The Developmental Psychobiology Lab’s (DPB lab) research focuses on early life influences on development. During pregnancy and the early postnatal years, environmental factors are more likely to exert programming, or long-term, effects on the child’s development. Our lab’s research includes three lines: first, influences of prenatal maternal mental wellbeing on children’s health and behavioural development; second, development of the physiological stress system in children, and its relation to behavioural and emotional regulation and physical health. And third, the development of the intestinal microbiota and its relation to children’s health, behavioural and emotion regulation, and physiological stress system.
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- The positive impact of skin-to-skin contact between mothers and full-term babiesOur recent SKIPPY study sheds light on the positive impact of skin-to-skin contact between mothers and full-term babies. We found that daily skin-to-skin contact for five weeks after birth led to significant benefits for both mothers and babies. For…
- Two PhD positions available!We are currently looking for two PhD candidates. Please find more information on the Opportunies page or via the following links: PhD candidate ‘Nightly dance – Dynamics of mother, father, and baby night interactions and sleep’Deadline for applications: 3…
- Goodbye to Maddalena and LuciaA bittersweet coffee and cake at the end of our workday: Maddalena and Lucia, our Italian colleagues that visited us for 6 months are returning to Italy. We enjoyed having them in our lab and will miss them!
- Jacobs Foundation fellows meeting in Barranquilla, Colombia19-22 March 2024 Barranquilla was the setting of a worldwide get together of the first nine cohorts of Jacobs Foundation research fellows. The latest chosen cohort shared their research with all the other fellows and Carolina (cohort 2017-2019) was…
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