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News from ISDP: International Society for Developmental Psychobiology (ISDP)

Postdoctoral Fellowship, Dept. of Pediatrics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver Canada

A postdoctoral fellowship position is available in a multidisciplinary project on neonatal pain, analgesia and sedation in relation to structural brain connectivity and neurodevelopment at school age in children born very preterm. A PhD in neuroscience, neuropsychology or a related discipline, and a strong background in MR neuroimaging is required. This position is at the BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute affiliated with the Dept. of Pediatrics, University of British Columbia (UBC), located on the BC Children’s & Women’s Hospitals campus of UBC in Vancouver, Canada. The successful applicant will work under the co-supervision of Dr. Ruth Grunau and Dr. Steven Miller. The successful applicant will develop focused research questions that leverage a prospective longitudinal deeply-phenotyped cohort of children born very preterm, including detailed neonatal clinical data, brain imaging (early in the neonatal period, at term equivalent age and again at school-age), stress hormone cortisol across ages 1.5, 3, 4.5 and 8 years. Children in this cohort have also been assessed longitudinally for cognitive, language, motor and behavioural outcomes. We promote equity, diversity, inclusion and equal opportunities in hiring and in our teams, following UBC guidelines. Interested applicants please send your CV and a cover letter to Dr. Grunau email: rgrunau@bcchr.ca. Salary to be discussed. Start date is flexible.

Research Assistant, University of Maryland, College Park to start Spring 2024

Research Assistant, University of Maryland, College Park. To start Spring 2024. A position is open for a full-time research assistant to work on the National Healthy Brain and Cognitive Development (HBCD) study at the University of Maryland. The HBCD study is recruiting women during pregnancy and following their infants through the first five years of their lives. https://heal.nih.gov/research/infants-and-children/healthy-brain This project aims to conduct multi-modal brain imaging (MRI, EEG) across the first years of life as well as neurobehavioral assessment. The work will be supervised by Drs. Nathan Fox in the Child Development Laboratory, Dr. Brenda Jones Harden and Dr. Tracy Riggins.

The application of fNIRS in the perinatal period, an Artinis Medical Systems sponsored workshop

Presenters: Alexandra Tiano & Rocio Fernandez, Artinis Medical Systems

Currently, wearable fNIRS devices play an important part in many research fields, because they allow measuring oxy-, deoxy- and total hemoglobin concentration changes in more naturalistic paradigms without restrictions. Among others, these measures can be translated into cortical brain activity, when fNIRS is applied on the scalp. In comparison with other neuroimaging techniques (e.g., EEG), fNIRS is not as susceptible to movement artefacts, providing robust data in many real-life scenarios. The characteristics just described, make of fNIRS a very suitable technique to use with young and more sensitive populations, such as newborns, infants and toddlers, for whom flexibility and comfort are of the outmost importance.

During this workshop, we will explain how you can measure activity using fNIRS and discuss the utility of fNIRS within different research fields, such as developmental neuroscience. We will use Artinis wearable fNIRS devices to measure brain activity and show how to work with the devices and the software.

ISDP 2023 Awards Presentation

Description Presentation of ISDP Senior Awards: 4:00 PM The 2023 Rovee-Collier Mentor Award Winner: Nim Tottenham, PhD, with an introduction by one of his mentees, Laurel Gabard-Durnam, Ph.D., Northeastern University VIRTUAL with …

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