Listening to Mom 2: Neural, Clinical and Language Outcomes

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Conditions studied: Premature Birth

In brief

The purpose of this study is to examine whether playing recordings of a mother's voice to her infant while in the hospital nursery is an effective treatment for promoting healthy brain and language development in infants born preterm.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT04193579

Run by

Stanford University

People needed

57

Starts

2019-11-25

Expected to finish

2025-04-26

Last updated by the study team

2026-04-24

Who can join

Age: 0 and older, up to 1. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Infants born preterm at Stanford Children's Hospital between 24 0/7 - 31 6/7 weeks gestational age

You may not qualify if…

• Congenital anomalies
• Recognizable malformation syndromes
• Active seizure disorders
• History of Central Nervous System infections
• Hydrocephalus
• Major sensori-neural hearing loss
• Likelihood to be transferred from NICU to alternate care facility or home environment prior to 36 weeks PMA and/or brain MRI scan
• Intraventricular Hemorrhage Grades III-IV
• Cystic periventricular leukomalacia (PVL)
• Surgical treatment for necrotizing enterocolitis
• Small for gestational age (SGA) <3 percentile and/or Intra-uterine growth restriction (IUGR) no head sparing
• Twin-to-twin transfusions

Where it is running

• Stanford University - Lucile Packard Children's Hospital — Palo Alto, California, United States

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