Sentence examples for infant functioning from inspiring English sources

L. reuteri was not effective in improving infant sleep, maternal mental health, family or infant functioning, or quality of life.

The scale uses a set of reflex and behavioral items to assess the critical domains of infant functioning (e.g., the infant's ability to control his states of consciousness).

In this large community cohort of infants with colic sufficiently severe for parents to seek assistance from an emergency care setting, treatment with Lactobacillus reuteri did not reduce crying or fussing, nor was it effective in improving infant sleep, maternal mental health, family or infant functioning, or quality of life.

Objective To determine if vitamin B-6 intakes of mothers influence the B-6 vitamer content of transition milk and if correlations exist between the vitamin B-6 content of the milk and the infants' neurobehavioral functioning.

We also hypothesize that the Griffiths Performance subscale requires a greater integration of cognitive functions, providing a score that is more consistent with the actual level of the infant's cognitive functioning.

These findings lend support for the hypothesis that maternal sensitivity and infant neurophysiological functioning interact to predict regulatory behavior and reactivity and are discussed in terms of the significance for understanding infant regulatory development in the first year of life.

The aim of the study was to examine the link between maternal depression and the infant's HPA axis functioning in relation to a sequence of emotional challenges at 12 months postpartum, while controlling for maternal anxiety disorder and general sociodemographic risk.

Fluoride has been shown to have developmental neurotoxic effects [ 18, 19] and to be associated with impaired cognitive functioning in infants and children.

In the CHAMACOS cohort study, including women resident in an area of major agricultural production, the presence of the OP metabolite dialkylphosphate (DAP) in maternal urine or blood was associated with impaired reflex functioning in infants after PND 3 [ 20].

The underlying assumptions of the model are that five systems, including motor, state organization, autonomic, attention-interaction and self regulation systems, work continuously in an inter-relationship for the infant to function[ 12, 18].

The NBAS can serve as an early indicator of developmental abnormalities, and it has also been used to measure the impacts on infants' neurological functioning of numerous variables during pregnancy and birth.