James McKenna
Anthropology
Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C., Professor of Anthropology; Director, Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Lab
- Infant co-sleeping
- Breast-feeding
- Sudden infant death syndrome (sids)
- Evolution of human behavior
- Evolutionary medicine
- Human parenting
- Infancy
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McKenna in the News
Yahoo
Wife Calls Her Husband The 'Biggest Disappointment' In Her Life After He Can't Put Their Kids To Bed
July 03, 2023
According to James McKenna, Ph.D., an anthropologist specializing in infancy and development and director of the mother/baby behavioral sleep laboratory at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, the location in which you sleep is less important when it comes to a baby's development.
BBC News
The science of healthy baby sleep
February 09, 2022
Prematurely pushing a baby towards longer, deeper sleep, therefore, can increase SIDS risk, says James McKenna, the founder and director of the Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Laboratory at the University of Notre Dame and endowed chair in anthropology at Santa Clara University, California.