Read the Redbook's article on Dr. Hawes's Social Emotional Factors Increase Risk of Postpartum Depression in Mothers of Preterm Infants publication.

Dr. Amy Salisbury published an article on the American Journal of Psychiatry (Am J Psychiatry 173:2, February 2016) entitled "The Roles of Maternal Depression, Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor Treatment, and Concomitant Benzodiazepine Use on Infant Neurobehavioral Functioning Over the First Postnatal Month." The article was on the cover of the Journal and was accompanied by an editorial.

Read Dr. Lester's Q&A in The Boston Globe's weekly Ocean State Innovators column about using cry analysis with infants with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome.

Dr. Levine was mentioned in the story "After Other Options Fail, A Family Tries Medical Marijuana For Son With Autism" in the National Public Radio.

Please read Dr. Lester and his colleagues' recent publicantion, "Epigenetic Programming by Maternal Behavior in the Human Infant." They looked at more than 40 full-term, healthy infants and their mothers, one-half of whom breastfed for the first five months and one-half of whom did not. They measured the cortisol stress reactivity in infant saliva using a mother-infant interaction procedure and the DNA methylation (changing the activity of the DNA segment without changing its sequence) of an important regulatory region of the glucocorticoid receptor gene which regulates development, metabolism, and immune response. According to Dr. Lester, "Breastfeeding was associated with decreased DNA methylation and decreased cortisol reactivity in the infants. In other words, there was an epigenetic change in the babies who were breastfed, resulting in reduced stress than those who were not breastfed."

Dr. Lester and Dr. Czynski talk about a new program that focuses on the future of babies born with opioid dependence on WPRI 12.

Please read the New York Times Magazine cover story for Mother's Day by Pulitzer Prize winning author Jennifer Egan on "Children of the Opioid Epidemic."

The Center has been awarded $4.9 million grant as part of a national 7 year project, ECHO being conducted by the NIH. Please click on the link for the NIH announcement with the details

Dr. Barry Lester was interviewed by Daniel Keating of the Child and Family Blog and featured in their blog. The interview discussed how parenthood policies could prevent early stress from causing epigenetic changes in children.

Dr. Amy Salisbury was interviewed by Psychiatry Weekly on her study, "Newborn Infant Behaviors Following In Utero Exposure to SSRIs and Maternal Depression."

Please read our recent publication, where we found that the single greatest contributor to long-term neurobehavioral development in preterm infants is maternal involvement— and that a single-family room NICU allows for the greatest and most immediate opportunities for maternal involvement resulting in improvements in neurodevelopmental outcomes at 18 months

The Care New England's Psychiatry Research Division at Butler Hospital and its Autism Research Unit at Women and Infants Hospital have joined forces with the state's leading neuroscience research institutions to significantly advance the understanding and treatment of such brain-centered disorders and diseases as autism, epilepsy, stroke, Alzheimer's disease and traumatic brain injury. To read more about this promising collaboration, click on the PDF