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Research project

IMPACT Study

Status: Ongoing project

Understanding how prenatal exposure to maternal immune activation is related to brain and behavioral development

What we do

About our project

Background

Several studies have suggested that maternal immune activation  during pregnancy, either acutely related to an infection or more chronically related to inflammation, may be linked to later child behavioral and neurodevelopment.

This study examines how prenatal exposure to cytokine  profiles is linked to neurodevelopment. We use both behavioral measures (e.g., anxiety, depression, autistic traits) and brain imaging (e.g, brain structure) measured during childhood and adolescence to understand the potential impact of prenatal maternal immune activation.

Funds & Grants

National Institutes of Health

Collaborations

Internal collaborations

  • Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry/Psychology

External collaborations

  • Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York

Our team

  • Veerle Bergink
  • Frederieke Gigase
  • Charlotte Cecil
  • Ryan Muetzel
    r.muetzel@erasmusmc.nl
  • Anna Suleri