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This cohort study examines the risk for neurodevelopmental disorders among male and female offspring exposed in utero to SARS-CoV-2 and whether pregnancy during the COVID-19 pandemic is associated with neurodevelopmental risk independent of SARS-CoV-2 exposure.
This cohort study examines whether there is an association between higher resource utilization during the first 4 days of age, quantified by hospital costs, and survival without neurodevelopmental impairment among infants with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE).
This Viewpoint discusses the concern about the long-term predictive validity of early childhood development (ECD) assessments and how this concern reflects a misunderstanding of the constructs of ECD and intelligence, how they are assessed, and the myriad of other influences on the growth and trajectory of intellectual ability in children.
This case-control study identifies subgroups of children with and without neurodevelopmental conditions with shared brain characteristics using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data from 2 large, independent data sets.
This prognostic study develops a multimodal model to predict the neurodevelopmental outcome of extreme preterm newborns at age 2 years.
In this narrative medicine essay, a pharmacoepidemiologist worries that her brother’s lifelong neurological challenges may have been caused by a heritable genetic variant and that she possibly passed it to her young son, who looks uncannily like his uncle.
This cohort study compares brain microstructure and functional connectivity strength with cognitive outcomes in association with postnatal growth among early school–aged children born preterm with extremely low birth weight.
This randomized clinical trial investigates the effects of an internet-delivered parent-child interaction therapy for children aged 3 years with developmental delay.
This Viewpoint discusses food insecurity and the importance of choline-fortified food aid products.
This cohort study analyzes data for young children to investigate the association of higher screen time with neurodevelopmental outcomes and whether this association is mediated by outdoor play.
This cohort study analyzes data for children from the population-based study Growing Up in Singapore Toward Healthy Outcomes (GUSTO) to examine the associations between infant screen time, electroencephalography markers, and school-age cognitive outcomes using a mediation analysis.
This cross-sectional study uses data from Pediatric Providers Against Cavities in Children’s Teeth study to investigate caries experience, including untreated decay, among Medicaid-enrolled preschoolers with or without special health care needs.
This cross-sectional study of US children aged 9 to 11 years assesses functional connectivity hubs displaying prominent sex differences and the association between global functional connectivity density and total cognitive scores.
This cohort study assesses bidirectional associations between adiposity and cognitive function in youth in the United States and tests mediational pathways through the lateral prefrontal cortext.
This cohort study evaluates changes in children’s screen time from before the pandemic to during the pandemic, from July 2019 through August 2021.
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