Andréa Aguiar
Research Associate Professor
Primary Affiliation
Intelligence, Learning, and PlasticityAffiliations
Status Research Staff
Home Department of Comparative Biosciences
Phone 300-9235
Email aaguiar@illinois.edu
Address 2361 Beckman Institute, 405 North Mathews Avenue
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Biography
Andréa Aguiar is a research associate faculty at the Department of Comparative Biosciences and an affiliated faculty at the Illinois Global Institute, Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies. She is a developmental psychologist with expertise in cognitive functioning from infancy to adolescence and has been conducting team science research in epidemiology and environmental health with birth cohorts followed prospectively since 2004. These projects have included the Illinois Kids Development Study (IKIDS) in Champaign-Urbana, which started enrolling pregnant women in 2010 and became part of ECHO (Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes), an NIH national consortium of research centers, in 2016. ECHO aims to collect observational data and biospecimens from 60,000 mother-child pairs from diverse backgrounds across the country to understand the effects of various environmental factors on children’s health and development. ECHO research centers follow a common protocol to study 5 areas of health--pregnancy and birth, breathing, obesity, brain development, and well-being—and they contribute data to build a databank and biorepository accessible to researchers nationwide.
As part of the ECHO program, IKIDS has been recruiting pregnant women through collaborations with the Champaign-Urbana Public Health District (CUPHD) and Carle ObGyn clinic. Recruiting targets those who are most vulnerable to the negative impact of environmental factors: pregnant women who are mostly poor, have low education levels, and identify as underserved and marginalized minorities. Data collection begins early in pregnancy and continues until children reach 19 years of age.
Education
B.A., psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1991
M.A., psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1996
Ph.D., psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1999
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2024
- Cragoe N, Sprowles J, Woodbury ML, Musaad S, Enright E, Aguiar A, Schantz SL. Associations of prenatal maternal urinary concentrations of triclosan and benzophenone-3 with cognition in 7.5-month-old infants. Environ Res. 2024 Sep 10;263(Pt 1):119975. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2024.119975. PMID: 39265761
- Eick SM, Ortlund K, Aguiar A, Merced-Nieves FM, Woodbury ML, Milne GL, Schantz SL. Associations between oxidative stress biomarkers during pregnancy and infant cognition at 7.5 months. Dev Psychobiol. 2024 Feb;66(2):e22457. doi: 10.1002/dev.22457. PMID: 38388194; PMCID: PMC10901445.
- Ortlund KE, Schantz SL, Aguiar A, Merced-Nieves FM, Woodbury ML, Goin DE, Calafat AM, Milne GL, Eick SM. Oxidative stress as a potential mechanism linking gestational phthalates exposure to cognitive development in infancy. Neurotoxicol Teratol. 2024 Oct 1;106:107397. doi: 10.1016/j.ntt.2024.107397. PMID: 39362385.
2023
- Enright EA, Eick SM, Morello-Frosch R, Aguiar A, Woodbury ML, Sprowles JLN, Geiger SD, Trowbridge J, Andrade A, Smith S, Park JS, DeMicco E, Padula AM, Woodruff TJ, Schantz SL. Associations of prenatal exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) with measures of cognition in 7.5-month-old infants: An exploratory study. Neurotoxicol Teratol. 2023 Jul-Aug;98:107182. doi: 10.1016/j.ntt.2023.107182. Epub 2023 May 10. PMID: 37172619.
- Geiger SD, Musaad S, Hill J, Aguiar A, Schantz S. Sex-specific associations between urinary bisphenols concentrations during pregnancy and problematic child behaviors at age 2 years. Neurotoxicol Teratol. 2023 Mar-Apr;96:107152. doi: 10.1016/j.ntt.2023.107152. Epub 2023 Jan 13. PMID: 36642394.
- Hofheimer JA, McGrath M, Musci R, Wu G, Polk S, Blackwell CK, Stroustrup A, Annett RD, Aschner J, Carter BS, Check J, Conradt E, Croen LA, Dunlop AL, Elliott AJ, Law A, Leve LD, Neiderhiser JM, O'Shea TM, Salisbury AL, Sathyanarayana S, Singh R, Smith LM, Aguiar A, Angal J, Carliner H, McEvoy C, Ondersma SJ, Lester B; Program Collaborators for Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes. Assessment of Psychosocial and Neonatal Risk Factors for Trajectories of Behavioral Dysregulation Among Young Children From 18 to 72 Months of Age. JAMA Netw Open. 2023 Apr 3;6(4):e2310059. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.10059. PMID: 37099294; PMCID: PMC10134008.
