Depressed mothers’ newborns show less discrimination of other newborns’ cry sounds

A cry in the dark: depressed mothers show reduced neural activation to their own infant's cry.

This study investigated depression-related differences in primiparous mothers' neural response to their own infant's distress cues. Mothers diagnosed with major depressive disorder (n = 11) and comparison mothers with no diagnosable psychopathology (n = 11) were exposed to their own 18-months-old infant's cry sound, as well as unfamiliar infant's cry and control sound, during functional neuroim...

Acoustic measures of the cry characteristics of healthy newborns and newborns with pathologies

Several hypotheses have been formulated as a result of observing spectrograms of the audio signals of the newborn infant cry in numerous studies. Our study is based on a few of these hypotheses. The purpose of this article is to differentiate pathological crying from healthy crying through acoustic cry analysis based on neurophysiological parameters of newborns. The automatic estimation of the ...

[Congenital malformations among newborns of teenage mothers].

BACKGROUND The Chilean Ministry of Health has reported a meaningful increase of births from teenager mothers (aged less than 20 years) in the period 1990-2008. On the contrary, there was a decrease of births from teenage mothers at The University of Chile Clinical Hospital (HCUCH). AIM To compare the prevalence rates at birth of congenital malformations (CMF) in newborns from mothers younger ...

Polybromodiphenyl ethers in mothers and their newborns

Newborns' Cry Melody Is Shaped by Their Native Language

Human fetuses are able to memorize auditory stimuli from the external world by the last trimester of pregnancy, with a particular sensitivity to melody contour in both music and language. Newborns prefer their mother's voice over other voices and perceive the emotional content of messages conveyed via intonation contours in maternal speech ("motherese"). Their perceptual preference for the surr...