PABI Plan - The Sarah Jane Brain Project

Principal Investigator/Program Director (Last, First, Middle):
Pending Research Support
MJHayes (PI)
Department of Defense. Phase I, SBIR. “Device to Detect Brain Injury using Spontaneous Movements During
Sleep.” Phase 1 accepted priority topic. (10/1/09-4/01/09). Phase II in development.
Completed Research Support
MJ Hayes (PI)
Respironics Corporation, “Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Risk, Sleep Deprivation and Spontaneous
Movements During Sleep in a High Risk Newborn Infants” (09/1/07-09/01/08)
K Oller (PI)
Health Research Services Award DIA RH 00004-01-03
“Prenatal Alcohol Effects: Infant Followup Project” Children at Risk, (01/01/03-01/01/04)
Study of prenatal exposure to alcohol, risk of SIDS and arousal regulation in neonates.
MJ Hayes (PI)
Biomedical Research Grant, University of Maine
“Neurobehavioral Indices of CNS Infarct in the Premature Infant” 01/01/98-12/31/99
This grant provided an equipment upgrade for EEG, actigraphy for infant sleep studies, PI
MJ Hayes (PI)
Research Grant, Eastern Maine Medical Center
“Theophylline and Caffeine Pharmacotherapy Affects Sleep and Waking States in Premature Infants” 01/01/98-
12/31/00,
This funding supported the ways to examine the neurobehavioral effects of methylxanthine treatment on sleep
and arousal in neonates.
MJ Hayes (PI)
Faculty Research Fund Award, University of Maine
“Electrophysiological and Actigraphic Measurement of Infant Sleep” 01/01/99-12/31/00,
This funding allowed for an upgrade of laboratory equipment for sleep measurement
MJ Hayes (PI)
Faculty Research Fund Award, University of Maine
“Movement and Apnea in the Premature Infant: A SIDS model” 01/01/03-12/31/03
This funding supported the development of new ways to measure sleep and arousal in neonates
Other Ongoing or Completed Research
Brain Injury and prenatal opiate exposure, neonatal sleep, movement and arousal organization
Brain Injury and Prenatal alcohol exposure, neonatal sleep, movement and arousal organization
Brain Injury and infant neurocognition using ERP and the auditory oddball paradigm
Brain Injury and maternal health and wellbeing in rural, disadvantaged cohorts
Brain Injury in adolescents with prodromal schizophrenia assessed through sleep movements (in collaboration
with Harvard University)
Neurological dysfunction in pediatric patients and co-morbid sleep disorders
Infant irritability and poor alertness as a marker of chronic sleep deprivation and risk of SIDS
Temporal rhythms of spontaneous movements in preterm neonates
Stress, anxiety and sleep in infants and children: Relationship to sleep disorder and daytime temperament
Parent-child relationships in brain-injured children
Parenting and development of anxiety disorder in middle childhood
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