Assessing the impact of pediatric epilepsy and concomitant behavioral, cognitive, and physical/neurologic disability: Impact of Childhood Neurologic Disability Scale.

abstract：:The authors report six children (five girls, one boy) aged 11 to 13 years, of whom four had clinically definite multiple sclerosis (MS) and two had laboratory-supported definite MS. All had brain white matter abnormalities indicative of MS. In three cases, positive findings on the first MRI contributed significantly t...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Millner MM,Ebner F,Justich E,Urban C

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Minor neurological dysfunctions (MND) have frequently been reported as an outcome of preterm birth. Behavioural and learning difficulties are a known feature, but coordination problems are especially described in preterm infants at later ages. All preterm infants in our study were born with a gestational age of <32 we...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： de Vries AM,de Groot L

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of the family environment for the development of children with neurodisabilities is undisputed. The objective of this study is to describe how family environment has been measured in research on families of children with neurodisabilities, in order to support researchers and clinicians to select appropr...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Ketelaar M,Bogossian A,Saini M,Visser-Meily A,Lach L

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:to identify the use and utility of language comprehension tests for unintelligible or non-speaking children with severe cerebral palsy (CP). METHOD:severe CP was defined as severe dysarthria (unintelligible speech) or anarthria (absence of speech) combined with severe limited mobility, corresponding to Gross Motor...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Geytenbeek J,Harlaar L,Stam M,Ket H,Becher JG,Oostrom K,Vermeulen J

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:According to traditional neurophysiological theory, consciousness requires neocortical functioning, and children born without cerebral hemispheres necessarily remain indefinitely in a developmental vegetative state. Four children between 5 and 17 years old are reported with congenital brain malformations involving tot...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Shewmon DA,Holmes GL,Byrne PA

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five children are described who developed hypertension in relation to acute neurological disease. Possible pathophysiological mechanisms for the hypertension are considered. It is thought that the hypertension may have been related to interruption of the ascending tracts in the brain stem, leading to failure of integr...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Eden OB,Sills JA,Brown JK

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Approximately six hours of biofeedback training was given to eight fecally incontinent children with myelomeningocele in order to establish bowel control. Their ages ranged from five to 15 years. The patients were shown a polygraph tracing of the external anal sphincter while they were being encouraged voluntarily to ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Whitehead WE,Parker LH,Masek BJ,Cataldo MF,Freeman JM

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The aim of this study was to assess whether any memory impairment co-occurring with language impairment is global, affecting both verbal and visual domains, or domain specific. METHOD:Visual and verbal memory, learning, and processing speed were assessed in children aged 6 years to 16 years 11 months (mean 9 y 9 m...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Baird G,Dworzynski K,Slonims V,Simonoff E

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors used the Teller acuity cards to assess the visual acuity of 51 infants and children with Down syndrome aged between two months and 18 years. The success rate and test times were comparable to those reported for normally developing children. Even those subjects in the study who were free of ocular disorders...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Courage ML,Adams RJ,Reyno S,Kwa PG

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possibility that so-called anti-epileptic drugs (AEDs) may aggravate epilepsy must always be borne in mind by the clinician. Many reports of such aggravation of seizures have been published. Most such reports are anecdotal and speculative, and suggest that many such reactions are idiosyncratic. However, for some t...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Gayatri NA,Livingston JH

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper considers whether pathological influences affect hand-preference among children with epilepsy or mental retardation, for whom there is no evidence of gross motor defect. Data on two tasks of manual skill were analysed for a group of over 12,000 children. The predicted association between poor skill with the...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Bishop DV

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To elucidate the relation between motor impairment and other developmental deficits in very preterm-born children without disabling cerebral palsy and term-born comparison children at 5 years of (corrected) age. METHOD:In a prospective cohort study, 165 children (81 very preterm-born and 84 term-born)were assessed...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Van Hus JW,Potharst ES,Jeukens-Visser M,Kok JH,Van Wassenaer-Leemhuis AG

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The aim of this study was to describe systematically the best available intervention evidence for children with cerebral palsy (CP). METHOD:This study was a systematic review of systematic reviews. The following databases were searched: CINAHL, Cochrane Library, DARE, EMBASE, Google Scholar MEDLINE, OTSeeker, PEDr...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Novak I,McIntyre S,Morgan C,Campbell L,Dark L,Morton N,Stumbles E,Wilson SA,Goldsmith S

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relation between neurodevelopmental status at one and eight years of age was investigated in a cohort of 207 infants born between 1979 and 1982 at < 33 weeks of gestation. The probability of a major disabling impairment at eight years was only 1 per cent among 164 children with normal neurodevelopment at one year,...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Roth SC,Baudin J,Pezzani-Goldsmith M,Townsend J,Reynolds EO,Stewart AL

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The paper reports the second of two studies designed to evaluate the effectiveness of the Kinaesthetic Training Programme (Laszlo and Bairstow, 1985) for children with movement difficulties. Three groups of 12 children were matched on age, IQ and sex as well as degree of kinaesthetic and motor impairment. One group re...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Sims K,Henderson SE,Morton J,Hulme C

