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Alexa Celeste Escapita

Postdoctoral Fellow

Also affiliated: University of Arkansas Medical Center (2025)

Postdoc Researcher

1 h-index 8 pubs 8 cited

  • Female
  • Heart Defects, Congenital
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Language Development
  • Language Development Disorders
  • Male
  • Transposition of Great Vessels
  • Child Development
  • Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1
  • Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2
  • Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • Child, Preschool
  • Retrospective Studies
  • Adult

Biography and Research Information

OverviewAI-generated summary

Alexa Escapita is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, focusing on the early neurodevelopment of children born to mothers with diabetes. Her research utilizes a combination of neurodevelopmental assessment tools to evaluate these effects. Previously, her work investigated the neurodevelopment of children with congenital heart disease, including studies on developmental language trajectories and the implementation of specific assessment tools for infants with single ventricle physiology.

Escapita's research interests include magnetoencephalography, early neurodevelopment, and the development and application of neurodevelopmental assessment tools. Her scholarly work has resulted in 8 publications, with a current h-index of 1. She has collaborated with researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences on multiple publications, including Tara Johnson, Namarta Kapil, and Bittu Majmudar-Sheth.

Metrics

  • h-index: 1
  • Publications: 8
  • Citations: 8

Selected Publications

  • Corrigendum to “Evaluating the effects of maternal diabetes on early infant neurodevelopment with a novel combination of four neurodevelopmental tools” [Early Human Development 214 (2026) 106461] (2026)
    Early Human Development DOI OpenAlex
  • 433 Neurodevelopmental effects of maternal diabetes in 12-month-old children (2026)
    Journal of Clinical and Translational Science DOI OpenAlex
  • Fetal Magnetoencephalographic Power Spectral Density and Neurobehavioral Correlation in Intrauterine Growth Restriction (IUGR) (2026)
    SSRN Electronic Journal DOI OpenAlex
  • Evaluating the effects of maternal diabetes on early infant neurodevelopment with a novel combination of four neurodevelopmental tools (2025)
    Early Human Development DOI OpenAlex
  • Enhancing Detection of Cerebral Palsy: Multimodal Developmental Assessments in High-Risk Infants (2025)
    Pediatrics Open Science 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Developmental language trajectories in children with critical CHD (2025)
    Cardiology in the Young 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • 587 A longitudinal study on the effects of diabetes on the neurodevelopment of infants (2025)
    Journal of Clinical and Translational Science DOI OpenAlex
  • A case report of spastic diplegic cerebral palsy in a late preterm child with hypoplastic left heart syndrome (2024)
    Translational Pediatrics DOI OpenAlex
  • Unveiling the Immediate Impact of Prechtl’s General Movement Assessment Training on Inter-Rater Reliability and Cerebral Palsy Prediction (2024)
    NeuroSci 5 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • 77099 Implementation of the Capute Scales and Prechtl’s General Movement Assessment in Infants with Single Ventricle Physiology (2021)
    Journal of Clinical and Translational Science DOI OpenAlex
  • 4108 Artificial Intelligence-Based Quantification of the General Movement Assessment Using Center of Pressure Patterns in Healthy Infants (2020)
    Journal of Clinical and Translational Science 1 citation DOI OpenAlex

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