- Suthar H, Manea T, Pak D, Woodbury M, Eick SM, Cathey A, Watkins DJ, Strakovsky RS, Ryva BA, Pennathur S, Zeng L, Weller D, Park JS, Smith S, DeMicco E, Padula A, Fry RC, Mukherjee B, Aguiar A, Dee Geiger S, Ng S, Huerta-Montanez G, Vélez-Vega C, Rosario Z, Cordero JF, Zimmerman E, Woodruff TJ, Morello-Frosch R, Schantz SL, Meeker JD, Alshawabkeh A, Aung MT. Cross-sectional associations between prenatal maternal per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances and bioactive lipids in three Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) cohorts. medRxiv [Preprint]. 2023 Nov 7:2023.11.03.23297930. doi: 10.1101/2023.11.03.23297930. PMID: 37961525; PMCID: PMC10635258.
2022
- Nozadi SS, Aguiar A, Du R, Enright EA, Schantz SL, Miller C, Rennie B, Quetawki M, MacKenzie D, Lewis JL. Cross-cultural applicability of eye-tracking in assessing attention to emotional faces in preschool-aged children. Emotion. 2022 Sep 15;. doi: 10.1037/emo0001124. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 36107657.
- Sprowles JLN, Monaikul S, Aguiar A, Gardiner J, Monaikul N, Kostyniak P, Schantz SL. Associations of concurrent PCB and PBDE serum concentrations with executive functioning in adolescents. Neurotoxicol Teratol. 2022 Jul-Aug;92:107092. doi: 10.1016/j.ntt.2022.107092. Epub 2022 Apr 23. PMID: 35472414; PMCID: PMC9271596.
2021
- Dzwilewski, K.L.C., Woodbury, M.L., Aguiar, A., Shoaff, J., Merced-Nieves, F.M., Korrick, S.A., Schantz, S.L. (2021). “Associations of prenatal exposure to phthalates with measures of cognition in 7.5-month-old-infants.” NeuroToxicology. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuro.2021.03.001
- Eick, S.M., Enright, E.A., Geiger, S.D., Dzwilewski, K.L.C, DeMicco, E., Smith, S., Park, J.S., Aguiar, A., Woodruff, T.J, Morello-Frosch, R., Schantz, S.L. (2021). Associations of maternal stress, prenatal exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), and demographic risk factors with birth outcomes and offspring neurodevelopment: An overview of the ECHO.CA.IL prospective birth cohort. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(2):742. DOI: 10.3390/ijerph18020742
- Merced-Nieves, FM, Dzwilewski, KLC, Aguiar, A., Musaad, S, Korrick, SA, Schantz, SL. (2021). Association of prenatal exposure to phthalates with measures of cognition in 4.5-month-old infants. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(4):1838. DOI: 10.3390/ijerph18041838
- Zimmerman E1, Aguiar A1, Aung MT, Geiger SD, Hines M, Woodbury ML, Martens A, Huerta-Montanez G, Cordero JF, Meeker JD, Schantz SL, Alshawabkeh AN; Program Collaborators for Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes. Examining the association between prenatal maternal stress and infant non-nutritive suck. Pediatr Res. 2021 Dec 16. doi: 10.1038/s41390-021-01894-9. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34916626.
2020
- Dzwilewski, K.L.C., Merced-Nieves, F.M., Aguiar, A., Korrick, S.A., Schantz, S.L. (2020). “Characterization of performance on an automated visual recognition memory task in 7.5-month-old-infants.” Neurotoxicology and Teratology, 81. DOI: 10.1016/j.ntt.2020.106904
- Merced-Nieves, FM, Dzwilweski,, KLC, Aguiar, A., Lin, J., Schantz, SL. (2020). “Associations of prenatal maternal stress with measures of cognition in 7.5-month-old infants. Developmental Psychobiology. DOI: 10.1002/dev.22059.
