Advances in medicine over the past 30 years have allowed the survival of prematurely born
children to increase dramatically year after year. In the last three decades, the number of …

Premature birth is a worldwide public health priority. One in ten children is born before 37
weeks of gestational age and, in developed countries, survival rates without major neonatal …

Studies investigating the relationship between cognitive function and academic performance
have recently shifted focus from differences in intelligence to executive function. To date …

There is growing evidence that preterm children are at an increased risk of poor executive
functioning, which underlies behavioural and attention problems. Previous studies have …

Objectives To test whether preschool academic skills were associated with educational
attainment in adolescence and whether associations differed between individuals born …

Background Very preterm (VP) birth is associated with a considerable risk for cognitive
impairment, putting children at a disadvantage in academic and everyday life. Despite lower …

Attention problems are common in school-age children born very preterm (VPT;< 32 weeks
gestational age), but the contribution of aberrant functional brain connectivity to these …

Importance Compared with term-born peers, children born very preterm generally perform
poorly in executive functions, particularly in working memory and inhibition. By taking …

Objectives To assess neurocognitive function in adults born with low birthweight compared
with controls and to explore associations between neurocognitive function and …

Objective To increase the understanding of social adjustment and autism spectrum disorder
symptoms in adolescents born very preterm by studying the role of emotion recognition and …