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SUBMITTER: Sokoloff G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8513809 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sokoloff Greta G Hickerson Meredith M MM Wen Rebecca Y RY Tobias Megan E ME McMurray Bob B Blumberg Mark S MS
Developmental psychobiology 20200209 6
During the perinatal period in mammals when active sleep predominates, skeletal muscles twitch throughout the body. We have hypothesized that myoclonic twitches provide unique insight into the functional status of the human infant's nervous system. However, assessments of the rate and patterning of twitching have largely been restricted to infant rodents. Thus, here we analyze twitching in human infants over the first seven postnatal months. Using videography and behavioral measures of twitching ...[more]