Fingertip forces during object manipulation in children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy. II: bilateral coordination.

abstract：:The readability of health-related pamphlets intended for the British public was compared with that of English national newspapers. Many of the pamphlets were found to be less readable than desirable. Pamphlets issued by government departments (principally the Department of Health and Social Security) were assessed as ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Nicoll A,Harrison C

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A follow-up study was done of extremely low-birthweight infants (less than or equal to 1000g) born between 1976 and 1979, a period when aggressive intervention was not routine practice. The survival rate was 19 per cent. 44 of the 46 survivors were followed to a mean age of 6 1/2 years. By five years of age 23 of the ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Lefebvre F,Bard H,Veilleux A,Martel C

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of a study of a nationally representative sample of disabled children and controls are presented. The findings suggest that although, at any one time, families containing a disabled child are not no more likely to be one-parent families, disabled children do appear to be more likely to experience a spell i...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Cooke K,Bradshaw J,Lawton D,Brewer R

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aims of this study were to investigate fine motor skills of children with both attention-deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and developmental coordination disorder (DCD) and those of a control group, and to examine the effects of methylphenidate on these skills. A group of 12 children with ADHD-DCD (11 males, o...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Flapper BC,Houwen S,Schoemaker MM

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To assess a total population of school-age children with cerebral palsy (CP) for autism and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) with a view to determining their prevalence and to relate findings to motor function, intellectual disability, and other associated impairments. METHOD:Of 264 children, born b...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Påhlman M,Gillberg C,Himmelmann K

更新日期：2020-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to report patients with pharmacoresistant West syndrome of unknown cause whose magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) showed a transient decrease of diffusion in subcortical structures. Of 20 patients investigated over a 2-year period, three males and three...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Desguerre I,Marti I,Valayannopoulos V,Bahi-Buisson N,Dulac O,Plouin P,Delonlay P,Hertz-Pannier L,Boddaert N

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to produce and sustain a criterion level of precision isometric grip force was studied in a group of 7- to 12-year-old children with cerebral palsy (CP) and in a control group. On-line visual feedback of the forces produced relative to a stationary target was provided for each 5-second trial. Subjects prac...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Valvano J,Newell KM

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neural reuse is the process by which neural elements originally developed for one purpose are put to many different subsequent uses. In this brief review I will outline the role of neural reuse in the development of the brain. Special attention will be paid to elucidating and differentiating between two different mech...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Anderson ML

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Individuals with congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) provide a test population for the theory that elevated testosterone levels alter prenatal brain development and increase the risk of learning disabilities. Eleven subjects with CAH, five of their non-CAH siblings and 16 matched control subjects participated in two ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Plante E,Boliek C,Binkiewicz A,Erly WK

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We assessed the architecture of the medial gastrocnemius in nine children (five males, four females; age range 6 to 15 years; mean 10 years 10 months, SD 3 years 6 months) with spastic diplegia by ultrasound imaging before and after a gastrocnemius recession. The children were ambulant (seven independent, one with a p...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Shortland AP,Fry NR,Eve LC,Gough M

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Children with mild developmental delay without dysmorphic features do not often have identifiable underlying aetiological factors. We report on a 5-year-old girl with mild developmental delay and dysmorphic features which were previously unrecognized. She was found to have supernumerary ring chromosome 19 mosaicism wh...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Vaz I,Larkins SA,Norman A,Green SH

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-three survivors of a prospective study of infants with Down's syndrome were followed up at eight or nine years of age. All but three lived at home, and those three came home for weekends or school holidays. IQs varied from less than 20 to 80 (mean 48). IQ and adaptive behaviour scores were related to birthweigh...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Gath A,Gumley D

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of mother-infant skin-to-skin contact (Kangaroo Care; KC) on autonomic functioning, state regulation, and neurobehavioural status was examined in 70 preterm infants, half of whom received KC over 24.31 days (SD 7.24) for a total of 29.76 hours (SD 12.86). Infants were matched for sex (19 males and 16 femal...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Feldman R,Eidelman AI

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One-hundred-and-sixty-six children whose blood lead levels had previously been determined were assessed on a battery of psychometric tests. Blood lead levels ranged from 7 to 33 micrograms/100 ml, and the group performed within the average range on all tests of attainment and intelligence. There were significant assoc...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Yule Q,Lansdown R,Millar IB,Urbanowicz MA

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hand preference and functional hand-dominance of 45 spina bifida patients (aged 13 to 25 years) were assessed by means of self-reports on an ordinal scale and a tapping task. Non-right-handedness was more frequent among patients with accompanying progressive hydrocephalus. Left-hand preference was significantly more f...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Wassing HE,Siebelink BM,Luyendijk W

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to determine whether there are primary effects of prematurity on the development of explicit memory. Elicited imitation of action sequences was used to compare immediate and 15-minute delayed memory in term and preterm infants (19 months corrected age; n=48) who were at low risk: none had exp...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： de Haan M,Bauer PJ,Georgieff MK,Nelson CA

