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Gerry Giesbrecht, PhD, Receives Canadian Institutes of Health Research and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Grants

April 21, 2016 by IISBR

IISBR faculty affiliate Dr. Gerry Giesbrecht recently leveraged his in-depth expertise and research experience to obtain two major Canadian health grants, facilitating research on nutrition and fetal programming and infant sleep-training strategies.

The largest study utilizes previous salivary bioscience data and aims to, for the first time in humans, determine whether prenatal maternal choline and LCPUFAs moderate the effects of stress in pregnant women and their children by determining whether in utero cortisol exposures are reduced by increasing choline intake and LCPUFA status, and whether these nutrients also reduce the effects of prenatal stress on children’s HPA axis and neurocognitive ability. This research will contribute new insight regarding the role of nutrients as risk and resilience factors for children prenatally exposed to stress and guide intervention studies designed to reduce the impact of prenatal stress on child development.

A second, smaller study will be the first study to directly assess claims of long-term benefits and harms associated with the cry-it-out method. This research will have direct relevance to parents and parent educators and will provide critical evidence to help them determine the most appropriate strategies to dealing with infant sleep problems.

Congratulations Dr. Giesbrecht on this achievement!

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Recent Publications

  • Kimonis, E. R., et al. (2018). Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) and its ratio to cortisol moderate associations between maltreatment and psychopathology in male juvenile offenders. Psychoneuroendocrinology.
  • Gatzke-Kopp, L. M., et al. (2018). Magnitude and Chronicity of Environmental Smoke Exposure Across Infancy and Early Childhood in a Sample of Low-Income Children. Nicotine Tob Res.
  • Pisanic, N., et al. (2018). Minimally Invasive Saliva Testing to Monitor Norovirus Infection in Community Settings. J Infect Dis.
  • Affifi, T. D., et al. (2018). Testing the theory of resilience and relational load (TRRL) in families with type I diabetes. Health Commun.
  • Wheelock, M.D., et al. (2018). Psychosocial stress reactivity is associated with decreased whole brain network efficiency and increased amygdala centrality. Behav Neurosci.
  • Kornienko, O., et al. (2018). Associations Between Secretory Immunoglobulin A and Social Network Structure. Int J Behav Med.
  • Kuhlman, K. R., et al. (2018). Interparental conflict and child HPA-axis responses to acute stress: Insights using intensive repeated measures. J Fam Psychol.
  • Kuhlman, K. R., et al. (2018). HPA-Axis Activation as a Key Moderator of Childhood Trauma Exposure and Adolescent Mental Health. Journal of abnormal child psychology.
  • Corey-Bloom, J., et al. (2018). Salivary levels of total huntingtin are elevated in Huntington’s disease patients. Sci Rep.
  • Martinez, A. D., et al. (2018). Household fear of deportation in Mexican-origin families: Relation to body mass index percentiles and salivary uric acid. Am J Hum Biol.
  • Lucas, T., et al. (2018). Justice for all? Beliefs about justice for self and others and telomere length in African Americans. Cultur Divers Ethnic Minor Psychol.
  • Woerner, J., et al. (2018). Salivary uric acid: Associations with resting and reactive blood pressure response to social evaluative stress in healthy African Americans. Psychoneuroendocrinology.
  • Riis J.L., et al. (2018). The validity, stability, and utility of measuring uric acid in saliva. Biomark Med.

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