Approximately 11.1% of all newborns worldwide are born preterm. Improved neonatal
intensive care significantly increased survival rates over the last decades but failed to …

Recent studies in developmental neuroscience tend to show the existence of neural
attention networks from birth. Their construction is based on the first sensory experiences …

Besides recent advances in neonatal care, preterm newborns still develop sex-biased
behavioral alterations. Preterms fail to receive placental insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) …

Abstract Very preterm infants (VPI)< 32 weeks are at increased risk of developmental
disorders detectable using the Prechtl General Movements Assessment (GMA) and the …

Importance Compared with term-born peers, children born very preterm generally perform
poorly in executive functions, particularly in working memory and inhibition. By taking …

Objective To investigate whether extrauterine growth restriction (EUGR) during the neonatal
hospitalisation by sex among extremely preterm (EPT) infants is associated with cerebral …

Premature birth is a worldwide public health priority. One in ten children is born before 37
weeks of gestational age and, in developed countries, survival rates without major neonatal …

Aim To evaluate the predictive validity of the Hammersmith Neonatal Neurological
Examination (HNNE) performed early (at 32 weeks postmenstrual age) and at term …

The aims of this study were to identify the aspects of school readiness that best distinguish
very preterm (VPT) preschoolers from full-term (FT) controls, determine the extent to which …

Background Preterm children are at increased risk of cognitive and language delay
compared with term‐born children. While many perinatal factors associated with prematurity …