Research
Interests
I
am a pediatrician and perinatal and child health epidemiologist with a
particular interest in the causes and prevention of childhood neurodevelopmental
handicap, especially cerebral palsy. In 1984, I established the central
NJ neonatal brain hemorrhage study which aims to understand the factors
that determine brain damage in preterm infants and their neurodevelopmental
sequelae. This study has produced a comprehensive overview of brain damage
in premature infants, based on its large series of such infants with both
ultrasound imaging and brain pathological examination. The study has also
determined which newborn cranial ultrasound images best predict cerebral
palsy, has assessed the effect of prenatal alcohol ingestion on brain
lesions, has shown that certain newborn ultrasound images also predicts
mental retardation and hyperactivity, and has demonstrated that low levels
of thyroid hormone in the first days of life are important predictors
of lowered IQ and cerebral palsy.
I
have been at Michigan State University since 1989, where my current research
also focuses on the public policy implications of different ways of managing
infants born at the margin of viability, on environmental hazards to reproduction,
and on the history of epidemiology
Please
feel free to contact me if you have any questions about my research.
Selected
Publications
Search all publications in the NCBI Journal Databas
Leviton A, Paneth N, Reuss ML, Susser M, Allred EN, Dammann O, Kuban K, Van Marter LJ, Pagano M, Hegyi T, Hiatt M, Sanocka U, Shahrivar F, Abiri M, Disalvo D, Doubilet P, Kairam R, Kazam E, Kirpekar M, Rosenfeld D, Schonfeld S, Share J, Collins M, Genest D, Shen-Schwarz S, et al. Maternal infection, fetal inflammatory response, and brain damage in very low birth weight infants. Developmental Epidemiology Network Investigators. Pediatr Res. 1999 Nov;46(5):566-75.
Reuss ML, Paneth N, Pinto-Martin JA, Lorenz JM, Susser M. The relation of transient hypothyroxinemia in preterm infants to neurologic development at two years of age. N Engl J Med. 1996 Mar 28;334(13):821-7.
Paneth N, Kiely JL, Wallenstein S, Marcus M, Pakter J, Susser M. Newborn intensive care and neonatal mortality in low-birth-weight infants: a population study. N Engl J Med. 1982 Jul 15;307(3):149-55.
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Nigel
S. Paneth