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Jan 28, 2017

Premature babies don’t use sensory-prediction brain process that may be key to development

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

Babies born prematurely don’t use their expectations about the world to shape their brains as babies born at full term do, important evidence that this neural process is important to development.

The findings offer clues to the mystery of why otherwise healthy babies born prematurely face higher risk of developmental delays as they grow, according to researchers at Princeton University, the University of Rochester Medical Center and the University of Rochester.

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