Early infant cognitive assessment:

Assessment of Cognitive Symptoms in Prodromal and Early Huntington Disease

The Functional Rating Scale Taskforce for pre-Huntington Disease (FuRST-pHD) is a multinational, multidisciplinary initiative with the goal of developing a data-driven, comprehensive, psychometrically sound, rating scale for assessing symptoms and functional ability in prodromal and early Huntington disease (HD) gene expansion carriers. The process involves input from numerous sources to identi...

Infant Assessment Tools

VOLUME 93 NO. 5 MAY 2010 Early identification of infants at risk for problems in neurobehavior and development is an ongoing challenge in pediatric care. Detection of subtle differences in the nursery is challenged by the transient nature of many neurobehavioral signs and by short lengths of stay which limit the ability of pediatricians to perform serial assessments. Most efforts at formal deve...

Early Infant Diagnosis of HIV.

Preclinical assessment of infant formula.

Infant formulas are the sole or predominant source of nutrition for many infants and are fed during a sensitive period of development and may therefore have short- and long-term consequences for infant health. Preclinical safety assessment therefore needs to include both short-term and long-term studies in animals. It is recommended that procedures are instituted by which experts may serve as i...

Assessment of the Dysmorphic Infant

M infants are born healthy, and the first clinical assessment usually reveals no physical abnormality. However, for the past 20 years, birth defects have been the leading cause of infant mortality in the United States. Each year, approximately 3 percent of live births, or 120,000 babies, are born with major physical structural defects, and one in five infant deaths is attributed to a birth defe...