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D-Index
51
Citations
8078
World Ranking
5592
National Ranking
2477

Best Publications

  • Maternal stress responses and anxiety during pregnancy: effects on fetal heart rate.

    Catherine Monk;William P. Fifer;Michael M. Myers;Richard P. Sloan

  • Maternal behavior of SHR rats and its relationship to offspring blood pressures.

    Michael M. Myers;Susan A. Brunelli;Jonathan M. Squire;Richard D. Shindeldecker

  • Distorted Maternal Mental Representations and Atypical Behavior in a Clinical Sample of Violence-Exposed Mothers and Their Toddlers

    Daniel S. Schechter;Susan W. Coates;Tammy Kaminer;Tammy Coots

  • Components of heart rate reactivity during mental arithmetic with and without speaking

    R.P. Sloan;J.B. Korten;M.M. Myers

  • Fetal heart rate reactivity differs by women's psychiatric status: an early marker for developmental risk?

    Catherine Monk;Richard P. Sloan;Michael M. Myers;Lauren Ellman

  • Effects of Women's Stress-Elicited Physiological Activity and Chronic Anxiety on Fetal Heart Rate

    Catherine Monk;Michael M. Myers;Richard P. Sloan;Lauren M. Ellman

  • Pregnant women’s cortisol is elevated with anxiety and depression — but only when comorbid

    Lynn M. Evans;Michael M. Myers;Michael M. Myers;Catherine Monk;Catherine Monk;Catherine Monk

  • Associations among family socioeconomic status, EEG power at birth, and cognitive skills during infancy.

    Natalie H. Brito;William P. Fifer;Michael M. Myers;Amy J. Elliott

  • The safe passage study: design, methods, recruitment, and follow-up approach.

    Kimberly A. Dukes;Larry Burd;Amy J. Elliott;William P. Fifer;William P. Fifer

  • Heart period variability and psychopathology in urban boys at risk for delinquency

    Daniel S. Pine;Gail A. Wasserman;Laurie Miller;Jeremy D. Coplan

  • Hostility, gender, and cardiac autonomic control.

    Richard P. Sloan;Emilia Bagiella;Peter A. Shapiro;John P. Kuhl

  • Electroencephalographic activity of preterm infants is increased by Family Nurture Intervention: a randomized controlled trial in the NICU

    Martha G. Welch;Michael M. Myers;Philip G. Grieve;Joseph R. Isler

  • Family nurture intervention (FNI): methods and treatment protocol of a randomized controlled trial in the NICU.

    Martha G Welch;Myron A Hofer;Susan A Brunelli;Raymond I Stark

  • Prenatal nicotine-exposure alters fetal autonomic activity and medullary neurotransmitter receptors: implications for sudden infant death syndrome

    Jhodie Rubina Duncan;Marianne Garland;Michael M. Myers;William P. Fifer

  • An fMRI study of the brain responses of traumatized mothers to viewing their toddlers during separation and play

    Daniel S. Schechter;Dominik A. Moser;Zhishun Wang;Rachel Marsh

  • Pharmacologic responses and spectral analyses of spontaneous fluctuations in heart rate and blood pressure in SHR rats.

    Carol A. Murphy;Richard P. Sloan;Michael M. Myers

  • Family nurture intervention in preterm infants increases early development of cortical activity and independence of regional power trajectories

    Martha G. Welch;Raymond I. Stark;Philip G. Grieve;Robert J. Ludwig

  • Psychobiological dysregulation in violence-exposed mothers: salivary cortisol of mothers with very young children pre- and post-separation stress.

    Daniel S. Schechter;Charles H Zeanah;Michael M Myers;Susan A Brunelli

  • Fetal cerebrovascular resistance and neonatal EEG predict 18-month neurodevelopmental outcome in infants with congenital heart disease.

    Ismee A. Williams;Amanda R. Tarullo;Philip G. Grieve;Abigail Wilpers

  • Effects of alcohol and smoking during pregnancy on infant autonomic control

    William P. Fifer;Sherri Ten Fingers;Mitzi Youngman;Esperanza Gomez-Gribben

  • Response of the premature fetus to stimulation by speech sounds

    Etan Z. Zimmer;William P. Fifer;Young-Ihl Kim;Henry R. Rey

  • Deriving heart period variability from blood pressure waveforms.

    Paula S McKinley;Peter A Shapiro;Emilia Bagiella;Michael M Myers

  • Autonomic regulation of preterm infants is enhanced by Family Nurture Intervention

    Stephen W. Porges;Stephen W. Porges;Maria I. Davila;Gregory F. Lewis;Jacek Kolacz

  • BRAIN AND LIVER ANGIOTENSINOGEN MESSENGER RNA IN GENETIC HYPERTENSIVE AND NORMOTENSIVE RATS

    B G Yongue;J A Angulo;B S McEwen;M M Myers

  • Maturational changes in heart rate and heart rate variability in low birth weight infants.

    Rakesh Sahni;Karl F. Schulze;Sudha Kashyap;Kiyoko Ohira-Kist

  • Subtle autonomic and respiratory dysfunction in sudden infant death syndrome associated with serotonergic brainstem abnormalities: a case report.

    Hannah C Kinney;Michael M Myers;Richard A Belliveau;Leslie L Randall

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard P. Sloan
Richard P. Sloan Columbia University
Myron A. Hofer
Myron A. Hofer Columbia University
Charles H. Zeanah
Charles H. Zeanah Tulane University
Lisa M. Sullivan
Lisa M. Sullivan Boston University
Elizabeth Brondolo
Elizabeth Brondolo St. John's University
Holly Moore
Holly Moore Columbia University
Karen S. Quigley
Karen S. Quigley Northeastern University
Kimberly G. Noble
Kimberly G. Noble Columbia University
Aron Weller
Aron Weller Bar-Ilan University
Xuejun Hao
Xuejun Hao Columbia University

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