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This year, research-scientists affiliated with the Developing Brain Institute at Children’s National had two oral poster symposia, eight platforms and four posters accepted for the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) 2024 meeting (#PAS2024).

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Developing Brain Institute Presenters and Collaborating Researchers

FRIDAY, MAY 3, 2024

Time: 3:45-4 p.m.

Room: 206 BD

Title: Maternal psychopathology and SSRI use during pregnancy are associated with altered fetal hippocampal connectivity in utero

Presenter: Josepheen De Asis-Cruz, M.D., Ph.D.

Time: 5:15-7:15 p.m.

Room: Hall E

Title: Prenatal SSRI exposure is associated with reduced regional fetal brain growth and cortical folding

First author: Yao Wu, Ph.D. (Presenter: Nickie Andescavage, M.D.)

SATURDAY, MAY 4, 2024

Time: 8:45-9 a.m.

Room: 206 BD

Title: Type of intravenous lipid emulsion affects very preterm brain development

Presenter: Katherine M. Ottolini, M.D.

Time: 9-9:15 a.m.

Room: 206 BD

Title: Timing of growth failure in very premature infants and implications for brain development

Presenter: Tameka T. Watson, M.D.

Time: 11:15-11:30 a.m.

Room: 202

Title: Associations between antenatal opioid exposure and newborn functional brain connectivity

Presenter: Josepheen De Asis-Cruz, M.D., Ph.D.

Time: 3:30-6 p.m.

Room: Hall E

Title: Intrauterine programming: prenatal COVID exposure and offspring outcomes

Presenter: Nickie Andescavage, M.D. 

Time: 3:30-6 p.m.

Room: Hall E

Title: Therapeutic opioid exposure for premature infants in the NICU is associated with altered thalamic connectivity at term

Presenter: Kevin M. Cook, Ph.D.

Time: 3:30-6 p.m.

Room: Hall E

Title: Brain metabolite concentrations in neonates of diabetic mothers

First Author: Steve C.N. Hui, Ph.D. (Presenter: Nickie Andescavage, M.D.)

SUNDAY, MAY 5, 2024

Time: 11:05-11:15 a.m.

Room: 718 B

Title: SPR Presidential Plenary – Best of SPR Featured Science: SPR 2023 Bridging to Success Award: GABA-editing spectroscopy for understanding the developing brain in preterm infants

Presenter: Sudeepta K. Basu, M.D.

Time: 2-2:15 p.m.

Room: 201 F

Title: In utero SSRI exposure alters fetal cerebral cortical development and structural brain connectivity

First author: Josepheen De Asis-Cruz, M.D., Ph.D. (Presenter: Kevin M. Cook, Ph.D.)

Time: 2:45-3 p.m.

Room: 201 F

Title: Cerebellar GABA and glutamate concentrations at term-equivalent age predicts 18-month cognitive deficits in preterm infants

Presenter: Sudeepta K. Basu, M.D.

MONDAY, MAY 6, 2024

Time: 8-8:15 a.m.

Room: 204

Title: Antenatal opioid exposure is associated with reduced global and regional brain volumes in newborns

Co-first authors: Stephanie L. Merhar, M.D., MS, and Yao Wu, Ph.D. (Presenter: Stephanie L. Merhar, M.D., MS)

Time: 1-2:30 p.m.

Room: 203

Title: Improved prediction of fetal neurobiological features by censoring high-motion frames in fetal functional MRI

Presenter: Jung-Hoon Kim, Ph.D.

PAS 2024 Presenters

Nickie Andescavage, M.D.

Sudeepta K. Basu, M.D.

Kevin M. Cook, Ph.D.

Josepheen De Asis-Cruz, M.D., Ph.D.

Steve C.N. Hui, Ph.D.

Jung-Hoon Kim, Ph.D.

Katherine M. Ottolini, M.D.

Tameka T. Watson, M.D.

Yao Wu, Ph.D.