Population
40 babies, 3-5 days old
Design
Other
Follow-up
2 successive days (for a subset of 15 babies)
Authors
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Pre-stimulus heart rate must inform neonatal reactivity interpretation; leaves open extension to clinical outcomes or interventions.
Neonatal heart rate reactivity to stimulation is inversely related to pre-stimulus heart rate, highlighting the importance of initial state in psychophysiologic assessments.
Bridger et al. (1959) studied this question.
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