Abstract

A new psychophysiological assessment strategy will be evaluated with human neonates. The research will test the hypothesis that individual differences in neonatal cardiac vagal tone can prospectively identify infants at greatest risk for developmental disabilities. The research will employ a non-invasive measure of vagal tone derived from the rhythmic heart rate pattern. The specific objective of the proposed research is to identify, through non-invasive monitoring of vagal tone, neonates who will have a high probability of manifesting developmental problems (e.g., deficits in cognitive, social, sleep, motor, and health processes). The techniques tested in the proposed research have the potential to evolve into a neonatal assessment instrument capable of predicting developmental outcome.

  Funding Agency

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD)
Type
Research Project (R01)
Project #
2R01HD022628-05
Application #
3322393
Study Section
Human Development and Aging Subcommittee 1 (HUD)
Project Start
1987-07-01
Project End
1993-03-31
Budget Start
1989-07-01
Budget End
1990-03-31
Support Year
5
Fiscal Year
1989
Total Cost
Indirect Cost

  Institution

Name
University of Maryland College Park
Department
Type
Schools of Education
DUNS #
City
College Park
State
MD
Country
United States
Zip Code
20742

  Publications

Dale, Lourdes P; O'Hara, Emily A; Keen, Julie et al. (2011) Infant regulatory disorders: temperamental, physiological, and behavioral features. J Dev Behav Pediatr 32:216-24
Bazhenova, Olga V; Stroganova, Tatiana A; Doussard-Roosevelt, Jane A et al. (2007) Physiological responses of 5-month-old infants to smiling and blank faces. Int J Psychophysiol 63:64-76
Doussard-Roosevelt, Jane A; Joe, Claudia M; Bazhenova, Olga V et al. (2003) Mother-child interaction in autistic and nonautistic children: characteristics of maternal approach behaviors and child social responses. Dev Psychopathol 15:277-95
Porges, S W (2001) The polyvagal theory: phylogenetic substrates of a social nervous system. Int J Psychophysiol 42:123-46
Doussard-Roosevelt, J A; McClenny, B D; Porges, S W (2001) Neonatal cardiac vagal tone and school-age developmental outcome in very low birth weight infants. Dev Psychobiol 38:56-66
Bazhenova, O V; Plonskaia, O; Porges, S W (2001) Vagal reactivity and affective adjustment in infants during interaction challenges. Child Dev 72:1314-26
Suess, P E; Alpan, G; Dulkerian, S J et al. (2000) Respiratory sinus arrhythmia during feeding: a measure of vagal regulation of metabolism, ingestion, and digestion in preterm infants. Dev Med Child Neurol 42:169-73
DiPietro, J A; Costigan, K A; Pressman, E K et al. (2000) Antenatal origins of individual differences in heart rate. Dev Psychobiol 37:221-8
Porges, S W; Doussard-Roosevelt, J A; Stifter, C A et al. (1999) Sleep state and vagal regulation of heart period patterns in the human newborn: an extension of the polyvagal theory. Psychophysiology 36:14-21
Reed, S F; Ohel, G; David, R et al. (1999) A neural explanation of fetal heart rate patterns: A test of the polyvagal theory. Dev Psychobiol 35:108-18

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