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SUMMARY:Courtney K Blackwell\, PhD\, MEd: The kids are(n’t) alright: The role of social media in youth mental health  
DESCRIPTION:The kids are(n’t) alright: The role of social media in youth mental health   \nKey Takeaways: The parallel rise of youth mental health problems and social media use has led to speculations that the latter is a key contributor to the former. The US Surgeon General’s Advisory bolstered such speculations with a recent report detailing the potential harmful effects of social media use on youth mental health. However\, others suggest engaging in social media can have positive psychological influences by increasing social connectedness and providing opportunities for creative self-expression and identity exploration. Dr. Blackwell will explore this duality by reviewing what we know about youth social media use and mental health outcomes\, highlighting recent and on-going ECHO studies on this topic. She will also provide insight into the ECHO media use data more broadly to inspire future work leveraging the ECHO Cohort. \n \nCourtney K Blackwell\, PhD\, MEd\nshe/her/hers\nAssociate Professor\nDepartment of Medical Social Sciences (Outcome and Measurement Science)\nFeinberg School of Medicine\, Northwestern University\nMPI\, ECHO Measurement Core \nBiography: \nCourtney Blackwell\, PhD\, MEd\, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medical Social Sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. She is the MPI of the ECHO Measurement Core and has expertise in the development\, validation\, and implementation of patient-reported outcome measures and population health surveys for use across the lifespan\, general and clinical populations\, and health domains. Her research on pediatric mental health and well-being emphasizes promotive and protective factors of children’s positive psychological health. With a background in communication studies and the effects of digital media on child development\, Dr. Blackwell has spent the past 10 years collaborating with such organizations as Common Sense Media\, Sesame Workshop\, PBS\, Google\, and Code.org on national surveys of children’s media use\, the development and evaluation of educational media products\, and investigations of the effects of digital media on children’s learning and development. She is also a Faculty Affiliate with the Northwestern University Institute for Innovations in Developmental Sciences (“DevSci”) and the Northwestern Institute for Adolescent Mental Health and Well-Being. \nDownload the slide presentation
URL:https://echochildren.org/event/courtney-k-blackwell-phd-med-adolescent-social-media-and-mental-health/
CATEGORIES:neuro,outcomes,positive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260114T130000
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SUMMARY:Jean Kerver\, PhD\, MSc\, RD: Incorporating Early Life Micronutrient Status in ECHO studies of Neurodevelopment
DESCRIPTION:Incorporating Early Life Micronutrient Status in ECHO studies of Neurodevelopment \nKey Takeaways: \nIt is known that early life nutrition\, including pregnancy diet and infant feeding\, is critical for brain development\, yet the impact of the suboptimal micronutrient status of the US population is unknown. In this presentation\, Dr. Kerver discusses micronutrient status\, highlighting biomarkers rather than dietary intake\, and its impact on neurodevelopment. She reviews often overlooked interactions between nutrients and environmental toxicants. Dr. Kerver suggests areas where ECHO can better leverage existing knowledge about nutrition’s impact on neurodevelopment. She advocates for greater integration of these interactions in ECHO analyses. \n \nJean Kerver\, PhD\, MSc\, RD  \nDepartment of Epidemiology and Biostatistics\nCollege of Human Medicine\, Traverse City Campus\nMichigan State University\nContact Principal Investigator of ECHO Award 129 \nSpeaker Biography: \nJean Kerver\, PhD\, MSC\, RD\, is the contact Principal Investigator of ECHO Award 129 at Michigan State University. An epidemiologist and registered dietitian\, Dr. Kerver investigates perinatal causes of childhood disorders and develops strategies to promote healthy lifestyle behaviors among families experiencing poverty or other challenges. Based in Traverse City\, Dr. Kerver supports MSU’s College of Human Medicine rural research network initiative. Her primary research focuses on micronutrients and neurodevelopment\, with an emphasis on biomarkers and exposures. \nDownload the slide presentation
URL:https://echochildren.org/event/jean-kerver-phd-msc-rd-incorporating-early-life-micronutrient-status-in-echo-studies-of-neurodevelopment/
CATEGORIES:environmental,innovations,neuro,pregnancy
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220420T130000
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SUMMARY:Rebecca Schmidt: Leveraging the ECHO Population to Examine Trends in Autism and Other Neurodevelopmental Conditions
