Academic Profile : Faculty

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Assoc Prof Anne Rifkin-Graboi
Deputy Centre Director, Science of Learning in Education, OER Centre for Science of Learning in Education
Associate Professor, National Institute of Education - Learning Sciences and Assessment
Deputy Centre Director, Science of Learning in Education, National Institute of Education
Journal Articles (Central)
Rifkin-Graboi, A., Tan, H. M., Shaun, G. K. Y., Sim, L. W., Sanmugam, S., Chong, Y. S., ... & Fortier, M. (2019). An initial investigation of neonatal neuroanatomy, caregiving, and levels of disorganized behavior. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 116(34), 16787-16792. Rifkin-Graboi, A., Quan, J., Richmond, J., Goh S.K.Y, Sim, L-W, Chong Y-S, Bureau, JF, Chen, H., Qiu, A. (2018). Greater caregiving risk, better infant memory performance?. Hippocampus, 28(7), 497-511.

Rifkin-Graboi A., Kong L., Sim L.W., Sanmugam S., Broekman B.F., Chen H., Wong E., Kwek K., Saw S.M., Chong Y.S., Gluckman P.D., Fortier M.V., Pederson D., Meaney M.J., Qiu A. (2015). Maternal sensitivity, infant limbic structure volume and functional connectivity:a preliminary study. Nature Translational Psychiatry, 5 , e668.

Rifkin-Graboi, A., Khng, K. H., Cheung, P., T sotsi, S., Sun, H., Kwok, F., Yu, Y., Xie, H., Yang, Y., Chen, M., Ng, C. C., Hu, P.L., & Tan, N. C. (2019). Will the future BE POSITIVE? Early life experience as a signal to the developing brain pre school entry. Learning: Research and Practice, 5(2), 99-125.

Heng J., Quan J., Sim L.W., Sa nmugam S., Broekman B., BureauJ.F., Meaney M.J., Holbrook J.D., Rifkin-Graboi A. (2018). The role of ethnicity and socioeconomic status in Southeast Asian mothers'parenting sensitivity.. Attachment and Human Development, 20(1), 24-42.

Bong CL, Ho D, Allen J, Lim G, Tan H-K, Broekman B, Fabila T, Reddy S, Koh W-P, Tan J S-K, Meaney MJ, Rifkin-Graboi, A. (2023). Early Neurodevelopmental Outcomes following Exposure to General Anesthesia in Infancy: EGAIN, a Prospective Cohort Study.. Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology., 35(4), 394-4 05.

Rifkin-Graboi A, Tsotsi S, Syazwana N, Stephenson MC, Sim LW and Lee K (2023). Variation in maternal sensitivity and the development of memory biases in preschoolers.. Front. Behav. Neurosci., 17(1093619), doi: 10.3389.

Rahman, A.A., Tan, H-K, Loo, S.T., Malik, A.B.A, Tan, K-H, Gluckm an, P., Chong, Y-S, Meaney, M.J., Qiu, A., Rifkin-Graboi, A (2022). Cognitive flexibility in preschoolers: A role for the late frontal negativity (LFN). Cognitive Development, 63, 101200(0885-2014), 101200.

Goh, Shaun K. Y.,Yang, Hwajin,Tsotsi, Stella,Qiu, Anqi,Chong, Yap-Seng,Tan, Kok Hian ,Pei-Chi, Lynette Shek,Broekman, Birit F. P.,Rifkin-Graboi, Anne (2020). Mitigation of a Prospective Association Between Early Language Delay at Toddlerhood and ADHD Among Bilingual Preschoolers: Evidence from the GUSTO Cohort. J Abnorm Child Psychol, 48(4), 511-523.

Tan, H. K., Goh, S. K. Y., Tsotsi, S., Bruntraeger, M., Chen, H. Y., Broekman, B., Tan, K. H., Chong, Y. S., Meaney, M. J., Qiu, A., Rifkin-Graboi, A. (2020). Maternal Antenatal Anxiety and Electrophysiological Functioning amo ngst a Sub-set of Preschoolers Participating in the GUSTO cohort. BMC Psychiatry, 20(1), 62.

Tsotsi, S., Broekman, B.F.P., Sim, L.W., Shek, L.P., Tan, K.H., Yap, F., Chong, Y.S., Qiu, A., Chen, H., Meaney, M.J., Rifkin-Graboi, A (2019). Maternal Anxiety, Parenting Stress, and Preschoolers'Behavior Problems: The Role of Child Self-Regulation. J Dev Behav Pediatr, 40(9), 696-705.

