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Catherine Lebel

Catherine Lebel

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D-Index
55
Citations
15544
World Ranking
4638
National Ranking
268

Overview

Catherine Lebel is affiliated with the University of Calgary in Canada and conducts research primarily in the field of Medicine. Their work spans several subfields, including Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Cognitive Neuroscience, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Clinical Psychology.

An important focus of Lebel's research is on maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum. Other main topics include advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications, functional brain connectivity studies, neonatal and fetal brain pathology, prenatal substance exposure effects, traumatic brain injury research, and child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development.

Frequent coauthors in Lebel's research include Gerald F. Giesbrecht, Lianne Tomfohr-Madsen, Xiangyu Long, Deborah Dewey, and Signe Bray.

Lebel's recent papers include:

  • Elevated depression and anxiety symptoms among pregnant individuals during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020), Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Depression and anxiety in pregnancy during COVID-19: A rapid review and meta-analysis (2021), Psychiatry Research
  • Fear of COVID-19, mental health, and pregnancy outcomes in the pregnancy during the COVID-19 pandemic study (2021), Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Calgary Preschool magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) dataset (2020), Data in Brief
  • Development of white matter microstructure and executive functions during childhood and adolescence: a review of diffusion MRI studies (2021), Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

Key publication venues where Lebel has published frequently include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Proceedings on CD-ROM - International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Scientific Meeting and Exhibition, Journal of Affective Disorders, and Biological Psychiatry.

Best Publications

  • Microstructural maturation of the human brain from childhood to adulthood.

    Catherine Lebel;Lindsay Walker;Alexander Leemans;Linda Phillips

  • Longitudinal Development of Human Brain Wiring Continues from Childhood into Adulthood

    Catherine Lebel;Christian Beaulieu

  • Mapping Anatomical Connectivity Patterns of Human Cerebral Cortex Using In Vivo Diffusion Tensor Imaging Tractography

    Gaolang Gong;Yong He;Luis Concha;Catherine Lebel

  • Diffusion tensor imaging of white matter tract evolution over the lifespan

    Catherine Lebel;M. Gee;Richard Camicioli;M. Wieler

  • Elevated depression and anxiety symptoms among pregnant individuals during the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Catherine Lebel;Catherine Lebel;Anna MacKinnon;Mercedes Bagshawe;Lianne Tomfohr-Madsen

  • The development of brain white matter microstructure.

    Catherine Lebel;Catherine Lebel;Sean C. L. Deoni

  • A review of diffusion MRI of typical white matter development from early childhood to young adulthood.

    Catherine Lebel;Sarah Treit;Christian Beaulieu

  • Lateralization of the arcuate fasciculus from childhood to adulthood and its relation to cognitive abilities in children.

    Catherine Lebel;Christian Beaulieu

  • Imaging the Impact of Prenatal Alcohol Exposure on the Structure of the Developing Human Brain

    Catherine Lebel;Florence F. Roussotte;Elizabeth R. Sowell

  • Along-tract statistics allow for enhanced tractography analysis

    John B. Colby;Lindsay Soderberg;Catherine Lebel;Catherine Lebel;Ivo D. Dinov

  • Brain diffusion abnormalities in children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder.

    Catherine Lebel;Carmen Rasmussen;Katy Wyper;Lindsay Walker

  • Prepartum and Postpartum Maternal Depressive Symptoms Are Related to Children's Brain Structure in Preschool.

    Catherine Lebel;Catherine Lebel;Matthew Walton;Matthew Walton;Nicole Letourneau;Nicole Letourneau;Gerald F. Giesbrecht;Gerald F. Giesbrecht

  • Age-related regional variations of the corpus callosum identified by diffusion tensor tractography.

    Catherine Lebel;Saul Caverhill-Godkewitsch;Christian Beaulieu

  • Depression and anxiety in pregnancy during COVID-19: A rapid review and meta-analysis.

    Lianne M. Tomfohr-Madsen;Lianne M. Tomfohr-Madsen;Nicole Racine;Gerald F Giesbrecht;Catherine Lebel

  • A Longitudinal Study of the Long-Term Consequences of Drinking during Pregnancy: Heavy In Utero Alcohol Exposure Disrupts the Normal Processes of Brain Development

    Catherine Lebel;Sarah N. Mattson;Edward P. Riley;Kenneth L. Jones

  • Longitudinal MRI Reveals Altered Trajectory of Brain Development during Childhood and Adolescence in Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders

    Sarah Treit;Catherine Lebel;Lauren Baugh;Carmen Rasmussen

  • Extensive Deep Gray Matter Volume Reductions in Children and Adolescents with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders

    Alexa Nardelli;Catherine Lebel;Carmen Rasmussen;Gail Andrew

  • Tractography dissection variability: What happens when 42 groups dissect 14 white matter bundles on the same dataset?

    Kurt G. Schilling;François Rheault;Laurent Petit;Colin B. Hansen

  • Diffusion MRI of white matter microstructure development in childhood and adolescence: Methods, challenges and progress

    Christian K. Tamnes;David R. Roalf;Anne-Lise Goddings;Catherine Lebel

  • Common White Matter Microstructure Alterations in Pediatric Motor and Attention Disorders

    Lisa Marie Langevin;Frank P. MacMaster;Susan Crawford;Catherine Lebel

Frequent Co-Authors

Deborah Dewey
Deborah Dewey University of Calgary
Gerald F. Giesbrecht
Gerald F. Giesbrecht University of Calgary
JianLi Wang
JianLi Wang University of Calgary
Keith Owen Yeates
Keith Owen Yeates University of Calgary
Elizabeth R. Sowell
Elizabeth R. Sowell University of Southern California
Nicole Letourneau
Nicole Letourneau University of Calgary
Bradley G. Goodyear
Bradley G. Goodyear University of Calgary
Adam Kirton
Adam Kirton University of Calgary
Bradley J. MacIntosh
Bradley J. MacIntosh Sunnybrook Health Science Centre
Miriam H. Beauchamp
Miriam H. Beauchamp University of Montreal

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