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Sharon Landesman Ramey

Sharon Landesman Ramey

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
59
Citations
14432
World Ranking
1557
National Ranking
746

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2010 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Sharon Landesman Ramey is affiliated with Virginia Tech in the United States and has a substantial body of research primarily situated within the fields of Medicine and Psychology. Their work includes significant contributions in Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Rehabilitation.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of areas including Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders, Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum, Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Early Childhood Education and Development, Child Abuse and Trauma, and Family and Disability Support Research.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with them include Madeleine U. Shalowitz, Christine Dunkel Schetter, Nicole E. Mahrer, Christine M. Guardino, and Gabrielle R. Rinne.

Sharon Landesman Ramey has published extensively in several key venues, notably Psychoneuroendocrinology, Medical Research Archives, PEDIATRICS, Development and Psychopathology, and Developmental Psychobiology.

Some of their recent papers include:

  • Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy for Cerebral Palsy: A Randomized Trial (2021) in PEDIATRICS
  • Prenatal maternal stress prospectively relates to shorter child buccal cell telomere length (2020) in Psychoneuroendocrinology
  • Maternal depressive symptom trajectories from preconception through postpartum: Associations with offspring developmental outcomes in early childhood (2022) in Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Randomized Manipulation of Early Cognitive Experience Impacts Adult Brain Structure (2021) in Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
  • National Institutes of Health StrokeNet During the Time of COVID-19 and Beyond (2020) in Stroke

Their research often intersects developmental and clinical concerns affecting children and families, with a focus on rehabilitation and mental health outcomes.

Sharon Landesman Ramey has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) since 2010 and was named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2019.

Best Publications

  • The Science of Prevention: A Conceptual Framework and Some Directions for a National Research Program

    John D. Coie;Norman F. Watt;Stephen G. West;J. David Hawkins

  • Early intervention and early experience.

    Craig T. Ramey;Sharon Landesman Ramey

  • Early Learning and School Readiness: Can Early Intervention Make a Difference?

    Craig T. Ramey;Sharon L. Ramey

  • Efficacy of Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy for Children With Cerebral Palsy With Asymmetric Motor Impairment

    Edward Taub;Sharon Landesman Ramey;Sharon Landesman Ramey;Stephanie DeLuca;Karen Echols

  • Persistent Effects of Early Childhood Education on High-Risk Children and Their Mothers

    Craig T. Ramey;Frances A. Campbell;Margaret Burchinal;Martie L. Skinner

  • Cord serum ferritin concentrations and mental and psychomotor development of children at five years of age.

    Tsunenobu Tamura;Robert L. Goldenberg;Jinrong Hou;Kelley E. Johnston

  • Prevention of intellectual disabilities: early interventions to improve cognitive development.

    Craig T. Ramey;Sharon Landesman Ramey

  • Postpartum weight retention risk factors and relationship to obesity at 1 year.

    Loraine K. Endres;Heather Straub;Chelsea McKinney;Beth Plunkett

  • Power Calculations for General Linear Multivariate Models Including Repeated Measures Applications

    Keith E. Muller;Lisa M. Lavange;Sharon Landesman Ramey;Craig T. Ramey

  • Intensive Pediatric Constraint-Induced Therapy for Children With Cerebral Palsy: Randomized, Controlled, Crossover Trial

    Stephanie C. Deluca;Karen Echols;Charles R. Law;Sharon L. Ramey

  • The Relationship between Social Support and Life Satisfaction as a Function of Family Structure.

    Choi K. Wan;James Jaccard;Sharon L. Ramey

  • Early educational intervention with disadvantaged children—To what effect?*

    Sharon Landesman Ramey;Craig T. Ramey

  • Parenting and the Child's World : Influences on Academic, Intellectual, and Social-emotional Development

    John G. Borkowski;Sharon Landesman Ramey;Marie Bristol-Power

  • The prevention of intellectual impairment in children of impoverished families: findings of a randomized trial of educational day care.

    S L Martin;C T Ramey;S Ramey

  • Interactions Between Child Behavior Patterns and Parenting: Implications for Children's Unintentional Injury Risk

    David C. Schwebel;Carl M. Brezausek;Sharon L. Ramey;Craig T. Ramey

  • Racial and Ethnic Differences in Breastfeeding.

    Chelsea O. McKinney;Jennifer Hahn-Holbrook;P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale;Sharon L. Ramey

  • Pediatric Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy for a Young Child With Cerebral Palsy: Two Episodes of Care

    Stephanie C DeLuca;Karen Echols;Sharon Landesman Ramey;Edward Taub

  • A randomized trial of augmented prenatal care for multiple-risk, Medicaid-eligible African American women.

    Lorraine V. Klerman;Sharon L. Ramey;Robert L. Goldenberg;Sherry Marbury

  • "My baby & me": Effects of an early, comprehensive parenting intervention on at-risk mothers and their children

    Cathy L. Guttentag;Susan H. Landry;Jeffrey M. Williams;Kathleen M. Baggett

  • Effective Early Intervention.

    Craig T. Ramey;Sharon Landesman Ramey

  • Parenting and the Child's World: Influences on Academic, Intellectual, and Social-Emotional Development. Monographs in Parenting.

    John G. Borkowski;Sharon Landesman Ramey;Marie Bristol-Power

Frequent Co-Authors

Craig T. Ramey
Craig T. Ramey Virginia Tech
Christine Dunkel Schetter
Christine Dunkel Schetter University of California, Los Angeles
Steven R. Forness
Steven R. Forness University of California, Los Angeles
John G. Borkowski
John G. Borkowski University of Notre Dame
Kenneth A. Kavale
Kenneth A. Kavale Regent University
Emma K. Adam
Emma K. Adam Northwestern University
P. Read Montague
P. Read Montague Virginia Tech
Margaret Burchinal
Margaret Burchinal University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Elysia Poggi Davis
Elysia Poggi Davis University of Denver
Bonnie T. Zima
Bonnie T. Zima University of California, Los Angeles

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