Dr. Marie Camerota is an Assistant Professor (Research) in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior. She conducts her research at the Brown Center for the Study of Children at Risk at Women and Infants Hospital. She is currently the PI of a K01 grant from NIMH that is focused on trajectories of epigenetics in relation to attention problems in children born very preterm. Dr. Camerota received her PhD in Developmental Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2018. She completed a T32 postdoctoral research fellowship at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University in the Brown Center at Women and Infants Hospital.
Dr. Camerota's research investigates the influence of environmental experience (including caregiving) and biological factors on neurodevelopmental trajectories in both typically-developing and at-risk children. She has specific expertise in higher-order cognitive processes including executive function (EF). Her work includes a behavioral epigenetics focus, investigating how differences in DNA methylation may be associated with environmental experience and predict child neurodevelopmental outcomes.
Conradt E, Camerota M, Maylott S, Lester BM. "Annual Research Review: Prenatal opioid exposure - a two-generation approach to conceptualizing neurodevelopmental outcomes." Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2023. |
Camerota M, Lester BM, Everson TM. "Epigenetic studies of child neurodevelopment: what can we learn from a developmental science perspective?." Epigenomics, vol. 15, no. 16, 2023, pp. 799-804. |
Willoughby MT, Camerota M, King KM, Nduku T, Piper B. "Leveraging item-level accuracy and reaction time to address ceiling effects in the measurement of inhibitory control in preschool-aged children." Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci, vol. 14, 2023, pp. 861441. |
Camerota M, McGowan EC, Aschner J, Stroustrup A, O'Shea TM, Hofheimer JA, Joseph RM, Musci R, Taylor G, Carter BS, Check J, Dansereau LM, Gogcu S, Helderman JB, Neal CR, Pastyrnak SL, Smith LM, Marsit CJ, Lester BM, program collaborators for Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes. "Neurodevelopmental and behavioral outcomes of very preterm infants: latent profile analysis in the Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Program." Pediatric Research, 2023. |
McGowan, Elisabeth C., Hofheimer, Julie A., O’Shea, T. Michael, Kilbride, Howard, Carter, Brian S., Check, Jennifer, Helderman, Jennifer, Neal, Charles R., Pastyrnak, Steve, Smith, Lynne M., Camerota, Marie, Dansereau, Lynne M., Della Grotta, Sheri A., Lester, Barry M. "Analysis of Neonatal Neurobehavior and Developmental Outcomes Among Preterm Infants." JAMA Network Open, vol. 5, no. 7, 2022, pp. e2222249. |
Eaves, Lauren A., Enggasser, Adam E., Camerota, Marie, Gogcu, Semsa, Gower, William A., Hartwell, Hadley, Jackson, Wesley M., Jensen, Elizabeth, Joseph, Robert M., Marsit, Carmen J., Roell, Kyle, Santos, Hudson P., Shenberger, Jeffrey S., Smeester, Lisa, Yanni, Diana, Kuban, Karl C. K., O’Shea, T. Michael, Fry, Rebecca C. "CpG methylation patterns in placenta and neonatal blood are differentially associated with neonatal inflammation." Pediatric Research, 2022. |
Camerota, Marie, Davis, Jonathan M., Dansereau, Lynne M., Oliveira, Erica L., Padbury, James F., Lester, Barry M. "Effects of Pharmacologic Treatment for Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome on DNA Methylation and Neurobehavior: A Prospective Cohort Study." The Journal of Pediatrics, vol. 243, 2022, pp. 21-26. |
Propper, Cathi B., McLaughlin, Kirsten, Goldblum, Jessica, Camerota, Marie, Gueron-Sela, Noa, Mills-Koonce, W. Roger, Wagner, Nicholas J. "Parenting and maternal reported child sleep problems in infancy predict school-age aggression and inattention." Sleep Health, vol. 8, no. 1, 2022, pp. 62-68. |
McLaughlin, Kirsten, Chandra, Archita, Camerota, Marie, Propper, Cathi. "Relations between infant sleep quality, physiological reactivity, and emotional reactivity to stress at 3 and 6 months." Infant Behavior and Development, vol. 67, 2022, pp. 101702. |
Camerota, Marie, Wylie, Amanda C., Goldblum, Jessica, Wideman, Laurie, Cheatham, Carol L., Propper, Cathi B. "Testing a cascade model linking prenatal inflammation to child executive function." Behavioural Brain Research, vol. 431, 2022, pp. 113959. |
Lester, Barry M, Camerota, Marie, Everson, Todd M. "The emergence of developmental behavioral epigenomics." Epigenomics, vol. 14, no. 9, 2022, pp. 499-502. |
Graw, Stefan, Camerota, Marie, Carter, Brian S., Helderman, Jennifer, Hofheimer, Julie A., McGowan, Elisabeth C., Neal, Charles R., Pastyrnak, Steven L., Smith, Lynne M., DellaGrotta, Sheri A., Dansereau, Lynne M., Padbury, James F., O’Shea, Michael, Lester, Barry M., Marsit, Carmen J., Everson, Todd M. "NEOage clocks - epigenetic clocks to estimate post-menstrual and postnatal age in preterm infants." Aging, vol. 13, no. 20, 2021, pp. 23527-23544. |
