Multiple sclerosis and acute disseminated encephalomyelitis diagnosed in children after long-term follow-up: comparison of presenting features.

abstract：:Three groups of children with communication disorders were examined using a series of psycholinguistic markers to explore whether the tasks could identify children with impairments other than specific language impairment (SLI), and to examine whether the different groups within this clinical population could be distin...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Botting N,Conti-Ramsden G

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Progressive calcification of the brain and the spinal cord at early infantile onset was observed in two siblings. They showed growth failure, psychomotor deterioration, deafness, vestibular dysfunction, microcytic hypochromic anemia, abnormal ratios of lymphocyte subpopulations, and slightly decreased bicarbonate on b...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Yoshimura M,Hara T,Maegaki Y,Koeda T,Okubo K,Hamasaki N,Sly WS,Takeshita K

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nine children (five males, four females; age range 6 years 1 month to 11 years 1 month) affected by benign epilepsy of childhood with centrotemporal or Rolandic spikes (BECRS) with EEG evidence of marked activation of interictal epileptic discharges (IEDs) during sleep, and nine unaffected control children matched for...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Baglietto MG,Battaglia FM,Nobili L,Tortorelli S,De Negri E,Calevo MG,Veneselli E,De Negri M

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty-nine very-low-birthweight infants out of a population of 923 had cerebral palsy (CP) at an 18-month follow-up. Thirty-nine of these had cranial ultrasound abnormalities in the neonatal period and 30 had normal cranial ultrasounds. The distribution of subtypes of CP differed markedly between the two groups, with ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Wheater M,Rennie JM

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study examines the coordination of fingertip forces during object manipulation in both the involved and non-involved hand of 14 children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy (CP) aged between 8 and 14 years. While no impairment could be observed in the non-involved hand, subtle deficits in the sequencing of the ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Gordon AM,Charles J,Duff SV

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Equinus in hemiplegic children is multifactorial. In some cases it is due to a short muscle, in others to simple foot-drop, tonic spasticity, rigidity, compensation for a short limb, fixed flexion contracture at the hip, dominantly inherited forefoot deformity, forefoot equinus secondary to chronic toe-walking, or abn...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Brown JK,Rodda J,Walsh EG,Wright GW

更新日期：1991-12-01 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：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：: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：:We assessed the influence of equinus gait treatments on the vertical displacement of the body's centre of mass (COM) in 21 patients with cerebral palsy (14 males, 7 females; mean age 8 y 9 mo [SD 2 y]; range 3 y 7 mo-17 y) presenting different topographical types (quadriplegia, n = 1; diplegia, n = 6; right hemiplegia...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Massaad F,van den Hecke A,Renders A,Detrembleur C

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of intramuscular alcohol in treating cerebral-palsied children has led to reduced spasticity for varying periods of time, although the periods diminish with each subsequent injection. During the period of reduced spasticity there is an opportunity for therapists and orthopaedic surgeons to determine whether co...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Carpenter EB,Seitz DG

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background factors of developmental outcome in a group of 386 neonatal 'at-risk' infants and 107 controls were examined in a prospective nine-year follow-up study. Dichotomized outcome variables were computed for each of the assessments; neurodevelopmental, motor, psycholinguistic, cognitive and school progress. In th...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Lindahl E,Michelsson K,Helenius M,Parre M

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a girl with a brain-stem tumour and symptoms very similar to those of Rett syndrome (RS). Her early history was uneventful and development was normal (except for hypotonia). At the age of 6 months her development slowed. Subsequently, deterioration occurred and the features characteristic of RS were seen: ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Vanhala R,Gaily E,Paetau A,Riikonen R

更新日期：1998-12-01 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:To identify the prevalence of knee contracture and its association with gross motor function, age, sex, spasticity, and muscle length in children with cerebral palsy (CP). METHOD:Cross-sectional data for passive knee extension were analysed in 3 045 children with CP (1 756 males, 1 289 females; mean age 8y 1mo [SD...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Cloodt E,Rosenblad A,Rodby-Bousquet E

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This systematic review examines the effects of casting, either alone or in combination with botulinum toxin type A (BTX-A), on equinus in children with cerebral palsy (CP). Comparisons are made between casting alone and no treatment, between casting alone and BTX-A alone, between combined casting and BTX-A and each tr...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Blackmore AM,Boettcher-Hunt E,Jordan M,Chan MD

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two new cases are reported of a rare syndrome of malformation consisting of occiptal encephalocele, aplasia of the vermis and deformity of the tectum. Less consistent components are aplasia of mammillary bodies, fusion of thalami, anomalies of cerebral gyral patterns, bifid atlas or bifid occipital squame, elevation o...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Friede RL

更新日期：1978-12-01 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：:Alterations in regional cerebral blood-flow, as determined by single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) using technetium [99mTc] hexamethyl propylenamine oxime, were studied in two children presenting with alternating hemiplegia of childhood. Both experienced hemiplegic episodes several times per month, despi...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Siemes H,Cordes M

更新日期：1993-04-01 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 results are presented of a follow-up study of 155 Dutch children after the first febrile seizure. Of these initially untreated children 37 per cent had had at least one, 30 per cent at least two and 17 per cent at least three subsequent seizures. The vulnerable period for recurrent seizures after the first febrile...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Offringa M,Derksen-Lubsen G,Bossuyt PM,Lubsen J

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sleep states of nine premature infants were observed and concomitant respiration recordings were obtained at 37 and 41 weeks conceptional age. 19 fullterm infants were also studied at 41 weeks conceptional age. Between 37 and 41 weeks significant decreases occurred in the premature infants' percentage of periodic ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Booth CL,Morin VN,Waite SP,Thoman EB

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a progressive pediatric disorder that affects both muscle and brain. Children with DMD have mean IQ scores that are about one standard deviation lower than population means, with lower Verbal IQ than Performance IQ scores. For the present study, verbal skills and verbal memory skil...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Hinton VJ,Fee RJ,Goldstein EM,De Vivo DC

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to compare the linear growth of children with cerebral palsy (CP) with that of children without CP. The segmental lengths (humerus, ulna, femur, tibia, and spine), recumbent length, body weight, and bone age of 62 children with CP (age range 2.25 to 14 years, mean 7.13 years) were measured an...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Kong CK,Tse PW,Lee WY

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nineteen sightless children and adolescents aged between 11 and 18 years were tested for physical condition and performance. Their residential school provided four adapted physical education lessons a week, lasting for 45 minutes. Their physical condition and performance was found to be comparable with that of normal ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Lee M,Ward G,Shephard RJ

更新日期：1985-12-01 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：:In order to explore the relationship between spastic diplegia and mothers' previous reproductive loss, 119 cases of spastic diplegia born between 1953 and 1977 were compared with two series of controls. One control group comprised a random sample of all births, the other a random sample of births matched for birthweig...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Spiers PS,Davis N

更新日期：1982-02-01 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：:The dynamic tripod grip during handwriting was examined among seven- to 14-year-old children. Four components were measured: (a) degree of index-finger flexion; (b) degree of forearm pronation/supination; (c) number of fingers used on the pencil shaft; and (d) thumb and forefinger opposition. Developmental trends were...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Ziviani J

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Status dystonicus is a rare, but life-threatening movement disorder emergency. Urgent assessment is required and management is tailored to patient characteristics and complications. The use of dystonia action plans and early recognition of worsening dystonia may potentially facilitate intervention or prevent progressi...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Allen NM,Lin JP,Lynch T,King MD

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00