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Here you will find publications featuring Center for Family and Infant Interaction staff.

Dr. Joy Browne was interviewed by Amy Tracy for the article "Early Communication with Preemies: Decoding your premature baby's signals" in Babies Today.

The Pampers website featured an article by Dr. Joy Browne,  "Supporting Your Preemie's Development".

Providing Perinatal Mental Health Services in Pediatric Primary Care
by Ayelet Talmi, Brian Stafford, and Melissa Buchholz (2009)
This article describes an integrated mental health program located within a busy pediatric primary care training clinic, and how it incorporates infant mental health principles into direct services and educational offerings.

Chemosensory Development in the Fetus and Newborn
by Joy V. Browne (2008)
Expanding knowledge in the development of smell and taste in fetuses and infants provides a foundation for understanding physiologic and behavioral responses in term and preterm infants, emphasizing the importance of continuity from fetal to newborn life and implications for practice in the NICU.

Auditory Development in the Fetus and Infant
by Stanley N. Graven and Joy V. Browne (2008)
This article explores the development of the fetus and infant auditory system and structure, and the effects of the physical environment, specifically that of the NICU, have on auditory development.

Sensory Development in the Fetus, Neonate, and Infant: Introduction and Overview
by Stanley N. Graven and Joy V. Browne (2008)
The preterm infant's neurosensory development is discussed, as well as the role of the NICU environment on these processes, and implications for a developmentally supportive environment and developmentally appropriate care practices.

Sleep and Brain Development: The Critical Role of Sleep in Fetal and Early Neonatal Brain Development 
by Stanley N. Graven and Joy V. Browne (2008)
REM sleep is critical for the creation of memory and  the balance of brain plasticity over the course of a lifetime. The NICU environment and parents both play important roles in shaping this area of early development.

Visual Development in the Human Fetus, Infant, and Young Child
by Stanley N. Graven and Joy V. Browne (2008)
The development of the visual system is discussed, as well as its relation to sleep cycles and effects that disruption of sleep can have on the development of the eye and this system.

Infants and Toddlers with Special Health Care Needs in Colorado: Identification, Description, Needs, and Recommendations White Paper
by Joy V. Browne and Barbara Deloian (2007)
This paper describes and estimates the number of infants and toddlers with special health care needs in Colorado, evidence supporting their needs, and recommendations.

Family-Based Intervention to Enhance Infant-Parent Relationships in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
by Joy V. Browne and Ayelet Talmi (2005)
In efforts to examine how family-based interventions in the NICU change parental knowledge and behaviors, the authors find that mothers in both intervention groups (one which viewed educational materials and one which participated in dicussion) evidence greater knowledge and more contingent and senstitive interactions with their infants than the control group.

Dr. Ayelet Talmi was a contributor to Second Edition Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: Blackwell's Neurology and Psychiatry Access Series (2005)
Early relationship environments: physiology of skin-to-skin contact for parents and their preterm infants by Joy V. Browne (2004)
This article reviews the historical emergence of skin-to-skin care practices in NICUs, describes the physiologic and behavioral regulatory practices that are supported in the continuum of the maternal fetal and early infant relationship during physical contact, and details implementation challenges in an intensive care environment.

New Perspectives on Premature Infants and Their Parents
by Joy V. Browne (2003)
Through featuring advances in research and evidence-based practice, this article compares past to recent understanding in how to care for premature infants.  

BEGINNINGS: An Interim Individualized Family Service Plan for Use in the Intensive Care Nursery
by Joy V. Browne, Aimee Langlois, Erin Ross, and Suzanne Smith-Sharp (2001)
This article describes BEGINNINGS, an interim IFSP for use in the NICU. It discusses the rationale that supports the process, a description of the format, and recommendations for its implementation.

The Center for Family and Infant Interaction was referenced in an article on Nexus: Colorado's Holistic Journal in an article titled "Does my child need a therapist? How to tell and what to expect."