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Hannah C. Kinney is affiliated with Boston Children's Hospital in the United States and conducts research primarily in the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience. Their work spans several subfields including Endocrine and Autonomic Systems, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Cognitive Neuroscience, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, as well as Social Psychology.

The scientist's research topics focus heavily on the neuroscience of respiration and sleep, with significant attention to advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications. Additional areas of study include neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, functional brain connectivity studies, smoking behavior and cessation, prenatal substance exposure effects, and nicotinic acetylcholine receptors study.

Hannah C. Kinney has authored numerous papers, with recent notable publications including:

  • Concurrent prenatal drinking and smoking increases risk for SIDS: Safe Passage Study report, 2020, EClinicalMedicine
  • Association of Prenatal Exposure to Maternal Drinking and Smoking With the Risk of Stillbirth, 2021, JAMA Network Open
  • Multimodal MRI reveals brainstem connections that sustain wakefulness in human consciousness, 2024, Science Translational Medicine
  • Only Halfway There with Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, 2022, New England Journal of Medicine
  • Altered 5-HT2A/C receptor binding in the medulla oblongata in the sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS): Part I. Tissue-based evidence for serotonin receptor signaling abnormalities in cardiorespiratory- and arousal-related circuits, 2023, Journal of Neuropathology & Experimental Neurology

The most frequent publication venues for this scientist include:

  • Journal of Neuropathology & Experimental Neurology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Pediatric Research
  • EClinicalMedicine
  • Science Translational Medicine

Collaborations are a significant part of their research, with frequent coauthors being:

  • Robin L. Haynes
  • Brian L. Edlow
  • Rebecca D. Folkerth
  • Mark Olchanyi
  • Jian Li

Best Publications

  • Sequence of central nervous system myelination in human infancy. II. Patterns of myelination in autopsied infants.

    Hannah C. Kinney;Betty Ann Brody;Betty Ann Brody;Alexander S. Kloman;Alexander S. Kloman;Floyd H. Gilles;Floyd H. Gilles

  • Late Oligodendrocyte Progenitors Coincide with the Developmental Window of Vulnerability for Human Perinatal White Matter Injury

    Stephen A. Back;Ning Ling Luo;Natalya S. Borenstein;Joel M. Levine

  • Sequence of central nervous system myelination in human infancy. I. An autopsy study of myelination.

    Betty Ann Brody;Hannah C. Kinney;Alexander S. Kloman;Floyd H. Gilles

  • A Perspective on Neuropathologic Findings in Victims of the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome: The Triple-Risk Model

    James J. Filiano;Hannah C. Kinney

  • The Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

    Hannah C. Kinney;Bradley T. Thach

  • Multiple Serotonergic Brainstem Abnormalities in Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

    David S. Paterson;Felicia L. Trachtenberg;Eric G. Thompson;Richard A. Belliveau

  • Nitrosative and oxidative injury to premyelinating oligodendrocytes in periventricular leukomalacia.

    Robin L. Haynes;Rebecca D. Folkerth;Rachael J. Keefe;Iyue Sung

  • The near-term (late preterm) human brain and risk for periventricular leukomalacia: a review.

    Hannah C. Kinney

  • Neuroanatomic connectivity of the human ascending arousal system critical to consciousness and its disorders

    Brian L. Edlow;Emi Takahashi;Emi Takahashi;Ona Wu;Thomas Benner

  • The developing oligodendrocyte: key cellular target in brain injury in the premature infant

    Joseph J. Volpe;Hannah C. Kinney;Frances E. Jensen;Paul A. Rosenberg

  • Decreased muscarinic receptor binding in the arcuate nucleus in sudden infant death syndrome

    HC Kinney;JJ Filiano;LA Sleeper;F Mandell

  • The Human Connectome Project and Beyond: Initial Applications of 300 mT/m Gradients

    Jennifer A. McNab;Brian L. Edlow;Thomas Witzel;Susie Yi Huang

  • The brainstem and serotonin in the sudden infant death syndrome.

    Hannah C. Kinney;George B. Richerson;Susan M. Dymecki;Robert A. Darnall

  • Gray matter injury associated with periventricular leukomalacia in the premature infant

    Christopher R. Pierson;Rebecca Dunn Folkerth;Rebecca Dunn Folkerth;Rebecca Dunn Folkerth;Saraid S. Billiards;Saraid S. Billiards;Felicia L. Trachtenberg

  • Brainstem serotonergic deficiency in sudden infant death syndrome.

    Jhodie R. Duncan;David S. Paterson;Jill M. Hoffman;David J. Mokler

  • Medullary serotonergic network deficiency in the sudden infant death syndrome: review of a 15-year study of a single dataset.

    Hannah C. Kinney;James J. Filiano;W. F. White

  • Decreased serotonergic receptor binding in rhombic lip-derived regions of the medulla oblongata in the sudden infant death syndrome.

    Panigrahy A;Filiano J;Sleeper La;Mandell F

  • Myelin abnormalities without oligodendrocyte loss in periventricular leukomalacia.

    Saraid S. Billiards;Robin L. Haynes;Rebecca D. Folkerth;Natalia S. Borenstein

  • Neuropathological findings in the brain of Karen Ann Quinlan. The role of the thalamus in the persistent vegetative state.

    Hannah C. Kinney;Julius Korein;Ashok Panigrahy;Pieter Dikkes

  • Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

    Hannah C. Kinney;Hannah C. Kinney;Marco M. Hefti;Richard D. Goldstein;Richard D. Goldstein;Robin L. Haynes

Frequent Co-Authors

Joseph J. Volpe
Joseph J. Volpe Harvard University
Lynn A. Sleeper
Lynn A. Sleeper Boston Children's Hospital
Eugene E. Nattie
Eugene E. Nattie Dartmouth College
Ingrid A. Holm
Ingrid A. Holm Boston Children's Hospital
Paul A. Rosenberg
Paul A. Rosenberg Boston Children's Hospital
Michael M. Myers
Michael M. Myers Columbia University
Kathryn G. Commons
Kathryn G. Commons Boston Children's Hospital
Brian L. Edlow
Brian L. Edlow Harvard University
Peter C. Burger
Peter C. Burger Johns Hopkins University
George B. Richerson
George B. Richerson University of Iowa

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