Lee, A., Poh, JS, Wen, DJ Tan, HM, Chong, Y-S, Shek, L, Tan, KH, Gluckman, PD, Fortier, MV, Rifkin-Graboi, A*. Qiu-A (2019). Maternal Care in Infancy and the Cours e of Limbic Development. Dev Cogn Neurosci, 40(100714), 100714.

Jun S. Lai, Shirong Cai, Lei Feng, Lynette P. Shek, Fabian Yap, Kok Hian Tan,Yap Seng Chong, Keith M. Godfrey, Michael J. Meaney, Anne Rifkin-Graboi, Birit F.P. Broekman & Mary F.F. Chong (2019). Associations of maternal zinc and magnesium with offspring learning abilities and cognitive development at 4 years in GUSTO. Nutritional Neuroscience, 22(null), 1-10.

Wang Q, Zhang H, Wee CY, Lee A, Poh JS, Chong YS, Tan KH, Gluckman PD, Yap F, Fortier MV, Rifkin-Graboi A, Qiu A (2019). Maternal sensitivity predicts anteriorhippocampal functional networks in early childhood. Brain Struct Funct, 224(5), 1885-1895.

Lai JS, Mohamad Ayob MN, Cai S, Quah PL, Gluckman PD, Shek LP, Yap F, Tan KH, Chong YS, Godfrey KM, Meaney MJ, Broekman BFP, Rifkin-Graboi A, Chong MFF. ( 2019). Maternal plasma vitamin B12 concentrations during pregnancy and infant cognitive outcomes at 2 years of age. British Journal of Nutrition, 121(11), 1303-1312.

Tham, E., Richmond, J., Gooley, J., Jafar, N., Chong, Y-S, Chong, F., Teoh, O-H, Goh, D., Broekman, B. Rifkin-Graboi, A. (201 9). Variations in habitual sleep and relational memory in 6-month-olds.. Sleep Health Journal of the National Sleep Foundation, 0(null), 1-9.

Pang, W. W.,Tan, P. T.,Cai, S.,Fok, D.,Chua, M. C.,Lim, S. B.,Shek, L. P.,Chan, S. Y.,Tan, K . H.Yap, F.,Gluckman, P. D.,Godfrey, K. M.,Meaney, M. J.Broekman, B. F. P.,Kramer, M. S.,Chong, Y. S., Rifkin-Graboi, A. (2019). Nutrients or nursing? Understanding how breast milk feeding affects child cognition. European Journal of Nutrition, 59(2), 609-619.

Tsotsi, S., Broekman, B. F. P., Shek, L. P., Tan, K. H., Chong, Y. S., Chen, H., Meaney, M. J., & Rifkin-Graboi, A. E. (2019). Maternal Parenting Stress, Child Exuberance, and Preschoolers' Behavior Problems. Child Development, 90(null), 136-146.

Tsotsi S., Borelli J.L., Abdulla N.B ., Tan H.M., Sim L.W., Sanmugam S.,Tan K.H., Chong Y.S., Qiu A., Chen H., Rifkin-Graboi A. (2018). Maternal sensitivity during infancy and the regulation of startle inpreschoolers.. Attachment and Human Development, 8(null), 1-18.

Goh, S.K.Y ., Tham E.K.H., Magiati, I., Sim, L., Sanmugam, S., Qiu, A., Daniel M.L., Broekman B.F.P.,Rifkin-Graboi A. (2017). Analysis of Item-Level Bias in the Bayley-III Language Subscales: The Validity and Utility of Standardized Language Assessment in a Multilingual S etting.. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 60(9), 2663-2671.

Quan J., Bureau J.F., Abdul Malik A.B., Wong J., Rifkin-Graboi A. (2017). Reactive and anticipatory looking in 6-month-old infants during a visualexpectation paradigm.. Data in Brief., 4(14), 713-719.

Quan J., Ong M.L., Bureau J.F., Sim L.W., Sanmugam S., Abdul Malik A.B., Wong E., Wong J., Chong Y.S., Saw S.M., Kwek K., Qiu A., HolbrookJ.D., Rifkin-Graboi A.; GUSTO Study Group (2017). The influence of CHRNA4, COMT, and maternal sensitivity on orienting andexecutive attention in 6-month-old infants.. Brain and Cognition, 116, 17-28.

