Sentences with phrase «researchers at infant»

Benson and Masor, both of whom are pediatric nutrition researchers at infant formula manufacturer Abbott Laboratories, believe creating formula that duplicates human milk is impossible.

Not exact matches

To detect cerebral palsy in infants, researchers at the University of Oklahoma have developed a motorized robot for children to wear, tracking brain activity and muscle coordination using artificial intelligence.

But Kate Grimshaw, lead author of the new study and a researcher at the University of Southampton in the UK, said she has been concerned that parents are reducing the nutritional diversity of their infants» diet without there being a great deal of evidence to back it up.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health)- In a study of six - year - olds, researchers found no IQ differences between kids who were fed formula supplemented with long - chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) as infants and those who got regular formula, but the PUFA kids were notably faster at picture - matching games.

Tamesha Harewood, a researcher in MSU's Department of Human Development and Family Studies, was lead author on a paper published in the journal Infant and Child Development that looked at fathers» influence on their children.

The researchers tracked nearly 400 babies at ages 3, 6, 9, and 12 months, and while adjusting for socioeconomic status, mother's age and IQ, gestational age, gender, birth weight, head circumference, race, age, and diet history, all soy formula - fed infant scores were within established normal ranges.

What researchers do know is that certain factors put infants at higher risk of SIDS, and that all caregivers, perhaps grandparents, in particular, need to know how to reduce the risk of SIDS.

The researchers discovered that infants who routinely sleep with their mothers breast - feed twice as often and for three times longer than babies left in a separate room at night.

Researchers carefully monitored and analyzed data from the first year of 142 infant's lives, specifically at 3, 6 and 12 months of age.

When I teach students in the relatively new discipline of infant mental health, which brings together researchers at the interface of developmental psychology, neuroscience, and genetics, I tell them that almost everything they need to know to support young children and their families can be found in the essay «The Ordinary Devoted Mother» by pediatrician turned psychoanalyst D.W. Winnicott.

By looking at some of the adaptive infant reflexes such as the Moro reflex, the rooting reflex, and the grasping reflex, researchers can better understand how babies respond to the world around them.

«Today, almost 10 percent of infants and toddlers carry excess weight for their length, and slightly more than 20 percent of children between the ages of two and five are already overweight or obese,» say researchers at the Institute of Medicine.

Many people at an international conference in Baltimore represented organizations and groups that focus on specific aspects of pregnancy and infant loss, or families who have experienced specific types of pregnancy and infant loss, or researchers who are studying specific areas of pregnancy and infant loss.

When researchers tracked 45 mother - child pairs from infancy to age 7, they found that infants who were securely - attached during infancy were more likely to demonstrate emotional availability at age 7 (Easterbrooks et al 2000).

Contrary to what many pediatric sleep researchers claim, or at least, lead parents to believe, the consolidation of human infant sleep is not what is important biologically for an infant especially in the first six months of life.

Researchers found that 54 percent of the infants who died of SIDS had been co-sleeping with parents at the time of death, while 21 percent of infants in the control groups had recently co-slept with parents.

The researchers say that this information is only observational at this point, and it can not be confirmed with certainty at this point that C - sections are the major cause of the recent increase in risk of asthma in infants.

Researchers from C.S. Mott Children's Hospital at the University of Michigan tracked children from infancy through kindergarten and compared developmental outcomes between late preterm infants (born between 34 and 36 weeks); those born early term (37 to 38 weeks) and term (39 to 41 weeks).

The psychosocial outcome receiving the most attention from researchers is problem behaviour, with most studies finding perceived negative reactivity in infancy to predict problem behaviour in childhood33, 34 and adolescent.35 Specifically, infants prone to high levels of fear, frustration, and sadness, as well as difficulty recovering from such distress, were found to be at increased risk for internalizing and externalizing problem behaviours according to parental and / or teacher report.

A study conducted by researcher at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children of 2184 children determined that the risk of asthma and wheezing was approximately 50 per cent higher for formula fed infants when compared to their breastfed counterparts.

The researchers collected 36 samples of breast milk from mothers with infants born at term and 31 samples from mothers with infants born prematurely.

Researchers looked at 1,472 SIDS cases and 4,679 infant controls from five published data sets from the U.K., Europe, Australia and Asia.

