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2-036 - Short-Term and Long-Term Outcomes After Infant Crying, Sleeping and Feeding Problems

Fri, March 22, 8:00 to 9:30am, Baltimore Convention Center, Floor: Level 3, Room 350

Session Type: Paper Symposium

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Regulatory problems (i.e., crying, sleeping and feeding problems) are stressful for parents as they may increase insecurity about parenting, feelings of helplessness, and frustration with the child. Cohort studies that examine child and family factors associated with long-term social, emotional and behavioral development of these infants are essential to develop more successful interventions and relieve pressure on young families. This symposium will present multidisciplinary research from three different countries regarding the development of infants with regulatory problems across infancy, childhood and adulthood. The first speaker will describe profiles of early regulatory problems and socio-demographic factors associated with these. She will discuss recent findings suggesting that severely dysregulated infants have more than 10 times greater odds of experiencing mental health difficulties during childhood. The second speaker will focus solely on crying problems and how they affect emotional and behavioral development and mother-child attachment. Her special interest is the role sensitive parenting plays in this relationship. The third speaker will focus on parenting and the role of maternal mental health problems. Finally, the fourth speaker will provide more insight into the mechanisms underlying the relationship between infant regulatory problems and adulthood social, emotional and behavioral problems by focusing on distinct brain systems using resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) to measure allostatic-interoceptive system (AIS) integrity via intrinsic functional connectivity (iFC). The discussion with the audience will focus on a ‘next steps’ approach: What can we advise parents with the information we have so far?

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