Today we talk to Dr. Rachel Marsh, Irving Philips Professor of Medical Psychology (in Child Psychology) at Columbia University Medical Center and the Director of MRI Research at New York State Psychiatric Institute. Dr. Marsh specializes in fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) in children and in dyads (mother-baby pairs). She studies how psychiatric disorders develop during childhood, and how long-term health outcomes may be intergenerational. Today we talk about her pioneering research with Dr. Dani Dimitriu on mother-baby dyads who were exposed to COVID during pregnancy and their outcomes. This research has been halted due to current funding cuts aimed at both COVID-related research specifically and Columbia University funding in general. In this episode we discuss how these funding cuts impact the next generation of scientists most of all and why this research actually has very little to do with COVID itself, and much more to do with understanding how prenatal stress impacts children. All that and more on this episode of Science Amplified.
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