Practice considerations for the introduction and use of power mobility for children.

abstract：:An infant with subacute necrotising encephalopathy is described, in whom slow motornerve conduction velocities suggested the presence of peripheral neuropathy. Peripheral nerves are not invariably involved in patients with this disease, but as they are involved in thiamine-deficiency states it is conjectured that the ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Moosa A

更新日期：1975-10-01 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：AIM:Cerebral palsy (CP) is defined as a primary disorder of posture and movement; however, approximately 45% of children with CP also have an intellectual impairment. Prevalence estimates are limited by a lack of guidelines for intelligence testing. This systematic review aims to identify and examine intelligence asses...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Yin Foo R,Guppy M,Johnston LM

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebral palsy (CP) is a complex disorder and children frequently have multiple impairments. Dystonia is a particularly frustrating impairment that interferes with rehabilitation and function and is difficult to treat. Of the available treatments, deep brain stimulation (DBS) has emerged as an option with the potentia...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Sanger TD

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to describe and analyze gross and fine motor function and accompanying neurological impairments in children with cerebral palsy (CP) born between 1991 and 1998 in western Sweden. A population-based study comprised 411 children with a diagnosis of CP ascertained at 4 to 8 years of age. Gross M...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Himmelmann K,Beckung E,Hagberg G,Uvebrant P

更新日期：2006-06-01 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：:According to traditional neurophysiological theory, consciousness requires neocortical functioning, and children born without cerebral hemispheres necessarily remain indefinitely in a developmental vegetative state. Four children between 5 and 17 years old are reported with congenital brain malformations involving tot...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Shewmon DA,Holmes GL,Byrne PA

更新日期：1999-06-01 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：AIM:To explore the appropriateness of applying a detailed assessment of general movements and characterize the relationship between global and detailed assessment. METHOD:The analysis was based on 783 video recordings of 233 infants (154 males, 79 females) who had been videoed from 27 to 45 weeks postmenstrual age. Ap...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Einspieler C,Marschik PB,Pansy J,Scheuchenegger A,Krieber M,Yang H,Kornacka MK,Rowinska E,Soloveichick M,Bos AF

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Mutations in the SLC16A2 gene have been implicated in Allan-Herndon-Dudley syndrome (AHDS), an X-linked learning disability* syndrome associated with thyroid function test (TFT) abnormalities. Delayed myelination is a non-specific finding in individuals with learning disability whose genetic basis is often uncertai...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Gika AD,Siddiqui A,Hulse AJ,Edward S,Fallon P,McEntagart ME,Jan W,Josifova D,Lerman-Sagie T,Drummond J,Thompson E,Refetoff S,Bönnemann CG,Jungbluth H

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anencephalic infants born to women who are very prone to bear them do not have a sex ratio appreciably different from that of other anencephalic births. Moreover, the sexes of affected cases in sibships containing exactly two anencephalic births seem to be distributed approximately binomially. Bearing in mind the corr...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： James WH

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:New tools that capture hand function in everyday activities and contexts are needed for assessing children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy. This study evaluates a wearable wrist monitor and tests the hypothesis that wrist extension frequency (FreqE) is an appropriate indicator of functional hand use. METHOD:Fifteen...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Howcroft J,Fehlings D,Zabjek K,Fay L,Liang J,Biddiss E

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study explored proximal-to-distal components during goal-directed reaching movements in children with mild or moderate hemiplegic cerebral palsy (HCP); [seven females, four males; mean age 8 y 6 mo; SD 27 mo], compared with age-matched, typically developing children (seven females, five males; mean age 8 y 3 mo [...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Domellöf E,Rösblad B,Rönnqvist L

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Childhood brain development begins before birth, and obstetric management, tests, and technologies designed to diagnose and treat fetal conditions can have an impact on development. Preconception counseling for maternal diabetes and hypertension affect the risk of fetal congenital anomalies and growth restriction. Pat...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Novak CM,Graham EM

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors examined five young children with monocular vision loss who developed monocular nystagmus. The nystagmus was of fast frequency and small amplitude in all fields of gaze. In four children, successful treatment of the cause of the vision loss resulted in cessation of the nystagmus. No child showed signs of s...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Good WV,Koch TS,Jan JE

