MarthaGWelchMD

PubMed

• Family Nurture Intervention and mother-preterm infant autonomic emotional connection in the neonatal intensive care unit: A review.
  Lianne J Woodward, Robert J Ludwig, Alice Gong, Michael M Myers, Martha G Welch
  Acta Paediatrica. 2024-11-03
• Qualitative insights from a randomized clinical trial of a mother-child emotional preparation program for preschool-aged children.
  Elizabeth S Markowitz, Malia C Maier, Robert J Ludwig, Judy Austin, Anna M Maybach
  BMC Psychology. 2023-09-01
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  Assessment of Neurodevelopment in Infants With and Without Exposure to Asymptomatic or Mild Maternal SARS-CoV-2 Infection During Pregnancy.
  Morgan R Firestein, Lauren C Shuffrey, Yunzhe Hu, Margaret Kyle, Maha Hussain
  JAMA Network Open. 2023-04-03

Journal Articles

• Colostrum oxytocin modulates cellular stress response, inflammation and autophagy markers in newborn rat gut villi  
  Welch MG, Kelin,BY, Tamir H, Ludwig RJ, Glickstein SB, Biochem Biophys Res Commun., 5/20/2017
• Prairie vole pups show potentiated isolation-induced vocalization following isolation from their mother, but not their father  
  Robison W.T., Myers M.M., Hofer M.A., Shair H.N., Welch M.G., Developmental Psychobiology, 1/16/2016
• Calming cycle theory: The roll of visceral/autonomic learning in early mother and infant/child behaviour and development  
  Welch M.G., Acta Paediatrica, 1/10/2016
• Nurture in the neonatal intensive care unit  
  Welch M.G., Acta Paediatrica, 1/6/2016
• Oxytocin opposes bacterial endotoxin - Effects on ER-stress signaling in Caco2BB gut cells  
  Klein BY, Tamir H, Hirschberg DL, Ludwig RJ, Glickstein SB, Myers MM, Welch MG, Biochim Biophys Acta, 1/1/2016
• Advances in family-based interventions in the neonatal ICU  
  Welch M.G., Myers M.M., Curr Opin Pediatr, 1/1/2016
• Family Nurture Intervention in preterm infants alters frontal cortical functional connectivity assessed by EEG coherence  
  Myers M.M., Grieve P.G., Stark R.I., Isler J.R., Hofer M.A., Yang J., Ludwig R.J., Welch M.G., Acta Paediatrica, 1/26/2015
• Family Nurture Intervention in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit improves social relatedness, attention, and neurodevelopment of preterm infants at 18 months in a rando...  
  Welch M.G., Firestein M.R., Austin J., Hane A.A., Stark R.I., Hofer M.A., Garland M., Glickstein, S.B., Brunelli S.B., Ludwig R.J., Myers M.M., Psychology and Psychiatry, 1/11/2015
• Family Nurture Intervention Improves the Quality of Maternal Caregiving in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial  
  Hane A.A., Myers M.M., Hofer M.A., Ludwig R.J., Halperin M.S., Austin J., Glickstein S.B., Welch, M.G., Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics, 1/1/2015
• Depression and Anxiety Symptoms of Mothers of Preterm Infants are Decreased at Four Months Corrected Age with Family Nurture Intervention in the NICU  
  Welch M.G., Halperin MS, Austin J, Stark RI, MD, Hofer MA, Hane AA, Myers MM., Arch Women’s Ment Health, 1/1/2015
• Oxytocin regulates gastrointestinal motility, inflammation, macromolecular permeability, and mucosal maintenance in mice  
  Welch MG, Margolis KG, Li Z, Gershon MD, Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol, 1/1/2014
• Secretin is not effective for the treatment of children with autism spectrum disorders  
  Welch M.G., Evid Based Ment Health, 1/1/2011
• Prolonged Parent-Child Embrace Therapy among 102 Children with Behavioral Disorders: Outcomes and Underlying Mechanisms  
  Welch M.G., Northrup R.S., Welch-Horan T.B., Ludwig R.J., Austin C.A., Jacobson J.S., Complement Ther Clin Pract, 1/1/2006
• Secretin’s role in the cerebellum: A larger biological context and implications for developmental disorders  
  Welch M.G., Ludwig R.J., Opler M.G., Ruggiero D.A., Cerebellum, 1/1/2006
• Secretin: Hypothalamic Distribution and Hypothesized Neuroregulatory Role in Autism  
  Welch M.G., Welch-Horan T.B., Keune J.D., Anwar N., Anwar M., Ludwig R.J., Ruggiero D.A., Cell and Mol Neurobiol, 1/1/2004
• Secretin Activates Visceral Brain Regions in the Rat, Including Areas Abnormal in Autism  
  Welch M.G., Keune J.D., Anwar N., Anwar M., Welch-Horan T.B., Ruggiero D.A., Cell and Mol Neurobiol, 1/1/2003
• The betrayal of the self  
  Welch M.G., Journal of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology, Winter, 1/1/1989
• Toward Prevention of Developmental Disorders  
  Welch M.G., Pre- and Perinatal Psychology, 1/1/1989
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Books/Book Chapters

