Effects of maternal trauma and associated psychopathology on atypical maternal behavior and infant social withdrawal six months postpartum.

Unlabelled: Maternal psychopathology given a history of maltreatment and domestic violence exposure increases the risk for child psychopathology. Infant social withdrawal is one warning sign of adverse developmental outcomes including child anxiety and depression. It remains unclear how maternal trauma-related psychopathology might affect infant social withdrawal six-months postpartum.

Transfer Entropy Modeling of Newborn Cardiorespiratory Regulation.

This study investigates the complex interplay between the cardiac and respiratory systems in 268 healthy neonates born between 35 and 40 weeks of gestation. The aim is to provide a comprehensive description of the developing cardiorespiratory information transfer mechanisms as a function of gestational age (GA). This report proposes an extension of the traditional Transfer Entropy measure (), which employs multiple lagged versions of the time series of the intervals between two successive R waves of the QRS signal on the electrocardiogram ( series) and respiration time series ().

Autonomic signatures of late preterm, early term, and full term neonates during early postnatal life.

Background: Late preterm and early term births account for ~25% of live births. Infants born prior to term are at significantly higher risk for subsequent morbidity and mortality.

Aims: Determine autonomic regulation differences in infants (35-40 weeks gestation) during sleep at birth and one-month after delivery.

Multi-parametric cardiorespiratory analysis in late-preterm, early-term, and full-term infants at birth.

Infants born at 35-37 weeks' gestational age (GA) are at higher risk for a range of pathological conditions and poorer neurodevelopmental outcomes. However, mechanisms responsible are not fully understood. The purpose of this paper is to use traditional and novel techniques to assess newborn autonomic development as a function of GA at birth, focusing on cardiorespiratory regulation.

Characterization of cardiorespiratory phase synchronization and directionality in late premature and full term infants.

Objective: Though the mutual influence of cardiovascular and respiratory rhythms in healthy newborns has been documented, its full characterization is still pending. In general, the activity of many physiological subsystems has a well-expressed rhythmic character, and often an interdependency between physiological rhythms emerges early in development. Traditional methods of data analysis only address the quantification of the strength of subsystem interactions.