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Shaken baby syndrome (SBS), also known as abusive head trauma (AHT), is a controversial and scientifically disputed [4] [5] [6] medical condition in children younger than five years old, [3] hypothesized to be caused by blunt trauma, vigorous shaking, or a combination of both.
In the case of bobble-head doll syndrome, the disturbance is related to those structures proximal to the third ventricle. [3] More research is being conducted in order to find the neurophysiologic basis for bobble-head doll syndrome and its connection with other movement disorders, but with the rare occurrence of the disorder, progress is slow. [7]
Hundreds of possible shaken baby and abusive head trauma cases are reported to hospitals in the U.S. every year, according to a nonprofit advocacy group. While there have been criminal cases ...
Robert Leslie Roberson III (born November 10, 1966) is an American man convicted and on death row for the murder of his two-year-old daughter in 2002. Roberson was accused of shaking his daughter and causing her death, and was tried and convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death in 2003.
"It's what I've been waiting on," Kim Hoover told The Dispatch of a court's decision declaring she was wrongfully imprisoned, thus clearing her name.
A pediatrician is revealing his tried and tested technique to quiet any crying baby. Dr. Robert Hamilton, from Pacific Ocean Pediatrics in Santa Monica, California, gives his step-by-step guide to ...
Waney Squier is a neuropathologist specialising in the brain of the developing foetus and neonate.She has written a book on acquired damage to the developing brain [1] and is senior author on peer-reviewed publications ranging in topic from fetal [2] to childhood infection [3], polymicrogyria, [4] hydrocephalus, [5] brain ischemia, [6] head trauma [7] [8] and mimics of trauma caused by ...
A woman has pleaded guilty to manslaughter for the death of a man she violently shook when he was a baby — 35 years before. Terry McKirchy was babysitting 6-month-old Benjamin Dowling on July 3 ...