Current applications and future perspectives on elemental analysis of non-invasive samples for human biomonitoring

JTS Lum, YN Chan, KSY Leung - Talanta, 2021 - Elsevier
Humans are continuously exposed to numerous environmental pollutants including
potentially toxic elements. Essential elements play an important role in human health …

Flavor sensing in utero and emerging discriminative behaviors in the human fetus

B Ustun, N Reissland, J Covey… - Psychological …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
The diet of pregnant women exposes fetuses to a variety of flavors consisting of compound
sensations involving smell, taste, and chemesthesis. The effects of such prenatal flavor …

Trajectories of brain and behaviour development in the womb, at birth and through infancy

S Meredith Weiss, E Aydin, S Lloyd-Fox… - Nature Human …, 2024 - nature.com
Birth is often seen as the starting point for studying effects of the environment on human
development, with much research focused on the capacities of young infants. However …

The “weanling's dilemma” revisited: Evolving bodies of evidence and the problem of infant paleodietary interpretation

E Kendall, A Millard, J Beaumont - American Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Breastfeeding is known to be a powerful mediator of maternal and childhood health, with
impacts throughout the life course. Paleodietary studies of the past 30 years have …

Children of the abyss: investigating the association between isotopic physiological stress and skeletal pathology in London during the Industrial Revolution

R O'Donoghue, D Walker, J Beaumont - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Objective This project sought to investigate whether an association may be observed
between isotopic stress indicators and skeletal evidence of pathological conditions …

Isotopic reconstruction of short to absent breastfeeding in a 19th century rural Dutch community

AL Waters-Rist, K de Groot, MLP Hoogland - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Artificial feeding of young infants is considered a modern phenomenon. However, historical
sources note its practice in some past European populations. This research explores factors …

Isotopic assessment of diet and infant feeding practices among Ottoman‐period Bedouin from Tell el‐Hesi

LA Gregoricka, JM Ullinger - International Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Stable nitrogen and carbon isotopes from human bone collagen (n= 20) were used to
examine adult diet and infant feeding practices among the Ottoman‐period Bedouin at Tell …

[HTML][HTML] Association between Hyperemesis Gravidarum in pregnancy on postnatal ability of infants to attend to a play task with their mother

N Reissland, J Matthewson, J Einbeck - Infant Behavior and Development, 2023 - Elsevier
Research indicates a higher prevalence of attention deficits in children exposed to HG in
utero compared to controls with some claiming that the deficit is due to prenatal effects of …

Para a infância e mais além: uma perspectiva bioarqueológica da alimentação, estresse e morte em duas sociedades sambaquieiras

MND Giusto - 2023 - teses.usp.br
O presente trabalho busca aprofundar a compreensão sobre dieta e padrões de estresse na
infância, e investigar a relação entre eles, nas séries esqueléticas do sambaqui costeiro …

Foetal mouth movements: Effects of nicotine

S Froggatt, N Reissland, J Covey… - Acta …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Aim To assess whether foetal mouth movement frequency changes across gestation and
whether there are differences between cigarette and e‐cigarette exposure conditions in …