Controlled study of intelligence and school performance of very low-birthweight children from a defined geographical area.

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

abstract：:Associated movements in the contralateral limbs were measured quantitatively for 42 seven- to eight-year-old children who wrote with the right hand. Associated movements of the contralateral homologous muscles systematically increased as a function of the intensity of contraction of the active hand. The associated mov...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Todor JI,Lazarus JA

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:We have previously demonstrated improved cognitive performance after a classroom-based exercise regime. In this study, we examined the reproducibility of this effect in a more socio-economically diverse sample and also investigated whether cognitive benefits of exercise were moderated by body mass index (BMI) or sy...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Hill LJ,Williams JH,Aucott L,Thomson J,Mon-Williams M

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two South Indian Hindu children with typical clinical features compatible with Tay-Sachs disease are presented. The identification of GM2 as the major ganglioside in the lipid extract of rectal biopsy helped to confirm the clinical diagnosis. ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Rao JG,Rama V,Srinivas K,Valmikinathan K

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical phenotype in Lesch-Nyhan disease has been analyzed in 19 patients studied in hospital. In each case the diagnosis was made on the basis of inactivity of the enzyme hypoxanthine guanine phosphoribosyltransferase in erythrocyte lysates. All had hyperuricemia, and the presence of 'orange sand' in the diaper ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Christie R,Bay C,Kaufman IA,Bakay B,Borden M,Nyhan WL

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors studied MR images of the brain in 152 patients, aged 1 to 19 years (mean 3.3), who had spastic cerebral palsy (CP) and were attending two hospitals in Japan in 1993 and 1994. Eighty-one patients had diplegia, 45 had quadriplegia, and 26 had hemiplegia. Of patients with diplegia, 72 had periventricular leuk...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Okumura A,Kato T,Kuno K,Hayakawa F,Watanabe K

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty-five neurologically normal preterm infants were allocated to one of two groups according to their gestational age at birth (less than 32 weeks; 32 to 36 weeks). Their gross and fine motor development was assessed at eight and 12 months chronological age and eight and 12 months adjusted age. At eight months chron...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Piper MC,Byrne PJ,Darrah J,Watt MJ

更新日期：1989-10-01 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：:To test the hypothesis that children with suboptimal fetal growth have significantly poorer mental health outcomes than those with optimal growth, a population random sample survey of children aged 4 to 16 years in Western Australia in 1993 was conducted. The Child Behavior Checklist (Achenbach 1991a) and the Teacher ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Zubrick SR,Kurinczuk JJ,McDermott BM,McKelvey RS,Silburn SR,Davies LC

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results are presented of a follow-up study of 155 Dutch children after the first febrile seizure. Of these initially untreated children 37 per cent had had at least one, 30 per cent at least two and 17 per cent at least three subsequent seizures. The vulnerable period for recurrent seizures after the first febrile...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Offringa M,Derksen-Lubsen G,Bossuyt PM,Lubsen J

更新日期：1992-01-01 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：: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：AIM:To estimate the impact of different types of language disorders on socio-emotional development and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in 8-year-old children. METHOD:In a prospective cohort including 13 427 newborns, of 10 911 eligible children (66 excluded because of intellectual disability or foreign language...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Van Agt H,Verhoeven L,Van Den Brink G,De Koning H

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chiari type II malformation (CII) is a congenital anomaly of the cerebellum and brainstem, both important structures for processing smooth ocular pursuit. CII is associated with myelomeningocele and hydrocephalus. We investigated the effects of CII on smooth pursuit (SP) eye movements, and determined the effects of sp...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Salman MS,Sharpe JA,Lillakas L,Steinbach MJ,Dennis M

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The neurobiological contributions of childhood language disorder are not well understood. Yet there is increasing evidence that language disorder is associated with differences in brain structure and/or function in core language regions. A key hypothesis has been that children with language disorder do not show the...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Mayes AK,Reilly S,Morgan AT

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Scoliosis is a frequently occurring and serious complication of severe cerebral palsy (CP). This systematic review aims to the assess the risk factors associated with the emergence and progression of scoliosis in children with CP functioning at level IV or V of the Gross Motor Function Classification System (GMFCS)...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Loeters MJ,Maathuis CG,Hadders-Algra M

