Publications by authors named "A Dathe"
Background: Spontaneous movements are a crucial part of early motor development. Healthy term infants may produce up to 200 spontaneous touches to their body and surface in 10 minutes with their hands. The existing literature shows differences in early motor development between very preterm (<32 weeks gestation) and healthy term infants.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Parents of preterm infants face a stressful life event which might have long term impact on the parent-child relation as well as on the infant's cognitive and socio-emotional development. Both music therapy (MT) and physical contact (PC) are stress-reducing interventions for parents and preterm infants on the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Meanwhile, especially close PC is considered as standard care (SC) in most NICUs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground/objectives: Very preterm infants are at increased risk of brain injury and impaired brain development. The Total Abnormality Score and biometric parameters, such as biparietal width, interhemispheric distance and transcerebellar diameter, are simple measures to evaluate brain injury, development and growth using cerebral magnetic resonance imaging data at term-equivalent age. The aim of this study was to evaluate the association between the Total Abnormality Score and biometric parameters with general movements in very preterm infants with brain injury.
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- Music therapy (MT) is being studied for its potential benefits on the brain development of very preterm infants (VPT) in neonatal intensive care units, with a focus on white matter microstructure.
- A randomized controlled trial involving infants born before 32 weeks' gestation compared MT to standard care, with live MT sessions led by a trained therapist starting from the second postnatal week and assessed using advanced imaging techniques.
- While initial analysis didn't show significant differences, further post hoc analysis indicated that MT might improve white matter integrity in certain brain areas, suggesting the need for larger studies to confirm these findings and understand their impact on long-term neurodevelopment.
Purpose: Very low birth weight infants are cared for postnatally in the incubator because of adverse consequences of hypothermia. Data on the optimal weight of transfer to a warming crib are rare. The aim of this study was to determine the course of temperature and body weight during a standardized transfer to a warming crib at a set weight.
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