Efficacy of soft splints in reducing severe knee-flexion contractures.

abstract：:The authors assessed 137 VLBW children and 162 controls for laterality by observation and questionnaire at 12 years of age. A significantly higher proportion of the VLBW children were either left-handed or mixed-handed. A number of motor cognitive and educational outcome variables were measured. Impaired manual dexter...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Powls A,Botting N,Cooke RW,Marlow N

更新日期：1996-07-01 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：:Hand preference and functional hand-dominance of 45 spina bifida patients (aged 13 to 25 years) were assessed by means of self-reports on an ordinal scale and a tapping task. Non-right-handedness was more frequent among patients with accompanying progressive hydrocephalus. Left-hand preference was significantly more f...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Wassing HE,Siebelink BM,Luyendijk W

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Perinatal hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy (HIE) occurs in 1 to 3 per 1000 term births. HIE is not preventable in most cases, and therapies are limited. Hypothermia improves outcomes and is the current standard of care. Yet, clinical trials suggest that 44-53% of infants who receive hypothermia will die or suffer mode...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Wu YW,Gonzalez FF

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum thyroid hormone levels were measured in women living in an area of severe dietary iodine deficiency in a remote region of Papua New Guinea. Levels of maternal hormone were found to be related to the motor competence of the women's offspring, who were aged between six years and 11 years 10 months at the time of a...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Pharoah P,Connolly K,Hetzel B,Ekins R

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cisapride was used to treat gastro-oesophageal reflux in seven children with neurodevelopmental disorders and in 15 children who were neurologically normal. 24-hour lower-oesophageal pH monitoring was carried out before and after treatment. The neurologically normal group had a statistically significant decrease after...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Brueton MJ,Clarke GS,Sandhu BK

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:There are many misconceptions about what constitutes 'quality of life' (QoL). It is often difficult for researchers and clinicians to determine which instruments will be most appropriate to their purpose. The aim of the current paper is to describe QoL instruments for children and adolescents with neurodisabilities...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Waters E,Davis E,Ronen GM,Rosenbaum P,Livingston M,Saigal S

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three seizure types have been described in the neonate: electroclinical, electrographic, and clinical only. Controversy still exists about whether the episodic abnormal movements seen in some infants, which are not accompanied by simultaneous ictal discharges on the EEG, are true seizures. Twenty-four infants with sei...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Boylan GB,Pressler RM,Rennie JM,Morton M,Leow PL,Hughes R,Binnie CD

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carpal tunnel syndrome is extremely rare in childhood and in almost all previously reported cases it has been secondary to some underlying condition. Three 13- to 14-year-old girls are described with idiopathic carpal tunnel syndrome, confirmed by EMG and relieved by surgical decompression. A noteworthy feature in chi...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Sainio K,Merikanto J,Larsen TA

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review aimed to synthesize current research evidence to determine the effectiveness of conservative interventions for infants with positional plagiocephaly. A systematic review was conducted, where papers were sourced from 13 library and internet databases. Research was included if published in English between 19...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Bialocerkowski AE,Vladusic SL,Howell SM

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To explore cortical activation during bimanual tasks and functional correlates in unilateral cerebral palsy (CP). METHOD:This cross-sectional study included eight participants with unilateral CP (six females, two males; mean age [SD] 20y 10mo [5y 10mo], 13y 8mo-31y 6mo) in Manual Ability Classification System leve...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： de Campos AC,Sukal-Moulton T,Huppert T,Alter K,Damiano DL

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dravet syndrome, a severe infantile epilepsy syndrome, is typically resistant to anti-epileptic drugs (AED). Lamotrigine (LTG), an AED that is effective for both focal and generalized seizures, has been reported to aggravate seizures in Dravet syndrome. Therefore, LTG is usually avoided in Dravet syndrome. We describe...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Dalic L,Mullen SA,Roulet Perez E,Scheffer I

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although its cause, jaundice in the newborn, is extremely common, the disabling neurological disorder kernicterus is very rare. Kernicterus may be prevented by selecting those infants who are at risk of extreme jaundice or who may be particularly vulnerable to bilirubin neurotoxicity. Because the tools for achieving t...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Hansen TW

更新日期：2011-09-01 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：:The relation between neurodevelopmental status at one and eight years of age was investigated in a cohort of 207 infants born between 1979 and 1982 at < 33 weeks of gestation. The probability of a major disabling impairment at eight years was only 1 per cent among 164 children with normal neurodevelopment at one year,...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Roth SC,Baudin J,Pezzani-Goldsmith M,Townsend J,Reynolds EO,Stewart AL

