Contemporary models of NICU care emphasize the critical role of parents in supporting their
infant's development. Fathers play an important, but underutilized, role throughout their …

Fetal hearing experiences shape the linguistic and musical preferences of neonates. From
the very first moment after birth, newborns prefer their native language, recognize their …

Preterm infants are deprived of in utero sensory stimulation during the third trimester, an
important period of central nervous system development. As a result, maturational …

In recent decades, music therapy in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) has been
shown to regulate preterm infant's physiological responses and improve maternal mental …

Musical interactions between babies and their primary caregivers are very frequent during
the early years of life and their impact on dyadic interaction and infants' development has …

Objectives The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of mothers' and Mozart's
lullabies on physiological parameters, feeding volume, and body weight of premature infants …

Humming is probably more effective than speech for improving mothers' cardiorespiratory
function and infants' self-regulation. We intend to understand the effects of (1) maternal …

Over the past decades, music therapy in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) has been
proven effective in physiological and psychological outcomes, including sucking, behaviour …

Introduction In music therapy the prenatal songs for unborn infants have been shown to
improve prenatal bonding, but we know little about their contribution to the first vocal …

Maternal sensitivity (MS), the ability to perceive and synchronously respond to the social
signals (SSs), is affected by prematurity. The development of early supportive psychotherapy …