List of works - Christa Einspieler

"What" matters more than "Why" - Neonatal behaviors initiate social responses

scientific article published in January 2017

'Relabelling the preserved speech variant of Rett syndrome?'

scientific article published on 04 December 2009

A Novel Way to Measure and Predict Development: A Heuristic Approach to Facilitate the Early Detection of Neurodevelopmental Disorders

scientific article

A longitudinal study on hand use while building a tower

scientific article published in July 2007

A physiological approach to motor development within and across domains

scientific article published on 07 May 2014

Abnormal general movements in girls with Rett disorder: the first four months of life

scientific article published on 21 September 2005

Are abnormal fidgety movements an early marker for complex minor neurological dysfunction at puberty?

scientific article published on 28 November 2006

Are sporadic fidgety movements as clinically relevant as is their absence?

scientific article published on 4 March 2015

Association of Infants Exposed to Prenatal Zika Virus Infection With Their Clinical, Neurologic, and Developmental Status Evaluated via the General Movement Assessment Tool

scientific article published on 04 January 2019

Autism spectrum disorder and early motor abnormalities: Connected or coincidental companions?

scientific article published on 15 November 2016

Behavioural biomarkers of typical Rett syndrome: moving towards early identification

scientific article published on 11 August 2016

Birthweight discordance does not necessarily equal growth restriction

scientific article published on 27 June 2011

Can spontaneous movements be modulated by visual and acoustic stimulation in 3-month-old infants?

scientific article published in June 2002

Case report: Retracing atypical development: a preserved speech variant of Rett syndrome

scientific article

Cerebral Palsy: Early Markers of Clinical Phenotype and Functional Outcome

scientific article published on 04 October 2019

Cerebral palsy in children: Movements and postures during early infancy, dependent on preterm vs. full term birth ⬇️

scientific article published on July 12, 2012

Changing the perspective on early development of Rett syndrome

scientific article published on 9 February 2013

Classification of sudden infant death (SID) cases in a multidisciplinary setting. Ten years experience in Styria (Austria).

scientific article published in December 2003

Comparing social reciprocity in preserved speech variant and typical Rett syndrome during the early years of life

scientific article published on 6 July 2015

Complementary thinking: future perspectives on the assessment of general movements

scientific article published on 30 May 2013

Contributing to the early detection of Rett syndrome: the potential role of auditory Gestalt perception

scientific article

Cramped synchronized general movements in preterm infants as an early marker for cerebral palsy

scientific article published in May 2002

Delayed childhood neurodevelopment and neurosensory alterations in the second year of life in a prospective cohort of ZIKV-exposed children

scientific article published on 08 July 2019

Desideratum: a developmentalist view of Zika virus infection

scientific article published on 14 October 2020

Development of manipulative hand movements during the second year of life

scientific article published in December 2003

Development of socio-communicative skills in 9- to 12-month-old individuals with fragile X syndrome.

scientific article published on 27 January 2014

Developmental profile of speech-language and communicative functions in an individual with the preserved speech variant of Rett syndrome.

scientific article

Does a detailed assessment of poor repertoire general movements help to identify those infants who will develop normally?

scientific article

Early Vocal Development in Autism Spectrum Disorder, Rett Syndrome, and Fragile X Syndrome: Insights from Studies using Retrospective Video Analysis

scientific article published on 11 January 2018

Early behavioural manifestation of Smith-Magenis syndrome (del 17p11.2) in a 4-month-old boy.

scientific article published on 22 June 2012

Early development in Rett syndrome - the benefits and difficulties of a birth cohort approach.

scientific article published on 23 May 2017

Early diagnosis and prognosis in cerebral palsy

scholarly article published 2014

Early general movements and brain magnetic resonance imaging at term-equivalent age in infants born <30weeks' gestation

scientific article published on 10 July 2016

Early intervention and its short-term effect on the temporal organization of fidgety movements

scientific article published on 19 September 2020

Early markers for cerebral palsy: insights from the assessment of general movements

scholarly article by Christa Einspieler et al published November 2012 in Future Neurology

