The loving touch is critical for premature infants (AlphaGalileo, 6 January 2014)

07 Jan 2014


A study from Israel published in Biological Psychiatry assesses multiple physiologic, cognitive and psychological measures over 10 years, including the cortisol stress response, among 73 premature infants provided with maternal skin-to-skin contact ('Kangaroo care') for the first two weeks post partum.

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