Human milk is a nourishment that is not only species-specific; it could also be defined individual-specific: a result of millenary selection process aimed to answer at best to nutritional, biological and psychological… Read more

Here we are: finally at home, after months in hospital we’ve been released !! But, wait a moment.. we got a bunch of appointments !! And what’s this “global functional assessment” we… Read more

One of the most interesting phenomena of the very first cerebral development is the neuronal migration’s process. Yes, that’s right, even among neurons there are some not satisfied by their place of… Read more

An unexpected birth, or one that does not reflect the expectation of every couple and the subsequent hospitalization of the newborn in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, can result in an interaction with sensory stimuli… Read more

Definition of infantile cerebral palsy: a long history

In 1964, Bax published the first definition of Infantile Cerebral Palsy: “chronic disorder of movement and posture caused by a… Read more

The cerebellum, as we would say attending an anatomy lesson, is an “unequal median organ contained in the posterior cranial ditch which is  separated from the… Read more

Here below the summary of a study you can find here in its full version.

The word Hydrocephalus derives from the Greek “idrokefalon” which can be translated as (disease of) “liquid in the head”. The first to use this term was precisely the most famous doctor of… Read more

What is intelligence? How does learning work? What if a child is born before time? What are the risks and consequences of a brain injury?

For a long time,… Read more

During BraYn (Brainstorming Research Assembly for Young Neuroscientists), the first meeting of young neuroscientists held this year in Genoa, Eu-Brain offered € 1,000 to reward the best research on neurological issues; among…

Eu-Brain, at the SIMP congress that was held in Catania in March 2018, awarded the best two scientific contributes on perinatal and neonatal neurology. Here is a summary of one of these interesting studies.

Infants life…

It’s almost a year that the research on the PIOMI stimulation goes on, and the first sensations are encouraging and exciting! Babies, who took part at the study, accepted the stimulation without showing…

Oral and perioral sensorimotor stimulation to optimize feeding in preterm infants: parent and health professionals role in neonatal intensive care unit

Pre-term infants, due to their neurological, respiratory and oral-gastrointestinal immaturity, are often unable to…

Non-nutritive suction (NNS) is a reflexive oro-motor behavior that follows a specific developmental trajectory: from the early fetal period of 16-18 weeks of gestational age through the first year of life.

NNS follows a stable…

“Periventricular leukomalacia” (PVL) which literally means, “softening of the white matter around the ventricles”, is a typical type of brain injury encountered in preterm newborns. The name of the disease comes from the 1962…

Thanks to the medical advances premature infants are increasingly able to survive. With every day neuroscientists are developing the increasingly sophisticated picture of premature infants’ brains that could help to inform medical decisions and…