Individual differences in responsivity to a neurobehavioural examination predict crying patterns of 1-week-old infants at home

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 400-407

  St James Roberts, Ian ^a   Goodwin, Jenny ^a   Peter, Bernice ^a   Adams, Diana ^a   Hunt, Steve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APGAR SCORE; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COLIC; COMMUNITY; CRYING; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEALTH SERVICE; HOME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; INFANT; IRRITABILITY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN; PARENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

AGE FACTORS; COLIC; CRYING; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0037950629     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0012162203000756     Document Type: Article

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