The focus of Dr. Grunau’s interdisciplinary research program is biobehavioural reactivity and infant neurodevelopment, broadly encompassing multiple aspects of infant arousal, self-regulation, attention and cognition in preterm and term born infants, including pain responses.

Publications

• Focused attention, heart rate deceleration, and cognitive development in preterm and full-term infants

  • 2012 Developmental Psychobiology
  • Petrie-Thomas J. , Whitfield M. F. , Oberlander T. F. , Synnes A. , Grunau R. E.

• Assessing pain in preterm infants in the neonatal intensive care unit: moving to a ‘brain-oriented’ approach

  • 2011 Pain Management
  • Holsti L. , Grunau R. E. , Shany E.

• Cortisol levels in relation to maternal interaction and child internalizing behavior in preterm and full-term children at 18 months corrected age

  • 2011 Developmental Psychobiology
  • Brummelte S. , Grunau R. E. , Zaidman-Zait A. , Weinberg J. , Nordstokke D. , Cepeda I. L.

• Declining cognitive development from 8 to 18months in preterm children predicts persisting higher parenting stress

  • 2011 Early Human Development
  • Brummelte S. , Grunau R. E. , Synnes A. , Whitfield M. F. , Petrie-Thomas J.

• The Caffeine for Apnea of Prematurity (Cap) Trial: Preliminary outcomes at 5 years

  • 2011 Pediatric Research
  • Schmidt B. , Anderson P. , Doyle L. , Dewey D. , Grunau R. E. , Asztalos E.

• Cortisol levels in relation to maternal interaction and child internalizing behavior in preterm and full-term children at 18 months corrected age

  • 2011 Developmental Psychobiology
  • Brummelte S. , Grunau R. E. , Zaidman-Zait A. , Weinberg J. , Nordstokke D. , Cepeda I. L.

• Considerations for using sucrose to reduce procedural pain in preterm infants

  • 2010 Pediatrics
  • Holsti L. , Grunau R. E.

• Cortisol, behavior, and heart rate reactivity to immunization pain at 4 months corrected age in infants born very preterm

  • 2010 Clinical Journal of Pain
  • Grunau R. E. , Tu M. T. , Whitfield M. F. , Oberlander T. F. , Weinberg J. , Yu W.

• Ethics in neuroscience graduate training programs: views and models from Canada

  • 2010 Mind, Brain & Education
  • Lombera S. , Fine A. , Grunau R. E. , Illes J.

• Physiological correlates of memory recall in infancy: Vagal tone, cortisol, and imitation in preterm and full-term infants at 6 months

  • 2010 Infant Behavior and Development
  • Haley D. W. , Grunau R. E. , Weinberg J. , Keidar A. , Oberlander T.

• Prenatal alcohol exposure alters biobehavioral reactivity to pain in newborns

  • 2010 Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research
  • Oberlander T. F. , Jacobson S. W. , Weinberg J. , Grunau R. E. , Molteno C. D. , Jacobson J. L.

• Prenatal effects of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor antidepressants, serotonin transporter promoter genotype (SLC6A4), and maternal mood on child behavior at 3 years of age

  • 2010 Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med
  • Oberlander T. F. , Papsdorf M. , Brain U. , Misri S. , Ross C. , Grunau R. E.

• School entry age outcomes for infants with birth weight ≤800 grams

  • 2010 Journal of Pediatrics
  • Synnes A. , Anson S. , Arkesteijn A. , Butt A. , Grunau R. E. , Rogers M.

• Tractography-based quantitation of corticospinal tract development in premature newborns

  • 2010 Journal of Pediatrics
  • Adams E. , Chau V. , Poskitt K. J. , Grunau R. E. , Synnes A. , Miller S. P.