• Autism: Oxidative Stress, Inflammation and Immune Abnormalities. 
  Welch M.G. and Klein B.K.Editors: Chauhan A., Chauhan V., and Brown W. T..Taylor & Francis/CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL2009
• Autism and Related Disorders. International Review of Neurobiology 
  Chapter: Chapter 7. Predicted therapeutic role of secretin and oxytocin in autism: Implications for treatment of mental illness 
  Welch M.G. and Ruggiero D.A.Editors: Dhossche D.M. GABA.Elsevier, San Diego, CA2005
• Autism Spectrum Disorders: An encyclopedia for parents and educators. 
  Chapter: Welch Method Therapy 
  Welch M.G. and Ruggiero D.A.Editors: Myles B.S., Swanson T.C., Holverstott J..Greenwood Publishing Group, Westport, CT2005
• Holding Time: How to Eliminate Conflict, Temper Tantrums, and Sibling Rivalry and Raise Happy, Loving, Successful Children (Finnish Edition) 
  Welch M.G.1995
• Holding Time: How to Eliminate Conflict, Temper Tantrums, and Sibling Rivalry and Raise Happy, Loving, Successful Children (Japanese Edition) 
  Welch M.G.1992
• Internationaler Kongreb Festhalten in Regensburg 
  Chapter: Holding Time - Was Wo Wann Wie und Warum 
  Welch M.G.Gesellschaft zur Forderung des Festhaltens, Stuttgart, Germany1991
• Holding Time: How to Eliminate Conflict, Temper Tantrums, and Sibling Rivalry and Raise Happy, Loving, Successful Children (German Edition) 
  Welch M.G.1991
• Holding Time: How to Eliminate Conflict, Temper Tantrums, and Sibling Rivalry and Raise Happy, Loving, Successful Children (Italian Edition) 
  Welch M.G.1991
• Holding Time: How to Eliminate Conflict, Temper Tantrums, and Sibling Rivalry and Raise Happy, Loving, Successful Children 
  Welch M.G.Century Hutchinson, London1989
• Holding Time: How to Eliminate Conflict, Temper Tantrums, and Sibling Rivalry and Raise Happy, Loving, Successful Children 
  Welch M.G.Fireside, New York, NY1989
• Holding Time: How to Eliminate Conflict, Temper Tantrums, and Sibling Rivalry and Raise Happy, Loving, Successful Children 
  Welch M.G.Simon and Schuster, New York, NY1988
• Autistic Children - New Hope for a Cure. 
  Chapter: Retrieval from Autism Through Mother-Child Holding 
  Welch M.G.Editors: Tinbergen N. and Tinbergen E.A..George, Allen and Unwin, London and Boston1983
• Frontiers of Infant Psychiatry. 
  Chapter: Retrieval from autism through mother-child holding therapy. 
  Welch M.G.Editors: Call J.D., Galenson E., Tyson R.L..Basic Books, New York, NY1983
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Abstracts/Posters

