Neurological and motor functioning of 10--12-year-old children who showed mild transient neurological symptoms in the first five days of life.

This study concerns itself with the neurological functioning of 11-year-old children who neonatally presented a variety of shortlived or transient symptoms. These symptoms, while shortlived, are similar in nature to symptoms which other authors have shown to be correlated with later increased rate of neurological deviance. By using the data from a birth cohort of 9,006 consecutive deliveries, we attempted to discover whether such symptoms, when only transiently present in the newborn, are correlated with later neurological functioning. Results indicate that the subjects with transient neonatal symptoms presented more neurological deviance at age 10--12 than did matched controls.