Contact information
marianne.vandervaart@paediatrics.ox.ac.uk
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8628-8719
she/her
Marianne Van Der Vaart
BSc, MSc, MSc, DPhil
Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher
Using neuroimaging to understand infant pain and its treatment.
Biography
Marianne is a visiting member of the Paediatric Neuroimaging Group. She joined the group in 2018, first as a DPhil student and later as a postdoctoral researcher. She is interested in improving the way we assess pain in newborns and in understanding how clinical procedures impact infants' brain activity, behaviour and physiology.
During her DPhil, she characterised premature infants' brain activity to a clinical procedure. Currently, she is working on improving the standardised assessment of infant pain to facilitate clinical trials into analgesics. To this end, she is developing a pipeline to analyse single-trial single-channel EEG data from infants. She is also exploring how certain clinical procedures affect infant breathing.
Marianne previously completed a BSc and MSc in Medicine and an MSc in Biomedical Sciences at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands. During her DPhil she was supported by the Department of Paediatrics, University of Oxford, and the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds. She now works as a postdoctoral research associate at King's College London.
Recent publications
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Statistical analysis plan for the Petal trial: the effects of parental touch on relieving acute procedural pain in neonates
Journal article
Baxter L. et al, (2024), Wellcome Open Research, 8, 402 - 402
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Establishing a standardised approach for the measurement of neonatal noxious-evoked brain activity in response to an acute somatic nociceptive heel lance stimulus
Journal article
Aspbury M. et al, (2024), Cortex, 179, 215 - 234
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A machine learning artefact detection method for single-channel infant event-related potential studies
Journal article
Marchant S. et al, (2024), Journal of Neural Engineering, 21, 046021 - 046021
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Effect of parental touch on relieving acute procedural pain in neonates and parental anxiety (Petal): a multicentre, randomised controlled trial in the UK.
Journal article
Hauck AGV. et al, (2024), Lancet Child Adolesc Health, 8, 259 - 269
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Parental experience of neonatal pain research while participating in the Parental touch trial (Petal)
Journal article
van der Vaart M. et al, (2024), Pain