Status dystonicus: a practice guide.

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：:This study examined the effect of low birthweight on school achievement and the mediating roles of cognitive and behavioural factors. The sample (115 females, 100 males) was selected from a longitudinal study of first-born singleton children, born between 1986 and 1988 of German-speaking parents, recruited from eight ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Weindrich D,Jennen-Steinmetz C,Laucht M,Schmidt MH

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The aim of this study was to determine the reliability, validity, and optimal placement of pedometers in children with cerebral palsy (CP) who ambulate without aids. METHOD:Seventeen participants aged 7 to 17 years with CP (eight males, nine females; mean age 12y 4mo; SD 3y 2mo), who could ambulate without aids, w...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Maher C,Kenyon A,McEvoy M,Sprod J

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lesch-Nyhan syndrome (LNS) is a rare disorder of metabolism caused by a defective gene on the X chromosome. It is typically characterized by choreoathetosis, hypertonia, hyperreflexia, and self-mutilation. The present study is a 4-year follow-up investigation of the cognitive status of six subjects with a mean age of ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Matthews WS,Solan A,Barabas G,Robey K

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Atypical migraine with aura can be challenging to diagnose. Arterial-spin-labelling (ASL) is able to non-invasively quantify brain perfusion. Our aim was to report cerebral blood flow (CBF) alterations using ASL, at the acute phase of atypical migraine with aura in children. METHOD:Paediatric patients were retrosp...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Boulouis G,Shotar E,Dangouloff-Ros V,Grévent D,Calmon R,Brunelle F,Naggara O,Kossorotoff M,Boddaert N

更新日期：2016-09-01 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：AIM:To review the evidence for behavioural interventions to reduce drooling in children with neurodisability. METHOD:A detailed search in eight databases sought studies that: (1) included participants aged 0 to 18 years with neurodisability and drooling; (2) provided behavioural interventions targeting drooling or a d...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： McInerney MS,Reddihough DS,Carding PN,Swanton R,Walton CM,Imms C

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The conduction velocities of motor, IA and non-nociceptive cutaneous sensory fibres have been studied in the ulnar and median nerves of 145 healthy fullterm neonates and in 77 preterm neonates (postconceptional age-range 28 to 42 weeks). The posterior tibial-nerve motor and IA fibres were studied: the sural nerve cuta...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Khater-Boidin J,Duron B

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The aim of this study was to compare the approximate number system acuity in children born extremely preterm aged 6 years 6 months and typically developing, age-matched peers. METHOD:This population-based follow-up study included 65 children born before 27 gestational weeks (35 males, 30 females; mean gestational ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Hellgren K,Halberda J,Forsman L,Adén U,Libertus M

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two groups of clinically normal newborns, differing in the number of non-optimal factors in their obstetric history, were compared by measuring heart-rate response to a series of auditory stimuli. There was a significant difference between the groups in the direction of the average heart-rate response. The high risk" ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Kittner S,Lipsitt LP

更新日期：1976-08-01 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：:Electromyographic and kinematic data were collected during treadmill locomotion by normal infants and infants with cerebral palsy. Locomotor patterns of the infants with cerebral palsy were similar to those of normal infants during the stage of supported locomotion, but as they matured, some of the characteristics of ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Leonard CT,Hirschfeld H,Forssberg H

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Advances in perinatal care and neuroimaging techniques have increased the detection of cerebellar malformations (CBMs) in the fetus and young infant. As a result, this has necessitated a greater understanding of the neurodevelopmental consequences of CBMs on child development. The aim of this study was to delineate...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Bolduc ME,Du Plessis AJ,Sullivan N,Khwaja OS,Zhang X,Barnes K,Robertson RL,Limperopoulos C

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the social and academic implications of mainstream, mainstream and special (combined) or special-class education for 31 adolescents with spina bifida, and for their primary caretakers. The Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test and the UCLA Loneliness Scale (adolescents) and the Personality Inventory for ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Lord J,Varzos N,Behrman B,Wicks J,Wicks D

