Experience plays a crucial role in the development of face processing. In the study reported here, we investigated how faces observed within the visual environment affect the development of the face-processing system during the 1st year of life. We assessed 3-, 6-, and 9-month-old Caucasian infants' ability to discriminate faces within their own racial group and within three other-race groups (...

Dengue hemorrhagic fever can occur in primary dengue virus (DENV) infection of infants. The decay of maternally derived DENV immunoglobulin (Ig) G and the incidence of DENV infection were determined in a prospectively studied cohort of 1244 Vietnamese infants. Higher concentrations of total IgG and DENV-reactive IgG were found in cord plasma relative to maternal plasma. Maternally derived DENV-...

BACKGROUND Beriberi occurs in Vientiane, Lao PDR, among breastfed infants. Clinical disease may be the tip of an iceberg with subclinical thiamin deficiency contributing to other illnesses. Thiamin treatment could improve outcome. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS A cohort of 778 sick infants admitted during one year without clinical evidence of beriberi were studied prospectively and erythrocyt...

Infants' initially broad links between language and object categories are increasingly tuned, becoming more precise by the end of their first year. In a longitudinal study, we asked whether individual differences in the precision of infants' links at 12 months of age are related to vocabulary development. We found that, at 12 months, infants who had already established a precise link between la...

1. A strain of pure epithelial cells was obtained from the part of the iris which adheres to the extirpated lens. 2. The optimum condition under which epithelial cells grow in vitro is on the free surface of the plasma clot under a film of embryonic tissue juice. 3. The epithelial cells did not dedifferentiate. Although the strain is 3 months old, they grow as a pavement membrane and have kept ...

By Geouge S. A. Racking A.B., M.B. (Cantab). Havingbeen told by my chowkedar that he knew of a woman who had twin children "joined," as he said, " by the belly," I told him to have thein brought for me to see; accordingly this morning the father and mother came bringing the twins. The father is about 45, a fairly representative Hindoo of the Moira caste. The mother is a fine healthy looking wom...

OBJECTIVE To examine the characteristics of infants suffering from failure to thrive in a community based cohort in Israel and to ascertain the effect of failure to thrive on their cognitive development. METHODS By review of records maintained at maternal and child health clinics in Jerusalem and the two of Beit Shemesh, epidemiological data were obtained at age 15 months on a cohort of all b...

Thirty-six 2-, 4-, and 6-month-old infants were videotaped while interacting with a female adult stranger engaging in either organized or disorganized 1-min peekaboo games. Two-month-old infants gazed and smiled equally at the stranger, regardless of the relative organization of the peekaboo game. In contrast, 4- and 6-month-old infants smiled significantly more and gazed significantly less in ...

To the Editor: We conducted two studies of serum antibodies against oxidized LDL (IgoxLDL) in mothers and their infants during the past 2 years. We used an ELISA (oLAb; Eli-Tec Labor-reagenzien GmbH) based on the use of Cu 2ϩ-oxidized LDL particles bound to the surface of microtiter plate wells and an anti-human IgG-peroxidase conjugate. In the first study of mothers and their infants at birth ...