Camerota, Marie, McGowan, Elisabeth C., Hofheimer, Julie A., O’Shea, T. Michael, Carter, Brian S., Helderman, Jennifer B., Check, Jennifer, Neal, Charles R., Pastyrnak, Steven L., Smith, Lynne M., Loncar, Cynthia M., Sheinkopf, Stephen J., Dansereau, Lynne M., DellaGrotta, Sheri A., Lester, Barry M. "Neurodevelopmental profiles of infants born <30 weeks gestation at 2 years of age." Pediatric Research, vol. 91, no. 6, 2021, pp. 1579-1586. |
Camerota, Marie, Graw, Stefan, Everson, Todd M., McGowan, Elisabeth C., Hofheimer, Julie A., O’Shea, T. Michael, Carter, Brian S., Helderman, Jennifer B., Check, Jennifer, Neal, Charles R., Pastyrnak, Steven L., Smith, Lynne M., Dansereau, Lynne M., DellaGrotta, Sheri A., Marsit, Carmen J., Lester, Barry M. "Prenatal risk factors and neonatal DNA methylation in very preterm infants." Clinical Epigenetics, vol. 13, no. 1, 2021. |
Camerota, Marie, Willoughby, Michael T. "Applying Interdisciplinary Frameworks to Study Prenatal Influences on Child Development." Child Development Perspectives, vol. 15, no. 1, 2020, pp. 24-30. |
Lerner, Rachel E., Camerota, Marie, Tully, Kristin P., Propper, Cathi. "Associations between mother-infant bed-sharing practices and infant affect and behavior during the still-face paradigm." Infant Behavior and Development, vol. 60, 2020, pp. 101464. |
Camerota, Marie, Willoughby, Michael T., Magnus, Brooke E., Blair, Clancy B. "Leveraging item accuracy and reaction time to improve measurement of child executive function ability." Psychological Assessment, vol. 32, no. 12, 2020, pp. 1118-1132. |
Camerota, Marie, Gueron‐Sela, Noa, Grimes, Melissa, Propper, Cathi B. "Longitudinal links between maternal factors and infant cognition: Moderation by infant sleep." Infancy, vol. 25, no. 2, 2020, pp. 128-150. |
Camerota, Marie, Willoughby, Michael T., Blair, Clancy B. "Measurement models for studying child executive functioning: Questioning the status quo." Developmental Psychology, vol. 56, no. 12, 2020, pp. 2236-2245. |
Short, Sarah J., Willoughby, Michael T., Camerota, Marie, Stephens, Rebecca L., Steiner, Rachel J., Styner, Martin, Gilmore, John H. "Individual differences in neonatal white matter are associated with executive function at 3 years of age." Brain Structure and Function, vol. 224, no. 9, 2019, pp. 3159-3169. |
Camerota, Marie, Propper, Cathi B., Teti, Douglas M. "Intrinsic and extrinsic factors predicting infant sleep: Moving beyond main effects." Developmental Review, vol. 53, 2019, pp. 100871. |
Grimes, Melissa, Camerota, Marie, Propper, Cathi B. "Neighborhood deprivation predicts infant sleep quality." Sleep Health, vol. 5, no. 2, 2019, pp. 148-151. |
Camerota, Marie, Willoughby, Michael T. "Prenatal Risk Predicts Preschooler Executive Function: A Cascade Model." Child Development, vol. 91, no. 3, 2019. |
Camerota, Marie, Willoughby, Michael T., Blair, Clancy B. "Speed and accuracy on the Hearts and Flowers task interact to predict child outcomes." Psychological Assessment, vol. 31, no. 8, 2019, pp. 995-1005. |
Camerota, Marie, Tully, Kristin P, Grimes, Melissa, Gueron-Sela, Noa, Propper, Cathi B. "Assessment of infant sleep: how well do multiple methods compare?." Sleep, vol. 41, no. 10, 2018. |
Gueron-Sela, Noa, None, None, Camerota, Marie, Willoughby, Michael T., Vernon-Feagans, Lynne, Cox, Martha J. "Maternal depressive symptoms, mother-child interactions, and children’s executive function." Developmental Psychology, vol. 54, no. 1, 2018, pp. 71-82. |
Wagner, Nicholas J., Camerota, Marie, Propper, Cathi. "Prevalence and Perceptions of Electronic Cigarette Use during Pregnancy." Maternal and Child Health Journal, vol. 21, no. 8, 2017, pp. 1655-1661. |
Camerota, Marie, Bollen, Kenneth A. "Birth Weight, Birth Length, and Gestational Age as Indicators of Favorable Fetal Growth Conditions in a US Sample." PLOS ONE, vol. 11, no. 4, 2016, pp. e0153800. |
Gueron‐Sela, Noa, Propper, Cathi B., Wagner, Nicholas J., Camerota, Marie, Tully, Kristin P., Moore, Ginger A. "Infant respiratory sinus arrhythmia and maternal depressive symptoms predict toddler sleep problems." Developmental Psychobiology, vol. 59, no. 2, 2016, pp. 261-267. |
Camerota, Marie, Willoughby, Michael T., Kuhn, Laura J., Blair, Clancy B. "The Childhood Executive Functioning Inventory (CHEXI): Factor structure, measurement invariance, and correlates in US preschoolers." Child Neuropsychology, vol. 24, no. 3, 2016, pp. 322-337. |
Camerota, Marie, Willoughby, Michael T., Cox, Martha, Greenberg, Mark T. "Executive Function in Low Birth Weight Preschoolers: The Moderating Effect of Parenting." Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, vol. 43, no. 8, 2015, pp. 1551-1562. |
K01MH129510
Longitudinal Antecedents of Attention Problems in Very Preterm Children: Role of Epigenetics, Executive Function, and Caregiver Psychological Distress
Role: Principal Investigator
Year | Degree | Institution |
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2018 | PhD | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
2016 | MA | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
2013 | BS | Cornell University |
Name | Title |
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Lester, Barry | Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Professor of Pediatrics, Director of the Center for the Study of Children at Risk |
Research Scientist. Women & Infants' Hospital of RI, 2022- |