To the Editor—I read with interest the recent paper by Neveu and colleagues, ‘‘Cumulative Exposure to Cell-Free HIV in Breast Milk, Rather than Feeding Pattern per se, Identifies Postnatally Infected Infants’’ [1]. The paper not only provides new information showing that infants become infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) because of higher cumulative exposure to cell-free HIV throug...

There is now a strong if not urgent call in both the attachment and autism literatures for updated, research informed, clinically relevant interventions that can more effectively assess the mother infant dyad during early periods of brain plasticity. In this contribution I describe my work in regulation theory, an overarching interpersonal neurobiological model of the development, psychopathoge...

N EWBORN mammals survive body temperatures that cannot be tolerated by adults of the same species. Edwards (I) showed that infant cats and dogs could be cooled until their rectal temperatures were below 13’ C.; adults could not survive. The exact conditions of temperature and of oxygen required for survival have been worked out for infant rats (2). The infant rats could cease breathing movement...

background: infant's transition is a challenge for parents and the health system that requires ongoing assessment and management to improve each newborn`s growth and development. the purpose of this study was to explore the management of infant` transition from neonatal intensive care unit (nicu) to home.materials and methods: we used a grounded theory study to explore and describe the man...

OBJECTIVE To analyse the prevalence of fetal and infant deaths due to birth defects in Korea and those trends according to maternal age. DESIGN Retrospective national cohort study SETTING: Korean Vital Statistics database of the Korean Statistical Information Service, between 2009 and 2015. PARTICIPANTS 2176 infant deaths and 4343 fetal deaths caused by birth defects, among 3 181 145 total ...

Maternal Smoking I wish to address the statement regarding maternal smoking and breastfeeding. In your article, it states, “Maternal smoking is not an absolute contraindication to breastfeeding but should be strongly discouraged, because it is associated with an increased incidence in infant respiratory allergy.” After this false information, you have cited reference 102. I scrolled down to the...

I propose a mechanism to model aspects of Piagetian development, in infants. The mechanism combines a powerful empirical learning technique with an unusual facility for constructing novel elements of representationelements designating states that are not, mere logical combin&ions of other represented states. I sketch how this mechanism might recapitulate the infant’s gradual recognition that th...