OBJECTIVE To examine the characteristics of infants suffering from failure to thrive in a community based cohort in Israel and to ascertain the effect of failure to thrive on their cognitive development. METHODS By review of records maintained at maternal and child health clinics in Jerusalem and the two of Beit Shemesh, epidemiological data were obtained at age 15 months on a cohort of all b...

A 1-year-old child who emigrated from Africa at 8 months of age was admitted for evaluation of failure to thrive (FTT) and hypotonia. Her birth weight was 3.35 kg (46th percentile), and on hospital admission, she weighed 6.2 kg (0 percentile). Her mother had full prenatal care in Africa and was HIV negative in her third trimester. The child was exclusively breast fed until 6 months when she was...

Forty-seven children with non-organic failure to thrive (NOFT) were identified from a whole-population survey of children's growth and development. A significant proportion (N=17) of these 47 children were found to have oral-motor dysfunction (OMD) identified using a previously validated assessment tool. NOFT children with OMD and those with normal oral-motor function (N=30) were compared in or...

The False Tagging Theory (FTT) is a neuroanatomical model of belief and doubt processes that proposes a single, unique function for the prefrontal cortex. Here, we review evidence pertaining to the FTT, the implications of the FTT regarding fractionation of the prefrontal cortex, and the potential benefits of the FTT for new neuroanatomical conceptualizations of executive functions. The FTT pro...