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  • Gustafsson, H.C., Kohn, B. H., Graham, A.M., Thomason, M.E., & Sullivan, E.L. (In-Preparation). Exploring the positive impact of pandemic restrictions on infant care and infant outcomes.

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  • Hendrix, C. & Thomason, M. (In-Revision). Protocol recommendations from 54 infant and toddler neuroimaging research labs. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. Pre-print

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  • Hendrix., C., Werchan, D., Lenniger, C., Austin, A., … Brito, N., & Thomason, M. (Submitted). COVID-19 impacts on perinatal care and maternal mental health: A geotemporal analysis of healthcare disruptions and emotional well-being across the United States. Pre-print

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  • Kjos, N., Hendrix, C., & Thomason, M.E. (In-Preparation). COVID-19 Illness Experience and Intent to Vaccinate: Patient Attitudes pre-Widespread Availability of mRNA Vaccines in New York City.

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  • Kohlasch, K.L., Manikkan, R., & Thomason, M.E. (In-Preparation). Associations between Parental Role Strain and Infant Outcomes During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

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  • Srinivasan, H., Hendrix., C.L., Thomason, M.E. (In-Preparation). Associations between Prenatal Maternal Stress, Fetal Hippocampal Functional Connectivity and Toddler Executive Functioning.

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  • Thomason, M.E., Austin, A., Trentacosta, C.J., Burt, S.A., Hendrix, C.L. (In-Preparation). Amygdala network connectivity in utero and child autism traits: A longitudinal study of neurotypical children. 

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  • Thomason, M., Hendrix, C., Werchan, D., & Brito, N. (Submitted). Social determinants of health exacerbate disparities in COVID-19 illness severity and lasting symptom complaints. Pre-print

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  • Thomason, M., Werchan, D., & Hendrix, C. (2022). COVID-19 patient accounts of illness severity, treatments and lasting symptoms. Scientific Data, 9(1): 1-7. PDF

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  • Werchan, D., Hendrix, C., Ablow, J., Amstadter, A. Austin, A., … Thomason, M., & Brito, N. (Accepted). Behavioral coping phenotypes associated with risk and resilience to adverse outcomes in a national U.S. sample of pregnant and postpartum women during the COVID-19 pandemic. Scientific Reports. Pre-print

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  • Werchan, D., Hendrix, C., Hume, A., Thomason, M., & Brito, N. (Submitted) OWLET – A new online webcam-linked eye tracker 2: Applications for evaluating maternal COVID-19 infection & psychosocial distress on infant attention. 

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  • Werchan, D.M., Thomason, M.E., & Brito, N.H. (In-Preparation). Expanding the Ecological Validity and Accessibility of Developmental Science using OWLET – a new Online Webcam-Linked Eye Tracker for Remote Infant Studies.

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  • Zhou, J., Havens, K., Stames, C., Pickering, T., Brito, N., Hendrix, C., Thomason, M., Vatalaro, T., Smith, B. (2021). Changes in Social Support of Pregnant and Postnatal Mothers during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Midwifery, DOI 10.1016/j.midw.2021.103162. PDF

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  • Thomason, M.E. (2020) Development of Brain Networks in Utero: Relevance for Common Neural Disorders. Biological Psychiatry. 88(1):40-50. PDF

 

  • Turk, E., van den Heuvel, M.I., Benders, M.J., de Heus, R., Franx, A., Manning, J.H., Hect, J.L., Hernandez- Andrade, E., Hassan, S.S., Romero, R., Kahn, R.S., Thomason, M.E. *, van den Heuvel, M.P.* (2019). Functional connectome of the fetal brain. Journal of Neuroscience. 39(49):9716-9724. *shared last author PDF
     

  • van de Ven, M.C. J.*, van den Heuvel, M.I., Bhogal, A., Lewis, T., Thomason, M.E. (2019). Impact of maternal childhood trauma on child behavioral problems: The role of child frontal alpha asymmetry. Developmental Psychobiology. PDF
     

  • Boeve, J.L., Beeghly, M., Stacks, A.M, Manning, J.H., Thomason, M.E. (2019) Using the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model to Assess Maternal and Infant Contributions to Mother-Infant Affective Exchanges during the Still-Face Paradigm. Infant Behavior and Development. 57:101351. PDF
     

  • Thomason, M.E., Hect, J.L., Rauh, V.A., Trentacosta, C., Wheelock, M.D., Eggebrecht, A.T., Espinoza-Heredia, C., Burt, S.A. (2019) Prenatal lead exposure impacts cross-hemispheric and long-range connectivity in the human fetal brain. Neuroimage. 191:186-192. PDF
     

  • Wheelock, M.D., Hect, J.L. ,Hernandez-Andrade, E., Hassan, S.S., Romero, R., Eggebrecht, A.T., Thomason, M.E. (2019) Sex differences in functional connectivity during fetal brain development. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. PDF
     

  • Thomason, M.E., Hect, J., Waller, R., Manning, J.H., Stacks, A.M., Beeghly, M., Boeve, J.L., Wong, K., vanden Heuvel, M.I., Hernandez-Andrade E., Hassan S.S., Romero R. (2018) Prenatal neural origins of infant motor development: Associations between fetal brain and infant motor development. Developmental Psychopathology. 30(3):763-772.
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  • Hect, J., Daugherty, A.M., Hermez, K.M., Marusak, H.A., Thomason, M.E. (2018) Developmental variation in regional brain iron and its relation to cognitive functions in childhood. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience.
     

