Bochum doctors have discovered a groundbreaking method to predict brain damage in newborns as well as IQ and neurological findings in preschool children using a smartphone app (http://brain-protect.de). They prospectively examined 5,301 infants using cranial ultrasound after birth as well as psychomotor development (intelligence quotient (IQ), labyrinth test (MT) and neurological examination (NOS) in the 4th year of life and related the results to the mother’s weighted pregnancy risks. For this purpose, each found pregnancy risk with a factor that reflects the negative effects on psychomotor skills.
What is surprising is how closely the documented risks during pregnancy and childbirth correlate with the risk of brain damage and the children’s motor and mental-emotional development, thereby enabling parents to have their child’s umbilical cord blood stored for later treatment if necessary . “These results, which were validated in a large perinatal survey cohort (n=508,926), enable early intervention via the app and support strategies to promote school performance and educational success in later life,” says Prof. Dr. Arne Jensen from the Campus Clinic Gynecology at the Ruhr University Bochum continues: “This is particularly important for newborns who are born apparently healthy and would normally escape further diagnostic evaluation, but can also be used for small children.” He reports the basics for the smartphone app together with his colleague Gerd Neuhäuser, MD, in the “American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology Global Reports”. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xagr.2023.100219, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666577823000606 )
Links:
· Jensen A, Jensen U. Brain Protect – Protect your child’s brain. Smartphone app. http://brain-protect.de
· Jensen A. Cerebral palsy – brain repair with stem cells. J Perinat Med. 2022 Dec 12. doi: 10.1515/jpm-2022-0505. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36503655. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/jpm-2022-0505/html
· Jensen A, Hamelmann E. First Autologous Cord Blood Therapy for Pediatric Ischemic Stroke and Cerebral Palsy Caused by Cephalic Molding during Birth: Individual Treatment with Mononuclear Cells”, Case Reports in Transplantation, vol. 2016, Article ID 1717426, 9 pages, 2016.
· Jensen A, Neuhäuser G. Association of weight-length ratio at birth with psychomotor trajectories among preschool-aged children. AJOG Glob Rep. 2022 Oct 2;2(4):100115. doi: 10.1016/j.xagr.2022.100115. PMID: 36275404; PMCID: PMC9579794.
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