• Validation of a Relational Screen for Emotional Connection in Preterm Infants.
  Welch, M.G., Hane, A.A., LaCoursiere J.N., Ludwig, R.J., Myers,M.M., Mitsuyama, M., Weinman, S., Browne, J., Pediatric Adademic Societies, San Francisco, CA, 2017
• Welch Emotional Connection Scale (WECS). Program No. 202019.
  Welch, M.G., Hane, A.A., LaCoursiere J.N., Ludwig, R.J., Myers, M.M., Neuroscience Abstracts, Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA, 1/1/2016
• Maternal potentiation of ultrasonic vocalizations is not a marker of stress.
  Welch, M.G., Hane, A.A., LaCoursiere J.N., Ludwig, R.J., Myers, M.M., Neuroscience Abstracts, Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA, 1/1/2016
• Family Nurture Intervention Mitigates Association Between Placental Abnormalities and Early Brain Activity of Preterm Infants.
  Firestein M.R., Grieve P.G., Myers M.M., Welch M.G., International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, San Diego, CA, 1/1/2016
• Family Nurture Intervention Alters Frontal EEG Coherence in Preterm Infants.
  Welch M.G., Stark R.I., Isler J.R., Hofer M.A., Ludwig R.J., Myers M.M., Pediatric Academic Societies, San Diego, CA, 1/1/2015
• Family Nurture Intervention in the NICU Improves Attention, Social-Relatedness, and Neurodevelopment of Preterm Infants at 18 Months in a Randomized Controlled Trial.
  Welch M.G., Firestein M.R., Stark R.I., Myers M.M., Pediatric Academic Societies, San Diego, CA, 1/1/2015
• Family Nurture Intervention improves maternal caregiving in the NICU.
  Hane A.A., Myers M.M., Hofer M.A., Ludwig R.J., Halperin M.S., Kaplan A.D., Firestein M.R., Chafkin J.E., Austin J.,Welch M.G., International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, Washington, DC, 1/1/2014
• Oxytocin counteracts inflammatory effects of bacterial endotoxin in gut cell culture.
  Klein B.Y., Tamir, H., Myers M.M., Ludwig R.J., Glickstein S.B., Welch M.G., Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC, 1/1/2014
• Family Nurture Intervention in the NICU moderates Effects of Maternal Anxiety on Infant and Maternal Physiology.
  Myers M.M., Grinberg A.S., Polin R.A., Stark R.I., Welch M.G., Pediatric Academic Societies, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 1/1/2014
• Family Nurture Intervention Lowers Risk for Autism: Possible ASD Screen.
  Welch M.G., Firestein M.R., Ludwig R.J. Stark R.I, Grieve P.G., Hofer M.A., Myers M.M., Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC, 1/1/2014
• Oxytocinergic Regulation of Intestinal Motility, Inflammation, Macromolecular Permeability, and Mucosal Homeostasis.
  Margolis, K.G., Welch, M.G., Stevanovic, K.D., Li, Z., Gershon, M.D., Gastroenterology, 1/1/2013
• EEG Activity of Preterm Infants is Increased by Family Nurture Intervention in a Randomized Controlled Trial in the NICU.
  Welch M.G., Stark R.I., Fifer W.P., Hofer M.A., Sahni R., Isler J.R., Grieve P.G., Austin J., Ludwig R.J., Myers M.M., Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA, 1/1/2013
• Family Nurture Intervention (FNI) Mitigates Maternal Anxiety Effect on Preterm Infant Physiology in Stress Paradigm.
  Grinberg A.S., Myers M.M., Austin J., and Welch M.G., International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, San Diego, CA, 1/1/2013
• Family Nurture Intervention (FNI) in the NICU: Can we prevent transgenerational effects of adverse rearing in prematurely born infants?
  Welch M.G., Stark R.I., Brunelli S.A., Austin J.F., Fiedor E.S., Polin R.A., Lorenz J.M., Hofer M.A., Myers M.M., American PsychoPathological Association, New York, NY, 1/1/2012
• Effects of Gestational Age at Birth on Premature Infant Autonomic Responses to the Still Face Paradigm at 4 months Corrected Age.
  Welch M.G., Bechar A., Austin J., Fiedor E., Ludwig R.J., Stark R.I., Hofer M.A., Myers M.M., International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, New Orleans, LA, 1/1/2012
• Family nurture intervention in the NICU alters electrocortical function in premature infants.
  Welch M.G., Grieve P.G., Stark R.I., Fiedor E.S., Austin J.F., Lorenz J.M., Polin R.A., Hofer M.A., Myers M.M., Pediatric Academic Societies, Philadelphia, PA, 1/1/2012
• Efficacy of family nurture intervention in the neonatal intensive care unit: neurobehavioral effects on pre-term infants.
  Welch M.G., Stark R.I., Grieve P.G., Brunelli S.A., Koukaz Y.A., Fiedor E.S., Johnson J.G., Hofer M.A., Myers M.M., Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC, 1/1/2011
• PI3K/Akt responses to oxytocin stimulation in Caco2BB gut cells.
  Tamir H., Welch M.G., Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC, 1/1/2011
• Family Nurture Intervention in the NICU (FNI-NICU) decreases symptoms of depression in mothers of prematurely born infants.
  Welch M.G., Fiedor E.S., Ludwig R.J., Stark R.I., Hofer M.A., Myers M.M., International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, Washington, DC, 1/1/2011
• Efficacy of combined secretin and oxytocin in rodent colitis and outcomes of a nurture intervention in preterm infants: Implications for treatments of inflammatory dis...
  Welch M.G., Rios A.D., Fiedor E.S., Anwar M., Koukaz Y.A., Myers M.M., Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA, 1/1/2010
• Combined secretin and oxytocin inhibit transcription of IL-6 in the amygdala of TNBS rat colitis.
  Tamir H., Anwar M., Welch M.G., Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA, 1/1/2010
• PI3K/Akt and Oxytocin receptor turnover in colon cell lines.
  Klein B.Y., Tamir H., Anwar M., Welch M.G., Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA, 1/1/2010
• Hormones of maternal nurture secretin and oxytocin and their possible actions on stress reactivity in infant gut and in brain: implications for developmental disorders.
  Welch M.G., Tamir H., Rios A.D., Fiedor E.S., Anwar M., Koukaz Y.A., Myers M.M., Parental Brain and the Next Generation Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1/1/2010
• Efficacy of Family Nurture Intervention in the NICU: A Mid-Term Report of Neurobehavioral Effects on Mothers and Pre-term Infants.
  Welch M.G., Grieve P.G., Stark R.I., Brunelli S.A., Farrell P.A., Guerriero D.E., Fiedor E.S., Koukaz Y.A., Rios A.D., Izraelit A., Chang C., Kofman S., Arnn M.E., Sah..., International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, San Diego, CA, 1/1/2010
• Cutting the vagus nerve below the diaphragm prevents maternal potentiation of infant rat vocalization.
  Shair H. N., Smith J., Welch M.G., International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, San Diego, CA, 1/1/2010
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Lectures

