High-Energy and -Protein Diet Increases Brain and Corticospinal Tract Growth in Term and Preterm Infants After Perinatal Brain Injury

Abstract

These data support our hypothesis that infants with significant perinatal brain damage have increased nutritional requirements in the first postnatal year and suggest that decreased postnatal brain growth may exacerbate their impairment. There are no measures of cognitive ability at 12 months of age, and whether there will be any improvement in the status of these children, therefore, remains to be shown.