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List of works by William P Fifer

A novel quantitative measure of Tracé-alternant EEG activity and its association with sleep states of preterm infants

scientific article published in November 1997

A quantitative method for classification of EEG in the fetal baboon

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Academic achievement varies with gestational age among children born at term.

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An antenatal marker of neurodevelopmental outcomes in infants with congenital heart disease.

scientific article published on 4 May 2017

An automated method for coding sleep states in human infants based on respiratory rate variability

scientific article published on 20 October 2016

Assessment of Cardiac Rate and Rhythm in Fetuses with Arrhythmia via Maternal Abdominal Fetal Electrocardiography

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Associations among family socioeconomic status, EEG power at birth, and cognitive skills during infancy

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Autonomic regulation in fetuses with congenital heart disease.

scientific article published on 4 February 2015

Body position, sleep states, and cardiorespiratory activity in developing low birth weight infants

scientific article published in April 1999

Canonical and non-canonical syllable discrimination by two-day-old infants

scientific article published on February 1, 1992

Cardiorespiratory physiology in the safe passage study: protocol, methods and normative values in unexposed infants

scientific article published on 17 April 2017

Cardiorespiratory responses to bidirectional tilts in infants

scientific article published in July 1999

Developmental changes in infant heart rate responses to head-up tilting

scientific article published in January 2006

Developmental profiles of infant EEG: overlap with transient cortical circuits.

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Diet and infant behavior

scientific article published on 01 July 1997

Drinking and smoking patterns during pregnancy: Development of group-based trajectories in the Safe Passage Study

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EEG functional connectivity in term age extremely low birth weight infants

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Effects of alcohol and smoking during pregnancy on infant autonomic control

scientific article published in April 2009

Effects of body position on thermal, cardiorespiratory and metabolic activity in low birth weight infants

scientific article published on 05 May 2009

Effects of maternal breathing rate, psychiatric status, and cortisol on fetal heart rate

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Effects of sleeping position and time after feeding on the organization of sleep/wake states in prematurely born infants.

scientific article published in June 1998

Effects of women's stress-elicited physiological activity and chronic anxiety on fetal heart rate.

scientific article published in February 2003

Electrocardiographic intervals in foetuses with CHD

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Electrocortical functional connectivity in infancy: response to body tilt

scientific article published on 01 August 2007

Electroencephalographic activity of preterm infants is increased by Family Nurture Intervention: a randomized controlled trial in the NICU.

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Evidence of transnatal auditory learning.

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Feasibility of assessing brain activity using mobile, in-home collection of electroencephalography: methods and analysis

Feasibility study for the assessment of cardio-respiratory coupling in newborn infants

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Fetal Behavioral Development: Measurement of Habituation, State Transitions, and Movement to Assess Fetal Well Being and to Predict Outcome

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Fetal cerebrovascular resistance and neonatal EEG predict 18-month neurodevelopmental outcome in infants with congenital heart disease.

scientific article published on 2 August 2012

Fetal heart rate reactivity differs by women's psychiatric status: an early marker for developmental risk?

scientific article published in March 2004

Frequency domain analyses of neonatal flash VEP

scientific article published on 01 November 2007

High-density electroencephalogram monitoring in the neonate

scientific article published in September 2006

Hypoplastic left heart syndrome with restrictive atrial septum and advanced heart block documented with a novel fetal electrocardiographic monitor

scientific article published on 6 September 2011

Identifying infants at risk for sudden infant death syndrome.

scientific article published on April 2007

Influence of sleep state and position on cardio-respiratory regulation in newborn babies

scientific article published in August 2015

Interactions among peripheral perfusion, cardiac activity, oxygen saturation, thermal profile and body position in growing low birth weight infants.

scientific article published on January 2010

Interactions between sleeping position and feeding on cardiorespiratory activity in preterm infants

scientific article published in November 2005

Low birth weight and risk of affective disorders and selected medical illness in offspring at high and low risk for depression

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Maternal depression during pregnancy is associated with increased birth weight in term infants.

scientific article published on April 2017

Maternal stress responses and anxiety during pregnancy: effects on fetal heart rate

scientific article published in January 2000

Maturational changes in heart rate and heart rate variability in low birth weight infants

scientific article published in September 2000

Measuring fetal cognitive development: when methods and conclusions don’t match.

scientific article published on March 2011

Methodological issues in coding sleep states in immature infants

scientific article published in March 1995

Multi-parametric heart rate analysis in premature babies exposed to sudden infant death syndrome.

scientific article published in January 2014

Neonatal eyelid conditioning during sleep.

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Newborn infants learn during sleep

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Novel heart rate parameters for the assessment of autonomic nervous system function in premature infants.

scientific article published on 2 August 2016

Of human bonding: newborns prefer their mothers' voices.

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One-month-old human infants learn about the social world while they sleep

scientific article published on June 18, 2011

Patterns of fetal perinasal fluid flow in cases of congenital diaphragmatic hernia

scientific article published on 01 April 1997

Patterns of perinasal fluid flow and contractions of the diaphragm in the human fetus

scientific article published on 01 August 1996

Physiologic responses to cognitive challenge during pregnancy: effects of task and repeat testing

scientific article published on 01 March 2001

Postural differences in cardiac dynamics during quiet and active sleep in low birthweight infants

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Prenatal nicotine exposure selectively affects nicotinic receptor expression in primary and associative visual cortices of the fetal baboon

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Prenatal nicotine-exposure alters fetal autonomic activity and medullary neurotransmitter receptors: implications for sudden infant death syndrome

scientific article published on 03 September 2009

Prenatal predictors of infant temperament.

scientific article published in July 2007

Quality of diet, body position, and time after feeding influence behavioral states in low birth weight infants

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Recombination of nonchromosomal mutations: a 3-point cross in the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardi.

scientific article published in November 1968

Remedial reading: a psychoanalytic and operant approach

scientific article published in September 1972

Response of the premature fetus to stimulation by speech sounds

scientific article published on 01 July 1993

Sleep and Infant Learning.

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Sleeping position and electrocortical activity in low birthweight infants

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Socioeconomic disparities in neurocognitive development in the first two years of life

scientific article published on 30 March 2015

Spatial correlation of the infant and adult electroencephalogram

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The risk for impaired learning-related abilities in childhood and educational attainment among adults born near-term.

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The role of mother's voice in the organization of brain function in the newborn.

scientific article published on June 1994

The role of perinatal problems in risk of co-morbid psychiatric and medical disorders in adulthood

scientific article published on 02 May 2007

The safe passage study: design, methods, recruitment, and follow-up approach

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Tony DeCasper, the man who changed contemporary views on human fetal cognitive abilities.

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Topographic localization of electrocortical activation in newborn and two- to four-month-old infants in response to head-up tilting

scientific article published in December 2005

Toward an electrocortical biomarker of cognition for newborn infants

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Vibroacoustic stimulation evokes human fetal micturition

scientific article published on 01 February 1993