Publications

Peer-reviewed journals

Blackmon, K., Evans, R., Mohammed, L., Burgen, K. S., Ingraham, E., Punch, B., Isaac, R., Murray, T., Noel, J., Belmar-Roberts, C., Waechter, R., & Landon, B. (2024). The Grenada Learning and Memory Scale: Psychometric features and normative data in Caribbean preschool children. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1355617724000481

Landon, B., Thomas, E. D., Orlando, L., Evans, R., Murray, T., Mohammed, L., Noel, J., Isaac, R., & Waechter, R. (2023). Spare the rod, spoil the child: Measurement and learning from an intervention to shift corporal punishment attitudes and behaviors in Grenada, West Indies. Frontiers in Public Health, 11. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1127687

Fernandes, M., Evans, R., Cheng, M., Landon, B., Noël, T., Macpherson, C. N. L., Cudjoe, N., Burgen, K. S., Waechter, R., LaBeaud, A. D., & Blackmon, K. (2023). Does Intra-Uterine Exposure to the Zika Virus Increase Risks of Cognitive Delay at Preschool Ages? Findings from a Zika-Exposed Cohort from Grenada, West Indies. Viruses, 15(6), 1290. https://doi.org/10.3390/v15061290

Waechter, R., Gallant, C., De Wilde, K., Arens, G., Brady, T., Custodio, J., Wakita, Y., Landon, B., Boateng, Y., Parthab, N., & Bhagat, A. (2023). Prevention of mental illness within public health: An analysis of progress via systematic literature review and a pathway forward. Preventive medicine reports, 34, 102249. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmedr.2023.102249

Kiener, M., Cudjoe, N., Evans, R., Mapp-Alexander, V., Tariq, A., Macpherson, C. N. L., Noël, T., Gérardin, P., Waechter, R., & LaBeaud, A. D. (2023). Factors Associated with Chikungunya Infection among Pregnant Women in Grenada, West Indies. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 109(1), 123–125. https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.23-0157

Waechter, R., Evans, R., Fernandes, M., Bailey, B. A., Holmes, S., Murray, T., Isaac, R., Punch, B., Cudjoe, N., Orlando, L., & Landon, B. (2022). A community-based responsive caregiving program improves neurodevelopment in two-year old children in a Middle-Income country, Grenada, West Indies. Psychosocial Intervention, 31(2), 97–107. https://doi.org/10.5093/pi2022a6

Waechter, R., Burgen, K. S., Punch, B., Evans, R., Blackmon, K., Noël, T., Fernandes, M., & Landon, B. (2022). Improving neurodevelopment in Zika-exposed children: A randomized controlled trial. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 16(3), e0010263. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0010263

Waechter, R., Evans, R., Hanna, S., Murray, T., Mobley, C., Holmes, S., Isaac, R., Wolfe, R., Andrew, E., Landon, B., & Fernandes, M. (2022). Adaptation of the INTERGROWTH-21st neurodevelopment assessment (INTER-NDA) to the context of the English-speaking Caribbean. BMC Pediatrics, 22(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12887-021-03039-7

Blackmon, K., Evans, R., Fernandes, M., Landon, B., Noël, T., Macpherson, C. N. L., Cudjoe, N., Burgen, K. S., Punch, B., Krystosik, A., Grossi-Soyster, E. N., LaBeaud, A. D., & Waechter, R. (2021). Neurodevelopment in normocephalic children with and without prenatal Zika virus exposure. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 107(3), 244–250. https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2020-321031

Jayatilake, P., Oyegunle, V., Waechter, R., Landon, B., Fernandes, M., Cudjoe, N., Evans, R., Noël, T., Macpherson, C., Donald, T., Baki, S., Mandalaneni, K., Dlugos, D., Chari, G., Patel, A. A., Grossi-Soyster, E. N., LaBeaud, A. D., & Blackmon, K. (2020). Focal epilepsy features in a child with Congenital Zika Syndrome. Epilepsy & Behavior Reports. doi: 10.1016/j.ebr.2020.100411

Blackmon, K., Waechter, R., Landon, B., Noël, T., Macpherson, C., Donald, T., Cudjoe, N., Evans, R., Burgen, K., Jayatilake, P., Oyegunle, V., Pedraza, O., Baki, S., Thesen, T., Dlugos, D., Chari, G., Patel, A. A., Grossi-Soyster, E. N., Krystosik, A. R., LaBeaud, A. D. (2020). Epilepsy surveillance in normocephalic children with and without prenatal Zika virus exposure. PLOS NTDs, 14(11). doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0008874

Foeller, M. E., Nosrat, C., Krystosik, A. R., Noël, T., Gérardin, P., Cudjoe, N., Mapp-Alexander, V., Mitchell, G., Macpherson, C., Waechter, R. & LeBeaud, A. (2020). Chikungunya Infection in pregnancy - reassuring maternal and perinatal outcomes: A retrospective observational study. BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. doi: 10.1111/1471-0528.16562

Waechter, R., Ingraham, E., Evans, R., Cudjoe, N., Krystosik, A., Isaac, R., Watts, A., Noël, T., Landon, B., Fernandes, M., Mapp-Alexander, V., Suresh, P., Mitchell, G., Macpherson, C., Gérardin, P., & LaBeaud, D. (2020). Pre and Postnatal exposure to Chikungunya virus does not affect child neurodevelopmental outcomes at two years of age. PLOS NTDs, 14(10). doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0008546

Landon, B. G., Waechter, R., Wolfe, R., & Orlando, L. (2017). Corporal punishment and physical discipline in the Caribbean: Human rights and cultural practices. Caribbean Journal of Psychology, 9(1), 7–23.