Brain injury in the premature infant is a problem of enormous importance. Periventricular
leukomalacia (PVL) is the major neuropathologic form of this brain injury and underlies most …

Brain abnormality in surviving premature infants is associated with an enormous amount of
neurodevelopmental disability, manifested principally by cognitive, behavioral, attentional …

Objective: Preterm infants are exposed to multiple painful procedures in the neonatal
intensive care unit (NICU) during a period of rapid brain development. Our aim was to …

This fully updated edition of Developmental Neuropsychology: A Clinical Approach
addresses key issues in child neuropsychology with a unique emphasis on evidence …

Characterizing the performance of image segmentation approaches has been a persistent
challenge. Performance analysis is important since segmentation algorithms often have …

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: WM injury is the dominant form of injury in preterm infants.
However, other cerebral structures, including the deep gray matter and the cerebellum, can …

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

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 …

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 …

Procedural pain in the neonatal intensive care unit triggers a cascade of physiological,
behavioral and hormonal disruptions which may contribute to altered neurodevelopment in …