Martha G Welch MD

PubMed

• Development and validation of the Mother's Socioemotional Support Circle (MSSC): A self-evaluation social support tool to guide social support efforts for preterm moth...
  Robert J Ludwig, Judy Austin, Lianne J Woodward, Laura C Adams, Marc E Jaffe
  Acta Psychologica. 2025-08-01
• Effectiveness Trial of Family Nurture Intervention as a Standard of Care in the NICU: Enhanced Brain Activity in Preterm Infants.
  Christiana Farkouh-Karoleski, Michael M Myers, Philip G Grieve, Joseph R Isler, Robert J Ludwig
  Developmental Psychobiology. 2025-07-01
• 3 citations
  Emergence of a synergistic scaffold in the brains of human infants.
  Thomas F Varley, Olaf Sporns, Nathan J Stevenson, Pauliina Yrjölä, Martha G Welch
  Communications Biology. 2025-05-13

Journal Articles

• Colostrum oxytocin modulates cellular stress response, inflammation and autophagy markers in newborn rat gut villi  
  Welch MG, Kelin,BY, Tamir H, Ludwig RJ, Glickstein SB, Biochem Biophys Res Commun., 5/20/2017
• Prairie vole pups show potentiated isolation-induced vocalization following isolation from their mother, but not their father  
  Robison W.T., Myers M.M., Hofer M.A., Shair H.N., Welch M.G., Developmental Psychobiology, 1/16/2016
• Calming cycle theory: The roll of visceral/autonomic learning in early mother and infant/child behaviour and development  
  Welch M.G., Acta Paediatrica, 1/10/2016

Books/Book Chapters

• Autism: Oxidative Stress, Inflammation and Immune Abnormalities. 
  Welch M.G. and Klein B.K.Editors: Chauhan A., Chauhan V., and Brown W. T..Taylor & Francis/CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL2009
• Autism and Related Disorders. International Review of Neurobiology 
  Chapter: Chapter 7. Predicted therapeutic role of secretin and oxytocin in autism: Implications for treatment of mental illness 
  Welch M.G. and Ruggiero D.A.Editors: Dhossche D.M. GABA.Elsevier, San Diego, CA2005
• Autism Spectrum Disorders: An encyclopedia for parents and educators. 
  Chapter: Welch Method Therapy 
  Welch M.G. and Ruggiero D.A.Editors: Myles B.S., Swanson T.C., Holverstott J..Greenwood Publishing Group, Westport, CT2005

Abstracts/Posters

• Validation of a Relational Screen for Emotional Connection in Preterm Infants.
  Welch, M.G., Hane, A.A., LaCoursiere J.N., Ludwig, R.J., Myers,M.M., Mitsuyama, M., Weinman, S., Browne, J., Pediatric Adademic Societies, San Francisco, CA, 2017
• Welch Emotional Connection Scale (WECS). Program No. 202019.
  Welch, M.G., Hane, A.A., LaCoursiere J.N., Ludwig, R.J., Myers, M.M., Neuroscience Abstracts, Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA, 1/1/2016
• Maternal potentiation of ultrasonic vocalizations is not a marker of stress.
  Welch, M.G., Hane, A.A., LaCoursiere J.N., Ludwig, R.J., Myers, M.M., Neuroscience Abstracts, Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA, 1/1/2016

Lectures

• Family Nurture Intervention and effects on physiology in areas important for development of executive function. 
  Karolinska, Stockholm, Sweden - 1/16/2014
• Implementing FNI in a high acuity NICU. 
  Clearwater Beach, FL - 1/26/2013
• FNI RCT in the NICU: Why did a small dose get big effects? 
  Clearwater Beach, FL - 1/25/2013