Cutaneomuscular reflexes recorded from the first dorsal interosseous muscle of children with cerebral palsy.

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to determine trends in the changes of the popliteal angle in 130 normal infants between one day and 12 months of age, for use in assessing infants with possible neuromuscular pathology. Using a 360 degree goniometer, the popliteal angle was measured with the hip held at 90 degree flexion,...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Reade E,Hom L,Hallum A,Lopopolo R

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 16-year-old girl with severe mental retardation of unknown aetiology presented with increased blood content of lactate and pyruvate. It was demonstrated that the biochemical abnormalities were due to hyperventilation. ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Monnens L,Willems J,Kollée L,Veerkamp J

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report an association between developmental language disorder and acquired aphasia in a 13-year-old right-handed boy. Acquired aphasia was caused by a right-frontal abscess (crossed aphasia). It was non-fluent, with a disorder of auditory comprehension, an unusual feature of prerolandic lesions. This case ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Martins IP,Antunes NL,Castro-Caldas A,Antunes JL

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was designed to test the hypothesis that non-ambulatory patients with spastic quadriplegia will have reduced bone mass which worsens with increasing age. Forty-eight patients (age 5 to 48 years, median age 15 years; 19 females and 29 males) were studied. Anticonvulsants were used in 29 patients (60.4%). Lum...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： King W,Levin R,Schmidt R,Oestreich A,Heubi JE

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-three Swedish children aged five to 18 years who fulfilled specific criteria for Asperger syndrome were examined and compared with an age- and IQ-matched group with infantile autism. The boy:girl ratio was 10:1. Less than 10 per cent were mentally retarded and 17 per cent were of above-average intelligence. Apa...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Gillberg C

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aim To determine the levels of anxiety and depression in young people with spinal cord injuries (SCI) and their associated factors and outcomes. Method Children and adolescents aged 7 to 17 years at interview who had sustained SCI at least 1 year before the study were assessed using the Children's Depression Inventory...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Anderson CJ,Kelly EH,Klaas SJ,Russell H,Daharsh E,Vogel LC

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of arthrogryposis multiplex congenita in an eight-year-old girl was recounted by Thomas of Monmouth in a mid twelfth-century English hagiographic narrative, The Life and Miracles of St William of Norwich. The child had deformities of both hands and both feet at birth, and she developed torticollis and probably ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Gordon EC

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Finger function tasks designed to elicit soft neurological signs or to measure sensory-motor integration were administered to 100 first-, 100 second- and 100 third-grade children as part of a multivariate study of normal writing acquisition in an unreferred sample. The finger-succession task--a measure of motor planni...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Berninger VW,Rutberg J

更新日期：1992-03-01 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：:Victimization by peers affects 10 to 20% of school children under the age of 12 years. Physical, verbal, and psychological victimization (being pushed, hit, called names, teased, being the target of rumours, theft, extortion) is associated with short- and long-term adjustment problems, such as peer rejection, social w...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Nadeau L,Tessier R,Lefebvre F,Robaey P

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:to improve understanding of brain function in children with severe dyslexia in terms of minor neurological dysfunctions (MNDs). METHOD:one hundred and four children (81 males, 23 females; age range 7-12y; mean age 9y 7mo, SD 1y 2mo;) with severe dyslexia (the presence of a Full-scale IQ score of ≥ 85, retardation ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Punt M,DE Jong M,DE Groot E,Hadders-Algra M

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four infants were studied who failed to show any visual interest or following responses in the first three months of life. Although no definite ocular abnormalities were found at the time of presentation, both the parents and their medical advisers initially had serious concerns about the infants' visual prognosis. In...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Mellor DH,Fielder AR

更新日期：1980-06-01 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：:As infants with bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) have difficulty maintaining adequate levels of oxygenation during rest, it was decided to investigate how the additional respiratory demands associated with nutritive feeding disrupt their breathing rates. The sucking and breathing patterns of six (three male, three fem...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Craig CM,Lee DN,Freer YN,Laing IA

更新日期：1999-09-01 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：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:Lack of muscle growth relative to bone growth may be responsible for development of contractures in children with cerebral palsy (CP). Here, we used ultrasonography to compare growth of the medial gastrocnemius muscle in children with and without CP. METHOD:Twenty-six children with spastic CP (15 males, 11 females...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Herskind A,Ritterband-Rosenbaum A,Willerslev-Olsen M,Lorentzen J,Hanson L,Lichtwark G,Nielsen JB

更新日期：2016-05-01 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 study aim was to quantify melatonin-associated improvement in sleep by means of a parent-completed sleep diary during routine outpatient activity. An investigation into sleep disturbance was made at neurology outpatient appointments. Those parents who identified a problem were asked to complete a sleep diary, afte...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Ross C,Davies P,Whitehouse W

更新日期：2002-05-01 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：: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：:Neural-tube defects were produced by one of two mechanical perturbations in an amphibian model system: newly-formed neural tubes were slit dorsally, or an intrinsic mass (an eye primordium transplanted to the neural plate) was introduced to prevent dorsal closure. Electron microscopic analyses showed that the resultin...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Katz MJ

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficacy of repeated botulinum toxin A (BTX-A) injections in two and three dose regimes, together with occupational therapy, on upper limb movement and function, was studied using an evaluator blinded, randomized, controlled two-group trial. Forty-two children (31 males, 11 females; range 2-8 y, mean 4 y [SD 1 y 7...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Lowe K,Novak I,Cusick A

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of bowel and bladder control by day and at night during the first six years of life in 320 Swiss children in the Zurich longitudinal study (1955--1976) is described in detail. A scoring system was used which included intermediate stages of control. With toilet-training started in 96 per cent of the chi...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Largo RH,Stutzle W

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To describe the development of the parent-rated Hand-Use-at-Home questionnaire (HUH) assessing the amount of spontaneous use of the affected hand in children with unilateral paresis, and to test its internal structure, unidimensionality, and validity. METHOD:Parents of children with unilateral cerebral palsy (CP) ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Geerdink Y,Aarts P,van der Holst M,Lindeboom R,Van Der Burg J,Steenbergen B,Geurts AC

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To investigate the underlying factor structure of the 46-item Flemish cerebral visual impairment (CVI) questionnaire, differentiate the factor scores of children with and without CVI, and examine the impact of comorbidities on factor scores. METHOD:The records of 630 children (386 males, 244 females; median age 77...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Ben Itzhak N,Vancleef K,Franki I,Laenen A,Wagemans J,Ortibus E

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The aim of this cross-sectional study was to provide normative data for motor proficiency (motor performance and contralateral associated movements [CAMs]) in typically developing children between 3 years and 18 years of age using an updated version of the Zurich Neuromotor Assessment (ZNA-2). METHOD:Six-hundred a...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Kakebeeke TH,Knaier E,Chaouch A,Caflisch J,Rousson V,Largo RH,Jenni OG

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The main aim of the study was to explore the ability of a brief developmental assessment to predict teacher-rated learning and attentional and behavioural skills in the first grade of school at both the group and individual levels. A sample of 394 children (181 males, 213 females) aged 4 years were followed to the age...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Valtonen R,Ahonen T,Tolvanen A,Lyytinen P

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brainstem auditory evoked potentials (BAEPs) were recorded from 48 children with language disorders (aged four to nine years old, IQs normal to borderline, normal audiometric thresholds and attending special school) and 20 healthy children (four to eight years old, with normal IQs, audiometry and school-level). The la...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Roncagliolo M,Benítez J,Pérez M

更新日期：1994-01-01 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