DESCRIPTION:Rebecca Schmidt: Leveraging the ECHO Population to Examine Trends in Autism and Other Neurodevelopmental Conditions\nECHO Discovery Summary\nOn April 20\, Rebecca Schmidt\, PhD of the University of California Davis School of Medicine presented on leveraging ECHO’s large and diverse population of children to evaluate nationwide trends in autism and other neurodevelopmental conditions. \nPreviously\, it has been difficult for researchers to study the epidemiology—the distribution and determinants—of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) because standards and practices for screening and diagnosis are variable. The ECHO-wide protocol allows researchers to track nationwide trends in ASD diagnosis and autism-related traits\, collected through caregiver-reported scores on the Social Responsiveness Scale (SRS). The use of standardized\, harmonized measures like the SRS makes it easier for ECHO researchers to track ASD trends across time and geography without the complications presented by differences in awareness and access to care. \nECHO also includes several cohorts recruiting children with autism diagnoses and those who are at higher risk for ASD. These cohorts help researcher better evaluate the risk factors and neurodevelopmental trajectories associated with ASD. \n \nSpeaker: \nRebecca J. Schmidt\, PhD \nUniversity of California Davis School of Medicine \n  \n  \nSpeaker Bio: \nRebecca J. Schmidt is a tenured associate professor and molecular epidemiologist in the Department of Public Health Sciences and the MIND Institute at the University of California Davis School of Medicine. She earned her Ph.D. in Epidemiology at the University of Iowa College of Public Health\, completed the postdoctoral Autism Research Training Program at the UC Davis MIND Institute\, and was a Building Interdisciplinary Research Career in Women’s Health (BIRCWH) scholar. Dr. Schmidt aims to advance understanding of how early life environmental exposures interact with genetic susceptibility\, molecular mechanisms\, and developmental programming to influence neurodevelopmental outcomes of children. Her pioneering work includes finding some of the first evidence in the autism field for a potentially protective effect of folic acid-rich prenatal vitamins\, evidence for gene x environment interactions\, and protective interactions between folate and environmental contaminants. She co-developed the Early Life Environmental Exposure Assessment Tool (ELEAT). In addition to leading the MARBLES high-risk autism sibling pregnancy cohort study and biorepository\, Dr. Schmidt leads a wildfire pregnancy cohort study\, is site-lead for follow-up of children at older ages in the national ECHO cohort study\, and co-leads several mechanistic autism studies\, including epidemiologic examinations of mitochondrial\, epigenomic\, transcriptomic\, and metabolomic variations in relation to neurodevelopmental outcomes. \nSlides\nDate: Wednesday\, April 20th\, 1 to 2pm ET
URL:https://echochildren.org/event/rebecca-schmidt-harnessing-the-echo-population-to-examine-trends-in-autism-and-other-neurodevelopmental-conditions/
CATEGORIES:neuro
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211018T130000
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SUMMARY:Sean Deoni: Decentralizing Pediatric Research: Bringing Science to our Families with Wearables\, Nearables\, and Mobile Labs
DESCRIPTION:Sean Deoni: Decentralizing Pediatric Research: Bringing Science to our Families with Wearables\, Nearables\, and Mobile Labs\nECHO Discovery Summary\nSean Deoni\, PhD of Brown University\, shared his research on MRI techniques and the use of wearable devices to study brain maturation in infants and children. \nDr. Deoni discussed how his study’s use of mobile devices helped measure the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on neurocognitive outcomes. When they found a steep decline in both verbal and non-verbal cognitive development among young children in 2020 and 2021\, they used wearables to investigate why. \nUsing a device placed on a child’s chest\, they were able to remotely measure language activity in homes of children from birth to age 2. They found that the number of adult words the children heard\, vocalizations they made\, and back-and-forth conversational interactions per hour declined steeply\, while TV usage went up. Using wearables\, they also found that infant sleep duration increased in 2020 and 2021 compared to pre-pandemic times\, while the number of naps per day decreased. \nDr. Deoni said that\, although mobile devices may lack the accuracy and sensitivity of in-person measurements\, they also allow researchers to take measurements from a larger number of people over longer periods of time. Work is ongoing to use these devices to examine potential influences of infant/child physical activity\, outdoor exposure\, and air quality. \nSpeaker: \nSean Deoni\, PhD \nBrown University \n  \n  \nSpeaker Bio: \nI’m an MRI physicist by training\, but a pediatric neuroscientist by passion. PhD in MR Physics from the University of Western Ontario and post-docs at King’s College\, London and Oxford University where I developed MRI techniques to study brain maturation in infants and children. This work was extended at the Advanced Baby Imaging Lab at Brown University and Rhode Island Hospital\, where we initiated some of the largest longitudinal studies of pediatric neurodevelopment (now the cornerstone of our ECHO project). Over the past 3 years I’ve also been involved with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation\, initiating a new project to assess low field MRI scanners in 25 low and middle income countries\, and extend our ECHO project globally. \nDate: Monday\, October 18th\, 1 to 2pm ET \nSlides
