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NIH R01 · 2024

Neurodevelopmental Effects of Prenatal Exposure to Maternal Drinking, Smoking and Adverse Psychosocial Factors: Deep Phenotyping of Infant CNS and ANS Function

PROJECT SUMMARY Alcohol use and smoking during pregnancy often occur in the context of maternal anxiety and depression. However, little is known regarding how different combinations of maternal alcohol use, smoking, and psychiatric symptoms interact to alter early central and autonomic nervous system (CNS, ANS) development and subsequent neurobehavioral outcomes in offspring. To better understand these relationships, this grant proposes to comprehensively characterize maternal alcohol, smoking, depression, and anxiety patterns during pregnancy via machine learning and artificial intelligence methodologies; to perform deep phenotyping of electrocortical and physiological data from infants;…

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