Wen DJ, Soe NN, Sim LW, Sanmugam S, Kwek K, Chong YS, Gluckman PD, Meaney MJ, Rifkin-Graboi A, Qiu A. (2017). Infant frontal EEG asymmetry in relation with postnatal maternal depression a nd parenting behavior.. Nature Translational Psychiatry, 7(3), e1057.

Granqvist P., Sroufe L.A., Dozier M., Hesse E., Steele M., vanIjzendoorn M., Solomon J., Schuengel C., Fearon P., Bakermans-Kranenburg M., Steele H., Cassidy J., Carlson E., Madigan S., Jacobvitz D., Foster S., Behren s K., Rifkin-Graboi A., Gribneau N., Spangler G., Ward M.J., True M., Spieker S., Reijman S., Reisz S., TharnerA., Nkara F., Goldwyn R., Sroufe J., Pederson D., Pederson D.,Weigand R., Siegel D., Dazzi N., Bernard K., Fonagy P., WatersE., Toth S., Cicchetti D., Zeanah C.H., Lyons-Ruth K., Main M.,Du schinsky R. (2017). Disorganized attachment in infancy: a review of the phenomenon and itsimplications for clinicians and policy-makers.. Attachment and Human Development, 19(6), 634-658.

Chong S.C., Broekman B.F., Qiu A., Aris I.M., Chan Y.H.,Ri fkin-Graboi A., Law E., Chee C.Y., Chong Y.S., Kwek K.Y., Saw S.M., Gluckman P.D., Meaney M.J., Chen H. (2016). ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION DURING PREGNANCY AND TEMPERAMENT IN EARLY INFANCY:FINDINGS FROM A MULTI-ETHNIC, ASIAN, PROSPECTIVE BIRTH COHORT STUDY.. Infant Me ntal Health Journal, 37(5), 584-98.

Cai S., Qiu A., Broekman B.F., Wong E.Q., Gluckman P.D., Godfrey K.M., Saw S.M., Soh S.E., Kwek K., Chong Y.S., Meaney M.J.,Kramer M.S., Rifkin-Graboi A.; GUSTO study group. (2016). The Influence of Gestational Diabetes on Neurodevelopment of Children in the First Two Years of Life: A Prospective Study.. PLoS One, 11(9), e0162113.

Soe, N.N., Wen D.J.,Poh J.S., Li Y., Broekman B.F., Chen H., Chong Y.S., Kwek K., Saw S.M., Gluckman P.D., Meaney M.J., Rifkin-Graboi A., Qiu A. (2016). Pre- and Post-Natal Maternal Depressive Symptoms in Relation with Infant Frontal Function, Connectivity, and Behaviors.. PLoS One, 11(4), e0152991.

Lillycrop K.A., Costello P.M., Teh A.L., Murray R.J., Clarke-Harris R.,Barton S.J., Garratt E.S., Ngo S., Sheppard A.M., Wong J., Dogra S.,Burdge G.C., Cooper C., Inskip H.M., Gale C.R., Gluckman P.D., Harvey N.C., Chong Y.S., Yap F., Meaney M.J., Rifkin-Graboi A., Holbrook J.D.,Epigen Global Research Consortium, Godfrey K.M. (2015). Association between perinatal methylation of the neuronal differentiation regulator HES1 and later childhood neurocognitive function and behaviour.. International Journal of Epidemiology, 44(4), 1263-76.

Magiati I, Goh DA, Lim SJ, Gan DZ, Leong JC, Allison C, Baron-Cohen S,Rifkin-Graboi A, Broekman BF, Saw SM, Chong YS, Kwek K, Gluckm an PD, Lim SB,Meaney MJ; (2015). The psychometric properties of theQuantitative-Checklist for Autism in Toddlers (Q-CHAT) as a measure of autistictraits in a community sample of Singaporean infants and toddlers.. Mol Autism, 6(40), 0.1186/s13229-015-0032-1..

Rifkin-Graboi A., Meaney M.J., C hen H., Bai J., Hameed W.B., Tint M.T., Broekman B.F., Chong Y.S., Gluckman P.D., Fortier M.V., Qiu A. (2015). Antenatal maternal anxiety predicts variations in neural structures implicated in anxiety disorders in newborns.. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolesce nt Psychiatry, 54(4), 313-21.e2.

Chong, H.J., Richmond, J.L., Wong, J., Qiu, A. and Rifkin‐Graboi, A. (2015). Looking Behavior at Test and Relational Memory in 6‐Month‐Old Infants.. Infancy, 20(1), 18-41.