2019
- Merced-Nieves, FM, Aguiar, A, Dzwilewski, KLC, Musaad, S, Korrick, SA, Schantz, SL. (2019). Association of prenatal maternal perceived stress with a sexually dimorphic measure of cognition in 4.5-month-old infants. Neurotoxicology and Teratology,77. DOI: 10.1016/j.ntt.2019.106850.
- Stroustrup A, Bragg JB, Spear EA, Aguiar, A, Zimmerman, E, JR Isler, Busgang, SA, Curtin, PC, Gennings, C, Andra, SA, Arora, M. (2019). Cohort profile: the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Hospital Exposures and Long-Term Health (NICU-HEALTH) cohort, a prospective preterm birth cohort in New York City. BMJ Open, 9(11):e032758. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-032758
2018
- Yazdy, M.M., Coull, B.A., Gardiner, J.C., Aguiar, A., Calafat, A.M., Ye, X., Schantz, S.L, Korrick, S.A. (2018). A Possible Approach to Improving the Reproducibility of Urinary Concentrations of Phthalate Metabolites and Phenols during Pregnancy. Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology, 28(5), 448-460.
2015
- Aguiar, A., Eubig, P.A., and Schantz. S.L. (2015). Attention deficit/hyperactivity Disorder: A Focused Overview for Children's Environmental Health Researchers. In C. Croft (Ed.), Environmental hazards and neurodevelopment: Where ecology and well-being connect, (Chapter 11, pp. 223—245). CRC Press/Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group (Reprinted from Environmental Health Perspectives, 118, 1646-1653, 2010) https://doi.org/10.1201/b18030
2011
- Aguiar, A., and Schantz, S.L. (2011). Impaired attention in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder compared with developmental lead or PCB exposure. Neurotoxicology and Teratology, 33(4):500-500. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ntt.2011.05.032
- Eubig, P.A., Aguiar, A., and Schantz, S.L. (2011). ADHD, lead, and PCBs: Eubig et al. respond. Environmental Health Perspectives, 119(7):a282-3. https://doi.org/10.1289/ehp.1103513R
2010
- Aguiar A, Eubig PA, Schantz SL., Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: A focused Overview for Children's Environmental Health Researchers, Environ Health Perspect. 2010 Sep 9.
- Aguiar, A., Eubig, P.A., and Schantz, S.L. (2010). Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A focused overview for children’s environmental health researchers. Environmental Health Perspectives, 118, 1646-1653.
- Eubig PA, Aguiar A, Schantz SL, Lead and PCBs as Risk Factors for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Environ Health Perspect. 2010 Sep 9.
- Eubig, P.A., Aguiar, A., and Schantz, S.L. (2010). Lead and PCBs as risk factors for Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. Environmental Health Perspectives, 118, 1654-1667.
- Schantz SL, Gardiner JC, Aguiar A, Tang X, Gasior DM, Sweeney AM, Peck JD, Gillard D, Kostyniak PJ. Contaminant profiles in Southeast Asian immigrants consuming fish from polluted waters in northeastern Wisconsin, Environ Res. 2010 Jan;110(1):33-9.
- Schantz, S.L., Gardiner, J.C., Aguiar, A., Tang, T., Gasior D.M., Sweeney. A.M., Peck, J.D., Gillard, D., and Kostyniak, P.J. (2010). Contaminant profiles in Southeast Asian immigrants consuming fish from polluted waters in northeastern Wisconsin. Environmental Research, 110, 33-39.
2003
- Aguiar, A., and Baillargeon, R. (2003). Perseverative responding in 6.5-month-old infants in a violation-of-expectation task. Cognition, 88, 277-316.
2002
- Aguiar, A., and Baillargeon, R. (2002). Developments in young infants’ reasoning about occluded objects. Cognitive Psychology, 45, 267-336.
2000
- Aguiar, A., and Baillargeon, R. (2000). Problem solving and perseveration in infancy. In H. Reese (Ed.), Advances in Child Development and Behavior, (Vol. 27, pp. 135-180). New York: Academic Press.
1999
- Aguiar, A., and Baillargeon, R. (1999). 2.5-month-old infants' reasoning about occlusion events. Cognitive Psychology, 39, 116-157.
1998
- Aguiar, A., and Baillargeon, R. (1998). 8.5-month-old infants' reasoning about containment events. Child Development, 69, 636-653.
- Baillargeon, R., and Aguiar, A. (1998). Toward a general model of perseveration in infancy. Developmental Science, 1, 190-191.