URL:https://echochildren.org/event/sean-deoni-decentralizing-pediatric-research-bringing-science-to-our-families-with-wearables-nearables-and-mobile-labs/
CATEGORIES:innovations,neuro
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210908T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210908T140000
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SUMMARY:Lyall/Zimmerman: Optimizing Neurodevelopmental Assessments in ECHO: Validating Measures and Capturing Critical Periods of Development
DESCRIPTION:Lyall/Zimmerman: Optimizing Neurodevelopmental Assessments in ECHO: Validating Measures and Capturing Critical Periods of Development\nECHO Discovery Summary\nOn September 8\, Kristen Lyall\, ScD of Drexel University and Emily Zimmerman\, PhD of Northeastern University gave presentations on their ECHO Opportunities and Infrastructure Fund (OIF) Award Studies. The OIF is an NIH-funded grants mechanism for early investigators to support projects for the introduction of new research\, tools\, and technologies in the ECHO Program. Each study examined different testing measures for pre-\, peri-\, and postnatal neurodevelopmental health outcomes. \nIntegration of Non-Nutritive Suck and Eye Tracking as Markers of Neurodevelopment Across Five ECHO Cohorts \nDr. Zimmerman presented her research on the association between maternal prenatal stress and infant non-nutritive suck (NNS). NNS refers to when a baby sucks without receiving any nutrition\, such as on fingers or pacifiers. \nHer study implemented NNS and eye tracking across 5 ECHO Cohorts to assess neurocognitive functions in relation to environmental exposures and maternal stress. Mother and infant participants were from the IKIDS Cohort in Illinois and ECHO-PROTECT in Puerto Rico. IKIDS mothers were predominantly white\, married\, and had at least a bachelor’s degree\, while ECHO-PROTECT mothers were predominantly Puerto Rican and in households earning less than $50\,000 per year. \nInvestigators found that mothers who reported feeling more nervous and stressed\, and who had increased feelings of anger\, had infants with lower sucking activity. Prenatal maternal perceived stress was significantly associated with fewer but longer sucking bursts in ECHO-PROTECT\, which can likely be attributed to lower income and stressful events such as the Zika virus outbreak and hurricane activity. \nValidation of Shortened Versions for the Social Responsiveness Scale: Implications for ECHO and Quantitative Trait Research \nDr. Lyall’s presentation was focused around Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and how to lessen the burden of a particular method of measuring ASD-related behaviors\, called the Social Responsiveness Scale (SRS). \nASD is a developmental condition that can be characterized by challenges in social interactions and communication\, repetitive and stereotyped patterns of behavior and interest\, and developmental delays at an early age. The SRS is a widely-used measure of autism-related traits that can be administered by a provider or caregiver. \nThe research found that shortening the SRS from 65 questions to 16 led to reduced participant burden without substantial loss in measurement of ASD-related behaviors. This can eventually lead to opportunities for wider-scale application. Dr. Lyall is optimistic that the SRS\, including the shortened version\, can be used to learn more about ASD and related social functioning. \nSpeakers: \nKristen Lyall\, ScD \nDrexel University \n  \n  \n  \nSpeaker Bio: Dr. Lyall’s research seeks to identify and understand modifiable risk factors for autism-related outcomes. Her work focuses on parental factors\, prenatal exposure to environmental chemicals\, and maternal dietary factors and their association with child ASD\, as well as consideration of ASD- related traits according to continuous\, quantitative measures. \n  \n \nEmily Zimmerman\, PhD.\, CCC-SLP \nNortheastern University \n  \n  \n  \nSpeaker Bio: Dr. Zimmerman’s research is focused on the link between early sucking and feeding and subsequent neurodevelopment. She studies the environmental\, maternal\, physiological\, and genetic influences of these behaviors across patient populations and cultures. \nDate: Wednesday\, September 8th\, 1 to 2pm ET \nSlides\n \n 