Chen L, Pan H, Tuan TA, Teh AL, MacIsaac JL , Mah SM, McEwen LM, Li Y, Chen H, Broekman BF, Buschdorf JP, Chong YS, Kwek K, Saw SM, Gluckman PD, Fortier MV,Rifkin-Graboi A, Kobor MS, Qiu A, Meaney MJ, Holbrook JD; (2015). Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) Val66Met polymorphism influences theassociation of the methylome with maternal an xiety and neonatal brain volumes.. Dev Psychopatho, 1, 137-150.

Qiu A, Anh TT, Li Y, Chen H, Rifkin-Graboi A, Broekman BF, Kwek K, Saw SM, Chong YS, Gluckman PD, Fortier MV, Meaney MJ. (2015). Prenatal maternal depression altersamygdala functional connectivity in 6-month-old infants.. Nature Translational Psychiatry, 17(5), e508.

Qiu, Tuan, Ong, Li, Rifkin-Graboi, Chen, Broekman, Chong, Gluckman, Fortier, Holbrook, Meaney (2015). COMT Haplotypes Modulate Associations of Antenatal Maternal Anxiety and Neonatal Cortical Morphology. American Journal of Ps ychiatry, 172(2), 163-172.

Cai S, Pang WW, Low YL, Sim LW, Sam SC, Bruntraeger MB, Wong EQ, Fok D, Broekman BF, Singh L, Richmond J, Agarwal P, Qiu A, Saw SM, Yap F, Godfrey KM, Gluckman PD, Chong YS, Meaney MJ, Kramer MS, Rifkin-Graboi A (2015). Infant feeding effects on early neurocognitive development in Asian children. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 101(2), 326-36.

Leutscher-Broekman, B., Wang, C. Rifkin-Graboi, A., Chong, Y-S., Kwek, K., Gluckman, P.D., Fortier, M.V., Meaney, M.J., Qiu, A. (2014). Association between Gestational Age and Neonatal Brain Microstructur e', PLoS One.. PLoS One, 9(12), e115229.

Soh, S. E., M. T. Tint, Soh, S. E.Gluckman, P. D.Godfrey, K. M., Rifkin-Graboi, A., Chan, Y. H., Stunkel, W., Holbrook, J. D., Kwek, K., Chong, Y. S., Saw, S. M. et al. (2014). Cohort Profile: Growing Up in Singapore Towards healthy Outcomes (GUSTO) birth cohort study. Int J Epidemiol, 43(5), 1401-9..

Zhong J, Rifkin-Graboi A, Ta AT, Yap KL, Chuang KH, Meaney MJ, Qiu A. (2014). Functional Networks in Parallel with Cortical Development Associate with Executive Functions in Children. Cereb Cortex, 24(7), 1937-47.

Broekman, Birit , F.P., Chan, Y-H, Chong Y-S, Kwek, K., Sung, S.C., Haley, C.L., Chen, H., Chee, C., Rifkin-Graboi, A., Gluckman, P.D., Meaney, M.J., Saw, S-M, on behalf of the GUSTO (2014). Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology. Research Group The Influence of Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms During Pregnancy on Birth Size, 28(2), 116-26.

Rifkin-Graboi, A. Bai, J., Chen, H., Bak'r Hameed, W., Sim. L.W., Tint, M.T, Leutscher-Broekman, B., Chong, Y.S., Gluckman, P.D., Fortiere, V., Meaney, M.J., Qiu, A., (2013). Prenatal maternal depression associates with microstructure of right amygdala in neonates a t birth. Biological Psychiatry, 74(11), 837-844.

Qiu, A., Rifkin-Graboi, A., Chen, H., Chong, Y.S., Kwek, K., Gluckman, P.D., Fortier, M.V., Meaney, M.J. (2013). Maternal Anxiety and infants Hippocampal Development: Timing Matters. Nature Translational Psychiatry, 3(9), e307.

Ratnarajah N, Rifkin-Graboi A, Fortier MV, Chong YS, Kwek K, Saw SM, Godfrey KM, Gluckman PD, Meaney MJ, Qiu A (2013). Structural Connectivity Asymmetry in the Neonatal Brain.. Neuroimage, 75, 187-194.

Borelli, Jessica L., David, Daryn H., Rifkin-Graboi, Anne, Sbarra, David A. , Mehl, Matthias R., Mayes, Linda C. (2013). Language use in the Adult Attachment Interview: Evidence for attachment-specific emotion regulation. Personal Relationships, 20, 23-37.

