Cognitive outcomes of children born extremely or very preterm since the 1990s and associated risk factors: a meta-analysis and meta-regression

ES Twilhaar, RM Wade, JF De Kieviet… - JAMA …, 2018 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Despite apparent progress in perinatal care, children born extremely or very
preterm (EP/VP) remain at high risk for cognitive deficits. Insight into factors contributing to …

Neonatal hypoxia ischaemia: mechanisms, models, and therapeutic challenges

LJ Millar, L Shi, A Hoerder-Suabedissen… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Neonatal hypoxia-ischaemia (HI) is the most common cause of death and disability in
human neonates, and is often associated with persistent motor, sensory, and cognitive …

Brain injury in premature infants: a complex amalgam of destructive and developmental disturbances

JJ Volpe - The Lancet Neurology, 2009 - thelancet.com
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 …

Neonatal intensive care unit stress is associated with brain development in preterm infants

GC Smith, J Gutovich, C Smyser, R Pineda… - Annals of …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Objective: Although many perinatal factors have been linked to adverse
neurodevelopmental outcomes in very premature infants, much of the variation in outcome …

Brain injury and altered brain growth in preterm infants: predictors and prognosis

H Kidokoro, PJ Anderson, LW Doyle, LJ Woodward… - …, 2014 - publications.aap.org
BACKGROUND: To define the nature and frequency of brain injury and brain growth
impairment in very preterm (VPT) infants by using MRI at term-equivalent age and to relate …

Brain injury in premature neonates: a primary cerebral dysmaturation disorder?

SA Back, SP Miller - Annals of neurology, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

A review on automatic fetal and neonatal brain MRI segmentation

A Makropoulos, SJ Counsell, D Rueckert - NeuroImage, 2018 - Elsevier
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 …

Mother's voice and heartbeat sounds elicit auditory plasticity in the human brain before full gestation

AR Webb, HT Heller, CB Benson… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Brain development is largely shaped by early sensory experience. However, it is currently
unknown whether, how early, and to what extent the newborn's brain is shaped by exposure …

Does cerebellar injury in premature infants contribute to the high prevalence of long-term cognitive, learning, and behavioral disability in survivors?

C Limperopoulos, H Bassan, K Gauvreau… - …, 2007 - publications.aap.org
OBJECTIVE. Although cerebellar hemorrhagic injury is increasingly diagnosed in infants
who survive premature birth, its long-term neurodevelopmental impact is poorly defined. We …

The effect of preterm birth on thalamic and cortical development

G Ball, JP Boardman, D Rueckert, P Aljabar… - Cerebral …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Preterm birth is a leading cause of cognitive impairment in childhood and is associated with
cerebral gray and white matter abnormalities. Using multimodal image analysis, we tested …