Listening to a baby's heart and brain together may help doctors understand fragile beginnings

Doctors caring for babies born with heart conditions know the brain needs watching too. In a peer-reviewed Scientific Reports study, researchers in China analysed heart and sleep brain-wave recordings from 30 infants and toddlers and found the heart's signals linked more strongly to brain activity in babies with heart disease. It is early, exploratory work — not a test yet — but it points to gentler ways of spotting which babies need extra developmental support.

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