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Different approach needed to protect brains of premature infants
04-10-2007 · EurekAlert!A study of how the brain of a premature infant responds to injury has found vulnerabilities similar to those in the mature brain but also identified at least one significant difference, according to neuroscientists and neonatologists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. More than two percent of babies are born before the completion of their eighth month of gestation, and up to half of these infants suffer brain injury.
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