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The neonatologists at Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of NewYork-Presbyterian have been at the forefront of research that has revolutionized neonatal intensive care.
At Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital, a National Institutes of Health Program Project Grant is funding research to study environmental challenges - such as hypoxia (less than normal concentration of oxygen in arterial blood) and malnutrition - on a developing fetus and how these challenges can constrain physiological and behavioral characteristics throughout the life of the child. Research is mainly focusing on the processes that cause risk from these challenges - or resistance to them. Some of the current research includes:
- examining of risks to the developing fetus caused by nicotine;
- identifying the physiologic processes that underlie sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS);
- pursuing studies to provide new knowledge on understanding how early events in life shape physiology, behavior and susceptibility to disease (e.g., diabetes and hypertension) later in life.
The Hospital's neonatologists are also focusing on nutritional challenges experienced by very low birth weight infants during their initial adjustment to extra-uterine life. One study is testing the hypothesis that aggressive, early nutritional support of infants with very low birth weight, particularly with nitrogen intake, results in enhanced growth during the stay in the neonatal intensive care unit and improved neurodevelopment outcome at 18 months corrected age. Another project is testing the hypotheses that nutritional experiences during critical periods of development may "program" long-tem structure or function and permanently alter physiology later in life.
Researchers from biomedical engineering, developmental psychobiology and electroencephalography are collaborating with neonatal researchers to develop strategies for quantifying high-resolution electroencephalogram (EEG) images in infants.
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