• Family Nurture Intervention and effects on physiology in areas important for development of executive function. 
  Karolinska, Stockholm, Sweden - 1/16/2014
• Implementing FNI in a high acuity NICU. 
  Clearwater Beach, FL - 1/26/2013
• FNI RCT in the NICU: Why did a small dose get big effects? 
  Clearwater Beach, FL - 1/25/2013
• Pavlovian Conditioning: it’s Not What Rescorla Thought. 
  Institute of Human Nutrition, Columbia University - 1/24/2013
• FNI sensitization and induction of maternal-infant behavior. 
  Karolinska, Stockholm, Sweden - 1/15/2013
• Family Nurture Intervention in the NICU leads to robust brain/neurobehavioral changes. 
  Columbia University Medical Center, Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of New York - 1/9/2013
• Family intervention RCT in NICU leads to robust increases in brain activity. 
  Columbia University Medical Center, Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of New York - 1/7/2013
• Efficacy of Family Nurture Intervention in the NICU to optimize neurobehavioral development: preliminary results. 
  City College of New York, New York, NY - 1/14/2012
• The Importance of Mother-Infant Interactions to Infant Development in the NICU. 
  Clearwater Beach, FL - 1/27/2011
• Efficacy of Family Nurture Intervention in NICU to Optimize Neurobehavioral Development: Preliminary Results. 
  Clearwater Beach, FL - 1/26/2011
• Peptides of Nurture: From Bench to Bedside. 
  Atlanta, GA - 1/25/2011
• Family Nurture Intervention: Methods, Implementation and practicability 
  Columbia University Medical Center, Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of New York - 1/21/2011
• The therapy of the calming cycle. 
  Acapulco, Mexico - 1/19/2011
• Family Nurture Intervention in the NICU. 
  Washington, DC - 1/9/2011
• Peptides of Nurture. 
  New York University, New York, NY - 1/2/2011
• Brain/gut effects of endogenous and exogenous secretin and oxytocin. 
  Edinburgh, Scotland - 1/1/2011
• Peptides of Maternal Nurture in Development and Brain-Gut Function. 
  Autism Research Institute, Baltimore, MD - 1/8/2010
• Combined Secretin/Oxytocin in Development and Brain-Gut Function. 
  Dallas, TX - 1/7/2010
• Family Nurture Intervention in NICU to optimize neurobehavioral development in preterm infants. 
  Columbia University Medical Center, Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of New York - 1/12/2009
• Expression and developmental regulation of oxytocin in the enteric nervous system and intestinal epithelium. 
  1/6/2009
• Research and Becoming a Scientist. 
  Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of New York - 1/15/2008
• GutBrain peptides; contribution to mechanisms of nurture. 
  Columbia University Medical Center - 1/18/2007
• Effects of combined secretin and oxytocin administration in animal models of peripheral inflammation and neurotoxicity. 
  1/23/2006
• Clinical insights into the treatment of autism & related developmental disorders. 
  University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL - 1/28/2005
• Treatment of brain/gut inflammation with combined secretin/oxytocin: implications for autism? 
  University of Illinois at Chicago, IL - 1/28/2005
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