Cognitive Deficits in Premature Infants

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Abstract
Each year approximately 45,000 infants with very low birth weights are born in the United States, and approximately 80 to 85 percent survive the neonatal period. All too often, these survivors have overt motor deficits (cerebral palsy) or substantial cognitive disturbances that lead to learning difficulties in school.1 , 2 This group of infants, numbering in the many thousands yearly, now constitute an enormous burden on the tangible and intangible resources of families and educational systems.The interesting report of Hack et al. in this issue of the Journal 3 focuses particularly on the cognitive function at school age of very-low-birth-weight children and . . .