Nicole Talge, PhD

SELECTED AWARDS, HONORS, & RECOGNITIONS

• 2022 Nominee, Faculty Advisor Award, Michigan State University Graduate School
• 2019 9th “most cited paper of all time” in the Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry

 

Dr. Talge aims to understand the biological and environmental factors that lead to neurodevelopmental conditions. The goal of these efforts is to improve the identification of children who can be supported by timely access to early intervention services. To this end, her research projects use a variety of study designs and methods, including primary data collection (cross-sectional & cohort studies; focus groups), health service database linkages, and secondary analyses of nationally representative datasets. All of these studies are highly collaborative, reflecting contributions from several disciplines (e.g., psychology, epidemiology, neuroscience, biostatistics) and from community partners (e.g., U of Michigan-Sparrow Hospital; McLaren Greater Lansing; Michigan Dept. of Health & Human Services). Her research has been supported by multiple awards from the National Institutes of Health and has been featured in such peer-reviewed journals as Pediatrics, Paediatric & Perinatal Epidemiology, Autism Research, and the Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry. Dr. Talge also serves as adjunct Associate Professor in the Dept. of Clinical Research at the University of Southern Denmark (Odense, DK)

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

* denotes student author

Auditory functioning and neurodevelopmental conditions

Talge, N.M., Keim, S.A., Yisahak, S.F., Findlen, U.M., Bechtold, L.K., & Ingersoll, B. (in press). Deafness and hearing problems and their association with autism spectrum disorder diagnosis and symptoms (in press). Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics. [video abstract]

Talge, N.M., Adkins, M., Kileny, P.R., & Frownfelter, I.* (2022). Click-evoked auditory brainstem responses & autism spectrum disorder: A meta-analytic investigation of disorder specificity. Pediatric Research, 92, 40-46.

Talge, N.M., Tudor, B.M., & Kileny, P.R. (2018). Auditory brainstem responses and their association with autism spectrum disorder: A meta-analytic review. Autism Research, 11, 916-927

Perinatal health and its links to neurodevelopment

Brewer, S.K.,* Talge, N.M., Holzman, C., Sikorskii, A., Ezeamama, A.E. (2025). Perinatal HIV exposure and infection and child executive function. AIDS Care, 37, 555-564.

Brewer, S.K.,* Talge, N.M., Holzman, C., Sikorskii, A., & Ezeamama, A.E. (2023). Perinatal HIV exposure and infection and caregiver depressive symptoms. AIDS Care, 36, 280-290.

Stokholm, L.,* Juhl, M., Talge, N.M., Gissler, M., Obel, C., & Strandberg-Larsen, K. (2021). Obstetric oxytocin exposure and ADHD and autism spectrum disorder in Danish and Finnish children. Int J Epidemiol, 50, 446-456.

Talge, N.M. (2020). Prenatal acetaminophen exposure: State of the evidence. Pediatric & Perinatal Epidemiology, 34, 227-229. [Invited Commentary for Special Issue]

Talge, N.M., Holzman, C., Wang, J., Lucia, V., Gardiner, J., & Breslau, N. (2010). Late preterm birth and its association with cognitive and socio-emotional outcomes at age 6. Pediatrics, 126, 1124-1131.

Talge, N.M., Allswede, D.M.,* & Holzman, C. (2016). Gestational age at term, delivery circumstance, and their association with childhood ADHD symptoms. Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology, 30, 171-180

Talge, N.M., Neal, C.R., Glover, V., & the Early Stress, Translational Research, and Prevention Science Network: Fetal and Neonatal Experience on Child Adolescent and Mental Health (2007). Antenatal maternal stress and long-term effects on child neurodevelopment: How and why. Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry, 48, 245-261.

Birth outcomes

Cinzori, M,* Nicol, M., Dewald, A., Goodrich, J., Zhou, Z., Gardiner, J., Kerver, J., Dolinoy, D.; Talge, N., & Strakovsky, R. (2024) Maternal mitochondrial DNA copy number and methylation as possible predictors of pregnancy outcomes in a Michigan pregnancy cohort. Environmental Epigenetics, 10(1), dvae021.

Pacyga, D.C., Talge, N.M., Gardiner, J.C., Calafat, A.M., Schantz, S.A., & Strakovsky, R.A. (2022). Maternal diet as a mitigator of associations between parabens and birth outcomes in term births. Environmental Research, Nov;214(Pt 3):114078.

Margerison-Zilko, C., Talge, N.M., & Holzman, C. (2017). Revisiting United States Preterm Delivery Trends (2006-2012): Magnitude of Decline and Possible Explanations. Annals of Epidemiology, 27, 689-694.

Talge, N.M., Mudd, L.M., Sikorskii, A., & Basso, O. (2014). United States birth weight reference corrected for implausible gestational age estimates. Pediatrics, 133, 844-853.

Talge, N.M., Holzman, C., Senagore, P.K., Klebanoff, M. & Fisher, R. (2011). Biological indicators of the in-utero environment and their association with birthweight for gestational age. Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease, 2, 280-290.

 

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