Early markers for unilateral spastic cerebral palsy in premature infants

scientific article published on 12 February 2008

Early motor and pre-linguistic verbal development in Prader-Willi syndrome - A case report

scientific article published on 28 February 2019

Early motor repertoire is related to level of self-mobility in children with cerebral palsy at school age.

scientific article published on 24 March 2009

Early neonatal morbidities and neurological functioning of preterm infants 2 weeks after birth

scientific article published on 03 September 2018

Early socio-communicative forms and functions in typical Rett syndrome

scientific article published on 24 July 2013

Early speech-language development in females with Rett syndrome: focusing on the preserved speech variant

scientific article published on 21 February 2012

Early, Accurate Diagnosis and Early Intervention in Cerebral Palsy: Advances in Diagnosis and Treatment

scientific article published on 17 July 2017

En route to disentangle the impact and neurobiological substrates of early vocalizations: learning from Rett syndrome

scientific article published in December 2014

Enhancing early detection of neurological and developmental disorders and provision of intervention in low-resource settings in Uttar Pradesh, India: study protocol of the G.A.N.E.S.H. programme

scientific article published on 03 November 2020

Events at early development: are they associated with early word production and neurodevelopmental abilities at the preschool age?

scientific article published on 28 July 2006

Eye Movements during Silent and Oral Reading in a Regular Orthography: Basic Characteristics and Correlations with Childhood Cognitive Abilities and Adolescent Reading Skills.

scientific article

Feasibility of Using the General Movements Assessment of Infants in the United States

scientific article published on 16 November 2017

Fetal movements: the origin of human behaviour

scientific article published in 2021

Fidgety movements - tiny in appearance, but huge in impact.

scientific article

From the reaching behavior at 5 months of age to hand preference at preschool age

scientific article

General Movements in preterm infants undergoing craniosacral therapy: a randomised controlled pilot-trial.

scientific article published on 13 January 2016

General Movements: A Behavioral Biomarker of Later Motor and Cognitive Dysfunction in NICU Graduates

scientific article published on 01 April 2018

General movements in genetic disorders: A first look into Cornelia de Lange syndrome

scientific article

Heinz F. R. Prechtl, 1927-2014 crossing the borders

scientific article published on 25 September 2014

Highlighting the first 5 months of life: General movements in infants later diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder or Rett Syndrome.

scientific article

Home-Videos for Neurodevelopmental Follow-Up of High-Risk Infants during COVID-19 Pandemic: A Simple and Inexpensive Tool

scientific article published on 16 December 2020

Identifying Atypical Development: A Role of Day-Care Workers?

scientific article published on 01 September 2019

Inter-observer reliability of the "Assessment of Motor Repertoire--3 to 5 Months" based on video recordings of infants

scientific article published on 12 January 2009

Intra-individual consistency in the quality of neonatal general movements.

scientific article published on 9 November 2007

Intra-uterine exposure to maternal opiate abuse and HIV: the impact on the developing nervous system

scientific article published on 11 March 2013

Is it possible to predict the infant's neurodevelopmental outcome at 14 months of age by means of a single preterm assessment of General Movements?

scientific article published on 19 July 2011

Is the early development of girls with Rett disorder really normal?

scientific article published on 17 February 2005

Load perturbation does not influence spontaneous movements in 3-month-old infants

scientific article published in April 2004

Maternal perinatal mental health and infant and toddler neurodevelopment - Evidence from low and middle-income countries. A systematic review

scientific article published on 06 March 2020

Methodological note: video analysis of the early development of Rett syndrome--one method for many disciplines

scientific article published in January 2011

Mobile Solutions for Clinical Surveillance and Evaluation in Infancy—General Movement Apps

scientific article published in 2023

Monozygotic twins with Rett syndrome: Phenotyping the first two years of life.

scientific article

Movement Imitation Therapy for Preterm Babies (MIT-PB): a Novel Approach to Improve the Neurodevelopmental Outcome of Infants at High-Risk for Cerebral Palsy

scientific article published on 18 November 2019

Movements and postures of infants aged 3 to 5 months: to what extent is their optimality related to perinatal events and to the neurological outcome?