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cross-correlograms between voluntarily active soleus (SOL) and tibialis anterior (TA) motor units were generated from seven control subjects and six subjects with spastic cerebral palsy (CP). Short-duration central peaks were observed in three subjects with spastic diplegia only. All subjects demonstrated reciprocal i...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Brouwer B,Smits E

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Feeding abilities in 20 individuals with Rett syndrome aged 1 1/2 to 33 years were investigated by history and clinical assessment during a meal, followed by videofluoroscopy of feeding. All were shown to have reduced movements of the mid and posterior tongue, with premature spillover of food and liquid from the mouth...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Morton RE,Bonas R,Minford J,Kerr A,Ellis RE

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To examine the neurobiology of long-term neuropsychological deficits after neonatal extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). METHOD:This cross-sectional study assessed white matter integrity and hippocampal volume of ECMO survivors (8-15y) and healthy children (8-17y) using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and st...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Schiller RM,van den Bosch GE,Muetzel RL,Smits M,Dudink J,Tibboel D,Ijsselstijn H,White T

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two newborn infants who suffered severe intra-uterine anoxia a few weeks before birth are described. Both died shortly after being born spontaneously and slightly prematurely. In one case the mother had attempted suicide by inhaling butane. The infant's kidneys were hypoplastic and resembled those seen in renal dyspla...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Gosseye S,Golaire MC,Larroche JC

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study assessed stability of measurement of quality of life (QOL) and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) over the course of 1 year among 185 adolescents (mean age 16y, SD 1 y 9 mo) with cerebral palsy (CP). Participants were classified on the Gross Motor Function Classification System as level I (n=55), II (n=...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Livingston MH,Rosenbaum PL

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Optimizing movement quality is a common rehabilitation goal for children with cerebral palsy (CP). The new Quality Function Measure (QFM)--a revision of the Gross Motor Performance Measure (GMPM)--evaluates five attributes: Alignment, Co-ordination, Dissociated movement, Stability, and Weight-shift, for the Gross M...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Wright FV,Rosenbaum P,Fehlings D,Mesterman R,Breuer U,Kim M

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:AIM This prospective multicenter study assessed performance and changes over time, with and without surgical intervention, in the modified Timed Up and Go (mTUG) and One-Minute Walk tests (1MWT) in children with bilateral cerebral palsy (CP). Minimum clinically important differences (MCIDs) were established for these ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Hassani S,Krzak JJ,Johnson B,Flanagan A,Gorton G 3rd,Bagley A,Ounpuu S,Romness M,Tylkowski C,Oeffinger D

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neonatal predictors of microcephaly, defined as a head circumference <5th centile in children born preterm, has not been systematically assessed. Children were drawn from the Developmental Epidemiology Network (DEN) cohort of very low-birthweight children (VLBW: 500-1500g) born from 1991 to 1993 at three sites in ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Chiriboga CA,Kuban KC,Durkin M,Hinton V,Kuhn L,Sanocka U,Bellinger D

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty-five neurologically normal preterm infants were allocated to one of two groups according to their gestational age at birth (less than 32 weeks; 32 to 36 weeks). Their gross and fine motor development was assessed at eight and 12 months chronological age and eight and 12 months adjusted age. At eight months chron...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Piper MC,Byrne PJ,Darrah J,Watt MJ

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Guanidinoacetate methyltransferase (GAMT) deficiency is a disorder of creatine biosynthesis, characterized by early-onset learning disability and epilepsy in most affected children. Severe expressive language delay is a constant feature even in the mildest clinical phenotypes.We report the clinical, biochemical, imagi...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： O'Rourke DJ,Ryan S,Salomons G,Jakobs C,Monavari A,King MD

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to look at the maturational profile of gait parameters by measuring ground reaction forces during independent walking in children. Fifty-four normal children aged 1 to 5 years were examined. The children walked with eight force transducers under each sole. Gait velocity and step length increa...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Preis S,Klemms A,Müller K

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surgery for spinal fusion for patients with myelomeningocele is accompanied by a high rate of complications. The authors report six cases of sudden intra-operative hemodynamic instability which occurred during anterior spinal fusion; the procedures had to be aborted. All children were successfully resuscitated and fou...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Karol LA,Richards BS,Prejean E,Safavi F

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:In children with Friedreich ataxia (FRDA), ataxia is assessed using the surrogate marker the International Cooperative Ataxia Rating Scale (ICARS). We aimed to determine whether ICARS scores in children with FRDA are confounded by muscle weakness. METHOD:In 12 children with FRDA (10 males, two females; mean age 13...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Sival DA,Pouwels ME,Van Brederode A,Maurits NM,Verschuuren-Bemelmans CC,Brunt ER,Du Marchie Sarvaas GJ,Verbeek RJ,Brouwer OF,Van Der Hoeven JH

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The aim of this study was to assess health-related quality of life (HRQOL) following a stationary cycling intervention in children with cerebral palsy (CP). METHOD:This was a phase I multisite randomized controlled trial with single blinding. HRQOL was evaluated using the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory SF15 (...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Demuth SK,Knutson LM,Fowler EG

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00