Read the latest Research Impact Services case study on the the €2.8 million ERC Advanced Grant PRETERM-LIFECOURSE project (underwritten by UKRI), led by Professor Dieter Wolke studies on how early adversity affects development into adulthood and whether age related function, disease and the time we may die is already determined in the womb and at birth:
New research explores the link between baby birthweight, length of pregnancy and future cognitive problems
Most young people who leave CAMHS do not see a worsening of symptoms
New €2.8m project will seek insights into aging from pre-term births
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Being born very preterm or very low birthweight is associated with continued lower IQ performance into adulthood
Paper available to view at: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/article-abstract/2780229
Intelligence (IQ) throughout childhood to adulthood is impacted if born small for gestational age
Leaving your baby to ‘cry it out’ has no adverse effects on child development
The research Parental use of ‘cry it out’ in infants: no adverse effects on attachment and behavioural development at 18 months is published in The Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry – March 2020
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Professor Dieter Wolke wins British Psychological Society prize
Professor Dieter Wolke of the University of Warwick’s Department of Psychology, and Head of the Lifespan Health and Wellbeing Research group and a collaborator with Warwick Medical School, has been named the 2020 British Psychological Society’s winner of the award for Distinguished Contributions to British Developmental Psychology.
Professor Dieter Wolke and colleagues at Leicester, UCL, Birmingham and Oxford launch a standardised tool to assess cognitive and language development in two year olds
Pre-term babies are less likely to form romantic relationships in adulthood
The research ‘Association of Preterm Birth and Low Birth Weight With Romantic Partnership, Sexual Intercourse, and Parenthood in Adulthood: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis’ is published in JAMA Network Open – July 2019
IQ a Better Predictor of Adult Economic Success than Maths
The research ‘General Cognitive but Not Mathematic Abilities Predict Very Preterm and Healthy Term Born Adults’ Wealth‘ is published in PLOS One – March 2019
Identified: The Families with the most sibling bullying
The research ‘Trouble in the Nest: Antecedents of Sibling Bullying Victimization and Perpetration’ is published in Developmental Psychology February 2019
Preterm Children’s lives are to be improved by new standards of child care advised by Warwick Academic…
Sibling bullying makes psychotic disorders three times more likely
The research, ‘Sibling bullying in middle childhood and psychotic disorder at 18 years: A prospective cohort study’, is published in Psychological Medicine. February 2018
Premature babies make fewer friends – but not for long
‘Origins and Predictors of Friendships in 6- to 8-Year-Old Children Born at Neonatal Risk’, is published in The Journal of Pediatrics. February 2018