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Children with physical disabilities are at increased risk of limitations to participation in everyday activities. This study describes research examining the participation of children in day-to-day formal and informal activities (excluding mandated academic schooling). Using the Children's Assessment of Participation ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Law M,King G,King S,Kertoy M,Hurley P,Rosenbaum P,Young N,Hanna S

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lesions composed of Pacinian corpuscles or showing Pacinian corpuscle differentiation have usually been described in relation to benign tumours of the peripheral nervous system or reactive hyperplastic processes. On the other hand, mature Pacinian corpuscles have occasionally been detected as part of intraspinal lumbo...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Kojc N,Korsic M,Popovic M

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to describe and analyze gross and fine motor function and accompanying neurological impairments in children with cerebral palsy (CP) born between 1991 and 1998 in western Sweden. A population-based study comprised 411 children with a diagnosis of CP ascertained at 4 to 8 years of age. Gross M...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Himmelmann K,Beckung E,Hagberg G,Uvebrant P

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The neurobiological contributions of childhood language disorder are not well understood. Yet there is increasing evidence that language disorder is associated with differences in brain structure and/or function in core language regions. A key hypothesis has been that children with language disorder do not show the...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Mayes AK,Reilly S,Morgan AT

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasticity of visual systems after early brain damage has been extensively studied in animal models but poorly documented in children after visual pathway lesions. This report describes the visual recovery of a male child who had a bilateral occipital lobe infarction at the age of 2 years 6 months, 10 days after colon...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Bova SM,Giovenzana A,Signorini S,La Piana R,Uggetti C,Bianchi PE,Fazzi E

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the effect of low birthweight on school achievement and the mediating roles of cognitive and behavioural factors. The sample (115 females, 100 males) was selected from a longitudinal study of first-born singleton children, born between 1986 and 1988 of German-speaking parents, recruited from eight ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Weindrich D,Jennen-Steinmetz C,Laucht M,Schmidt MH

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fourteen children with hydrocephalus associated with myelodysplasia were given isosorbide (8 to 12 g/kg/day) and compared with 17 children managed without it. Three of the treated and three of the untreated children did not require shunting. The mean interval between back closure and shunt placement was 33 days for th...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Liptak GS,Gellerstedt ME,Klionsky N

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Limb girdle muscular dystrophy 2A (LGMD2A), caused by calpain 3 deficiency, is currently diagnosed through the immunodetection of muscle protein by Western blot (WB) analysis . However, WB may provide normal results in patients with LGMD2A. The case of a female (3y 6mo of age) is described. She was found to be affecte...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Lanzillo R,Aurino S,Fanin M,Aguennoz M,Vitale F,Fiorillo C,Del Giudice E,Nigro V,Santoro L

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The extent to which children with either specific language impairment (SLI) or developmental coordination disorder (DCD) could be considered dyspraxic was examined using three tasks involving either familiar, or unfamiliar actions. SLI is diagnosed in children who fail to develop language in the normal fashion for no ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Hill EL

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical phenotype in Lesch-Nyhan disease has been analyzed in 19 patients studied in hospital. In each case the diagnosis was made on the basis of inactivity of the enzyme hypoxanthine guanine phosphoribosyltransferase in erythrocyte lysates. All had hyperuricemia, and the presence of 'orange sand' in the diaper ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Christie R,Bay C,Kaufman IA,Bakay B,Borden M,Nyhan WL

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To examine self- and proxy-reported symptoms of depression in children with epilepsy. METHOD:This was a prospective longitudinal cohort study of children with epilepsy. Participants were treated at six Canadian tertiary-care centers and followed over 28 months with repeated assessments of child self-reported sympt...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Rosic T,Avery L,Streiner DL,Ferro MA,Rosenbaum P,Cunningham C,Ronen GM

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To investigate longitudinal changes of habitual physical activity (HPA) and sedentary time in children with cerebral palsy (CP) aged 1 year 6 months to 5 years across all functional abilities. METHOD:At study entry, 95 children (62 males, 33 females) were classified using the Gross Motor Function Classification Sy...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Keawutan P,Bell KL,Oftedal S,Ware RS,Stevenson RD,Davies PSW,Boyd RN

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:New tools that capture hand function in everyday activities and contexts are needed for assessing children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy. This study evaluates a wearable wrist monitor and tests the hypothesis that wrist extension frequency (FreqE) is an appropriate indicator of functional hand use. METHOD:Fifteen...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Howcroft J,Fehlings D,Zabjek K,Fay L,Liang J,Biddiss E

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Following obstetrical brachial plexus injury, infants are unable to learn specific patterns of movement due to the disruption of neural pathways. Even with successful reinnervation (spontaneously or post surgical reconstruction), function can be suboptimal due to overactivity in antagonist muscles preventing movement ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： DeMatteo C,Bain JR,Galea V,Gjertsen D

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diagnosis of mitochondrial disease is often a challenge because of the extreme heterogeneity of the clinical phenotype and the variety of underlying gene defects. Insight into the range of clinical phenotypes associated with a particular mitochondrial DNA mutation will facilitate better recognition of patients at risk...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Van Karnebeek CD,Waters PJ,Sargent MA,Mezei MM,Wong LJ,Wang J,Stöckler-Ipsiroglu S

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00