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

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：:Fine motor skills are related to functioning in daily life and at school. We reviewed the status of knowledge, in preterm children, on the development of fine motor skills, the relation with gross motor skills, and risk factors for impaired fine motor skills. We searched the past 15 years in PubMed, using ['motor skil...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Bos AF,Van Braeckel KN,Hitzert MM,Tanis JC,Roze E

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes the prospective follow-up of a 2-year-old child with narcolepsy. The initial clinical diagnosis was confirmed by the onset of cataplexy when the child was 5 years old. He does not have the HLA genotype characteristic of narcolepsy or an identifiable brain lesion, although he has megalencephaly an...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Winter E,Prendergast M,Green A

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The aim of the study was to support clinicians in recommending and justifying power mobility for children of different ages and abilities, and with different needs. The study comprised three distinct parts: a literature review; a Delphi consensus; and clinical practice considerations. METHOD:A scoping review of ei...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Livingstone R,Paleg G

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemimegalencephaly is a rare congenital brain malformation, usually associated with mental retardation, * refractory epilepsy, and progressive neurological deficits. We report the case of a 19-year-old female with de novo diagnosis of right hemimegalencephaly, normal intellectual function, and history of non-refractor...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Beaulieu-Boire I,Lortie A,Bissonnette J,Prevost S,Bergeron D,Bocti C

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between skeletal age and cognitive ability was examined in a probability sample representative of 12- to 17-year-old males in the United States. Skeletal age was measured by radiographic determination of bone maturation. Cognitive development was assessed by WISC Vocabulary and Block-design subtests. ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Goldstein HS

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 9-year-old boy with dyskinetic cerebral palsy secondary to neonatal encephalopathy is described. He presented with blurring of near vision which had begun to impact on his school work. Objective assessment of accommodation showed that very little was present, although convergence was almost normal. The near-vision s...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Ross LM,Heron G,Mackie R,McWilliam R,Dutton GN

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 10-year-old male was referred with difficulties at school. He had particular difficulty with reading long words, following the sequence of text down a page, writing words in the correct order, writing words in line, and copying from the blackboard. He had a history of infective endocarditis complicated by intracereb...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Gillen JA,Dutton GN

更新日期：2003-05-01 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：:Somatosensory evoked potentials (SSEPs) are a very sensitive measure of the functional integrity of the neuroaxis, including peripheral and central structures. When used in diagnostic mode they can provide additional information regarding the probable areas of dysfunction. SSEPs were recorded from 44 children (64 feet...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Nadeem RD,Brown JK,Lawson G,Macnicol MF

更新日期：2000-08-01 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：AIM:to report the prevalence, clinical associations, and trends over time of oromotor dysfunction and communication impairments in children with cerebral palsy (CP). METHOD:multiple sources of ascertainment were used and children followed up with a standardized assessment including motor speech problems, swallowing/ch...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Parkes J,Hill N,Platt MJ,Donnelly C

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The aim of this review was to determine the effectiveness of hand splinting for improving hand function in children with cerebral palsy (CP) and brain injury. METHOD:A systematic review with meta-analyses was conducted. Only randomized and quasi-randomized controlled trials in which all participants were children ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Jackman M,Novak I,Lannin N

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To determine the association between gross motor function and nutritional status in children with cerebral palsy (CP) residing in an urban area in a developing country. METHOD:We conducted a cross-sectional study in 177 children (ages 2-12y, 59.3% male) with a diagnosis of CP who were attending rehabilitation cent...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Herrera-Anaya E,Angarita-Fonseca A,Herrera-Galindo VM,Martínez-Marín RD,Rodríguez-Bayona CN

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Today, treatment for children with cerebral palsy predominantly aims at improving the children's possibilities to perform everyday activities in their natural environment. The activities in focus for intervention are often expressed as specific goals, frequently defined in a collaborative goal-setting process between ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Brogren Carlberg E,Löwing K

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Following obstetrical brachial plexus injury, infants are unable to learn specific patterns of movement due to the disruption of neural pathways. Even with successful reinnervation (spontaneously or post surgical reconstruction), function can be suboptimal due to overactivity in antagonist muscles preventing movement ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： DeMatteo C,Bain JR,Galea V,Gjertsen D

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00