Education and employment prospects in cerebral palsy.

abstract：:This study compared the results of reflex modification (RM)--an objective technique for assessing brainstem sensorineural processing--with those of auditory brainstem response (ABR) for a group of high-risk infants at comparable postconceptional ages. For the RM procedure, an eyeblink-eliciting tap to the glabella was...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Anday EK,Cohen ME,Hoffman HS

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The purpose of this study was to assess the relation of perinatal risk factors with later development of specific language impairment (SLI). METHOD:In a case-control study, 179 children attending special needs schools for SLI were matched with non-affected children attending mainstream schools. Both groups consist...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Diepeveen FB,De Kroon ML,Dusseldorp E,Snik AF

更新日期：2013-07-01 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：: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:The aim of this study was to compare thermal detection and pain thresholds in children with Down syndrome with those of their siblings. METHOD:Sensory detection and pain thresholds were assessed in children with Down syndrome and their siblings using quantitative testing methods. Parental questionnaires addressing...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Valkenburg AJ,Tibboel D,van Dijk M

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors studied the intellectual outcome of 45 of the 47 schoolchildren who had been born with very low birthweights (less than 1501 g) in Wolverhampton between 1975 and 1978 and were free of major handicap. Their outcome was compared with that of a control group matched for age, sex, race and social class. The ve...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Lloyd BW,Wheldall K,Perks D

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Language lateralization with functional transcranial Doppler sonography (fTCD) and lexical word generation has been shown to have high concordance with the Wada test and functional magnetic resonance imaging in adults. We evaluated a nonlexical paradigm to determine language dominance in children. METHOD:In 23 rig...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Haag A,Moeller N,Knake S,Hermsen A,Oertel WH,Rosenow F,Hamer HM

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An 11-year old girl is described who acquired conduction aphasia after head trauma. Detailed study of her repetition defect showed that it was because of impaired short-term verbal memory. CT scan showed two hypodense areas in the left hemisphere, which included the supramarginal gyrus and Wernicke's area. This case i...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Martins IP,Ferro JM

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitative analyses of cross-sectional areas of the thalami, caudate nuclei, and lentiform nuclei were performed in 29 preterm infants (16 males, 13 females; mean age 29.6 weeks, age range 27 to 24 weeks,) with periventricular leukomalacia (PVL). MRI was carried out in the infants between 9 and 18 months of correcte...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Lin Y,Okumura A,Hayakawa F,Kato K,Kuno T,Watanabe K

更新日期：2001-07-01 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 authors looked for differences in the energy expenditure patterns of ambulant children with cerebral palsy and spina bifida. Oxygen consumption was measured according to type of cerebral palsy or level of spina bifida lesion, and in healthy children. The rate of oxygen consumption (mL/kg/min) was significantly hig...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Duffy CM,Hill AE,Cosgrove AP,Corry IS,Graham HK

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five children (three males, two females; four right-, one left-handed; age range 6 to 14 years) who developed aphasia after gross-total excision of left predominantly thalamic tumors are reported. Three patients had Broca aphasia, one had mixed transcortical aphasia, and one patient had conduction aphasia. In the mont...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Nass R,Boyce L,Leventhal F,Levine B,Allen J,Maxfield C,Salsberg D,Sarno M,George A

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two male patients (a child and an adult) with congenital mirror movement were studied using functional MRI (fMRI) and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). Bilateral primary sensorimotor cortices were activated during unilateral hand gripping on fMRI when the child patient was 8 years old andthe adult was 37 years ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Maegaki Y,Seki A,Suzaki I,Sugihara S,Ogawa T,Amisaki T,Fukuda C,Koeda T

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood and saliva were collected from 48 children, aged three to 17 years, before a morning dose of carbamazepine and then at three, six and eight hours afterward. There was no significant difference in the ratio of 10-11 epoxy-carbamazepine to total carbamazepine for children on carbamazepine alone (0.18) and those on...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Tomlin PI,McKinlay I,Smith I

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To assess outcome for children with severe neurological impairment receiving invasive mechanical ventilation for respiratory failure. METHOD:Medical charts for all such children treated in our intensive care unit (ICU) between January 2003 and July 2008 were reviewed. Outcomes were compared with those for children...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： van Gestel JP,Robroch AH,Bollen CW,Van Der Ent CK,Van Vught AJ

