After decades of rising preterm birth rates in the USA and other countries, recent prematurity
rates seem to be on the decline. Despite this optimistic trend, preterm birth rates remain …

The human preterm brain is particularly susceptible to cerebral white matter injury (WMI) that
disrupts the normal progression of developmental myelination. Advances in the care of …

Objectives To describe neurodevelopment at age 5 among children born preterm. Design
Population based cohort study, EPIPAGE-2. Setting France, 2011. Participants 4441 …

STUDY QUESTION How many twins are born in human populations and how has this
changed over recent decades? SUMMARY ANSWER Since the 1980s, the global twinning …

Preterm birth is defined as birth before 37 completed weeks gestation, and it is estimated
that each day, across the world over 41,000 infants are born before this gestational age. The …

Importance Active perinatal care increases survival of extremely preterm infants; however,
improved survival might be associated with increased disability among survivors. Objective …

Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging is increasingly being used to assess brain growth and
development in infants. Such studies are often based on quantitative analysis of anatomical …

Epidemiologic studies have, for many years, identified preterm birth as a significant risk
factor for psychiatric disorders. There has been a recent resurgence of interest in …

In recent years, a variety of segmentation methods have been proposed for automatic
delineation of the fetal and neonatal brain MRI. These methods aim to define regions of …

This new edition of the bestselling text, Nurturing Natures, provides an indispensable
synthesis of the latest scientific knowledge about children's emotional development …