The ability to detect and focus on faces is a fundamental prerequisite for developing social skills. But how well can infants detect faces? Here, we address this question by studying the minimum duration at which faces must appear to trigger a behavioral response in infants. We used a preferential looking method in conjunction with masking and brief presentations (300 ms and below) to establish...

INTRODUCTION The present study was designed to compare two methods of vitamin D supplementation in infants: every two months as a routine vaccination versus a daily dose. METHODS A randomised clinical trial was performed on 120 healthy breastfed infants between January and September 2007 in Yazd, Iran. The infants were randomly divided into three groups with different doses of vitamin D3 supp...

Autism Spectrum Disorder is one of the relevant outcomes when it comes to psychic suffering in childhood. A current big challenge detection autism risk signs infants and proposal appropriate intervention, as soon made. This study aimed investigate patients a Specialized Rehabilitation Center for Physical, Visual, Intellectual Autism. It cross-sectional whose sample consisted 18 infants. The inc...

Dancing and singing to music involve auditory-motor coordination and have been essential to our human culture since ancient times. Although scholars have been trying to understand the evolutionary and developmental origin of music, early human developmental manifestations of auditory-motor interactions in music have not been fully investigated. Here we report limb movements and vocalizations in...

background: the first three years of life have a pivotal role in growth and development of infants. extra-uterine environment largely affects brain development of infants during the first year of life.however,no specific programs are available for brain development stimulation in foster homes. aim: this study aimed to evaluate the effects of motor development stimulation package on anthropometr...

The physical growth pattern of infants aged from one month to two years was studied in a lower middle class community in Jerusalem. Weight and length were measured at one month and at three, six, 12, and 24 months. In each age and sex group there were at least 200 children. At one month and 24 months the percentage of children below the 10th percentile for weight and also for length was higher ...

Although infrequent, suppurative meningitis in the first month of life is now more commonly recognized than formerly. Barron (1918), reviewing meningitis in infancy nearly thirty years ago, found only thirty-nine cases of the suppurative form reported in children under three months, nineteen of which were in the newborn. From this he concluded that suppurative meningitis is a rare disease at th...

The development of new motor skills alters how infants interact with objects and people. Consequently, it has been suggested that motor skills may initiate a cascade of events influencing subsequent development. However, only correlational evidence for this assumption has been obtained thus far. The current study addressed this question experimentally by systematically varying reaching experien...

Background: Developmental delay in preterm infants was estimated to be more common than term infants. Identifying the factors predisposing to developmental delay can help experts and health professionals in this field to prevent developmental delay of the infants, and leads to better management of the condition of them. This study aimed to evaluate and investigate the predisposing factors of de...