Monthly Archives: April 2013

van der AA NE, Dudink J, Benders MJNL, Govaert P, van Straaten HLM, Porro GL, Groenendaal F, de Vries LS: Neonatal posterior cerebral artery stroke: Clinical presentation, mri findings, and outcome. Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology 2013, 55(3):283-290. As you … Continue reading →

A great quote from Robin Ince, who was asked to sit on a panel entitled ‘Is science the new religion?’ ‘The answer to “is science the new religion?” is obviously yes, so long as you redefine religion as “a self-correcting, … Continue reading →

Honda N, Ohgi S, Wada N, Loo KK, Higashimoto Y, Fukuda K: Effect of therapeutic touch on brain activation of preterm infants in response to sensory punctate stimulus: A near-infrared spectroscopy-based study. Archives of Disease in Childhood – Fetal and … Continue reading →

I have updated the page with the list of publications from our group since 2003. We are now up to 280! Keep it up colleagues. I have also updated the ‘recent presentations’ page with the ppt files that I used … Continue reading →

For years we have heard about the mediterranean diet and the anomalous finding that despite relatively high dietary fat intake the people living in Greece, Italy, Southern France (in particular) have very low frequency of vascular disease. This has been ascribed to the particular … Continue reading →

Annie keeps telling me I should write something about Maggie. I can do no better than to redirect anyone who wants a more honest evaluation of her legacy than all the hagiography in the press over the last few days … Continue reading →

A report from Mount Sinai hospital in Toronto of an innovative program to integrate parents much more into the day to day care of babies in the NICU. (O’Brien K, Bracht M, Macdonell K, McBride T, Robson K, O’Leary L, … Continue reading →

Ritter BC, Nelle M, Perrig W, Steinlin M, Everts R: Executive functions of children born very preterm-deficit or delay? Eur J Pediatr 2013, 172(4):473-483. In the last updates I mentioned a good review article of executive function in ex-preterm infants. … Continue reading →