Research outputs
2025
The effect of environment and in-utero HIV exposure on neurodevelopment in infants.
Buchwald, A. G., Crespo-Llado, M. M., Maliwichi, L., Mdhluli, C., Mapemba, V., Chifumbi, S., . . . REFINE research team. (2025). The effect of environment and in-utero HIV exposure on neurodevelopment in infants.. AIDS (London, England), 39(10), 1441-1451. doi:10.1097/qad.0000000000004217
Longitudinal Habituation and Novelty Detection neural responses from infancy to early childhood in The Gambia and UK
Association between Maternal HIV and Adverse Birth Outcomes in the Era of Universal Antiretroviral Therapy in Malawi.
Nampota-Nkomba, N., Buchwald, A., Nyirenda, O. M., Mkandawire, F. A., Masonga, R., Meja, S., . . . REFINE Study Team. (2025). Association between Maternal HIV and Adverse Birth Outcomes in the Era of Universal Antiretroviral Therapy in Malawi.. Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999). doi:10.1097/qai.0000000000003685
2024
Scalable Transdiagnostic Early Assessment of Mental Health (STREAM): a study protocol.
Williams, E. H., Thompson, N. M., McCray, G., Crespo-Llado, M. M., Bhavnani, S., Gajria, D., . . . Chakrabarti, B. (2024). Scalable Transdiagnostic Early Assessment of Mental Health (STREAM): a study protocol.. BMJ open, 14(6), e088263. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2024-088263
It takes a village: Caregiver diversity and language contingency in the UK and rural Gambia.
Katus, L., Crespo-Llado, M. M., Milosavljevic, B., Saidykhan, M., Njie, O., Fadera, T., . . . BRIGHT Project Team. (2024). It takes a village: Caregiver diversity and language contingency in the UK and rural Gambia.. Infant behavior & development, 74, 101913. doi:10.1016/j.infbeh.2023.101913
The Brain Imaging for Global Health (BRIGHT) Project: Longitudinal cohort study protocol.
Lloyd-Fox, S., McCann, S., Milosavljevic, B., Katus, L., Blasi, A., Bulgarelli, C., . . . BRIGHT Project team. (2023). The Brain Imaging for Global Health (BRIGHT) Project: Longitudinal cohort study protocol.. Gates open research, 7, 126. doi:10.12688/gatesopenres.14795.2
2023
The Brain Imaging for Global Health (BRIGHT) Project: Longitudinal cohort study protocol
Lloyd-Fox, S., McCann, S., Milosavljevic, B., Katus, L., Blasi, A., Bulgarelli, C., . . . Elwell, C. E. (2023). The Brain Imaging for Global Health (BRIGHT) Project: Longitudinal cohort study protocol. Gates Open Research, 7, 126. doi:10.12688/gatesopenres.14795.1
It takes a village: caregiver diversity and language contingency in the UK and rural Gambia
The current landscape and future of tablet-based cognitive assessments for children in low-resourced settings.
McHenry, M. S., Mukherjee, D., Bhavnani, S., Kirolos, A., Piper, J. D., Crespo-Llado, M. M., & Gladstone, M. J. (2023). The current landscape and future of tablet-based cognitive assessments for children in low-resourced settings.. PLOS digital health, 2(2), e0000196. doi:10.1371/journal.pdig.0000196
2022
The global state of early child development: from epidemiology to interventions
Fernandes, M., Blackett, K., Crespo-Llado, M. M., Lau, C., Stevens, A. J., Richards, A., . . . Nielsen, M. (2022). The global state of early child development: from epidemiology to interventions. ARCHIVES OF DISEASE IN CHILDHOOD, 107(5), 516-517. doi:10.1136/archdischild-2022-323895
2021
Functional imaging of the developing brain with wearable high-density diffuse optical tomography: A new benchmark for infant neuroimaging outside the scanner environment.
Frijia, E. M., Billing, A., Lloyd-Fox, S., Vidal Rosas, E., Collins-Jones, L., Crespo-Llado, M. M., . . . Cooper, R. J. (2021). Functional imaging of the developing brain with wearable high-density diffuse optical tomography: A new benchmark for infant neuroimaging outside the scanner environment.. NeuroImage, 225, 117490. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117490
2019
Contextual support for children's recall within working memory.
Roome, H. E., Towse, J. N., & Crespo-Llado, M. M. (2019). Contextual support for children's recall within working memory.. Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006), 72(6), 1364-1378. doi:10.1177/1747021818804440
2018
Eight-month-old infants' behavioral responses to peers' emotions as related to the asymmetric frontal cortex activity.
Crespo-Llado, M. M., Vanderwert, R., Roberti, E., & Geangu, E. (2018). Eight-month-old infants' behavioral responses to peers' emotions as related to the asymmetric frontal cortex activity.. Scientific reports, 8(1), 17152. doi:10.1038/s41598-018-35219-4
Individual differences in infants' neural responses to their peers' cry and laughter.
Crespo-Llado, M. M., Vanderwert, R. E., & Geangu, E. (2018). Individual differences in infants' neural responses to their peers' cry and laughter.. Biological psychology, 135, 117-127. doi:10.1016/j.biopsycho.2018.03.008
2017
The development of spontaneous facial responses to others' emotions in infancy: An EMG study.
Kaiser, J., Crespo-Llado, M. M., Turati, C., & Geangu, E. (2017). The development of spontaneous facial responses to others' emotions in infancy: An EMG study.. Scientific reports, 7(1), 17500. doi:10.1038/s41598-017-17556-y