Psychiatric News (2/7) reports, “Infants who cry excessively (more than three hours at least one day/week) may be more likely to experience behavioral problems in childhood and adolescence than infants who cry less,” investigators concluded after analyzing “data from the Generation R Study cohort, which included 4,751 children born in the Netherlands between 2002 and 2006.” Brain scans taken “of these children at age 10 also revealed that the amygdala…was smaller in those who cried excessively and/or were irritable as infants.” The findings were published online Feb. 6 ahead of print in the Journal of the Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.
Related Links:
— “Excessive Crying, Irritability in Infancy Associated With Later Behavioral Problems, Psychiatric News, February 7, 2023