Child Neurosciences Research Group (CNRG)

Achievements

Developmental Neurosciences & Child Health > Child Neurosciences Research Group > Achievements

Achievements include:

- 3T MRI Research Core Facility

- NCE NeuroDevNet

- Journal paper highlights over last 5 years:

• Riva-Cambrin, J., et al (Cochrane, D.D.). Predicting postresection hydrocephalus in pediatric patients with posterior fossa tumors. J Neurosurg Pediatr 3, 378-385 (2009).
  
  
• Warren, D.T., Hendson, G. & Cochrane, D.D. Bilateral choroid plexus hyperplasia: a case report and management strategies. Childs Nerv Syst (2009).
  
  
• Schrader, D., Langill, L., Singhal, A., Steinbok, P. & Connolly, M.B. Cingulate Lesions Presenting With Epileptic Spasms. J Clin Neurophysiol (2009).
  
  
• Schrader, D.V., Steinbok, P. & Connolly, M. Urgent, resective surgery for medically refractory, convulsive status epilepticus. Eur J Paediatr Neurol 13, 10-17 (2009).
  
  
• Diamond A, Amso D. 2008. Contributions of Neuroscience to Our Understanding of Cognitive Development. Curr Dir Psychol Sci 17: 136-41
  
  
• Diamond A. 2009. All or none hypothesis: a global-default mode that characterizes the brain and mind. Dev Psychol 45: 130-8
  
  
• Jan JE, Owens JA, Weiss MD, Johnson KP, Wasdell MB, Freeman RD, Ipsiroglu OS. 2008. Sleep hygiene for children with neurodevelopmental disabilities. Pediatrics 122: 1343-50
  
  
• Freeman RD, Zinner SH, Muller-Vahl KR, Fast DK, Burd LJ, Kano Y, Rothenberger A, Roessner V, Kerbeshian J, Stern JS, Jankovic J, Loughin T, Janik P, Shady G, Robertson MM, Lang AE, Budman C, Magor A, Bruun R, Berlin CM, Jr. 2009. Coprophenomena in Tourette syndrome. Dev Med Child Neurol 51: 218-27
  
  
• Manassis K, Tannock R, Garland EJ, Minde K, McInnes A, Clark S. 2007. The sounds of silence: language, cognition, and anxiety in selective mutism. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 46: 1187-95
  
  
• Garland EJ, Kutcher S, Virani A. 2009. 2008 Position Paper on Using SSRIs in Children and Adolescents. J Can Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 18: 160-5
  
  
• Ho CS, Giaschi DE, Ho C. 2009. Low- and high-level motion perception deficits in anisometropic and strabismic amblyopia: Evidence from fMRI. Vision Res. 49(24):2891-901.
  
  
• Boden C, Giaschi D. 2009. The role of low-spatial frequencies in lexical decision and masked priming. Brain Cogn 69: 580-91.
  
  
• Philip VM, Duvvuru S, Gomero B, Ansah TA, Blaha CD, Cook MN, Hamre KM, Lariviere WR, Matthews DB, Mittleman G, Goldowitz D, Chesler EJ. 2009. High-throughput behavioral phenotyping in the expanded panel of BXD recombinant inbred strains. Genes Brain Behav
  
  
• Freedman R, Goldowitz D. Studies on the hippocampal formation: From basic development to clinical applications: Studies on schizophrenia. Prog Neurobiol. 2009 Oct 21.
  
  
• Grunau RE, Whitfield MF, Petrie-Thomas J, Synnes AR, Cepeda IL, Keidar A, Rogers M, Mackay M, Hubber-Richard P, Johannesen D. 2009. Neonatal pain, parenting stress and interaction, in relation to cognitive and motor development at 8 and 18 months in preterm infants. Pain 143: 138-46
  
  
• Doesburg SM, Herdman AT, Ribary U, Cheung T, Moiseev A, Weinberg H, Liotti M, Weeks D, Grunau RE. 2009. Long-range synchronization and local desynchronization of alpha oscillations during visual short-term memory retention in children. Exp Brain Res.
  
  
• Spencer S, Huh L. Outcomes of Epilepsy Surgery in Adult and Children. Lancet Neurology 2008;7:525-37
  
  
• Almubarak S, Gan YC, Steinbok P, Hendson G, Poskitt K, Nadel H, Goddard K, Hukin J. 2009. Occurrence of basal ganglia germ cell tumors without a mass. Arch Neurol 66: 789-92
  
  
• Hukin J, Steinbok P, Lafay-Cousin L, Hendson G, Strother D, Mercier C, Samson Y, Howes W, Bouffet E. 2007. Intracystic bleomycin therapy for craniopharyngioma in children: the Canadian experience. Cancer. 15;109(10):2124-31.
  
  
• Jan JE, Reiter RJ, Wasdell MB, Bax M. 2009. The role of the thalamus in sleep, pineal melatonin production, and circadian rhythm sleep disorders. J Pineal Res 46: 1-7.
  
