Research has shown that exposure to a specific language alters infants' perception of vowel sounds by the time they reach 6 months of age. This raises the important question of how infants develop language-specific patterns of vowel perception from the language-general pattern they appear to be born with. Language spoken to infants may exert an important influence in this regard. The present st...

It was quite a while ago that I studied in Boston as a Takemi Fellow, but the days I spent in the scholarship program still remain one of the most exciting and fruitful periods of my life. It was a year in which I encountered many different people, learned a lot, and came to realize many things that I hadn’t noticed before. The participants of the program included a number of brilliant people f...

we present an infant girl with hyperekplexia, hypertonia, hyperreflexia and a characteristic exaggerated response to nose tap. this disorder is important to recognize because of the increased risk of apnea and sudden infant death, this infant responded to clonazepam.

Despite important recent progress in understanding disorganized attachment, we still lack a full understanding of the mechanisms of disorganized attachment formation and transmission prior to 12 months. In this paper we lay out our recommendations for the study of the 4-month origins of disorganized attachment. In our subsequent Paper II we report on the results of a large empirical study that ...

The infant female is unique. Her particular qualities include specific genetic, hormonal, and physiological ingredients that help sculpt her development. Parental influences and the wider society and culture have a profound shaping effect on her particular biological components. Whereas male infants have their own inimitable developmental line, this paper’s focus is on the female. Our recent hi...

There is emerging evidence that the respiratory microbiota influences airway health, and there has been intense research interest in its role infections allergic disorders. This review aims to summarize current knowledge of nasal microbiome virome their associations with childhood rhinitis wheeze. The healthy infant dominated by <i>Corynebacteriaceae</i> <i>Staphylococcaceae&l...

this information sheet contains the necessary information to educate mothers in the early weeks after delivery. so in a relaxed opportunity to read it. if you plan to feed your baby by breast feeding, it is necessary to read it prior to discharge from hospital. note that the duration of breast feeding in the first weeks after the labor is 20 minutes. the best way for breastfeeding is to give th...

acebutolol (ac) is a chiral b-adrenergic blocking drug, which is useful clinically as the racemate in treating hypertension and is metabolized to an equipotent chiral metabolite, diacetolol (dc). in this paper we report a case of a 32 year old woman who was receiving ac during her pregnancy and lactating time for management of hypertension. the maternal plasma level and breast milk as well as c...