Brief report: HIV-exposed newborns show inferior orienting and abnormal reflexes on the Brazelton Scale.
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Assessed 48 infants of HIV-positive and HIV-negative mothers on the Brazelton Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale. Infants exposed to HIV-positive mothers were disadvantaged from birth due to their mothers having obstetric complications and to the infants having orienting problems and abnormal reflexes on the Brazelton Newborn Scale. These problems may be early precursors of the later visual-spatial delays and hypertonicity noted in these infants.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of pediatric psychology
دوره 22 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1997