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Silvina L. Ferradal

Medicine · Indiana University

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Mid career · publishing since 2005
Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy TechniquesFunctional Brain Connectivity StudiesPhotoacoustic and Ultrasonic ImagingNeonatal and fetal brain pathologyNon-Invasive Vital Sign Monitoring

Publications

54

Citations

2,032

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

21

Publishing since 2005

Research summary
AI-generated

Silvina L. Ferradal studies how the brain develops in infants and young children using non-invasive imaging techniques, including optical methods (which use light to measure brain activity and blood flow) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Much of the work focuses on mapping functional brain networks and monitoring brain health in newborns at risk of conditions such as oxygen deprivation at birth, congenital heart disease, or prenatal opioid exposure. The research also connects early brain measurements to later outcomes like language and reading development.

Early brain development imagingFunctional brain connectivityDiffuse optical tomography and spectroscopyNeonatal brain monitoringPredicting language and literacy outcomes

Publication activity has been steady but variable over the past decade, with output ranging from zero to six papers per year and a recent uptick in 2025.

Generated by claude-opus-4-8 from public bibliographic data · Jul 9, 2026

Funding
Public award records

Current awards run through June 2027 — about under a year of funding on record from today. Awards are often renewed, so this is what is currently public, not a forecast.

  • ActiveNIH R21DA063767through Jun 2027 · $198k awarded

    Early brain monitoring of infants with prenatal opioid exposure using quantitative diffuse optical spectroscopy

Matched to public NIH RePORTER and NSF records by name and institution. Awards from other agencies are not shown, and a match is not always found — this list may be incomplete.

In context
Among 4,577 mid career Medicine PIs within our index
Citations: 2,032cohort median 614
h-index: 18cohort median 11
Publications / year (recent): 2.4cohort median 3.4

Typically publishes in teams of ~11 · 17% small-team papers (≤3 authors) · across 17 venues

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 2.4/year recently
2017: 2 publications172018: 3 publications182019: 1 publication192020: 5 publications202021: 1 publication212022: 3 publications222023: 3 publications23242025: 6 publications62526
Collaborators per year
Distinct co-authors at Indiana University each year — a rough indication of whether the group around this researcher has been growing or contracting. An estimate from co-authorship, not a roster: collaborators are not necessarily lab members, and recent years can be under-counted while indexing catches up.
2017: 0 collaborators at the same institution2018: 0 collaborators at the same institution2019: 0 collaborators at the same institution2020: 1 collaborator at the same institution2021: 0 collaborators at the same institution2022: 0 collaborators at the same institution2023: 2 collaborators at the same institution2024: 0 collaborators at the same institution2025: 1 collaborator at the same institution1719212325
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)×4
  • Cerebral Cortex×2
  • NeuroImage×1
  • Human Brain Mapping×1
  • EBioMedicine×1
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Last updated Sep 1, 2026.

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