Denmark: Botulism in an infant or infant botulism? [PDF]
Eurosurveillance, 2008 A 4.5 months old, previously healthy Danish girl was admitted to a paediatric department after six days of passive behaviour and weak suck. Over the next days she became increasingly weak, developed bilateral ptosis, the muscle stretch reflexes were lost, and mydriasis with slow pupillary responses was noted.
A, Paerregaard +5 more
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Labels facilitate infants' comparison of action goals [PDF]
, 2014 Item does not contain fulltextUnderstanding the actions of others depends on the insight that these actions are structured by intentional relations. In a number of conceptual domains, comparison with familiar instances has been shown to support children ...
Woodward, Amanda L. +4 more
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Chinese and English Infants’ Tone Perception: Evidence for Perceptual Reorganization. [PDF]
, 2006 Over half the world’s population speaks a tone language, yet infant speech perception research has typically focused on consonants and vowels. Very young infants can discriminate a wide range of native and nonnative consonants and vowels, and then in a ...
Burnham, Denis +3 more
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Effect of Early Enteral Feeding on Apolipoprotein AI Levels and High-Density Lipoprotein Heterogeneity in Preterm Infants [PDF]
, 2001 Background/Aim: We have previously shown that infants receiving total parenteral nutrition have low apolipoprotein Al levels which are associated with high-density lipoprotein (HDL) class distributions as in lecithin:cholesterol acyltransferase ...
Berthold Koletzkob +5 more
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Shifting goals : effects of active and observational experience on infants' understanding of higher order goals [PDF]
, 2015 This study was supported by grants to the first author from NICHD (R01 HD035707 & P01 HD064653).Action-perception links have been argued to support the emergence of action understanding, but their role in infants' perception of distal goals has not been ...
Sarah A. Gerson +12 more
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Automated gaze-contingent objects elicit orientation following in 8-month-old infants [PDF]
, 2011 The current study tested whether the purely amodal cue of contingency elicit orientation following behaviour in 8-months-old infants. We presented 8-month-old infants with automated objects without human features that did or did not react contingently to
Gergely, G. +9 more
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Is It Rational to Assume that Infants Imitate Rationally? A Theoretical Analysis and Critique [PDF]
, 2012 It has been suggested that preverbal infants evaluate the efficiency of others' actions (by applying a principle of rational action) and that they imitate others' actions rationally.
Paulus, Markus
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Effects of Nasal Continuous Positive Airway Pressure on Cerebral Hemodynamics in Preterm Infants
Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2020 Background: To evaluate the effects of pressure levels on cerebral hemodynamics in premature infants receiving nasal continuous positive airway pressure (nCPAP) during the first 3 days of life.Methods: Forty-four preterm infants treated with nCPAP were ...
Han Zhou +5 more
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Did you call me? : 5-month-old infants own name guides their attention [PDF]
, 2010 An infant's own name is a unique social cue. Infants are sensitive to their own name by 4 months of age, but whether they use their names as a social cue is unknown.
Parise, E. +9 more
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BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2018 Background Much interest has been focussed on both maternal obesity and gestational weight gain (GWG), particularly on their role in influencing birth weight (BW).
Amy C. O’Higgins +5 more
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