Skin-to-skin Contact in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) Caregiving Touch and Neural Correlates of Slow Stroking Touch in Preterm Infants

Preterm (PT) infants spend their first weeks of life in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) where receive little affective physical contact, which plays a crucial role in brain development. Evidence indicates that skin-to-skin contact (SSC) has a positive effect on infants' neurophysiological and behavioral adjustment to postnatal life. Moreover, caregiving …