Neonatal Neurobehavior Predicts Medical and Behavioral Outcome

Continuity between fetal and neonatal neurobehavior.

The human brain is very sensitive to environmental changes affecting its growth and development. Environmental changes influence neonatal behavior after birth, enabling continuity between prenatal and postnatal behavior, but postnatal adaptation could be considered as discontinuity. Thus there is the question of environmental discontinuity between intrauterine conditions characterized by existe...

Bisphenol A and Infant Neonatal Neurobehavior

Bisphenol A and Infant Neonatal Neurobehavior: Sathyanarayana et al. Respond

Quantified corticospinal tract diffusion restriction predicts neonatal stroke outcome.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Neonatal arterial ischemic stroke occurs in > or =1:4000 births. Many children experience motor deficits but acute predictors of outcome are lacking. Diffusion-weighted MRI changes in descending corticospinal tracts remote from arterial ischemic stroke may represent pre-Wallerian degeneration. We verify and quantify this signal and correlate it with motor outcome. METHO...

Depression during gestation in adolescent mothers interferes with neonatal neurobehavior.

OBJECTIVE To compare the neurobehavior of neonates born to adolescent mothers with and without depression during gestation. METHODS This prospective cross-sectional study included healthy term neonates born to adolescent mothers with untreated depression during gestation, without exposure to legal or illicit drugs, and compared them with infants born to adolescent mothers without psychiatric ...