URL:https://echochildren.org/event/drs-lyall-zimmerman-optimizing-neurodevelopmental-assessments-in-echo-validating-measures-and-capturing-critical-periods-of-development/
CATEGORIES:neuro,outcomes,pregnancy
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210210T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210210T140000
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SUMMARY:O'Shea/Fry: Early Life Origins of Health Among Individuals Born Extremely Preterm
DESCRIPTION:Early Life Origins of Health Among Individuals Born Extremely Preterm\n\n\n\n\n\nECHO Discovery Summary\nPreterm Birth and Long-Term Health Outcomes \nECHO Researchers Dr. Michael O’Shea\, MD\, MPH of the UNC Chapel Hill Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine and Dr. Rebecca Fry\, PhD of the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health gave a presentation about the Extremely Low Gestational Age Newborn (ELGAN) study. Dr. O’Shea and Dr. Fry presented the objectives of the ELGAN study and its findings in their presentation on ‘Early Life Origins of Health Among Individuals Born Extremely Preterm’. \nThe ELGAN Cohort focuses on researching mechanisms that could link preterm birth to long-term health outcomes\, such as chronic health and developmental disorders. Through the ECHO Program\, ELGAN has been able to expand to obesity\, asthma\, positive health (well-being\, life satisfaction\, global health)\, blood pressure\, and renal (kidney) outcome areas. Dr. O’Shea provided an overview of the study\, which has followed more than 1\,000 babies born at least 3 months early\, between 2002 and 2004\, at 14 different hospitals in five states. The ELGAN study confirmed strong relationships between neonatal inflammation and neurodevelopmental outcomes\, an area of ECHO research. Researchers have previously established that neonatal inflammation is associated with a broad suite of children’s health outcomes. \nAnother goal of ELGAN is to research perinatal influences on child health. One of the organs that researchers focused on was the placenta\, which is important for the developing fetus. Dr. Fry emphasized that data from the study indicates placental weight is linked to both prenatal exposures and later life adverse health outcomes. This suggests the possibility that placenta epigenetics links early life exposures and later life outcome. \nELGAN is now studying the cohort’s teenagers’ health and well-being\, including reasoning skills\, behavior\, emotions\, sleep patterns\, and overall quality of life. A key conclusion that both presenters highlighted is that similar studies are needed for diverse socioeconomic contexts and more recent birth cohorts. This will help lead to more indicative data for further findings in this area of neonatal and perinatal research. You can learn more about the ELGAN study and its research by watching the presentation. \nSpeakers: \n \nMichael O’Shea\, MD\, MPH \nDivision of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine \nUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill \nSpeaker Bio: Michael O’Shea\, MD\, MPH\, received his undergraduate\, medical school\, and masters degrees\, as well as residency training in internal medicine and pediatrics at the University of North Carolina. He completed a fellowship in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine at Duke University. \n  \n \nRebecca Fry\, PhD \nUNC Gillings School of Global Public Health \nSpeaker Bio:  \nDr. Rebecca Fry is the Carol Remmer Angle Distinguished Professor of Children’s Environmental Health at UNC-Chapel Hill. Dr. Fry is the Associate Chair in Environmental Sciences and Engineering at the Gillings School of Global Public Health\, the Director of the UNC Superfund Research Program\, and founding Director of the Institute for Environmental Health Solutions. Dr. Fry is trained in molecular biology with a MS\, and PHD from Tulane University and post-doctoral training at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. \nDate: Wednesday\, February 10 \, 1 to 2pm \nSlides
URL:https://echochildren.org/event/oshea-and-fry/
LOCATION:WebEx
CATEGORIES:neuro,pregnancy
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210113T130000
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SUMMARY:Manish Arora: Application of Tooth Matrix Biomarkers to Environmental Biodynamics
DESCRIPTION:Application of Tooth Matrix Biomarkers to Environmental Biodynamics\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers: \n \nManish Arora\, PhD \nIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai \n  \n  \n  \n  \nSpeaker Bio:  \nDr. Arora is an exposure biologist and environmental epidemiologist with training in advanced analytical chemistry methods. He was awarded an Australian government scholarship to study the uptake of environmental metal toxicants and its impact on human health. He was later accepted as postdoctoral fellow at the Environmental and Occupational Medicine and Epidemiology program at the Harvard School of Public Health. He is current a Professor and Vice Chairman of Environmental Medicine and Public Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York\, as well as Division Chief of Environmental Health\, and Director of the Laboratory for Exposomic Innovation and Precision Environmental Medicine. \nDr. Arora has developed sophisticated laboratory methods to measure chemical signatures in teeth and hair as markers of environmental chemical exposures\, with a focus on reconstructing early life exposure history. \nDate: Wednesday\, January 13\, 1 to 2pm \n  \nSlides
