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Rebecca C. Knickmeyer is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Their research spans primarily the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with significant contributions to various subfields including Molecular Biology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Genetics, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging.

Their scientific inquiries often revolve around topics related to gut microbiota and health, birth, development and health, genetic and clinical aspects of sex determination and chromosomal abnormalities, stress responses and cortisol, maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum, diet and metabolism studies, and sexual differentiation and disorders.

Frequent publication venues for Knickmeyer include UNC Libraries, with 25 publications, Biological Psychiatry with six papers, Cerebral Cortex with four papers, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with three papers, and Psychoneuroendocrinology with two papers.

They have collaborated frequently with several co-authors, among them John H. Gilmore and Martin Styner, with 28 and 27 joint publications respectively. Other notable collaborators include Kai Xia with 10 joint works, M. Andrea Azcárate-Peril with 8, and Ann Mary Alex with 8 publications.

Selected recent papers authored by Knickmeyer include the following:

  • Clinical practice guidelines for the care of girls and women with Turner syndrome, 2024, European Journal of Endocrinology
  • Infant gut microbiome composition is associated with non-social fear behavior in a pilot study, 2021, Nature Communications
  • A global multicohort study to map subcortical brain development and cognition in infancy and early childhood, 2023, Nature Neuroscience
  • A preliminary study of gut microbiome variation and HPA axis reactivity in healthy infants, 2020, Psychoneuroendocrinology
  • Placental genomic risk scores and early neurodevelopmental outcomes, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Best Publications

  • Sex differences in the brain : Implications for explaining autism

    Simon Baron-Cohen;Rebecca C. Knickmeyer;Matthew K. Belmonte

  • A Structural MRI Study of Human Brain Development from Birth to 2 Years

    Rebecca C. Knickmeyer;Sylvain Gouttard;Chaeryon Kang;Dianne Evans

  • 2nd to 4th digit ratios, fetal testosterone and estradiol.

    S. Lutchmaya;S. Baron-Cohen;P. Raggatt;R. Knickmeyer

  • Imaging structural and functional brain development in early childhood

    John H. Gilmore;Rebecca C. Knickmeyer;Wei Gao

  • Why Are Autism Spectrum Conditions More Prevalent in Males

    Simon Baron-Cohen;Michael Lombardo;Bonnie Auyeung;Emma Ashwin

  • The Autism-Spectrum Quotient (AQ)—Adolescent Version

    Simon Baron-Cohen;Rosa A. Hoekstra;Rebecca Knickmeyer;Sally Wheelwright

  • ENIGMA and global neuroscience: A decade of large-scale studies of the brain in health and disease across more than 40 countries

    Paul M Thompson;Neda Jahanshad;Christopher R K Ching;Lauren E Salminen

  • Fetal testosterone and autistic traits

    Bonnie Auyeung;Simon Baron-Cohen;Emma Ashwin;Rebecca Knickmeyer;Rebecca Knickmeyer

  • Infant gut microbiome associated with cognitive Development

    Alexander L. Carlson;Kai Xia;M. Andrea Azcarate-Peril;Barbara D. Goldman

  • Regional Gray Matter Growth, Sexual Dimorphism, and Cerebral Asymmetry in the Neonatal Brain

    John H. Gilmore;Weili Lin;Marcel W. Prastawa;Christopher B. Looney

  • Fetal testosterone and empathy: Evidence from the Empathy Quotient (EQ) and the “Reading the Mind in the Eyes” Test

    Emma Chapman;Simon Baron-Cohen;Bonnie Auyeung;Rebecca Knickmeyer

  • Longitudinal Development of Cortical and Subcortical Gray Matter from Birth to 2 Years

    John H. Gilmore;Feng Shi;Sandra L. Woolson;Rebecca C. Knickmeyer

  • Fetal Testosterone Predicts Sexually Differentiated Childhood Behavior in Girls and in Boys

    Bonnie Auyeung;Simon Baron-Cohen;Emma Ashwin;Rebecca Knickmeyer;Rebecca Knickmeyer

  • ENIGMA and Global Neuroscience: A Decade of Large-Scale Studies of the Brain in Health and Disease Across More Than 40 Countries

    Paul Thompson

  • Foetal testosterone, social relationships, and restricted interests in children.

    Rebecca Knickmeyer;Simon Baron-Cohen;Peter Raggatt;Kevin Taylor

  • Elevated rates of testosterone-related disorders in women with autism spectrum conditions.

    Erin Ingudomnukul;Simon Baron-Cohen;Sally Wheelwright;Rebecca Knickmeyer;Rebecca Knickmeyer

  • Fetal testosterone and sex differences in typical social development and in autism

    Rebecca Christine Knickmeyer;Simon Baron-Cohen

  • Fetal testosterone and empathy.

    Rebecca Knickmeyer;Simon Baron-Cohen;Peter Raggatt;Kevin Taylor

  • Androgens and autistic traits: A study of individuals with congenital adrenal hyperplasia.

    Rebecca Knickmeyer;Simon Baron-Cohen;Briony A. Fane;Sally Wheelwright

  • Maternal Influenza Infection During Pregnancy Impacts Postnatal Brain Development in the Rhesus Monkey

    Sarah J. Short;Gabriele R. Lubach;Alexander I. Karasin;Christopher W. Olsen

  • Prenatal Testosterone in Mind: Amniotic Fluid Studies

    Simon Baron-Cohen;Svetlana Lutchmaya;Rebecca Knickmeyer

Frequent Co-Authors

Simon Baron-Cohen
Simon Baron-Cohen University of Cambridge
Bonnie Auyeung
Bonnie Auyeung University of Edinburgh
Wei Gao
Wei Gao Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Sally Wheelwright
Sally Wheelwright University of Sussex
Bhismadev Chakrabarti
Bhismadev Chakrabarti University of Reading
Stephen R. Hooper
Stephen R. Hooper University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
David E. Sandberg
David E. Sandberg University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Patrick F. Sullivan
Patrick F. Sullivan University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Michael V. Lombardo
Michael V. Lombardo Italian Institute of Technology

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