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23.1 A female infant is born at 25 weeks' gestation with a birth weight of 809 g. She is born in good condition and requires no active resuscitation but develops moderate respiratory distress requiring intubation and surfactant. She is extubated to CPAP the next day. She has some mild feed intolerance and apnoea of prematurity but otherwise has an uncomplicated neonatal admission. Her cranial ultrasounds are all reported as normal. She never required treatment for retinopathy of prematurity. Which one of the following neurological problems is most likely to be present on long-term follow-up?