A new study has highlighted that preterm birth can change an infants' brain activity while they are sleeping and also affects their future brain health. The study published in the journal Nature Communications analysed brain activity data collected from 94 infants from Helsinki Finland including 42 infants who had been born extremely premature at 27 weeks and a control group of 52 infants who had been born at full term. Quality of sleep is a vital indicator of brain health particularly in newborn infants and our study looked at the brain process supporting distinct sleep patterns in preterm and full-term