URL:https://echochildren.org/event/manish-arora-application-of-tooth-matrix-biomarkers-to-environmental-biodynamics/
LOCATION:WebEx
CATEGORIES:environmental,neuro
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200909T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200909T140000
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SUMMARY:Heather Volk: Moving ECHO Science Toward Gene-Environment Interaction for Neurodevelopmental Outcomes
DESCRIPTION:Moving ECHO Science Toward Gene-Environment Interaction for Neurodevelopmental Outcomes\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: \n \nHeather Volk. PhD\, MPH \nJohns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health \n  \n  \n  \nSpeaker Bio: Heather E. Volk is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mental Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is also Co-Director of the NICHD-funded Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center (IDDRC) at the Kennedy Krieger Institute\, and Associate Director for Environmental Epidemiology in the Wendy Klag Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities Research. Dr. Volk additionally is co-Director of the Psychiatric Epidemiology Traning program\, supported by a Institutional Training grant (T32) from the National Institute of Mental Health. She also holds a joint appointment in the School’s Department of Environmental Health and Engineering. Dr. Volk earned a MPH in Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Boston University and a PhD in Public Health Studies (Epidemiology) at Saint Louis University\, prior to post-doctoral training in Enviornmental Genomics through the Department of Preventive Medicine at the University of Southern California (USC).  She\, along with her team\, studies how environmental and genetic factors work together to confer risk for neurodevelopmental outcomes\, including autism spectrum disorder (ASD).  She is the PI of several NIH-funded research grants which examine how environmental exposures (air pollution\, metals) effect brain development\, epidemiologic studies of comorbidity with ASD\, and leads investigations into joint genetic\, epigenetic\, and environmental risks for ASD.  Dr. Volk additionally serves as co-PI for the Autism Spectrum Disorder Enriched Risk ECHO Cohort\, a collaboration of nine cohorts of infants at high-familial risk for ASD. \nDate: Wednesday\, September 9\, 1 to 2pm \nSlides
URL:https://echochildren.org/event/heather-volk/
LOCATION:WebEx
CATEGORIES:neuro
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191113T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191113T140000
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SUMMARY:Lisa Gatzke-Kopp: A Developmental Framework for Studying Social Environmental and Experiential Influences on Children's Behavioral Health
DESCRIPTION:A Developmental Framework for Studying Social Environmental and Experiential Influences on Children’s Behavioral Health\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: \nLisa Gatzke-Kopp \nPenn State University \n  \n  \n  \nAbout the Speaker:\nDr. Gatzke-Kopp is a Professor in the department of Human Development and Family Studies at Penn State.  Her work focuses on the development of socioemotional and behavior problem in children\, from a neuroscience perspective.  Her research includes the examination of genetic\, biological\, and physiological processes as indices of individual vulnerability that moderate the effects of environmental risk factors on children’s developmental trajectories\, as well as how experiential influences shape children’s biological systems over time. \nOutcome Areas: Neurodevelopment \nDate: Wednesday\, November 13\, 1 to 2pm \nPresentation Overview: \nDr. Gatzke-Kopp discussed the importance of considering a child’s social and contextual environment.  Social environment has been demonstrated to exert a direct effect on the development of children’s physical and mental health\, as well as moderate the impact of biological exposures\, and identifying social mechanisms of risk and resilience also identifies key points of intervention and preventative approaches to optimizing healthy development. \nSlides\n \n 
URL:https://echochildren.org/event/lisa-gatzke-kopp-a-developmental-framework-for-studying-social-environmental-and-experiential-influences-on-childrens-behavioral-health/
LOCATION:WebEx
CATEGORIES:neuro,outcomes
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