NEONATAL

• Neonatal


  infancy, newborn children
• Cephalocaudal pattern


  growth occurs from top to bottom
• Proximodistal pattern


  growth starts at the center of the body
• Shaken baby syndrome

  brain swelling and hemorrhaging
• Newborn's Brain

  25% of its adult size, after 2nd bday - 75%
• Lateralization


  specialization of function in one hemisphere or the other
• Newborns show greater electrical brain activity in the Left hemisphere when listening to speech sounds
• Difference of infant brain

  changes in neurons, regions of the brain
• Synaptic pruning


  natural process in the brain between early childhood to adulthood
• Sleep


  18 hrs a day
• REM sleep

  more present in early infancy
• Sudden infant death syndrome


  sleeping infant suddenly stops breathing and dies without apparent cause
• Breast feeding

  4-6 months, better than bottle feeding
• Marasmus 


  wasting away of body tissue in the infant's first year because of severe protein-calorie deficiency
• Kwashiorkor


  severe protein deficiency, child's abdomen and feet become swollen with water, appear between 1-3 yrs old
• Dynamic systems theory

  Thelen and Smith, how motor behabiros are assembled for perceiving and acting
• Reflexes 


  built-in reactions to stimuli
• Reflexes

  rooting, sucking, moro, grasping
• Sensation


  interaction between information and the sensory receptors
• Perception


  interpretation of what is sensed