Brittany Howell

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
55 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Brittany Howell is a scholar working on Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Behavioral Neuroscience and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Brittany Howell has authored 55 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, 16 papers in Behavioral Neuroscience and 14 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Brittany Howell's work include Stress Responses and Cortisol (16 papers), Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (13 papers) and Neonatal and fetal brain pathology (10 papers). Brittany Howell is often cited by papers focused on Stress Responses and Cortisol (16 papers), Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (13 papers) and Neonatal and fetal brain pathology (10 papers). Brittany Howell collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Canada. Brittany Howell's co-authors include Mar M. Sánchez, Kai M. McCormack, Martin Styner, Xiaoping Hu, Bridget Callaghan, Weili Lin, Regina M. Sullivan, Jed T. Elison, Kristine Baluyot and Nim Tottenham and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, NeuroImage and American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

In The Last Decade

Brittany Howell

45 papers receiving 1.1k citations

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The UNC/UMN Baby Connectome Project (BCP): An overview of the study design and protocol development

2018 243 citations Brittany Howell, Martin Styner et al. NeuroImage profile →

Peers

Brittany Howell

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Sarah J. Short United States

Marisa N. Spann United States

Tomoyuki Nishino United States

Marion I. van den Heuvel Netherlands

Anne Rifkin‐Graboi Singapore

John J. Boronow United States

Natasha Marrus United States

Lucy S. King United States

Silke Bachmann Germany

Irismar Reis de Oliveira Brazil

Sarah J. Short United States

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Fiske, Abigail, Chiara Bulgarelli, Sonya V. Troller‐Renfree, et al.. (2025). Modality-level obstacles and initiatives to improve representation in fetal, infant, and toddler neuroimaging research samples. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 72. 101505–101505. 4 indexed citations

Lardenoije, Roy, Elyse L. Morin, Brittany Howell, et al.. (2025). A Cross-Generational Methylomic Signature of Infant Maltreatment in Newborn Rhesus Macaques. Biological Psychiatry. 98(10). 767–778. 2 indexed citations

Aunon, Frances M., Steve Martino, Neal Doran, et al.. (2025). To Adopt or Adapt: A Scoping Review of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy With Patients With Minoritised Identity Constructs. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research. 25(1).

Ali, Md. Azahar, et al.. (2025). 3D-Printed Wearable Biosensors for Livestock Health Monitoring. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4. 1–9.

Samuel, Tinu Mary, Tengfei Li, Weiyan Yin, et al.. (2025). Gut microbiota maturation and early behavioral and cognitive development. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 28944–28944.

Turner, Alison, et al.. (2024). Population-level cascade of care for hepatitis C in Newfoundland and Labrador. PubMed. 7(3). 338–344.

Morin, Elyse L., Erin R. Siebert, Brittany Howell, et al.. (2024). Effects of early maternal care on anxiety and threat learning in adolescent nonhuman primates. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 71. 101480–101480. 2 indexed citations

Ingram, K.D., et al.. (2024). Metagenomic assessment of the bacterial breastfeeding microbiome in mature milk across lactation. Frontiers in Pediatrics. 11. 1275436–1275436. 1 indexed citations

Zgierska, Aleksandra, et al.. (2024). Transportation, childcare, lodging, and meals: Key for participant engagement and inclusion of historically underrepresented populations in the healthy brain and child development birth cohort. Journal of Clinical and Translational Science. 8(1). e38–e38. 6 indexed citations

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Newhook, Leigh Anne, et al.. (2024). High rates of International Code violations: a cross-sectional study in a region of Canada with low breastfeeding rates. BMC Research Notes. 17(1). 71–71.

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Samuel, Tinu Mary, Tengfei Li, Brittany Howell, et al.. (2023). Interactions between Bifidobacterium and Bacteroides and human milk oligosaccharides and their associations with infant cognition. Frontiers in Nutrition. 10. 1216327–1216327. 15 indexed citations

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Zhou, Zhen, Guoshi Li, Weiyan Yin, et al.. (2023). Mapping the evolution of regional brain network efficiency and its association with cognitive abilities during the first twenty-eight months of life. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 63. 101284–101284. 5 indexed citations

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Filippi, Courtney A., Ezra Aydin, Kelly A. Vaughn, et al.. (2022). An ode to fetal, infant, and toddler neuroimaging: Chronicling early clinical to research applications with MRI, and an introduction to an academic society connecting the field. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 54. 101083–101083. 18 indexed citations

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Ahmed, S. Ansar, Jing Ju, Ashwin Ramesh, et al.. (2021). Early Influences of Microbiota on White Matter Development in Germ-Free Piglets. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience. 15. 807170–807170. 17 indexed citations

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Young, Jeffrey T., Roza Vlasova, Brittany Howell, et al.. (2021). General anaesthesia during infancy reduces white matter micro-organisation in developing rhesus monkeys. British Journal of Anaesthesia. 126(4). 845–853. 16 indexed citations

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Lin, Weili, Kristine Baluyot, Manjiang Yao, et al.. (2019). Early-Life Nutrition and Cognitive Development: Imaging Approaches. Nestlé Nutrition Institute Workshop series. 90. 121–135. 7 indexed citations

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Howell, Brittany, Mihye Ahn, Yundi Shi, et al.. (2019). Disentangling the effects of early caregiving experience and heritable factors on brain white matter development in rhesus monkeys. NeuroImage. 197. 625–642. 24 indexed citations

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Morin, Elyse L., Brittany Howell, Kai M. McCormack, et al.. (2019). Effects of early life stress on cocaine self-administration in post-pubertal male and female rhesus macaques. Psychopharmacology. 236(9). 2785–2796. 5 indexed citations

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Sánchez, Mar M., Kai M. McCormack, & Brittany Howell. (2015). Social buffering of stress responses in nonhuman primates: Maternal regulation of the development of emotional regulatory brain circuits. Social Neuroscience. 10(5). 512–526. 94 indexed citations

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Howell, Brittany & Mar M. Sánchez. (2011). Understanding behavioral effects of early life stress using the reactive scope and allostatic load models. Development and Psychopathology. 23(4). 1001–1016. 42 indexed citations

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