
Petra Huppi
Function: Professeure ordinaire
Nom du groupe: Child Development Disorders
Group type: Main
Affiliations: Faculty of Medicine, Geneva University Hospitals, Department of Paediatrics
Domaines: Development and Plasticity
Mot clés: brain development, brain injury, cerebral ischemia, intra-uterine growth restriction
Activités de recherche
Our research includes clinical and fundamental neurosciences projects with the aim to use and develop neuro-imaging techniques for the study of normal and altered brain development in high-risk neonate and in animal models of brain injury.
Clinical: we use advanced MRI techniques and neuro-developmental assessment to look at the effects of intra-uterine growth restriction on structural and functional development of the brain.
Fundamental: In order to understand the alteration of brain development seen in high-risk infants, we have developed translational research of brain development compromise such as intra-uterine growth restriction or foetal exposition to adverse conditions and acute hypoxic-ischemic and inflammation brain injury in the newborn rat pup. Advanced magnetic resonance imaging and mechanistic evaluation technics are used to describe injury, healing and repair. These experimental paradigms allow us to study mechanisms of damage and repair in the developing brain.
Dernières publications
Impact of a music intervention on heart rate variability in very preterm infants.
Effect of an early music intervention on emotional and neurodevelopmental outcomes of preterm infants at 12 and 24 months.
"Vis-à-Vis Training" to Improve Emotional and Executive Competences in Very Preterm Children: A Pilot Study and Randomised Controlled Trial.
Newborn's neural representation of instrumental and vocal music as revealed by fMRI: A dynamic effective brain connectivity study.
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Contact
Département de pédiatrie
HUG
Email: Petra.Huppi@hcuge.ch
Stephane.Sizonenko@unige.ch (médecin adjoint du service)