Henning Tiemeier, M.A., M.D., Ph.D.

Sumner and Esther Feldberg Professor of Maternal and Child Health

Department of Social and Behavioral Science

Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health

Henning Tiemeier is a psychiatric epidemiologist who studies child development in population-based cohort studies. His work has a particular focus on prenatal exposures such as maternal depression, cannabis, or low thyroid function. Much of his work takes a neurodevelopmental approach and his group conducts large scale brain imaging studies in children. Seminal studies examine how parenting and other environmental risk factors relate to brain development as assessed by brain imaging. Other studies highlight methodological problems in child psychiatric research using multi-informant assessments. His multidisciplinary work combining epidemiology, genetics, brain imaging, and child development bridges historically separate disciplines and forms Population Neuroscience. At the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health he leads the Maternal and Child Health Center of Excellence. He will conduct studies in homeless families and a long-term neonatal intensive care cohort in close collaboration with the Harvard-affiliated hospitals to build a platform for etiological studies, intervention studies, and program evaluation in high risk children.

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https://faculty.harvard.edu/people/henning-tiemeier

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/henning-tiemeier

Publications

Ringoot AP, Tiemeier H, Jaddoe VW, So P, Hofman A, Verhulst FC, Jansen PW. Parental depression and child well-being: young children's self-reports helped addressing biases in parent reports. J Clin Epidemiol. 2015,68(8), 928-938. PMID:25900418

Kok R, Thijssen S, Bakermans-Kranenburg MJ, Jaddoe VW, Verhulst FC, White T, van IJzendoorn MH, Tiemeier H. Normal Variation in Early Parental Sensitivity Predicts Child Structural Brain Development. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2015 Oct;54(10):824-831 PMID: 26407492

Verlinden M, Jansen PW, Veenstra R, Jaddoe VW, Hofman A, Verhulst FC, Shaw P, Tiemeier H. Preschool Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity and Oppositional Defiant Problems as Antecedents of School Bullying. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2015; 54:571-9. PMID:26088662

Cortes Hidalgo AP, Neumann A, Bakermans‐Kranenburg MJ, Jaddoe VW, Rijlaarsdam J, Verhulst FC, White T, van IJzendoorn MH, Tiemeier H. Prenatal Maternal Stress and Child IQ. Child Development. 2019 in press. PMID: 30376186

Xerxa Y, Rescorla LA, Serdarevic F, Van IJzendorn MH, Jaddoe VW, Verhulst FC, Luijk MP, Tiemeier H. The complex role of parental separation in the association between family conflict and child problem behavior. Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology. 2019 Jan 20:1-5. PMID: 30657708