China
Shanghai NBO Training
NBO training was organized by Root Medical China and conducted by Lise Johnson and Kevin Nugent at Shanghai First Hospital, Shanghai, China, March 25-27th, 2019. Participants included Dr. Wenhong Cheng and her research team from the Shanghai Mental Health Centre, who are preparing to conduct an RCT to study the effects of the NBO on postpartum depressions among a range of outcome variables. Lise Johnson and Kevin Nugent also spoke at the First Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics Symposium, Shenzhen, China on March 24th , 2019.
Shanghai General Hospital - Lise Johnson demonstrates the NBO with new Family and NBO trainees
Other Highlights
Shanghai and Shenzhen: The First China Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics Symposium was held in Shenzhen, China on March 24th, 2019. Lise Johnson and J. Kevin Nugent were the keynote speakers. NBO training, in association with the Shanghai ROOT Medical Research and Development Stock Corporation, was then presented by Lise and Kevin at Shanghai First Hospital, March 25-27th, 2019. At the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Shanghai Mental Health Center, Medical School of Shang Hai, Jiaotong University, Dr. Johnson and Dr. Nugent also worked with Dr. Wenhong Cheng, Deputy Director of the Shanghai Mental Health Centre and her research group as part of NBO training and consultation. An RCT - “The Efficacy of NBO Intervention on infants with high-risk depression mothers in Shanghai” - is being conducted by Dr. Cheng and her colleagues at the Shanghai Mental Health Center, in collaboration with Drs. Johnson and Nugent and the Brazelton Institute.
Professor Hui Li, Xi'an Jiaotong University reports from Xi’an: A new publication authored by Zhang Huiping, Liu Si, Si Yufang, et al. “Natural sunlight plus vitamin D supplementation ameliorate delayed early motor development in newborn infants from maternal perinatal depression” was published in the Journal of Affective Disorders, 2019, (257), 241–249. In addition, presentations included an “Introduction to NBAS/NBO” at the Third Congress of Cognitive Science and Translational Medicine of Brain Diseases of Chinese Society for Cognitive Science, Heifei, China, May, 2019. Another NBAS/NBO-themed presentation was delivered at the Second National Academic Annual Conference of Alliance of Metropolitan Institute of Education and Science and the International Forum on Brain Science and Education of China, Qingda, China, Sept. 2019 and a third NBAS/BNO related paper was presented at the Pediatric Nursing and the Second Academic Conference on Neonatal Nursing in Shandong, Jinan, China, November, 2019. There are plans to continue to introduce and use NBAS/NBO in clinical research and intervention in 2020..