Xiaoxu Na

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UAMS primary UA Little Rock

Also affiliated: Arkansas Children's Nutrition Center (2022–2023); Arkansas Children's Research Institute (2022–2023)

7 h-index 25 pubs 125 cited

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Xiaoxu Na's research investigates the impact of maternal factors on offspring neurodevelopment. Na has published work exploring how maternal nutrition during pregnancy relates to brain development in newborns, utilizing neuroimaging techniques. Other areas of focus include the associations between maternal physical activity, depressive symptoms, and anxiety levels during pregnancy and their effects on the developing fetal brain's structure and functional connectivity. Na also studies white matter microstructures in relation to cognitive functioning in children and examines liver fat in adolescents with obesity through exercise interventions and diagnostic elastography. Na collaborates with researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, including Xiawei Ou, Charles M. Glasier, Thomas M. Badger, and Jayne Bellando, with whom Na has co-authored multiple publications.

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h-index: 7
Publications: 25
Citations: 125

Selected Publications

Associations between maternal adiposity during pregnancy and neonatal brain cortical development (2026)

NeuroImage DOI OpenAlex
Association of prenatal depression and anxiety with cortical development and behavioral outcomes in 8-year-old children (2026)

Journal of Affective Disorders 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
Maternal physical activity during pregnancy is associated with changes of brain cortical development and executive function in 8-year-old children (2026)

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience DOI OpenAlex
Body weight-related alterations in white matter functional connectivity in children: An fMRI study (2026)

BMC Neurology DOI OpenAlex
Body mass index, cortical thickness and executive function in late childhood (2025)

BMC Pediatrics DOI OpenAlex
Relationships Between Body Composition and Mental Health During Pregnancy Are Moderated by Physical Activity and Diet (2025)

The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
ADHD diagnostics and severity assessment using topological manifold learning of resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) (2025)

Neuroimage Reports 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
Functional Connectivity to the Amygdala in the Neonate Is Impacted by the Maternal Anxiety Level During Pregnancy (2025)

Journal of Neuroimaging 7 citations DOI OpenAlex
White matter functional networks in the developing brain (2024)

Frontiers in Neuroscience 3 citations DOI OpenAlex
Maternal Nutrition during Pregnancy and Offspring Brain Development: Insights from Neuroimaging (2024)

Nutrients 19 citations DOI OpenAlex
Birth-related subdural hemorrhage in asymptomatic neonates: evolution over time and differentiation from traumatic subdural hemorrhage (2024)

Pediatric Radiology 7 citations DOI OpenAlex
Diagnostic Accuracy of Transient Elastography in Hepatosteatosis in Youth With Obesity (2024)

Journal of the Endocrine Society 10 citations DOI OpenAlex
Maternal Diet Quality during Pregnancy Is Associated with Neonatal Brain White Matter Development (2023)

Nutrients 7 citations DOI OpenAlex
Effects of short‐term supervised exercise training on liver fat in adolescents with obesity: a randomized controlled trial (2023)

Obesity 19 citations DOI OpenAlex
Associations between mother’s depressive symptoms during pregnancy and newborn’s brain functional connectivity (2023)

Cerebral Cortex 13 citations DOI OpenAlex