Father`s role in infantile anorexia

Maternal psychopathology and child risk factors in infantile anorexia.

OBJECTIVE This study examines a transactional and multirisk model for Infantile Anorexia (IA) and investigates the contributions of the parent, the child, and dyadic interactional variables related to this feeding disorder. METHOD The sample consisted of 371 mother-child pairs (children aged 6-36 months), of which 187 pairs of mothers and normally developing children (ND-group), and 184 mothe...

Breastfeeding: what role do fathers play?

Role of connexins in infantile hemangiomas

The circulatory system is one of the first systems that develops during embryogenesis. Angiogenesis describes the formation of blood vessels as a part of the circulatory system and is essential for organ growth in embryogenesis as well as repair in adulthood. A dysregulation of vessel growth contributes to the pathogenesis of many disorders. Thus, an imbalance between pro- and antiangiogenic fa...

Neonatal hypoglycemia: role in infantile epilepsy.

H ypoglycemia remains a significant cause of brain injury in newborn infants(1), as highlighted by Udani, et al.(2) in this issue of Indian Pediatrics. The authors recruited 100 consecutively presenting infants with epilepsy, 83 of whom had brain imaging and/or a clear metabolic or genetic diagnosis. The majority of the 83 infants had evidence of brain injury of perinatal onset and in the large...

Failure to thrive and cognitive development in toddlers with infantile anorexia.

OBJECTIVE The goal of this study was to examine the relative contributions of growth deficiency and psychosocial factors to cognitive development in toddlers with infantile anorexia. METHODS Eighty-eight toddlers, ranging in age from 12 to 33 months, were enrolled in this study. Toddlers were evaluated by 2 child psychiatrists and placed into 1 of 3 groups: infantile anorexia, picky eater, an...