Premature birth is a significant cause of infant and child morbidity and mortality. In the United
States, the premature birth rate, which had steadily increased during the 1990s and early …

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 …

Brain injury in premature infants is of enormous public health importance because of the
large number of such infants who survive with serious neurodevelopmental disability …

With advances in neonatal care, preterm neonates are surviving with an evolving
constellation of motor and cognitive disabilities that appear to be related to widespread …

Background Very preterm infants are at high risk for adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes.
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has been proposed as a means of predicting …

The thoroughly updated Fourth Edition of this acclaimed reference describes and illustrates
the full range of pediatric disorders diagnosable by modern neuroimaging. This edition …

Objective: The major form of magnetic resonance imaging–defined white matter injury (WMI)
comprises diffuse lesions where the burden of small necrotic foci (microscopic necrosis) is …

The field of neonatal neurology, and specifically its focus on the premature infant, had its
inception in neuropathologic studies. Since then, the development of advanced imaging …

Background. Long-term studies of the outcome of very prematurely born infants have clearly
documented that the majority of such infants have significant motor, cognitive, and …

Global hypoxic-ischemic injury (HII) to the brain is a significant cause of mortality and severe
neurologic disability. Imaging plays an important role in the diagnosis and treatment of HII …