Michael
M. Myers, PhD,
Director
Phone 543 5697, Room 4911C
Lab members and Collaborators:
Andrea Tu, BA; Catherine Monk, PhD; David Brown, MD; Harry Shair, PhD; Jay Gingrich, MD, PhD; Morris Cohen, MD; Myron Hofer, MD; Peter Graham, BA; Raymond Stark, MD; Richard Sloan, PhD; Shenequa McLoed, BA; Susan Brunelli, PhD; William Fifer, PhD |
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central tenet of Developmental Psychobiology is that experiences of
early life have effects lasting into adulthood. These effects can lead
to altered responses to stress, increased or decreased risk of cardiovascular
disease, and the shaping of emotional states. The search for mechanisms
that underlie the transduction of early experience is one focus of work
in our department. Animal studies conducted in this laboratory have
shown that certain adult characteristics can be influenced by specific
types of mother/infant behavioral interactions associated with feeding
in infancy. In collaboration with researchers at Newark Beth Israel
Hospital , we are now pursuing the question of how key aspects of the
pre- and postnatal environments may influence the expression of these
important interactions in human infants. Most recently, we have initiated
a series of animal studies to study the long-term effects of pre- and
postnatal nutrition on metabolic, cardiovascular and neurobehavioral
traits.
Selected Publications:
Myers MM, Gomez-Gribben E, Smith KS , Tseng A, Fifer WP. Developmental
changes in infant heart rate responses to head-up tilting. (2006) Acta
Paediatr. 95: 77-81.
Myers MM, Shair HN, Cohen M. (2005) Blood pressure responses to feeding
in infancy: Spin-offs of serendipity. Dev Psychobiol. 47: 268-77.
Fifer WP, Myers MM, Sahni R, Ohira-Kist K, Kashyap S, Stark RI, Schulze
KF. (2005) Interactions between sleeping position and feeding on cardiorespiratory
activity in preterm infants. Dev Psychobiol. 47: 288-96.
Kinney HC, Myers MM, Belliveau RA, Randall LL, Trachtenberg FL, Fingers
ST, Youngman M, Habbe D, Fifer WP. (2005) Subtle autonomic and respiratory
dysfunction in sudden infant death syndrome associated with serotonergic
brainstem abnormalities: a case report. J Neuropathol Exp Neurol. 64:
689-94.
Quigley KS , Myers MM, Shair HN. (2005) Development of the baroreflex
in the young rat. Auton Neurosci. 31: 26-32.
Sahni R, Schulze KF, Kashyap S, Ohira-Kist K, Fifer WP, Myers MM. (2005)
Sleeping position and electrocortical activity in low birthweight infants.
Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed. 90(4): F311-5.
Grieve PG, Myers MM, Stark RI , Housman S, Fifer WP. (2005) Topographic
localization of electrocortical activation in newborn and two- to four-month-old
infants in response to head-up tilting. Acta Paediatr. 94: 1756-63.
Muller JM, Brunelli SA, Moore H, Myers MM, Shair HN. (2005) Maternally
modulated infant separation responses are regulated by D2-family dopamine
receptors. Behav Neurosci. 119: 1384-8.
Myers MM, Shair HN, Cohen M. (2005) Blood pressure responses to feeding
in infancy: spin-offs of serendipity. Dev Psychobiol. 47: 268-77.
Fifer WP, Myers MM, Sahni R, Ohira-Kist K, Kashyap S, Stark RI, Schulze
KF. (2005) Interactions between sleeping position and feeding on cardiorespiratory
activity in preterm infants. Dev Psychobiol. 47: 288-96.
Schechter DS, Coots T, Zeanah CH, Davies M, Coates SW, Trabka KA, Marshall
RD, Liebowitz MR, Myers MM. (2005) Maternal mental representations of
the child in an inner-city clinical sample: violence-related posttraumatic
stress and reflective functioning. Attach Hum Dev. 7: 313-31.
Myers MM, Ali N, Weller A, Brunelli SA, Tu AY, Hofer MA, Shair HN. (2004)
Brief maternal interaction increases number, amplitude, and bout size
of isolation-induced ultrasonic vocalizations in infant rats. J Comp
Psych, 118: 95-102
Monk C, Sloan RP, Myers MM, Ellman L, Werner E, Jeon J, Tager F, Fifer
WP. (2004) Fetal heart rate reactivity differs by women's psychiatric
status: an early marker for developmental risk? J Am Acad Child Adolesc
Psychiatry, 43: 283-90.
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