scientific article published on 4 February 2011

Neurodevelopment in Infants Exposed to Zika Virus In Utero

scholarly article by M Elisabeth Lopes Moreira et al published 13 December 2018 in The New England Journal of Medicine

Neuromotor repertoires in infants exposed to maternal COVID-19 during pregnancy: a cohort study

scientific article published in 2023

Number word use in toddlerhood is associated with number recall performance at seven years of age.

scientific article

Occurrence of and temporal trends in fidgety general movements in infants born extremely preterm/extremely low birthweight and term-born controls

scientific article published on 08 June 2019

Of pioneers and advancements related to general movement assessment

scientific article published on 01 July 2018

Open Video Data Sharing in Developmental and Behavioural Science

scientific article published in 2022

Open video data sharing in developmental science and clinical practice

scientific article published in 2023

Parental reports on early language and motor milestones in fragile X syndrome with and without autism spectrum disorders

scientific article published in January 2013

Parents' initial concerns about the development of their children later diagnosed with fragile X syndrome.

scientific article published on 18 September 2016

Peculiarities in the gestural repertoire: an early marker for Rett syndrome?

scientific article

Prechtl's assessment of general movements: a diagnostic tool for the functional assessment of the young nervous system

scientific article published in January 2005

Prechtl's method on the qualitative assessment of general movements in preterm, term, and young infants

digital supplement to a book published in 2004

Preterm to early postterm changes in the development of hand-mouth contact and other motor patterns

scientific article published on 01 December 2003

Profiling early socio-communicative development in five young girls with the preserved speech variant of Rett syndrome ⬇️

scientific article published on June 13, 2012

Psychometric Properties of the General Movement Optimality Score using Rasch Measurement

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

Quantitative aspects of the early motor repertoire in preterm infants: do they predict minor neurological dysfunction at school age?

scientific article published on 08 August 2008

Regression in Rett syndrome: Developmental pathways to its onset

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Relationship between white matter pathology and performance on the General Movement Assessment and the Test of Infant Motor Performance in very preterm infants

scientific article

Response to name and its value for the early detection of developmental disorders: Insights from autism spectrum disorder, Rett syndrome, and fragile X syndrome. A perspectives paper.

scientific article published on 11 April 2018

Same or different: Common pathways of behavioral biomarkers in infants and children with neurodevelopmental disorders?

scientific article published in January 2017

Shifting of the body center of gravity in low-risk preterm infants: A video-pedoscope study

scientific article published on 18 August 2018

The General Movement Assessment Helps Us to Identify Preterm Infants at Risk for Cognitive Dysfunction

scientific article

The Relation between Reading Skills and Eye Movement Patterns in Adolescent Readers: Evidence from a Regular Orthography

scientific article published on 4 January 2016

The association between the early motor repertoire and language development in term children born after normal pregnancy

scientific article published on 23 May 2017

The developmental spectrum of prenatal Zika virus exposure

scientific article published on 18 March 2020

The effectiveness of training in Prechtl's method on the qualitative assessment of general movements

scientific article published in July 2005

The general movement assessment in non-European low- and middle-income countries

scientific article published on 5 February 2018

The general movement checklist: A guide to the assessment of general movements during preterm and term age

scientific article published on 01 November 2020

The general movement optimality score: a detailed assessment of general movements during preterm and term age.

scientific article published on 14 September 2015

The interdisciplinary quest for behavioral biomarkers pinpointing developmental disorders

scientific article published on 19 May 2014

The motor repertoire in 3- to 5-month old infants with Down syndrome

scientific article published on 3 June 2017

The onset of hand stereotypies in fragile X syndrome

scientific article published on 01 October 2018

The ontogeny of fidgety movements from 4 to 20weeks post-term age in healthy full-term infants

scientific article published on 27 October 2016

The quality of preterm infants' spontaneous movements: an early indicator of intelligence and behaviour at school age.