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to move two fingers at the same time was measured in young and older adults. This study measured the accuracy with which 45 normally developing children (23 boys, 22 girls; mean ages 8.4 and 8.3 years respectively) and 49 young adults (25 males, 24 females; mean ages 19.8 and 20.5 years respectively) could...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Milling-Smith O,Eunson P,Walsh EG

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A child with lobar holoprosencephaly presented with spastic diplegia and mild mental retardation, compounded by attention deficits and hyperactivity. His facial features were normal, and except for borderline microcephaly, there were no other predictors of holoprosencephaly. This patient represents the mild end of the...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Shanks DE,Wilson WG

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six boys and five girls with a mean age of 8.6 (range 3 to 13) years with foetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) were studied by MRI and single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) to find specific areas of vulnerability. Morphological anomalies shown in six of 11 patients by MRI were situated both cortically and subcor...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Riikonen R,Salonen I,Partanen K,Verho S

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to investigate flexor hypertonia of the extremities in newborns, a neurological examination and superficial electromyogram (EMG) recordings were carried out on 50 full-term infants both before and after the first 48 hours of life (the 'birth-shock period). EMG amplituds on the flexor side of the upper arm in ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Maekawa K,Ochiai Y

更新日期：1975-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pain frequency and its association with participation, function, and health-related quality of life were evaluated in a sample of 198 children (58% male; mean age 10 years 7 months, SD 3 years 11 months; range 5 to 18 years) with moderate to severe cerebral palsy (CP). Gross Motor Functional Classification System (GMF...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Houlihan CM,O'Donnell M,Conaway M,Stevenson RD

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The aim of this study was to assess the role of disability and victimization in young people's participation in developmentally salient activities by analyzing a nationally representative group of young people from the child welfare system (CWS). METHOD:Data were obtained from interviews with young people and thei...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Berg KL,Shiu CS,Msall ME,Acharya K

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Osteoporosis is a significant clinical problem in persons with moderate to severe cerebral palsy (CP), causing fractures with minimal trauma. Over the past decade, most studies examining osteoporosis and CP have been cross-sectional in nature, focused exclusively on children and adolescents and only involving one e...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Grossberg R,Blackford MG,Kecskemethy HH,Henderson R,Reed MD

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The first aim of this study was to systematically review and critically assess manually controlled instrumented spasticity assessment methods that combine multidimensional signals. The second aim was to extract a set of quantified parameters that are psychometrically sound to assess spasticity in a clinical setting...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Bar-On L,Aertbeliën E,Molenaers G,Dan B,Desloovere K

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to determine the effect of hamstring botulinum toxin A (Btx-A) injection in 10 children with crouch gait in terms of changes in muscle length and lower-limb kinematics. Before Btx-A injection limb kinematics were recorded. Maximum hamstring lengths and excursions were calculated by computer modelling ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Thompson NS,Baker RJ,Cosgrove AP,Corry IS,Graham HK

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevention of neurological disabilities following preterm birth remains a major public health challenge and efforts are still needed to test the neuroprotective properties of candidate molecules. Melatonin serves as a neuroprotectant in adult models of cerebral ischemia through its potent antioxidant and anti-infl...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Biran V,Phan Duy A,Decobert F,Bednarek N,Alberti C,Baud O

更新日期：2014-08-01 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：:The developmental level and nutritional status of a group of 17 children aged between six and 24 months who were admitted to hospital with severe protein-energy malnutrition were studied from admission to hospital until 36 months after returning home. They were compared with a group of 14 adequately nourished children...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Grantham-McGregor SM,Powell C,Stewart M,Schofield WN

更新日期：1982-06-01 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：AIM:To compare neurophysiological parameters of central nervous system excitability in healthy children/adolescents with those of healthy adults. METHOD:Two experimental protocols were used in 19 healthy children/adolescents (10 males and 9 females, mean age 9y 11mo [SD 2y 9mo], range 5-15y) and 19 healthy adults (8 m...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Zanini S,Martucci L,Del Piero I,Restuccia D

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Periventricular nodular heterotopia (PNH) is a rare neuronal migration disorder in which immature neurons fail to undergo a directed migration from the ventricular and subventricular zones to the cerebral cortex. Classic PNH occurs predominantly in females and is associated with periods of epilepsy and near-normal int...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Balci S,Unal A,Engiz O,Aktas D,Liehr T,Gross M,Mrasek K,Saygi S

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00