Alan Leviton

TL;DR: Combined treatment with both MV and supplemental oxygen at 36 weeks PMA strongly predicts the more common bilateral CP phenotypes, and BPD without MV at 36 Weeks PMA was not significantly associated with any form of CP.

TL;DR: Obtaining concordance seems to be an acceptable way to assure reasonably high-quality of images needed for clinical research.

TL;DR: The risk of abnormal brain structure and function overall was increased among children who had recurrent and/or persistent elevations of the 25 proteins, and the risk of low Mental Development Index on the Bayley Scales of Infant Development-II, microcephaly, and a Child Behavior Checklist-defined attention problem increased with higher numbers of these recurrently and/ or persistently elevated proteins.

TL;DR: It is suggested that more experimental and epidemiological research is needed to elucidate mechanisms of infection/inflammation-induced damage to the eye and visual brain pathways of preterm infants.

TL;DR: The findings and those from earlier studies provide no support for the hypothesis that parental cigarette smoking influences the risk of brain tumors in children.