Significance of the ability to differentiate emotional prosodies for the early diagnosis and prognostic prediction of mild hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy in neonates.

Lili LiuYuehang GengYun CuiYanxia ZhouGuoyu SunCheng PengRui ZhangYuanpei MaYanan LiuChufan SunXinlin HouJunya Chen

Published in: International journal of developmental neuroscience : the official journal of the International Society for Developmental Neuroscience (2020)

We found that neonates showed the early ability to differentiate among emotional prosodies, responding most sensitively to positive emotions, and this ability may have been impaired following brain injury.

Keyphrases

brain injury
subarachnoid hemorrhage
low birth weight
cerebral ischemia
early onset
preterm infants
blood brain barrier