Embryology and Anatomy

Short-term feeding outcomes after neonatal brain injury

“…Areas known to be damaged by neonatal brain injury include the cortex, basal ganglia and thalamus, brain stem, subcortical white matter, and the cerebellum (Bano et al, 2017;Fumagalli et al, 2015;Inder et al, 2018;Jeong et al, 2016;Rutherford et al, 2010;Tam et al, 2011). These are areas of vital importance to the control of feeding and swallowing (Ahn & Musso, 2018;Kashou et al, 2017;Mourão et al, 2017).…”