  • vanden Heuvel, M.I.,Turk, E., Manning, J.H., Hect, J., Hernandez-Andrade, E., Hassan, S.S., Romero,R., vanden Heuvel, M.P., Thomason, M.E. (2018). Hubs in the fetal brain network. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience.
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  • Thomason, M.E. (2018)Structured spontaneity: building circuits in the human prenatal brain. Trends in Neuroscience. 41(1): 1-3.
     

  • Marusak, H.A., Hatfield, J.R.B. ,Thomason, M.E., Rabinak,C.A. (2017). Reduced VTA-hippocampal connectivity in children and adolescents exposed to trauma. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging. 2(2): 130-137.
     

  • Thomason, M.E., Scheinost, D., Manning, J.H., Grove, L.E., Hect, J., Marshall, N., Hernandez-Andrade, E., Berman, S., Pappas, A., Yeo, L., Hassan, S.S., Constable, R.T., Ment, L.R., Romero, R. (2017) Weak functional connectivity in the human fetal brain prior to preterm birth. Scientific Reports. 7: 39286.
     

  • Marusak, H.A., Thomason, M.E., Sala-Hamrick, K.A., Crespo, L., Rabinak, C.A. (2017) What’s parenting got to do with it: Emotional autonomy and brain and behavioral responses to emotional conflict in children and adolescents. Developmental Science.
     

  • Thomason, M.E., Marusak, H.A., (2017) Toward understanding the impact of trauma on the early developing brain. Neuroscience. 342: 55-67.
     

  • vanden Heuvel, M.I. and Thomason, M.E. (2016) Functional Connectivity of the Human Brain in Utero.Trendsin Cognitive Science. 20(12): 931-939.
     

  • Marusak, H.A., Zundel, C., Brown, S., Rabinak, C.A., Thomason, M.E. (2016) Is neutral really neutral? Convergent behavioral and corticolimbic connectivity evidence of a negativity bias in children and adolescents. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.
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  • Marusak, H.A., Calhoun, V.D., Brown, S., Crespo, L.M., Sala-Hamrick, K., Gotlib, I.H., Thomason, M.E. (2016) Dynamic Functional Connectivity of Neurocognitive Networks in Children. Human Brain Mapping. 38(1): 97-108.
     

  • Marusak, H.A., Kuruvadi, N., Vila, A.M., Shattuck, D.W., Joshi, S., Joshi, A.A., Jella, P.K., Thomason, M.E. (2015) BDNF Val66Met Genotype Modulates the Effect of Trauma on Brain Anatomical Development in Childhood. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. 25(5): 509-518.
     

  • Thomason, M.E., Grove, L.E., Lozon, T.A. Jr., Vila, A.V., Ye, Y., Nye, M.J., Manning, J.H., Pappas, A., Hernandez-Andrade, E., Yeo, L., Mody, S., Berman, S., Hassan, S.S., Romero, R. (2014) Age-related Increases in 16 long-range connectivity in fetal functional neural connectivity networks in utero. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 11: 96-104.
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  • Thomason, M.E., Brown, J.A., Dassanayake, M.T., Shastri, R., Marusak, H.A., Hernandez-Andrade, E., Yeo, L., Mody, S., Berman, S., Hassan, S.S., & Romero, R. (2014) Intrinsic functional brain architecture derived from graph theoretical analysis in the human fetus. PLOSONE. 9(5). 11
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  • Seshamani, S., Cheng, X., Fogtmann, M., Thomason, M.E., & Studholme, C.A. (2014) Method for handling intensity in homogenieties in fMRI sequences of moving anatomy of the early developing brain. Medical Image Analysis.18(2):285-300.
     

  • Neelavalli, J., Mody, S., Yeo, L., Korzenieski, S.J., Saleem, S., Katkuri, Y., Jella, P.K., Bahado-Singh, R.O, Hassan, S.S., Haacke, E.M., Romero, R., Thomason, M.E. (2014) MR venography of the fetal brain using susceptibility weighted imaging. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging. 40(4): 949-957.
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  • Anderson, A.L., &  Thomason, M.E. (2013) Functional plasticity before the cradle: Are view of neural functional imaging in the human fetus. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 37(9): 2220-2232.
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  • Thomason, M.E., Dassanayake, M.T., Shen, S., Katkuri, Y., Alexis, M., Anderson, A.L., Yeo, L., Mody, S., Hernandez-Andrade, E., Hassan, S.S., Studholme, C., Jeong, J.W., & Romero, R. (2013) Cross-hemispheric functional connectivity in the human fetal brain. Science Translational Medicine. 5(173):17324. (Article figure featured on cover.)

A complete list of published work is available HERE

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