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2025 Friedman Brain Institute Research Scholars
Fascitelli Research Scholar Awardees:
Ankit Parekh, PhD, Assistant Professor, Medicine, Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, and Artificial Intelligence and Human Health
Maria de las Mercedes Perez-Rodriguez, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Psychiatry
Yun Soung Kim, PhD, Assistant Professor, Diagnostic, Molecular and Interventional Radiology
"Assessing Perinatal Sleep's Role in Postpartum Mental Health and Maternal Caregiving Behaviors with a Multifunctional Forehead Patch"
Here, Drs. Kim, Perez and Parekh leverage an innovative wearable EEG-based forehead patch to study sleep and circadian rhythms in the perinatal period, a critical window for maternal mental health.
Sleep disruption increases risk for perinatal mood and anxiety disorders (PMADs), which affect 1 in 4 women and can have long-term impacts in the offspring. Unlike traditional polysomnography, this patch enables at-home, high-resolution monitoring.
They will correlate sleep patterns with mental health symptoms, inflammatory biomarkers, infant outcomes and maternal-infant caregiving, providing critical feasibility data.
This study establishes a novel framework for early PMAD detection, informing future large-scale interventions to improve maternal health and offspring outcomes.
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