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Within the last 10 years, there has been an increasing interest in the area of neonatal distress and birth trauma. Because new and improved medical equipment and techniques are now available and in use, the survival rate of infants who have suffered some kind of perinatal insult has greatly increased. It has been clear for some time to clinicians that the continuing use of the traditional criteria of mortality/morbidity is no longer appropriate when used in conjunction with the sophisticated technology at their disposal. Standard neurological techniques are poor and identify only the most obvious pathology. More sensitive criteria must be found.
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Lewis, M. (1981). Attention as a Measure of Cognitive Integrity. In: Lewis, M., Taft, L.T. (eds) Developmental Disabilities. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6314-9_13
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