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Andréane Lavallée, PhD

Studying how brain, body, and behavior synchronize during parent-child interactions to shape socio-emotional development.

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Research

Leveraging collaborations with experts across the field of Early Relational Health, Andréane’s research mechanistically investigates how dyadic parent-child relational health yields long-term health and well-being through optimized socioemotional functioning.

Project 1 : Bio-Behavioral Determinants of Mother-Infant Face-to-Face Interactions

Project 2 : Building the Evidence Base for Dyadic Caregiver–Infant Interventions

Project 3 : Parent-Child Connection Interviews

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Andréane Lavallée, PhD

Associate Research Scientist

Center for Early Relational Health

Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Principal Investigator

Interpersonal Synchrony and Connection (InSynC) Lab

I lead social-developmental neuroscience research exploring neural, physiological, behavioral, and emotional mechanisms that underlie human parent-child face-to-face interactions and shape socio-emotional developmental trajectories. 

 

This work is funded by a K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD).

Publications

Development of a revised and abbreviated version of the postpartum bonding questionnaire (PBQ-R): First U.S. validation and association to child outcomes

Lavallée A, Warmingham JM, Reimers MA, Curtin P. Kyle MH, Austin J, Lee S, Barker T, Hussain M, Arduin E, Ahmed I, Atwood G, Ettinger S, Smotrich G, Turner JB, Fisher PW, Marsh R, Dumitriu D. Infant Ment Health J. 2025.

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Advancing early relational health: a collaborative exploration of a research agenda

*Dumitriu D, *Lavallée A, Riggs JL, Frosch CA, Barker TV, Best DL, Blasingame B, Bushar J, Charlot-Swilley D, Erickson E, Finkel MA, Fortune B, Gillen L, Martinez M, Ramachandran U, Sanders LM, Willis DW, Shearman N. Front Pediatr. 2023;11:1259022. *Shared first authorship.

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Early dyadic parent/caregiver-infant interventions to support early relational health: a meta-analysis

Lavallée A, Pang L, Warmingham J, Atwood G, Ahmed I, Lanoff M, Finkel MA, Xu R, Arduin E, Hamer K, Fischman R, Ettinger S, Hu Y, Fisher K, Greeman E, Kuromaru M, Durr S, Flowers E, Gozali A, Willis D, Dumitriu D.  Preprint at medRxiv. 2022.

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