[MUSIC] It's an important topic because in the Netherlands, 7% of the children is being born preterm, so this is 12,000 children each year. And 10,000 of these children are born moderately preterm. So it's also an important topic in numbers. We need to know what happens to these children. And we need to think how we can support parents and children. And also, what is very nice is working with the children themselves and working with parents, who are, of course, concerned when a child is born too soon. What will happen? How will its future be? [MUSIC] I started already 30 years ago, I think, in working on this topic and we follow the group of children. We studied their development every half year after they were born, so at 6 months, 12 months and so on, until they were 5 and a half years of age. And then we saw them once again when they were ten years of age. And we compared their development, the development of the group of children born preterm with the development of a group of children born at term. And we saw that they differed and the preterm children had more difficulties, for instance, in school problems. And when we studied also, looking back, looking at the group of children who were in a class at school that was appropriate for the age versus the children that needed special schools or who had been to do one class again. We saw that the differences between these children we could already be distinguished in the first years. So these very young children are, this is an age period that is very important to study development of these children. I think the main power of dynamics of use is that we are starting to collaborate interdisciplinary more and more. Of course, when you study development of preterm children and you are a psychologist, you have to work together with doctors who treat the children. And this is already an interdisciplinary collaboration. >> My research is about neonatal neuroimaging. And especially, the correlation for prediction with outcome. And then we are looking at the babies who have a difficult start, for example, premature babies, babies with oxygen shortness. And we all know that these babies will have long term consequences. And we would like to predict this. If you look at the MRI, there are several parameters we can check according to maturation. So if we expect them to be delayed, we will look at, for example, the critical spinal tracts where you can see the myelination. And we can measure it, so we can quantify the maturation. Thinking out of the books gives us more creativity in solving the problems in prematurity. And working with Ana Luz is really nice because we are looking at outcome in specific areas, so attention capacities. And she's doing special tests where we have the knowledge about the brain development and the brain of the preterm baby. She has the knowledge of the outcome and that's really nice to combine. [MUSIC] >> Combination of all our expertise will lead to better insights, new insights, that will, in the end, will help the children and the parents. >> We are all researchers working on same topics from different angles, and if we bring this together, you will gain a lot of knowledge. [MUSIC]