scientific article published on 30 April 2009

The quality of the early motor repertoire in preterm infants predicts minor neurologic dysfunction at school age

scientific article published on 20 February 2008

Three different profiles: early socio-communicative capacities in typical Rett syndrome, the preserved speech variant and normal development

scientific article published on 2 October 2013

Towards a consensus on developmental regression

scientific article published on 20 August 2019

Tracking development from early speech-language acquisition to reading skills at age 13.

scientific article

Typical vs. atypical: Combining auditory Gestalt perception and acoustic analysis of early vocalisations in Rett syndrome

scientific article published on 15 March 2018

Very low birth weight infants in China: the predictive value of the motor repertoire at 3 to 5months for the motor performance at 12months

scientific article published on 05 July 2016

What do home videos tell us about early motor and socio-communicative behaviours in children with autistic features during the second year of life--An exploratory study

scientific article published on 31 July 2015

White Matter Injury and General Movements in High-Risk Preterm Infants.

scientific article published on 27 October 2016

Zika Virus Infection in Pregnant Women in Rio de Janeiro — Preliminary Report

scientific article

Zusammenhänge zwischen dem "Plötzlichen Säuglingstod (SIDS)" und der durch Bioindikation dargestellten Luftverschmutzung in Graz ⬇️

scientific article

[What do early childhood movements tell us?]

scientific article published on 01 September 2010

List of works by Christa Einspieler

"What" matters more than "Why" - Neonatal behaviors initiate social responses

'Relabelling the preserved speech variant of Rett syndrome?'

A Novel Way to Measure and Predict Development: A Heuristic Approach to Facilitate the Early Detection of Neurodevelopmental Disorders

A longitudinal study on hand use while building a tower

A physiological approach to motor development within and across domains

Abnormal general movements in girls with Rett disorder: the first four months of life

Are abnormal fidgety movements an early marker for complex minor neurological dysfunction at puberty?

Are sporadic fidgety movements as clinically relevant as is their absence?

Association of Infants Exposed to Prenatal Zika Virus Infection With Their Clinical, Neurologic, and Developmental Status Evaluated via the General Movement Assessment Tool

Autism spectrum disorder and early motor abnormalities: Connected or coincidental companions?

Behavioural biomarkers of typical Rett syndrome: moving towards early identification

Birthweight discordance does not necessarily equal growth restriction

Can spontaneous movements be modulated by visual and acoustic stimulation in 3-month-old infants?

Case report: Retracing atypical development: a preserved speech variant of Rett syndrome

Cerebral Palsy: Early Markers of Clinical Phenotype and Functional Outcome

Cerebral palsy in children: Movements and postures during early infancy, dependent on preterm vs. full term birth ⬇️

Changing the perspective on early development of Rett syndrome

Classification of sudden infant death (SID) cases in a multidisciplinary setting. Ten years experience in Styria (Austria).

Comparing social reciprocity in preserved speech variant and typical Rett syndrome during the early years of life

Complementary thinking: future perspectives on the assessment of general movements

Contributing to the early detection of Rett syndrome: the potential role of auditory Gestalt perception

Cramped synchronized general movements in preterm infants as an early marker for cerebral palsy

Delayed childhood neurodevelopment and neurosensory alterations in the second year of life in a prospective cohort of ZIKV-exposed children

Desideratum: a developmentalist view of Zika virus infection

Development of manipulative hand movements during the second year of life

Development of socio-communicative skills in 9- to 12-month-old individuals with fragile X syndrome.

Developmental profile of speech-language and communicative functions in an individual with the preserved speech variant of Rett syndrome.

Does a detailed assessment of poor repertoire general movements help to identify those infants who will develop normally?

Early Vocal Development in Autism Spectrum Disorder, Rett Syndrome, and Fragile X Syndrome: Insights from Studies using Retrospective Video Analysis

Early behavioural manifestation of Smith-Magenis syndrome (del 17p11.2) in a 4-month-old boy.

Early development in Rett syndrome - the benefits and difficulties of a birth cohort approach.