Bai J, Abdul-Rahman MF, Rifkin-Graboi A, Chong YS, Kwek K, Saw SM, Godfrey KM,Gluckman PD, Fortier MV, Meaney MJ, Qiu A. (2012). Population differences in brain morphology and microstructure among Chinese, Malay, and Indian neonates. PLoS One, 7(10), e47816. doi.

Anqi Qiu, Anne Rifkin-Graboi, Jidan Zhong, Desiree Yee-Ling Phua, Michael J. Meaney (2012). Birth Weight and Gestation Influence Striatal Morphology and Motor Response in Six-Year-Old Boys. Neuroimage, 59(2), 1065-1070.

Alonso-Alonso M, Ziemke F, Magkos F, Barrios FA, Brinkoetter M, Boyd I, Rifkin-Graboi A, Yannakoulia M, Rojas R, Pascual-Leone A, Mantzoros CS (2012). Brain responses to food images during the early and late follicular phase of the menstrual cycle in healthy young women: relation to fasting and feeding. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 94(2), 377-384.

Qiu, A., Rifkin-Graboi, A., Tuan, T.A., Zhong, J., Meaney, M.J., (2012). (2012). Inattention and hyperactivity predict alterations in spec ific neural circuits among normal six-year old boys. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 51(6), 632-641.

Phua, D.Y-L., Rifkin-Graboi, A., Saw, S.M, Meaney, M.J., Qiu, A. (2012). Executive Functions of Six-Year-Old Boys with Normal Birth Weight and Gestational Age. PLoS One, 7(4), e36502.

Rifkin-Graboi, A. (2008). Adult attachment status and salivary cortisol in a normal day and during simulated interpersonal stress in young men. Stress: The International Journal on the Biology of Stress, 11(3), 210-224.

Abrams, K., Rifkin, A., & Hesse, E. (2006). Examining the role of parental frightened/frightening subtypes in predicting disorganized attachment within a brief observation procedure. Development and Psychopathology, 18(2), 345-361.

Rifkin, A. & Glickman, S.E. (2004). Separation as a Natural Cue to Danger in the Spotted Hy ena (Crocutta crocutta). Developmental Psychobiology, 44(3), 199-207.

Book Chapters (Central)
Rifkin-Graboi, A. & Ngoh, G. (2022). Parenting, Challenges, Brain Development and Attachment Strategies. In A. Morris, & J. Mendez Smith (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Parenting (Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology).(PP. 29-49). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Rifkin-Graboi, A. (20 22). The Importance of Positive Environments on Infant and Early Childhood Neurodevelopment: A Review and Preview of Upcoming, 'BE POSITIVE,' Research. In Oon Seng Tan, Kenneth Poon, Beth O'Brien, & Anne Rifkin-Graboi (Eds.), Future of early childhood in Singapore, Springer(PP. 141-162). New York: Springer.

Rifkin-Graboi, A., Borelli, J., & Bosquet, M. (2009). The Neurobiology of Stress in Infancy. In Zeanah, Charles. H. (Ed.), Handbook of Infant Mental Health (3rd Edition)(PP. 59-79). New York: Guilford Press.

Hesse, E., Main, M., Abrams, K.Y., & Rifkin, A. (2 003). Unresolved states regarding loss or abuse have'second generation' effects: disorganization, role inversion, and frightening ideation in the offspring of traumatized non maltreating parents. In Solomon, M. & D. Siegel (Eds.), Healing Trauma: Attachment, Mind, Body, and Brain(PP. 57-106). New York: W.W. Norton.

 
Conference Papers (Central)


 
Keynote Speeches & Editorship of Special Issues (Central)




Keynote Addresses

Rifkin-Graboi, A. (2019, July). International Attachment Conference. KEYNOTE ADDRESS, Learning (From an Attachment Perspective), Vancouver, Canada.

Other Research Outputs/Projects (Central)






Patent/Licences/Commerical Products

Chong, M., Ong, C.N., Lai, J., Rifkin-Graboi, A., Broekman, B. (2018). The relationships between specific maternal carotenoids (' cryptoxanthin, '-carotene and '-carotene) and infant neurocognitive development. PATENT NO.SICS/Z/10615.

Workshops and Seminars

Rifkin-Graboi, A. (2018, October). Minding the Future: Caregiving in the Early Years Caregiving and Its Influence on Brain Development.