Preterm Infants Development, Prognosis and Potential Complications

In this book, the authors present current research from across the globe in the study of the development, prognosis and potential complications of pre-term infants. Topics discussed in this compilation include the cognitive and behavioural problems in moderately pre-term children at pre-school age; the socio-emotional development and early intervention of pre-term infants; later pre-term birth and the developing brainstem; readiness of pre-term infants to start breastfeeding; hormonal dysregulation of the HPT and HPA axes in pre-term infants; effect of additional weight in proximal and distal adjustments of reaching behaviour in pre-term infants; language and literacy in pre-term children; and cognitive, motor and communicative-linguistic developmental trajectories of extremely low gestational age pre-terms.