Publications by authors named "Juanita Lewis"
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- The prevalence of opiate use is rising, affecting about 0.6% of the global population, leading to many infants being born with prenatal opioid exposure.
- Animal and human studies show that this exposure negatively impacts brain development and anatomy, but the effects of postnatal exposure on hospitalized infants are less understood.
- The review discusses the effects of both prenatal and postnatal opioid exposure on neurodevelopment and suggests resources and strategies to address and possibly reduce developmental setbacks in affected infants.
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- A study aimed to analyze the acoustic features of infant cries using machine learning to determine their underlying behavioral states, such as pain, fussiness, or hunger.
- The ChatterBaby app evaluated over 1,000 cries, achieving a 90.7% accuracy in identifying pain cries and highlighting that cries associated with colic were more often linked to pain than fussiness or hunger.
- The findings indicate that there are consistent acoustic characteristics in infant cries that can serve as objective indicators of different states, suggesting a possible shared neuronal pathway for colic and pain-related cries.
Breast-feeding is the optimal source of newborn nutrition in term infants and is associated with multiple short- and long-term health benefits. Establishment of breast-feeding may be difficult in a small subset of mothers, which can lead to adverse consequences in the newborn. Some of the consequences of suboptimal nutritional provision to the newborn, such as severe hyperbilirubinemia and breast-feeding-associated hypernatremic dehydration, can have devastating and long-lasting sequelae.
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