Ruth Eckstein Grunau

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.
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Frontal EEG/ERP correlates of attentional processes, cortisol and motivational states in adolescents from lower and higher socioeconomic status
2012 Front Hum Neurosci
D'Angiulli A. , Van Roon P. M. , Weinberg J. , Oberlander T. F. , Grunau R. E. , Hertzman C. , Maggi S.
Tags:biology
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Hair cortisol reflects socio-economic factors and hair zinc in preschoolers
2012 Psychoneuroendocrinology
Vaghri Z. , Guhn M. , Weinberg J. , Grunau R. E. , Yu W. , Hertzman C.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Tags:biology
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Considerations for using sucrose to reduce procedural pain in preterm infants
2010 Pediatrics
Holsti L. , Grunau R. E.
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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.
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Ethics in neuroscience graduate training programs: views and models from Canada
2010 Mind, Brain & Education
Lombera S. , Fine A. , Grunau R. E. , Illes J.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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