CNS organization is important for development
of autonomic stability, motor maturity, state organization,
attention, interaction, and self-regulation.
Alterations can result in hypersensitivity, poorly
modulated behaviors, and all or nothing responses.
For example, the hypersensitive neonate will startle
at the least noise and have tremors and cry, or at the
opposite end of the extreme will not respond at all
to this stimulation. These types of behavior have all
been seen in preterm infants later in development