更新日期：1994-12-01 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：:Children born to mothers who had abused alcohol throughout pregnancy had severe behavioural and intellectual problems which remained at age 11 to 14 years. Of 24 children examined, 10 had attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) with or without developmental coordination disorder, two had Asperger syndrome, and...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Aronson M,Hagberg B,Gillberg C

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Impact of white matter abnormalities (WMAs) on neuropsychological functioning in children with early-treated phenylketonuria (ETPKU) was examined. Children with ETPKU (20 males, 12 females, mean age 11 years 2 months, SD 3 years 6 months) and controls (20 males, 14 females, mean age 10 years 4 months, SD 3 years 1 mon...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Anderson PJ,Wood SJ,Francis DE,Coleman L,Warwick L,Casanelia S,Anderson VA,Boneh A

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fourteen ambulatory children with spastic diplegia participated in a bilateral quadriceps strengthening program in an attempt to decrease the amount of knee crouch during gait. Each child exercised three times a week for six weeks using free ankle weights at a load of 65 per cent of maximum. A normal comparison group ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Damiano DL,Vaughan CL,Abel MF

更新日期：1995-08-01 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：AIM:To investigate the spectrum and relationships between gait patterns and motor function in a population-based cross study of children with unilateral cerebral palsy (CP). METHOD:Children identified with unilateral CP born in Victoria, Australia, from 1990 to 1992 were eligible to participate. Characteristics were r...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Dobson F,Morris ME,Baker R,Graham HK

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To evaluate presence and severity of social impairments in alternating hemiplegia of childhood (AHC) and determine factors that are associated with social impairments. METHOD:This was a retrospective analysis of 34 consecutive patients with AHC (19 females, 15 males; mean age: 9y 7mo, SD 8y 2mo, range 2y 7mo-40y),...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Uchitel J,Abdelnour E,Boggs A,Prange L,Pratt M,Bonner M,Jasien J,Dawson G,Abrahamsen T,Mikati MA

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A feeding bottle equipped with micro-video-camera and pressure sensor was devised to show the inside of the mouth and record sucking pressure. Activities of the temporal (TM), masseter muscle (MM), orbicular muscle of the mouth (OM) and suprahyoid muscles (SM) of 25 healthy infants were examined. Tongue and jaw moveme...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Tamura Y,Horikawa Y,Yoshida S

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Modified Gubbay tests, assessing various aspects of motor performance, were administered to 885 Manchester children in mainstream primary education, and centile tables were drawn up by age. Children who had performed badly on one of the four tests were retested two years later, when they were found to have 'caught up'...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Ehrhardt P,McKinlay IA,Bradley G

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As infants with bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) have difficulty maintaining adequate levels of oxygenation during rest, it was decided to investigate how the additional respiratory demands associated with nutritive feeding disrupt their breathing rates. The sucking and breathing patterns of six (three male, three fem...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Craig CM,Lee DN,Freer YN,Laing IA

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical importance of intermittent intracranial pressure (ICP) elevations during sleep in hydrocephalic children is unclear. Eight studies of continuous ICP monitoring with simultaneous cerebral blood-flow velocity (CBFV) measurements were recorded during sleep in seven hydrocephalic children aged between one and...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Goh D,Minns RA,Pye SD,Steers AJ

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cross-correlograms between voluntarily active soleus (SOL) and tibialis anterior (TA) motor units were generated from seven control subjects and six subjects with spastic cerebral palsy (CP). Short-duration central peaks were observed in three subjects with spastic diplegia only. All subjects demonstrated reciprocal i...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Brouwer B,Smits E

更新日期：1996-09-01 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：:The motor function of 35 children with athetoid cerebral palsy was examined retrospectively using videotape recordings made at five to eight months of age. Many infants showed asymmetric tonic neck, Moro and Galant reflexes. Movements shown to be difficult included: keeping a symmetric supine posture, isolated movemen...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Yokochi K,Shimabukuro S,Kodama M,Kodama K,Hosoe A

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In four generations of a family with autosomal dominant hyperekplexia (startle disease), untreated affected adult members had pes cavus and extensor plantar responses, as well as hyper-reflexia. Electroencephalography during a startle, electromyography, nerve conduction velocities and somatosensory evoked potentials w...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Baxter P,Connolly S,Curtis A,Spencer V,Ravindranath C,Burn J,Gardner-Medwin D

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00