Early diagnosis and prognosis in cerebral palsy

Early general movements and brain magnetic resonance imaging at term-equivalent age in infants born <30weeks' gestation

Early intervention and its short-term effect on the temporal organization of fidgety movements

Early markers for cerebral palsy: insights from the assessment of general movements

Early markers for unilateral spastic cerebral palsy in premature infants

Early motor and pre-linguistic verbal development in Prader-Willi syndrome - A case report

Early motor repertoire is related to level of self-mobility in children with cerebral palsy at school age.

Early neonatal morbidities and neurological functioning of preterm infants 2 weeks after birth

Early socio-communicative forms and functions in typical Rett syndrome

Early speech-language development in females with Rett syndrome: focusing on the preserved speech variant

Early, Accurate Diagnosis and Early Intervention in Cerebral Palsy: Advances in Diagnosis and Treatment

En route to disentangle the impact and neurobiological substrates of early vocalizations: learning from Rett syndrome

Enhancing early detection of neurological and developmental disorders and provision of intervention in low-resource settings in Uttar Pradesh, India: study protocol of the G.A.N.E.S.H. programme

Events at early development: are they associated with early word production and neurodevelopmental abilities at the preschool age?

Eye Movements during Silent and Oral Reading in a Regular Orthography: Basic Characteristics and Correlations with Childhood Cognitive Abilities and Adolescent Reading Skills.

Feasibility of Using the General Movements Assessment of Infants in the United States

Fetal movements: the origin of human behaviour

Fidgety movements - tiny in appearance, but huge in impact.

From the reaching behavior at 5 months of age to hand preference at preschool age

General Movements in preterm infants undergoing craniosacral therapy: a randomised controlled pilot-trial.

General Movements: A Behavioral Biomarker of Later Motor and Cognitive Dysfunction in NICU Graduates

General movements in genetic disorders: A first look into Cornelia de Lange syndrome

Heinz F. R. Prechtl, 1927-2014 crossing the borders

Highlighting the first 5 months of life: General movements in infants later diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder or Rett Syndrome.

Home-Videos for Neurodevelopmental Follow-Up of High-Risk Infants during COVID-19 Pandemic: A Simple and Inexpensive Tool

Identifying Atypical Development: A Role of Day-Care Workers?

Inter-observer reliability of the "Assessment of Motor Repertoire--3 to 5 Months" based on video recordings of infants

Intra-individual consistency in the quality of neonatal general movements.

Intra-uterine exposure to maternal opiate abuse and HIV: the impact on the developing nervous system

Is it possible to predict the infant's neurodevelopmental outcome at 14 months of age by means of a single preterm assessment of General Movements?

Is the early development of girls with Rett disorder really normal?

Load perturbation does not influence spontaneous movements in 3-month-old infants

Maternal perinatal mental health and infant and toddler neurodevelopment - Evidence from low and middle-income countries. A systematic review

Methodological note: video analysis of the early development of Rett syndrome--one method for many disciplines

Mobile Solutions for Clinical Surveillance and Evaluation in Infancy—General Movement Apps

Monozygotic twins with Rett syndrome: Phenotyping the first two years of life.

Movement Imitation Therapy for Preterm Babies (MIT-PB): a Novel Approach to Improve the Neurodevelopmental Outcome of Infants at High-Risk for Cerebral Palsy

Movements and postures of infants aged 3 to 5 months: to what extent is their optimality related to perinatal events and to the neurological outcome?

Neurodevelopment in Infants Exposed to Zika Virus In Utero

Neuromotor repertoires in infants exposed to maternal COVID-19 during pregnancy: a cohort study

Number word use in toddlerhood is associated with number recall performance at seven years of age.

Occurrence of and temporal trends in fidgety general movements in infants born extremely preterm/extremely low birthweight and term-born controls

Of pioneers and advancements related to general movement assessment

Open Video Data Sharing in Developmental and Behavioural Science

Open video data sharing in developmental science and clinical practice

Parental reports on early language and motor milestones in fragile X syndrome with and without autism spectrum disorders

Parents' initial concerns about the development of their children later diagnosed with fragile X syndrome.

Peculiarities in the gestural repertoire: an early marker for Rett syndrome?