title: Brief report: HIV-exposed newborns show inferior orienting and abnormal reflexes on the Brazelton Scale.
abstract: Assessed 48 infants of HIV-positive and HIV-negative mothers on the Brazelton Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale. Infants exposed to HIV-positive mothers were disadvantaged from birth due to their mothers having obstetric complications and to the infants having orienting problems and abnormal reflexes on the Brazelton Newborn Scale. These problems may be early precursors of the later visual-spatial delays and hypertonicity noted in these infants.
authors.affiliation: Touch Research Institute, University of Miami School of Medicine, Florida 33101, USA.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Scafidi
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Field
mesh_terms: D016022:Case-Control Studies; D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D018730:Infant Behavior; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D011247:Pregnancy; D011251:Pregnancy Complications, Infectious / Q000453:epidemiology*; D012021:Reflex, Abnormal; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology