Serial Brain MRI in Hospitalized Preterm Infants

The SENSE II program was developed to engage parents in consistently providing positive, developmentally appropriate sensory exposures to their high-risk infants in the NICU every day of hospitalization. The SENSE II program includes specific doses and targeted timing (based on postmenstrual age) of evidence-based interventions of auditory, tactile, vestibular, kinesthetic, olfactory, and visual exposures to be conducted daily through hospitalization for preterm infants. Additionally, for very preterm infants with advanced neurological injury, additional 1-2 sessions of weekly motor therapy are added to the SENSE-II program

The SENSE II program was developed to engage parents in consistently providing positive, developmentally appropriate sensory exposures to their high-risk infants in the NICU every day of hospitalization. The SENSE II program includes specific doses and targeted timing (based on postmenstrual age) of evidence-based interventions of auditory, tactile, vestibular, kinesthetic, olfactory, and visual exposures to be conducted daily through hospitalization for preterm infants.

Infants in the Unexposed group receive the NICU standard of developmental care throughout hospitalization.