Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale

behavioral research
Also known as: NBAS

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development by Brazelton

  • In T. Berry Brazelton

    …and his colleagues developed the Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale (NBAS), an assessment tool for newborn behaviour. The NBAS can serve as an early indicator of developmental abnormalities, and it has also been used to measure the impacts on infants’ neurological functioning of numerous variables during pregnancy and birth.

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