Electrophysiological approach to the study of essential tremor in children and adolescents.

abstract：:Associated movements in the contralateral limbs were measured quantitatively for 42 seven- to eight-year-old children who wrote with the right hand. Associated movements of the contralateral homologous muscles systematically increased as a function of the intensity of contraction of the active hand. The associated mov...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Todor JI,Lazarus JA

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report two male Taiwanese siblings in whom the T-->C point mutation at nucleotide 9176 of the mitochondrial ATPase 6 gene (m.9176T>C mutation) was associated with early onset hypotonia, lactic acidosis, and death due to respiratory arrest at 7 and 10 months old. Brain MRI showed lesions over diffuse white matter an...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Hung PC,Wang HS

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four infants developed dyskinesia after cardiopulmonary bypass surgery three to four days postoperatively. The dyskinesia was choreoathetotic, and involved mainly the mouth, tongue and face. It was absent during sleep. Three of these infants improved over periods of several weeks, but one infant remained dyskinetic on...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Huntley DT,al-Mateen M,Menkes JH

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To evaluate the contribution of somatosensory evoked potentials after median nerve (MN-SEPs) and posterior tibial nerve (PTN-SEPs) stimulation in functional assessment of cervical and lumbar spinal stenosis in children with achondroplasia. METHOD:We reviewed MN-SEPs, PTN-SEPs, and spinal magnetic resonance imaging...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Fornarino S,Rossi DP,Severino M,Pistorio A,Allegri AE,Martelli S,Doria Lamba L,Lanteri P

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A neurodevelopmental screening test with cumulative scoring for abnormal test responses was performed on 845 five-year-old Finnish children who, in the newborn period, had had disorders which placed them in a high-risk group, and on 70 controls. The results showed a significant difference between the neurodevelopmenta...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Michelsson K,Ylinen A,Donner M

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To evaluate the prevalence of organ system disorders and describe healthcare utilization among adults with spina bifida at a regional clinic. METHOD:This study was a structured chart review using the Rochester Health Status Survey-IV. 65 males, 57 females aged 16 to 59 years were seen at the Spina Bifida Center of...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Liptak GS,Robinson LM,Davidson PW,Dziorny A,Lavalley R,Flaherty MG,Dosa NP

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To evaluate pain prevalence and characteristics in children and adolescents with predominant dyskinetic and mixed (dyskinetic/spastic) cerebral palsy (CP) motor types. METHOD:Seventy-five participants with a diagnosis of CP and confirmed dyskinetic or mixed (dyskinetic/spastic) motor type took part in a multisite ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： McKinnon CT,Morgan PE,Antolovich GC,Clancy CH,Fahey MC,Harvey AR

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Artificial urinary sphincters were implanted in 30 incontinent children between four and 17 years of age. At follow-up for periods from three months to four years, 28 children are continent for at least three hours during the day and are dry at night. Two have had the device removed because of erosion and are still in...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Kroovand RL

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To simultaneously evaluate long-term outcomes of children with drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE) across multiple cognitive domains and compare the characteristics of participants sharing a similar cognitive profile. METHOD:Participants were adolescents and young adults (AYAs) diagnosed with DRE in childhood, who compl...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Puka K,Smith ML

更新日期：2021-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Outcome was studied of all children and adolescents with pseudoseizures without epilepsy, who were referred and treated as in-patients and/or day patients in the tertiary psychiatric ward at Birmingham Children's Hospital, UK between 1988 and 1994. Information was derived from case-note data. Freedom from seizures for...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Gudmundsson O,Prendergast M,Foreman D,Cowley S

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined whether children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy (CP) have anticipatory control of fingertip forces during lifts of familiar objects, and what type of practice (blocked or random) best enhances the retention of anticipatory control during lifts of novel objects. Eighteen children with hemiplegic CP ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Duff SV,Gordon AM

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Our aim was to contribute new findings related to the pre-regressional verbal development of females with a variant of Rett syndrome (RTT) as the loss of spoken language is one of the key clinical features of RTT, and it would be of particular interest to study the early speech-language development of females who a...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Marschik PB,Pini G,Bartl-Pokorny KD,Duckworth M,Gugatschka M,Vollmann R,Zappella M,Einspieler C

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The aim of this review was to determine the effectiveness of hand splinting for improving hand function in children with cerebral palsy (CP) and brain injury. METHOD:A systematic review with meta-analyses was conducted. Only randomized and quasi-randomized controlled trials in which all participants were children ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Jackman M,Novak I,Lannin N

