of neonatal intensive care unit network neurobehavioral scale scores from the maternal lifestyle study: a quasinormative sample

scientific article published on 01 March 2004

Testing the programming of temperament and psychopathology in two independent samples of children with prenatal substance exposure.

scientific article published in August 2018

The Contributions of Maternal Sensitivity and Maternal Depressive Symptoms to Epigenetic Processes and Neuroendocrine Functioning.

scientific article published on January 2016

The Maternal Lifestyle Study (MLS): effects of prenatal cocaine and/or opiate exposure on auditory brain response at one month.

scientific article published on March 2003

The Maternal Lifestyle Study: drug exposure during pregnancy and short-term maternal outcomes

scientific article published in March 2002

The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Network Neurobehavioral Scale procedures

scientific article published on 01 March 2004

The Roles of Maternal Depression, Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor Treatment, and Concomitant Benzodiazepine Use on Infant Neurobehavioral Functioning Over the First Postnatal Month

scientific article published on 30 October 2015

The combined effects of prenatal drug exposure and early adversity on neurobehavioral disinhibition in childhood and adolescence ⬇️

scientific article published on August 1, 2011

The contributions of early adverse experiences and trajectories of respiratory sinus arrhythmia on the development of neurobehavioral disinhibition among children with prenatal substance exposure

scientific article published on 9 June 2014

The effect of parenting stress on child behavior problems in high-risk children with prenatal drug exposure

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The effect of prenatal methamphetamine exposure on attention as assessed by continuous performance tests: results from the Infant Development, Environment, and Lifestyle study

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The effects of prenatal methamphetamine exposure on childhood growth patterns from birth to 3 years of age.

scientific article published on 04 August 2011

The infant development, environment, and lifestyle study: effects of prenatal methamphetamine exposure, polydrug exposure, and poverty on intrauterine growth

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The maternal lifestyle study: cognitive, motor, and behavioral outcomes of cocaine-exposed and opiate-exposed infants through three years of age.

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The maternal lifestyle study: effects of substance exposure during pregnancy on neurodevelopmental outcome in 1-month-old infants

scientific article published on December 2002

The role of prenatal substance exposure and early adversity on parasympathetic functioning from 3 to 6 years of age.

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The roles of DNA methylation of NR3C1 and 11β-HSD2 and exposure to maternal mood disorder in utero on newborn neurobehavior

scientific article published on 17 October 2013

Third pathophysiology of prenatal cocaine exposure

scientific article published on 17 April 2009

Transactional relations between caregiving stress, executive functioning, and problem behavior from early childhood to early adolescence

scientific article published on August 2016

Treatment of substance abuse during pregnancy

scientific article published on January 2008

Vagal tone as a resilience factor in children with prenatal cocaine exposure

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Variations of NICU sound by location and time of day

scientific article published on 01 March 2010

Violence and delinquency, early onset drug use, and psychopathology in drug-exposed youth at 11 years

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Vulnerable infants program of Rhode Island: promoting permanency for substance-exposed infants

scientific article published on 01 January 2010

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