ArticleFrontiers in human neuroscience2025
Listening to mom in the neonatal intensive care unit: a randomized trial of increased maternal speech exposure on white matter connectivity in infants born preterm.
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- The MIND Randomized Controlled Trial: An Intervention to Improve Neural Speech Processing and 2-Year Language Outcomes of Infants Born Preterm.The Journal of pediatrics · 2026Trial
- Recorded Contingent Caregiver Voice Independently Improves Neural Speech Processing in Hospitalized Preterm Infants: A Multisite Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Neonatal brain-age models in full- and preterm infants.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2026Article
- Implementation of a Multidisciplinary Transitional Home Care Program for Very-Low-Birth-Weight Infants: A Structured Program Evaluation.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Music-based research in neonatal intensive care units requires guidelines grounded in developmental neurology and responsive to the individual needs of preterm infants.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Assessing the Impact of a NICU Book Cart on Staff and Caregiver Speech to Very Preterm Infants.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
- Skin-to-skin holding in relation to white matter connectivity in infants born preterm.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
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Objective: Early speech experiences are presumed to contribute to the development of brain structures involved in processing speech. Previous research has been limited to correlational studies. Here, we conducted a randomized trial with neonates born preterm to determine whether increased exposure to maternal speech during NICU hospitalization is causally linked to structural white matter maturation. Study design: We enrolled 46 neonates born preterm (24-31 weeks gestational age). Participants were randomly assigned to receive increased (T: Results: Groups were equivalent on medical and demographic variables. Linear mixed models demonstrated that compared to the C-group, the T-group demonstrated significantly lower MD in the left (scan 1: β = -0.11, Marginal R Conclusion: Preterm neonates with increased maternal speech exposure showed more mature left arcuate microstructure, supporting a causal role of exposure to speech in brain development. Enhancing speech exposure in the NICU may benefit preterm children's language outcomes.
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