Thais Agut Quijano
Jefe de Grupo
Research group
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.
Professional network profiles
Related websites
SJD Barcelona Children's Hospital 
Fundación NeNe Last Publications
- Alsina-Casanova M, Lühr-Hansen M, Aldecoa V, del Río-Florentino R, Maton P, Sarafidis K, Zafra-Rodriguez P, Vesoulis ZA, Mastretta E, Bresesti I, Gómez-Chiari M, Rebollo M, Khamis J, Baltatzidis A, Benavente-Fernandez I, Shimony J, Morana G, Agosti M, Carreras-Blesa N, Adriana Cuaresma González, Gau A, Anastasiou A, Lubian-López SP, Alexopoulos D, Sciortino P, Dessimone F, Harboe Olsen M, Agut-Quijano T and Greisen G Effect of Cerebral Oximetry-Guided Treatment on Brain Injury in Preterm Infants as Assessed by Magnetic Resonance Imaging at Term Equivalent Age: An Ancillary SafeBoosC-III Study Neonatology . : 1-8.
- Rabanaque D, Regalado M, Benítez R, Rabanaque S, Agut-Quijano T, Carreras-Blesa N and Mata-Miquel C Semi-Automatic GUI Platform to Characterize Brain Development in Preterm Children Using Ultrasound Images Journal of Imaging . 9(7): .
- Núñez C, García-Alix A, Arca G, Agut-Quijano T, Carreras-Blesa N, Portella MJ and Stephan-Otto C Breastfeeding duration is associated with larger cortical gray matter volumes in children from the ABCD study JOURNAL OF CHILD PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY . 64(7): 1067-1079.
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
News
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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.