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rolfing is a technique which involves the use of pressure on areas of the body in which muscle tendons adhere to each other rather than sliding over one another in the normal way. In this study, a series of 10 patients with mild, moderate or severe cerebral palsy underwent Rolfing Treatment, and the results were evalu...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Perry J,Jones MH,Thomas L

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Botulinum toxin type A (BoNT-A) injections were used in the treatment of lower-limb spasticity in children with cerebral palsy (CP). Anecdotal evidence suggests a reduction in pain after this treatment in children who had pain localized to a displaced hip joint. We report on our current clinical practice. METHOD:T...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Lundy CT,Doherty GM,Fairhurst CB

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The comorbidity of seizures, epilepsy, and attention-deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) prompted the examination of whether atomoxetine use for ADHD is associated with an increased risk of seizures. Seizures and seizure-related symptoms were reviewed from two independent Eli Lilly and Company databases: the atomoxe...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Wernicke JF,Holdridge KC,Jin L,Edison T,Zhang S,Bangs ME,Allen AJ,Ball S,Dunn D

更新日期：2007-07-01 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：: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：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:Cerebral palsy (CP) is a poorly understood disorder with no cure. We determined the landscape of National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding for CP-related research. METHOD:We searched NIH databases Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tools Expenditures and Results, and Research, Condition, and Disease Categorizat...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Wu YW,Mehravari AS,Numis AL,Gross P

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To conduct a longitudinal follow-up of the development of global cognitive abilities and adaptive skills in individuals with congenital and childhood forms of myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1). METHOD:Fifty-one participants (29 males, 22 females, mean age 19y 5mo, SD 4y 11mo, range 10y 10mo-28y 11mo) were divided in...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Lindeblad G,Kroksmark AK,Ekström AB

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to compare the characteristics of the first demyelinating event between acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM) and multiple sclerosis (MS). Children with acute demyelinating disease of the central nervous system and an abnormal brain magnetic resonance image (MRI) were studied. Patients ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Alper G,Heyman R,Wang L

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The motor function of 35 children with athetoid cerebral palsy was examined retrospectively using videotape recordings made at five to eight months of age. Many infants showed asymmetric tonic neck, Moro and Galant reflexes. Movements shown to be difficult included: keeping a symmetric supine posture, isolated movemen...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Yokochi K,Shimabukuro S,Kodama M,Kodama K,Hosoe A

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple epidemiological variables of 131 children with spina bifida born during 1970 and 1979 in a seven-county urban/rural region of south-western Ohio were analyzed retrospectively via personal interviews, hospital and clinic records, and birth and stillbirth certificates. The estimated incidence of spina bifida wa...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Crowe CA,Heuther CA,Oppenheimer SG,Barth LD,Jeffrey E,Reinhart S

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Self-injury is a defining feature of lesch-nyhan disease (LND) but does not occur in the less severely affected Lesch-Nyhan variants (LNV). The aim of this study was to quantify behavioral and emotional abnormalities in LND and LNV. Thirty-nine informants rated 22 patients with LND (21 males, 1 female), 11 males with ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Schretlen DJ,Ward J,Meyer SM,Yun J,Puig JG,Nyhan WL,Jinnah HA,Harris JC

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to evaluate cognitive development at the onset of West syndrome (WS) with regard to electroencephalogram (EEG) patterns and visual function. Twenty-five patients (14 males, 11 females) at the onset of spasms (T0) in WS and 2 months later (T1) underwent a full clinical evaluation, including ne...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Randò T,Baranello G,Ricci D,Guzzetta A,Tinelli F,Biagioni E,La Torre G,Epifanio R,Signorini S,Fazzi E,Mercuri E,Cioni G,Guzzetta F

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ninety-six normal left-handed children were tested for motor co-ordination on a series of timed repetitive tasks, alternating left and right hands, feet and fingers. Preferred hand advantage could be demonstrated to the same degree for the left hand of these children as it had been for the preferred right hand in prev...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Rudel RG,Healey J,Denckla MB

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To establish whether deficits in social cognition are present in children with generalized or focal epilepsy in mainstream education, and whether any relation exists between social cognition, communication, and behaviour measures. METHOD:In a cross-sectional study, children with an epilepsy-only diagnoses in mains...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Lew AR,Lewis C,Lunn J,Tomlin P,Basu H,Roach J,Rakshi K,Martland T

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00