更新日期：2014-02-01 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：AIM:We compared the clinical utility of magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) to catheter cerebral angiography (CA) in the investigation of children with suspected central nervous system (CNS) vasculitis. METHOD:Single-centre retrospective review of children with a suspected diagnosis of CNS vasculitis studied with bot...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Eleftheriou D,Cox T,Saunders D,Klein NJ,Brogan PA,Ganesan V

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prospective study of the psychosocial and cultural factors influencing the management of spina bifida cystica was carried out on Nigerian children (48 males, 28 females) seen at the University College Hospital, Ibadan, between January 1982 and December 1983. The parents of 74 of the 76 children had never heard of th...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Oyewole A,Adeloye A,Adeyokunnu AA

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:to report the prevalence, clinical associations, and trends over time of oromotor dysfunction and communication impairments in children with cerebral palsy (CP). METHOD:multiple sources of ascertainment were used and children followed up with a standardized assessment including motor speech problems, swallowing/ch...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Parkes J,Hill N,Platt MJ,Donnelly C

更新日期：2010-12-01 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：:The objective of this study was to estimate the prevalence of autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) and identify its clinical characterization, and medical conditions in a paediatric population in Portugal. A school survey was conducted in elementary schools, targeting 332,808 school-aged children in the mainland and 10,91...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Oliveira G,Ataíde A,Marques C,Miguel TS,Coutinho AM,Mota-Vieira L,Gonçalves E,Lopes NM,Rodrigues V,Carmona da Mota H,Vicente AM

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of a modified version of constraint-induced (CI) movement therapy on bimanual hand-use in children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy (CP; age range 18 mo to 4 y) and to make a comparison with conventional paediatric treatment. Twenty-one children (13 females, eight males)...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Eliasson AC,Krumlinde-sundholm L,Shaw K,Wang C

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To describe behavioural and psychiatric outcomes of children within 10 years of convulsive status epilepticus (CSE). METHOD:Children originally identified by the population-based North London Convulsive Status Epilepticus in Childhood Surveillance Study were followed-up between July 2009 and February 2013. They we...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Martinos MM,Pujar S,Gillberg C,Cortina-Borja M,Neville BGR,De Haan M,Scott RC,Chin RFM

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty children who had recovered from purulent meningitis one to six years earlier were investigated for long-term impairment of brain and auditory function, using brainstem auditory evoked potentials(BAEP) and developmental screening tests. Neurological and/or audiological BAEP abnormalities were found in 23 per cent...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Jiang ZD,Liu XY,Wu YY,Zheng MS,Liu HC

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extra-articular subtalar arthrodesis with cancellous bone graft and internal fixation was performed on 20 feet of 12 children with myelomeningocele, whose average age at operation was 7.4 years. Indication for surgery was progressive hindfoot valgus deformity causing difficulty in fitting orthoses. At average follow-u...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Aronson DD,Middleton DL

更新日期：1991-03-01 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：:Dravet syndrome, a severe infantile epilepsy syndrome, is typically resistant to anti-epileptic drugs (AED). Lamotrigine (LTG), an AED that is effective for both focal and generalized seizures, has been reported to aggravate seizures in Dravet syndrome. Therefore, LTG is usually avoided in Dravet syndrome. We describe...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Dalic L,Mullen SA,Roulet Perez E,Scheffer I

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Available observational tools used in the identification of social communication difficulties and diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) rely partly on visual behaviours and therefore may not be valid in children with visual impairment. A pilot observational instrument, the Visual Impairment and Social Communicat...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Absoud M,Parr JR,Salt A,Dale N

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MRI scans of the brain and spinal cord, together with neurological and urological assessments, were carried out on 20 young people (aged between eight and 22 years) who had had surgical treatment of spina bifida in early life and in whom there had been no deterioration of spinal cord function. 19 were imaged successfu...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： McEnery G,Borzyskowski M,Cox TC,Neville BG

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The aim of this study was to describe the incidence of morbidities and the prevalence of medical prescriptions in a large Down syndrome population. METHOD:A retrospective cohort study was carried out using the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink from 1 January 2004 to 31 December 2013. We matched individuals wi...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Alexander M,Petri H,Ding Y,Wandel C,Khwaja O,Foskett N

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study reports on a novel methodology using the V-scope to quantify elbow and shoulder movement in young children with obstetric brachial plexus palsy (OBPP), and the intra- and interreliability of this method. The V-scope, a portable, inexpensive movement analysis system, was configured in an L-shape, with two tr...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Bialocerkowski AE,Wrigley T,Galea M

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a population-based sample of 149 children with hemiplegia, IQ was highly correlated with a simple-to-calculate index of neurological severity. Performance IQ was an average of 13 points lower then verbal IQ-a difference that seemed to reflect specific visuospatial difficulties rather than an effect of the motor dis...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Goodman R,Yude C

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00