Research at SIU SOM
 
 
Research Profile - Dr. Kimberly Andrews Espy  
   
Department/Division:     Email Address:
Family & Community Medicine kespy@siumed.edu
Office Location:     Location of Laboratory:
210 A Lindegren Hall, Carbondale, Il.   210 Lindegren, 130/330 Life Science II
Office Phone Number:     Laboratory Phone Number:
(618) 453-3207     (618) 453-3290
Willing to mentor medical students and / or residents? Yes
Research Interests: pediatrics
neuroscience
developmental neurotoxicology
statistics
Techniques and Methodologies: neuropsychological evaluation,
behavioral observation,
event-related potentials

Equipment:

split screen observational lab
128 channel high density array
brain ERP recording system
Current Collaborators:
Jodi Huggenvik, Ph.D.; David
Gilbert, Ph.D., Paul Kaufmann, Ph.D.
Current and Pending Awards:
NIDA 014661, Prenatal Tobacco Exposure: Perinatal & Genetic Risks;
NIMH 065668, Executive Function Development in Preschool Children.
Publications:    

Espy, K.A. & Cwik, M.F. (in press). The Development of a Trail Making Test in Young Children: The TRAILS-P. The Clinical Neuropsychologist.

Espy, K.A., Molfese, V.J., Molfese, D.L., & Modglin, A. (2004). Development of Auditory Event-Related Potentials in Young Children and Relations to Word-Level Reading Abilities at Age 8 Years. Annals of Dyslexia, 54, .

Espy, K.A., McDiarmid, M.D., Cwik, M.F., Senn, T.E., Hamby, A., & Stalets, M.M. (in press). The contributions of executive functions to emergent mathematic skills in preschool children. Developmental Neuropsychology.

Senn, T.E., Espy, K.A., & Kaufmann, P.M. (in press). Using path analysis to understand executive function organization. Developmental Neuropsychology.

Isquith, P.K., Gioia, G., & Espy, K.A. (in press). Executive functions preschool children: Examination through everyday behavior. Developmental Neuropsychology.

Espy, K.A. (in press). Introduction to the Special Issue: Using Developmental, Cognitive, and Neuroscience Approaches to Understand Executive Control in Young Children. Developmental Neuropsychology.


Bull, R., Espy, K.A., & Senn, T.E. (2004). A Comparison of Performance on the Towers of London and Hanoi in Young Children. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 45, 743-754.

Espy, K.A. & Senn, T.E. (2003). The Incidence and Correlates of Breast Milk Feeding in Hospitalized Preterm Infants. Social Science & Medicine, 57, 1421-1428.

Senn, T.E. & Espy, K.A. (2003). Effects of neurobehavioral assessment on neonatal feeding and weight gain in preterm infants. Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, 24, 1-4.

Gioia, G.G., Isquith, P.K., Retzlaff, P., & Espy, K.A. (2002). Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the BRIEF in a Clinical Sample. Child Neuropsychology, 8, 249-257.

Espy, K.A., Stalets, M.M., McDiarmid, M.D., Senn, T.E., Cwik, M.F. & Hamby, A. (2002). Executive Functions in Preschool Children Born Preterm: Application of Cognitive Neuroscience Paradigms. Child Neuropsychology, 8, 83-92.

Espy, K.A. & Hamby, A.F. (2002). „Getting into the mouths‰ of preschoolers: A method for obtaining buccal samples for later genotyping. Developmental Neuropsychology, 21, 197-200.

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www.siumed.edu/~kespy
     
     

 

 

 

 

 
 
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