Sucking Behavior

"Sucking Behavior" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

MeSH information

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Any suction exerted by the mouth; response of the mammalian infant to draw milk from the breast. Includes sucking on inanimate objects. Not to be used for thumb sucking, which is indexed under fingersucking.

Descriptor ID

D013391

MeSH Number(s)

F01.145.916

Concept/Terms

Sucking Behavior

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Psychiatry and Psychology [F]
Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms [F01]
Behavior [F01.145]
Sucking Behavior [F01.145.916]

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Bar chart showing 15 publications over 9 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2014 and 2015

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
2001	0	1	1
2002	0	1	1
2007	1	0	1
2009	1	0	1
2014	2	2	4
2015	4	0	4
2017	1	0	1
2019	1	0	1
2020	0	1	1

Below are the most recent publications written about "Sucking Behavior" by people in Profiles.

Prevalence of Feeding Disorders: A Tough Reality to Swallow. J Pediatr. 2021 01; 228:13-14.

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Nutritive sucking abnormalities and brain microstructural abnormalities in infants with established brain injury: a pilot study. J Perinatol. 2019 11; 39(11):1498-1508.

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Know the Flow: Milk Flow Rates From Bottle Nipples Used in the Hospital and After Discharge. Adv Neonatal Care. 2019 Feb; 19(1):32-41.

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Does the Infant-Driven Feeding Method Positively Impact Preterm Infant Feeding Outcomes? Adv Neonatal Care. 2019 Feb; 19(1):51-55.

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Quantifying Neonatal Sucking Performance: Promise of New Methods. Semin Speech Lang. 2017 04; 38(2):147-158.

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Neonatal Feeding Behavior as a Complex Dynamical System. Semin Speech Lang. 2017 04; 38(2):77-86.

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Vacuum characteristics of the sucking cycle and relationships with milk removal from the breast in term infants. Early Hum Dev. 2016 05; 96:1-6.

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Ultrasound Imaging of Breastfeeding--A Window to the Inside: Methodology, Normal Appearances, and Application. J Hum Lact. 2016 May; 32(2):340-9.

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An Automated System for the Analysis of Newborns' Oral-Motor Behavior. IEEE Trans Neural Syst Rehabil Eng. 2016 12; 24(12):1294-1303.

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Suck-Swallow-Breathe Dynamics in Breastfed Infants. J Hum Lact. 2016 May; 32(2):201-11; quiz 393-5.

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