Maternal-preterm skin-to-skin contact enhances child physiologic organization and cognitive control across the first 10 years of life

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 56-64

  Feldman, Ruth ^a   Rosenthal, Zehava ^a   Eidelman, Arthur I ^b  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

cortisol; executive functions (EF); Kangaroo Care; longitudinal studies; mother infant relationship; premature infants; respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; KANGAROO CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MENTAL HEALTH; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NEONATAL INCUBATOR; PARENTAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERAL DEPRESSION; PUERPERIUM; SINUS ARRHYTHMIA; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE;

CORTISOL; EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONS (EF); KANGAROO CARE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MOTHER-INFANT RELATIONSHIP; PREMATURE INFANTS; RESPIRATORY SINUS ARRHYTHMIA (RSA);

ADULT; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, PREMATURE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS;

EID: 84889608868     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: 18732402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2013.08.012     Document Type: Article

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