Ataxia rating scales are age-dependent in healthy children.

abstract：:We present a 9-month-old male with acute rotavirus gastroenteritis who developed an acute encephalopathy with focal seizures and developmental regression. Magnetic resonance imaging showed bilateral striatal necrosis and raised glutarylcarnitine levels on tandem mass spectrometry of a (crisis) blood spot, and chromato...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Mordekar S,Jaspan T,Sharrard M,Morton R,Whitehouse WP

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To describe the long-term outcomes of children by the time they reached school age with vein of Galen aneurysmal malformation (VGAM). METHOD:This was a retrospective observational study on a consecutive cohort of patients with VGAM. We included patients with at least one Francophone parent, aged between 6 and 11 y...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Taffin H,Maurey H,Ozanne A,Durand P,Husson B,Knebel JF,Adamsbaum C,Deiva K,Saliou G

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 14-month-old girl presented after 3 days of fever, floppiness, and diffuse urticarial exanthem. She developed encephalitis and carditis and 1 week later, intractable seizures. Initial CT and MRI showed no changes in the brain parenchyma. On days 14 and 34 after the onset of symptoms, a human herpesvirus-6 (HHV-6) ge...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Rantala H,Mannonen L,Ahtiluoto S,Linnavuori K,Herva R,Vaheri A,Koskiniemi M

更新日期：2000-06-01 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：:A behavioural modification package incorporating stimulus control, cueing, and rapid-extinction techniques was applied to a group of 15 children with severe learning disability who had chronic sleep disorders. Improvements in their night-settling and night-waking patterns occurred quickly (within a few days) and, in 1...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Bramble D

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study reports moderate to high Pearson correlations between Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scale (VABS) subscale and total scores and a variety of cognitive, academic and motor performance tests on a population of extremely low-birthweight infants assessed at eight years of age. The subscales describe adaptive behavi...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Rosenbaum P,Saigal S,Szatmari P,Hoult L

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Turner syndrome, a genetic disorder that results from the complete or partial absence of an X chromosome in females, has been associated with specific impairment in visuospatial cognition. Previous studies have demonstrated a relationship between parietal lobe abnormalities and visuospatial deficits in Turner syndrome...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Brown WE,Kesler SR,Eliez S,Warsofsky IS,Haberecht M,Reiss AL

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To develop a detailed priority list of family-centred rehabilitation goals on the activity level within the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) chapters d4 'Mobility' and d5 'Self-care' in a paediatric population with a broad range of health conditions. METHOD:Twenty-two months...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Rast FM,Labruyère R

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five days after birth, 144 clinically normal infants were examined according to Prechtl's 'optimality' method. 118 were classified as neurologically optimal and 26 as sub-optimal. At the ages of 12, 22 and 36 months, parents' reports indicated differences in behaviour between the two groups; and at age 22 months obser...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Njiokiktjien C,Kurver P

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possibility that so-called anti-epileptic drugs (AEDs) may aggravate epilepsy must always be borne in mind by the clinician. Many reports of such aggravation of seizures have been published. Most such reports are anecdotal and speculative, and suggest that many such reactions are idiosyncratic. However, for some t...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Gayatri NA,Livingston JH

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The purpose of this study was to assess the relation of perinatal risk factors with later development of specific language impairment (SLI). METHOD:In a case-control study, 179 children attending special needs schools for SLI were matched with non-affected children attending mainstream schools. Both groups consist...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Diepeveen FB,De Kroon ML,Dusseldorp E,Snik AF

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Individuals with congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) provide a test population for the theory that elevated testosterone levels alter prenatal brain development and increase the risk of learning disabilities. Eleven subjects with CAH, five of their non-CAH siblings and 16 matched control subjects participated in two ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Plante E,Boliek C,Binkiewicz A,Erly WK

更新日期：1996-05-01 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：:Total ophthalmoplegia is described in an eight-year-old boy with polyradiculitis. The findings suggest central nervous system involvement. It is postulated that this case represents an entity intermediate between the Miller-Fisher and the Landry-Guillain-Barré syndromes, with features of brain-stem encephalitis. ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Green SH

