Utility of language comprehension tests for unintelligible or non-speaking children with cerebral palsy: a systematic review.

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：: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：:The developing brain in utero and during the first years of life is highly vulnerable to environmental influences. Experiences occurring during this period permanently modify brain structure and function through epigenetic modifications (alterations of the DNA structure and chromatin function) and consequently affect ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Miguel PM,Pereira LO,Silveira PP,Meaney MJ

更新日期：2019-10-01 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：: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：: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：AIM:In a prospective, longitudinal study, we investigated the influence of the severity of motor impairment on changes in body characteristics in children with moderate-to-severe cerebral palsy (CP). METHOD:Twenty-six single children and adolescents (15 females, 11 males; mean age 10y 6mo, SD 3y 3mo) with spastic (qua...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Ohata K,Tsuboyama T,Haruta T,Ichihashi N,Nakamura T

更新日期：2009-12-01 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：:Impaired airway clearance leads to recurrent chest infections and respiratory deterioration in neuromuscular weakness. It is frequently the cause of death. Cough is the major mechanism of airway clearance. Cough has several components, and assessment tools are available to measure the different components of cough. Th...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Gauld LM

更新日期：2009-05-01 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：:The objective of this study was to examine the descriptive epidemiology of vision impairment among 6- to 10-year-old children in metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Children with vision impairment (n=310; 42% black, 56% white; 57% male, 43% female), defined as a best corrected visual acuity in the better eye of 20/70 ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Mervis CA,Boyle CA,Yeargin-Allsopp M

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review considers carbohydrate metabolism in the developing brain, in particular the proportion of glucose metabolized via the pentose phosphate pathway. Although small in amount, this fraction serves a vital rôle in some aspects of brain function. Evidence is presented that the pentose phosphate pathway subserves...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Baquer NZ,Hothersall JS,McLean P,Greenbaum AL

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebral palsy (CP) can occur in term infants with or without preceding newborn encephalopathy. We compared the type and severity of CP and associated disability in these two groups. Participants from a population-based case-control study of term newborn encephalopathy were followed up for 6 years and linked to the We...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Badawi N,Felix JF,Kurinczuk JJ,Dixon G,Watson L,Keogh JM,Valentine J,Stanley FJ

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reports a total population-based cohort study of over 500 surviving children born in 1974, 1975 and 1976, who were identified as having been a low birthweight (less than 200g). The prevalence of cerebral palsy (CP) diagnosed by age six years was compared for groups who had various antenatal and perinatal at...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Stanley FJ,English DR

更新日期：1986-10-01 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：:Ohtahara syndrome is a rare cause of epileptic seizures during the neonatal period. This is believed to be the first report of this syndrome with a specific metabolic defect. Defects in respiratory chain function may be more common than previously assumed in patients with this epilepsy syndrome. ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Williams AN,Gray RG,Poulton K,Ramani P,Whitehouse WP

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To determine factors associated with acquisition of a sitting position in patients with spinal muscular atrophy type 1 (SMA1) treated with nusinersen. METHOD:Using data from the registry of patients with SMA1 treated with nusinersen, we compared the subgroups of sitters and non-sitters after 14 months of therapy a...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Aragon-Gawinska K,Daron A,Ulinici A,Vanden Brande L,Seferian A,Gidaro T,Scoto M,Deconinck N,Servais L,SMA-Registry Study Group.

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Theory of mind impairments are part of the cognitive morbidities associated with transposition of the great arteries (TGA). We sought to assess core components of social cognition in school-aged children with TGA. METHOD:Thirty-eight children with neonatal corrected TGA (27 males, 11 females; mean age 7y 3mo, SD 1...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Calderon J,Angeard N,Pinabiaux C,Bonnet D,Jambaqué I

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:This systematic review investigated the availability of assessment tools to evaluate bimanual skills in young children (< or = 3y) with hemiplegic cerebral palsy. Evidence for validity, reliability, and clinical utility of the identified instruments was sought. METHOD:Ten electronic databases and grey literature w...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Greaves S,Imms C,Dodd K,Krumlinde-Sundholm L

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study was to review the psychometric properties and use of goal attainment scaling (GAS) in paediatric rehabilitation research. We performed a critical literature review searching: (1) all studies whose main focus was to assess the psychometric properties of GAS in paediatric rehabilitation; and (2) all...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Steenbeek D,Ketelaar M,Galama K,Gorter JW

更新日期：2007-07-01 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：:This study retrospectively evaluated the safety and efficacy of selective dorsal rhizotomy (SDR) in participants who underwent a rigorous selection process, uniform surgical procedure, and a standardized postoperative rehabilitation process. Outcome measures assessed were the Ashworth scale for spasticity, the Gillett...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Trost JP,Schwartz MH,Krach LE,Dunn ME,Novacheck TF

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This case series describes three children with chronic lymphocytic inflammation with pontine perivascular enhancement responsive to steroids (CLIPPERS), an inflammatory condition characterized by a relapsing-remitting disease course responsive to steroids. The patients (two males, age 3y and 13y; one female, age 14y) ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Sa M,Green L,Abdel-Mannan O,Chong WKK,Jacques T,Clarke A,Childs AM,Lim M,Hemingway C,Hacohen Y

更新日期：2019-04-01 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：AIM:To describe gross motor function in children with bilateral lower limb (BLL) spasticity due to human immunodeficiency virus encephalopathy (HIVE), and to investigate the association between age, CD4 percentage, and viral load at initiation of antiretroviral therapy (ART) and current gross motor function. METHOD:Th...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Mann TN,Laughton B,Donald KA,Langerak NG

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The headache histories obtained from 214 children were analysed by computer to see whether it was possible to identify and classify migraine, and to distinguish children with psychogenic headache. During headache attacks, most children had no or very few associated symptoms. For classification, 175 patients were divid...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Rossi LN,Cortinovis I,Bellettini G,Brunelli G,Bossi A

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Dodd's Model for Differential Diagnosis is one of the available clinical diagnostic classification systems of childhood speech sound disorders. Yet we do not understand the validity of this system beyond clinical samples, precluding its application in epidemiological or population-based research. This study aimed t...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Ttofari Eecen K,Eadie P,Morgan AT,Reilly S

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gliomatosis cerebri is the unifying term used when diffuse glial infiltration occurs throughout the cerebral hemispheres. The very few cases reported in children have presented with intractable epilepsy, corticospinal tract deficits, unilateral tremor, headaches, and developmental delay. Antemortem diagnosis is diffic...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Jayawant S,Neale J,Stoodley N,Wallace S

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neonatal predictors of microcephaly, defined as a head circumference <5th centile in children born preterm, has not been systematically assessed. Children were drawn from the Developmental Epidemiology Network (DEN) cohort of very low-birthweight children (VLBW: 500-1500g) born from 1991 to 1993 at three sites in ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Chiriboga CA,Kuban KC,Durkin M,Hinton V,Kuhn L,Sanocka U,Bellinger D

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The past decade of research in neuroscience and stroke rehabilitation has demonstrated that the adult brain is capable of recovery through physiological processes (often called 'plasticity'). Some of the recovery is spontaneous and some is a result of experience, including interventions such as physical therapy, which...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Wittenberg GF

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00