Studying preterm infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at St. Louis Children's Hospital, the researchers found that preemies whose daily diets were at least 50 percent breast milk had more brain tissue and cortical - surface area by their due dates than premature babies who consumed significantly less breast milk.

But although researchers have suspected that microRNAs in breast milk have a role in infant health and development, no study has specifically looked at whether microRNAs differed between premature and term breast milk.

Then, the researchers conducted brain scans on those infants at about the time each would have been born had the babies not arrived early.

Dr Paul Ramchandani — a researcher and clinical psychiatrist now based at the Academic Unit of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London — led the study, which assessed father - infant interactions in the family home when the child was aged three months and compared them against the child's behaviour at the age of twelve months.

The researchers found that key aspects of the father - infant interaction, measured very early in children's lives, were associated with an increased risk of behavioural problems in children at an early age.

While a number of causes have been explored, it's difficult for researchers to account for all the important features, such as why it usually begins late in the first month of life, how it varies among infants, why it happens at certain times of day and why it resolves on its own in time.

Researchers agree that the foundation for language development begins with the amount and quality of speech input infants receive from their parents and caregivers beginning at birth.

Dr. Bridget Young, Doctor or Perinatal Nutrition and Lactation Counselor and researcher in the department of Pediatric Nutrition at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, assists families who had intended to breastfeed exclusively, but have decided to stop or to supplement with infant formula.

Researcher Julie Mennella, who studies infants tastes at the Monell Chemical Senses Center, has published her work in the journal Pediatrics.

Researchers found that infants born to mothers with higher blood levels of the omega - 3 fatty acid docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) at delivery had advanced levels of attention spans well into their second year of life.

Researchers have discovered that infants not only prefer to look at high contrast graphics, but that such images can help:

Dr Field's studies are affirmed by researchers from Warwick Medical School in the UK who looked at nine studies of massage covering a total of 598 infants aged less than six months.

In fact, where researchers have looked at attachment and behavior of children that were formula - fed or breastfed as infants, they have been unable to see a difference.)

The researchers enrolled 56 healthy, newborn infant boys and girls from the postnatal ward and special care baby unit at the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Obstetric Wing, University College Hospital.

However, the studies the agency reviewed were almost all observational — meaning the researchers looked at rates of a given health problem among infants whose mothers chose to breastfeed and those whose mothers did not.

(Sroufe believes, however, that crying - it - out is inappropriate for younger babies; some researchers have drawn a «safety» line at 6 months of age because that's when infants develop object permanence, the ability to understand that mom and dad still exist when they're not visible.)

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Researchers at Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine have reached important milestones in their quest to engineer replacement tissue in the lab to treat digestive system conditions — from infants born with too - short bowels to adults with inflammatory bowel disease, colon cancer, or fecal incontinence.

The researchers looked at three health outcomes: potentially avoidable mortality, infant mortality, and life expectancy.

University of Kansas researchers have reported that pregnant women who consumed a supplement of DHA (docosahexaenoic acid), a nutrient added to U.S. infant formulas since 2002, tend to have children with higher fat - free body mass at 5 years old.

To find out, the researchers used eye - tracking technology to assess face scanning and gaze following in 14 sighted infants of blind parents at 6 to 10 months and then again at 12 to 16 months of age.

To close the gap, the researchers are using technology that facilitates intervention early in the child's life and empowers parents to play a very important role: «baby's first and best teacher,» said Ashley Darcy - Mahoney, assistant professor and neonatal nurse practitioner at The George Washington University School of Nursing and director of infant research at its Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders Institute.

The researchers achieved this by following up on a 2013 study in which 132 infants in Montréal, Québec, were given a vitamin D3 supplement at one of four different dosages between the ages of 1 month and 12 months.

Northwestern researchers compared healthy preterm and full - term infants at the same maturational age, or age since conception.

«Infants born with higher birthweight appeared to be at risk from a young age,» said researcher Sarah Miller.

The researchers took particular note of how often a female grunted at a lower - ranking female that didn't have an infant.

As anticipated, the researchers found that infants» brainwaves were more synchronised to the adults» when the adult's gaze met the infant's, as compared to when her gaze was averted Interestingly, the greatest synchronising effect occurred when the adults» head was turned away but her eyes still looked directly at the infant.

New findings by researchers at the Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences (I - LABS) at the University of Washington demonstrate for the first time that an early social behavior called gaze shifting is linked to infants» ability to learn new language sounds.