更新日期：1976-06-01 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：AIM:To explore associations between clinical variables and decline in motor capacity in adolescents with cerebral palsy (CP). METHOD:Participants included 76 males and 59 females, whose mean age at the beginning of the study was 14 years 6 months (SD 2.4, range 11.6-17.9); 51 at Gross Motor Function Classification Sys...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Bartlett DJ,Hanna SE,Avery L,Stevenson RD,Galuppi B

更新日期：2010-07-01 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：:Intrathecal baclofen (ITB) therapy can be very effective in the treatment of intractable spasticity, but its effectiveness and safety have not yet been thoroughly studied in children with cerebral palsy (CP). The aims of this double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled, dose-finding study were to select children elig...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Hoving MA,van Raak EP,Spincemaille GH,Palmans LJ,Sleypen FA,Vles JS,Dutch Study Group on Child Spasticity.

更新日期：2007-09-01 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：:Multiple epidemiological variables of 131 children with spina bifida born during 1970 and 1979 in a seven-county urban/rural region of south-western Ohio were analyzed retrospectively via personal interviews, hospital and clinic records, and birth and stillbirth certificates. The estimated incidence of spina bifida wa...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Crowe CA,Heuther CA,Oppenheimer SG,Barth LD,Jeffrey E,Reinhart S

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The compliance and maturation of visual acuity of 1245 2 1/2- to nine-year-olds was investigated. Testing was undertaken as part of routine surveillance. Ability to letter match, to achieve a binocular measure and to achieve monocular measures for children under three years was 89, 78 and 37 per cent, for children age...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Salt AT,Sonksen PM,Wade A,Jayatunga R

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To compare the efficacy and safety of prednisolone/prednisone and adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) in the treatment of infantile spasms using a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (RCTs). METHOD:In a systematic literature search of electronic databases (MEDLINE, Embase, the Cochrane Library), we identi...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Li S,Zhong X,Hong S,Li T,Jiang L

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A care-load study was performed on a homogeneous group of 51 children, adolescents and young adults with spastic tetraplegia, born in Sweden between 1959 and 1978. All were immobile and severely mentally retarded, none could speak and the majority had epilepsy, scoliosis and contractures. 16 were living with their fam...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Edebol-Tysk K

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preterm infants are at high risk for developmental impairments at school age. However, the impact of these impairments on important life skills, such as handwriting, is unknown. Forty-eight first-grade children (27 males, 21 females; mean age 6y 7mo, SD 3.9mo; range 6y 1mo to 7y 3mo) born preterm (birthweight < 1250g;...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Feder KP,Majnemer A,Bourbonnais D,Platt R,Blayney M,Synnes A

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The long-term effects of the ketogenic diet, a high fat diet for treating intractable epilepsy, on resting energy expenditure (REE) are unknown. The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of 15 months of ketogenic diet treatment on growth and REE in children with intractable epilepsy. METHOD:Growth, body com...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Groleau V,Schall JI,Stallings VA,Bergqvist CA

更新日期：2014-09-01 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：: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：AIM:To determine whether assisted reproductive technologies (ART) were more likely to be the method of conception in singletons with cerebral palsy (CP) than in those without CP. METHOD:Singletons with CP born between 1991 and 2004 were selected from the Victorian Cerebral Palsy Register and matched for birth year to ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Reid SM,Jaques AM,Susanto C,Breheny S,Reddihough DS,Halliday J

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To assess outcome for children with severe neurological impairment receiving invasive mechanical ventilation for respiratory failure. METHOD:Medical charts for all such children treated in our intensive care unit (ICU) between January 2003 and July 2008 were reviewed. Outcomes were compared with those for children...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： van Gestel JP,Robroch AH,Bollen CW,Van Der Ent CK,Van Vught AJ

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anxiety disorders are a leading cause of morbidity and entail a lot of costs. Adolescence is characterized by social fears and poor emotion regulation abilities which together increase the likelihood of the emergence of anxiety disorders. This emotion dysregulation is potentially caused by the emotion regulating brain...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Lipp A,Cohen Kadosh K

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00