Thais Agut Quijano

Thais Agut Quijano

Jefe de Grupo

Research group

Neonatal Brain

Research line:

Neonatal Brain

The researcher Thaïs Agudo graduated in Medicine in 1998 from the University of Barcelona and obtained her PhD in Medicine from the University of Barcelona in 2015.

In 2007, she made a training stay at the University Hospital La Paz in Madrid to advance knowledge of neonatal ultrasonography.

She is a Certified Professional in NIDCAP ("Newborn Individualized Developmental Care and Assessment Program") for the structured assessment of premature babies, and she is trained in the evaluation of the general movements of newborns and infants.

Since 2013, she is a senior specialist in the Neonatal Service and is responsible for neonatal neurosonography as well as the coordination of the Neurological Risk Baby Monitoring Unit. Since 2017 she has been a member of the steering group (Steering group) of the European brain Ultrasound (eurUS.brain).

Since 2010, she has been part of the NeoNeuro group of the SJD Barcelona Children’s Hospital-Hospital Clínic with a special interest in the research of neuroimaging biomarkers in various neurological pathologies of newborns as well as the long-term evolution of these babies.

thais.agut@sjd.es

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Projects

Project name:
GrowingBrain: Valores de referencia del cerebro fetal para la identificación temprana de las alteraciones del neurodesarrollo de origen prenatal.
Leader
Miriam Pérez Cruz
Funding entities:
Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), Fundació Privada per a la Recerca i la Docència Sant Joan de Déu - FSJD, Pérez Cruz, Miriam
Code
PI22/00754
Starting - finishing date:
2023 - 2025
Project name:
SGR 2022-2024_Grup Cervell Neonatal (GCN)
Leader
Thais Agut Quijano
Funding entities:
Agaur - Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca
Code
2021 SGR 01505
Starting - finishing date:
2022 - 2025
Project name:
Elaboración de un atlas morfométrico normalizado de la maduración cerebral del recién nacido prematuro y valoración del impacto de la patología cerebral en el proceso madurativo
Leader
Thais Agut Quijano
Funding entities:
Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII)
Code
PI18/00110
Starting - finishing date:
2019 - 2023
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News

  • Longer breastfeeding duration leads to larger gray matter volume at age 10 years

    The Institut de Recerca Sant Joan de Déu (IRSJD) and the Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica Sant Pau (IIB Sant Pau) have led the largest-ever study with brain images of children between 9 and 11 years old, relating the duration of breastfeeding to a larger volume of cortical gray matter in this age bracket. The study has been published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.

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