  
• Jan JE, Owens JA, Weiss MD, Johnson KP, Wasdell MB, Freeman RD, Ipsiroglu OS. 2008. Sleep hygiene for children with neurodevelopmental disabilities. Pediatrics 122: 1343-50.
  
  
• Qiao Y, Riendeau N, Koochek M, Liu X, Harvard C, Hildebrand MJ, Holden JJ, Rajcan-Separovic E, Lewis MES. 2009. Phenomic determinants of genomic variation in autism spectrum disorders. J Med Genet 46: 680-8.
  
  
• Hammond P, Forster-Gibson C, Chudley AE, Allanson JE, Hutton TJ, Farrell SA, McKenzie J, Holden JJ, Lewis MES. 2008. Face-brain asymmetry in autism spectrum disorders. Mol Psychiatry 13: 614-23.
  
  
• Chau V, Poskitt KJ, McFadden DE, Bowen-Roberts T, Synnes A, Brant R, Sargent MA, Soulikias W, Miller SP. 2009. Effect of chorioamnionitis on brain development and injury in premature newborns. Ann Neurol. 66(2):155-64.
  
  
• Miller SP, Ferriero DM. 2009. From selective vulnerability to connectivity: insights from newborn brain imaging. Trends Neurosci. 32(9):496-505.
  
  
• Pawluski JL, Galea LA, Brain U, Papsdorf M, Oberlander TF. 2009. Neonatal S100B protein levels after prenatal exposure to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors. Pediatrics 124: e662-70
  
  
• Oberlander TF, Gingrich JA, Ansorge MS. 2009. Sustained neurobehavioral effects of exposure to SSRI antidepressants during development: molecular to clinical evidence. Clin Pharmacol Ther 86: 672-7
  
  
• Liu W, Ye P, O'Kusky JR, D'Ercole AJ. 2009. Type 1 insulin-like growth factor receptor signaling is essential for the development of the hippocampal formation and dentate gyrus. J Neurosci Res 87: 2821-32
  
  
• Cepeda IL, Flores J, Cornfeldt ML, O'Kusky JR, Doudet DJ. 2007. Human retinal pigment epithelial cell implants ameliorate motor deficits in two rat models of Parkinson disease. J Neuropathol Exp Neurol 66: 576-84
  
  
• Ribary U. 2005. Dynamics of thalamo-cortical network oscillations and human perception. Prog Brain Res 150: 127-42.
  
  
• Virji-Babul N, Moiseev A, Cheung T, Weeks D, Cheyne D, Ribary U. 2010. Spatial-temporal dynamics of cortical activity underlying reaching and grasping. Hum Brain Mapp 31: 160-71.
  
  
• Rajcan-Separovic E, Qiao Y, Tyson C, Harvard C, Fawcett C, Kalousek D, Stephenson M, Philipp T. 2010. Genomic changes detected by array CGH in human embryos with developmental defects. Mol Hum Reprod 16: 125-34
  
  
• Qiao Y, Harvard C, Riendeau N, Fawcett C, Liu X, Holden JJ, Lewis ME, Rajcan-Separovic E. 2008. Putatively benign copy number variants in subjects with idiopathic autism spectrum disorder and/or intellectual disability. Cytogenet Genome Res. 123(1-4):79-87.
  
  
• Steinbok P, Gan PY, Connolly MB, Carmant L, Barry Sinclair D, Rutka J, Griebel R, Aronyk K, Hader W, Ventureyra E, Atkinson J. 2009. Epilepsy surgery in the first 3 years of life: a Canadian survey. Epilepsia 50: 1442-9
  
  
• Di Maio S, Gul SM, Cochrane DD, Hendson G, Sargent MA, Steinbok P. 2009. Clinical, radiologic and pathologic features and outcome following surgery for cervicomedullary gliomas in children. Childs Nerv Syst 25: 1401-10
  
  
• Newcorn JH, Sutton VK, Weiss MD, Sumner CR. 2009. Clinical responses to atomoxetine in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: the Integrated Data Exploratory Analysis (IDEA) study. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 48: 511-8.
  
  
• Weiss M, Panagiotopoulos C, Giles L, Gibbins C, Kuzeljevic B, Davidson J, Harrison R. 2009. A naturalistic study of predictors and risks of atypical antipsychotic use in an attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder clinic. J Child Adolesc Psychopharmacol 19: 575-82.
  
  
• Yeung HH, Werker JF. 2009. Learning words' sounds before learning how words sound: 9-month-olds use distinct objects as cues to categorize speech information. Cognition. 113: 234-43.
  
  
• Werker JF, Byers-Heinlein K, Fennell CT. 2009. Bilingual beginnings to learning words. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B. Biol. Sci. 364: 3649-63
  
  
• Rodin E, Constantino T, Rampp S, Wong PK. 2009. Spikes and epilepsy. Clin EEG Neurosci 40: 288-99.
  

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