Objective. Early mother–infant relationships in preterm populations were evaluated in the
context of a systematic review of the literature. Design and setting. A systematic search of …

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Preterm birth is a significant stressor for parents and
may adversely impact maternal parenting behavior. However, findings have been …

Background During the first weeks of hospitalization, premature babies and their parents
encounter difficulties in establishing early bonds and interactions. Only a few studies have …

Background Despite advances in antenatal and neonatal care, preterm birth remains a
leading cause of neurological disabilities in children. Infants born prematurely, particularly …

Background: During the last decades, the research on mother-infant dyad has produced a
great amount of data, methods and theories, which largely contributed to set a revolution in …

Behavioral epigenetics is revealing new pathways that lead individuals from early adversity
exposures to later-in-life detrimental outcomes. Preterm birth constitutes one of the major …

Background This study investigated whether postpartum anxiety disorder is associated to
altered patterns of infant as well as maternal engagement in a Face-to-Face-Still-Face …

Although preterm infants are at risk for social deficits, interventions to improve mother–infant
interaction in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) are not part of standard care (SC) …

Maternal depression and anxiety represent risk factors for the quality of early mother-preterm
infant interactions, especially in the case of preterm birth. Despite the presence of many …

Dyadic behavioral synchrony is a complex interactional process that takes place between
the mother and her infant. In the first year of life, when the infant is prelinguistic, processes …