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SUMMARY:Neurodevelopment in global contexts: early brain markers of memory
  development from infant cohorts in the UK and The Gambia - Dr Laura Katus
  - Centre for Family Research\, University of Cambridge
DTSTART:20200519T120000Z
DTEND:20200519T130000Z
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CONTACT:Kate Shaw
DESCRIPTION:Infants and children in low- and middle-income countries are f
 requently exposed to a range of poverty-related risk factors\, increasing 
 their likelihood of poor neurodevelopmental outcomes. There is a need for 
 culturally objective markers\, which can be used to study infants from bir
 th\, thereby enabling early identification and ultimately intervention dur
 ing a critical time of neurodevelopment. In this talk\, findings on early 
 memory development will be presented\, obtained in infant cohorts in the U
 K and The Gambia\, West Africa. These data were collected as part of the B
 rain Imaging for Global Health (BRIGHT) project\, which longitudinally ass
 esses infants in these two settings from birth to two years of age. Our fi
 ndings indicate that on group level\, both habituation and novelty respons
 es are reduced in the Gambian cohort\, however with substantial interindiv
 idual variance. Individual differences were further associated with infant
 s' neurobehavioural scores.
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