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This literature review addressed four questions. (1) In which populations other than cerebral palsy (CP) has the Gross Motor Function Classification System (GMFCS) been applied? (2) In what types of study, and why was it used? (3) How was it modified to facilitate these applications? (4) What justifications and eviden...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Towns M,Rosenbaum P,Palisano R,Wright FV

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to report patients with pharmacoresistant West syndrome of unknown cause whose magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) showed a transient decrease of diffusion in subcortical structures. Of 20 patients investigated over a 2-year period, three males and three...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Desguerre I,Marti I,Valayannopoulos V,Bahi-Buisson N,Dulac O,Plouin P,Delonlay P,Hertz-Pannier L,Boddaert N

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The aim of the study was to develop an ecologically valid synthesis of the evidence underpinning interventions for children with speech, language, and communication needs (SLCN), integrating a range of different data sources. METHOD:Three sources of information were integrated: the Cochrane Review of interventions...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Law J,Roulstone S,Lindsay G

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To establish whether deficits in social cognition are present in children with generalized or focal epilepsy in mainstream education, and whether any relation exists between social cognition, communication, and behaviour measures. METHOD:In a cross-sectional study, children with an epilepsy-only diagnoses in mains...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Lew AR,Lewis C,Lunn J,Tomlin P,Basu H,Roach J,Rakshi K,Martland T

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors used the Teller acuity cards to assess the visual acuity of 51 infants and children with Down syndrome aged between two months and 18 years. The success rate and test times were comparable to those reported for normally developing children. Even those subjects in the study who were free of ocular disorders...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Courage ML,Adams RJ,Reyno S,Kwa PG

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a population-based sample of 149 children with hemiplegia, IQ was highly correlated with a simple-to-calculate index of neurological severity. Performance IQ was an average of 13 points lower then verbal IQ-a difference that seemed to reflect specific visuospatial difficulties rather than an effect of the motor dis...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Goodman R,Yude C

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MRI scans of the brain and spinal cord, together with neurological and urological assessments, were carried out on 20 young people (aged between eight and 22 years) who had had surgical treatment of spina bifida in early life and in whom there had been no deterioration of spinal cord function. 19 were imaged successfu...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： McEnery G,Borzyskowski M,Cox TC,Neville BG

更新日期：1992-04-01 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：:Limb girdle muscular dystrophy 2A (LGMD2A), caused by calpain 3 deficiency, is currently diagnosed through the immunodetection of muscle protein by Western blot (WB) analysis . However, WB may provide normal results in patients with LGMD2A. The case of a female (3y 6mo of age) is described. She was found to be affecte...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Lanzillo R,Aurino S,Fanin M,Aguennoz M,Vitale F,Fiorillo C,Del Giudice E,Nigro V,Santoro L

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To determine dimensionality and item-level properties of the Gillette Functional Assessment Questionnaire (FAQ) 22-item skill set using factor and Rasch analyses. METHOD:A retrospective review of parent-reported FAQ 22-item skill set data was conducted of 485 individuals (273 males, 212 females; mean age 9 y 10 mo...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Gorton GE 3rd,Stout JL,Bagley AM,Bevans K,Novacheck TF,Tucker CA

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Parental report is often relied on to measure performance of activities in children with cerebral palsy (CP). This study examined whether the Functional Mobility Scale (FMS) accurately reflects performance of mobility in children with CP. METHOD:Eighteen children with spastic CP (11 males, seven females; mean age ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Harvey A,Baker R,Morris ME,Hough J,Hughes M,Graham HK

更新日期：2010-02-01 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：:Normal selective voluntary motor control (SVMC) can be defined as the ability to perform isolated joint movement without using mass flexor/extensor patterns or undesired movement at other joints, such as mirroring. SVMC is an important determinant of function, yet a valid, reliable assessment tool is lacking. The Sele...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Fowler EG,Staudt LA,Greenberg MB,Oppenheim WL

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study 17 male and 13 female infants with gestational ages between 27 and 34 weeks (mean 30.7) and birthweights between 750 and 2020g (mean 1545) were evaluated with the Brazelton Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale at 35, 38, 40 and 44 weeks postconceptional age. All were in room air at the time of observatio...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Paludetto R,Rinaldi P,Mansi G,Andolfi M,Del Giudice G

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00