Physical capacities of sightless adolescents.

abstract：:Forty-four African children (25 girls, 19 boys) are described with single or multiple limb paralysis as a manifestation of infection with Coxsackie B virus. Single limb paralysis involved exclusively the lower extremity, with no nervous system involvement elsewhere and a relatively benign prognosis. Multiple limb para...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Yui LA,Gledhill RF

更新日期：1991-05-01 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：:To spare more children from painful muscle biopsy, a new non-invasive diagnostic motor performance test is undergoing development. Fifteen functional items were used to measure muscle strength and muscle endurance in 68 patients (47 males, 21 females; mean age 7y 8mo, SD 2y 2mo; range 4 to 11y), who had been referred ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： van den Beld WA,van der Sanden GA,Sengers RC,Verbeek AL,Gabreëls FJ

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Approximately six hours of biofeedback training was given to eight fecally incontinent children with myelomeningocele in order to establish bowel control. Their ages ranged from five to 15 years. The patients were shown a polygraph tracing of the external anal sphincter while they were being encouraged voluntarily to ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Whitehead WE,Parker LH,Masek BJ,Cataldo MF,Freeman JM

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study compares the neurobehavioral status of 118 low-birthweight infants tested at 40 weeks conceptional age with that of 76 normal fullterm infants. A neonatal neurobehavioral examination comprising 21 test and four summary items was used. The most striking differences between the groups were found in visual and...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Kurtzberg D,Vaughan HG Jr,Daum C,Grellong BA,Albin S,Rotkin L

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report two sisters with extensive bilateral periventricular haemorrhagic infarction (PVHI) causing cerebral palsy (CP). The older sister presented at 20 months with cortical visual blindness, spastic diplegia, and purpura fulminans. The younger sister presented aged 3 days old with apnoeas and multifocal seizures. ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Fong CY,Mumford AD,Likeman MJ,Jardine PE

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of arthrogryposis multiplex congenita in an eight-year-old girl was recounted by Thomas of Monmouth in a mid twelfth-century English hagiographic narrative, The Life and Miracles of St William of Norwich. The child had deformities of both hands and both feet at birth, and she developed torticollis and probably ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Gordon EC

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To investigate longitudinal changes of habitual physical activity (HPA) and sedentary time in children with cerebral palsy (CP) aged 1 year 6 months to 5 years across all functional abilities. METHOD:At study entry, 95 children (62 males, 33 females) were classified using the Gross Motor Function Classification Sy...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Keawutan P,Bell KL,Oftedal S,Ware RS,Stevenson RD,Davies PSW,Boyd RN

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study was to review the psychometric properties and use of goal attainment scaling (GAS) in paediatric rehabilitation research. We performed a critical literature review searching: (1) all studies whose main focus was to assess the psychometric properties of GAS in paediatric rehabilitation; and (2) all...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Steenbeek D,Ketelaar M,Galama K,Gorter JW

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study reports on a novel methodology using the V-scope to quantify elbow and shoulder movement in young children with obstetric brachial plexus palsy (OBPP), and the intra- and interreliability of this method. The V-scope, a portable, inexpensive movement analysis system, was configured in an L-shape, with two tr...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Bialocerkowski AE,Wrigley T,Galea M

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study surveyed 237 schoolchildren in a lead-polluted industrial area in northern Italy to assess the relationship between various biological indicators (lead in blood, hair and teeth, and delta-aminolevulinic dehydratase [ALA-D] activity) and some neuropsychological functions, assessed by a battery of five psycho...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Bergomi M,Borella P,Fantuzzi G,Vivoli G,Sturloni N,Cavazzuti G,Tampieri A,Tartoni PL

更新日期：1989-04-01 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

abstract：:Foix-Chavany-Marie syndrome (FCMS) is a distinct clinical picture of suprabulbar (pseudobulbar) palsy due to bilateral anterior opercular lesions. Symptoms include anarthria/severe dysarthria and loss of voluntary muscular functions of the face and tongue, and problems with mastication and swallowing with preservation...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Christen HJ,Hanefeld F,Kruse E,Imhäuser S,Ernst JP,Finkenstaedt M

更新日期：2000-02-01 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：: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：:The main aim of the study was to explore the ability of a brief developmental assessment to predict teacher-rated learning and attentional and behavioural skills in the first grade of school at both the group and individual levels. A sample of 394 children (181 males, 213 females) aged 4 years were followed to the age...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Valtonen R,Ahonen T,Tolvanen A,Lyytinen P

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five children are described who developed hypertension in relation to acute neurological disease. Possible pathophysiological mechanisms for the hypertension are considered. It is thought that the hypertension may have been related to interruption of the ascending tracts in the brain stem, leading to failure of integr...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Eden OB,Sills JA,Brown JK

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report six children (five girls, one boy) aged 11 to 13 years, of whom four had clinically definite multiple sclerosis (MS) and two had laboratory-supported definite MS. All had brain white matter abnormalities indicative of MS. In three cases, positive findings on the first MRI contributed significantly t...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Millner MM,Ebner F,Justich E,Urban C

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A group of 102 neurologically normal neonates with gestations between 26 and 40 weeks, without abnormality on cranial ultrasound, underwent evoked response testing. Satisfactory results were obtained for 90 per cent of the infants. Normal ranges with 95 per cent tolerance limits for the short-latency N1 component of t...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Klimach VJ,Cooke RW

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:GLUT1 deficiency syndrome (GLUT1DS, OMIM 606777) is a treatable epileptic encephalopathy resulting from impaired glucose transport into the brain. The essential biochemical finding is a low glucose concentration in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF; hypoglycorrhachia; mean 1.7 [SD 0.3mmol/L]) in the setting of normoglycaem...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Klepper J,Leiendecker B

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Minor neurological dysfunctions (MND) have frequently been reported as an outcome of preterm birth. Behavioural and learning difficulties are a known feature, but coordination problems are especially described in preterm infants at later ages. All preterm infants in our study were born with a gestational age of <32 we...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： de Vries AM,de Groot L

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To give evidence-based recommendations on the application of ketogenic diet parenteral nutrition (KD-PN) in emergency situations. METHOD:An international group of experts (n=14) researched the literature and distributed a survey among 150 expert centers. International accepted guidelines (European Society for Clin...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： van der Louw E,Aldaz V,Harvey J,Roan M,van den Hurk D,Cross JH,Auvin S,Review Group.

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Developmental dysphasia, a severe childhood learning disorder, is thought to result from problems in hemispheric specialization involving both left and right cerebral hemispheres. Regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) was measured at rest and during stimulation of both hemispheres independently: dichotic listening for t...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Chiron C,Pinton F,Masure MC,Duvelleroy-Hommet C,Leon F,Billard C

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate the association between epilepsy and perinatal brain injury in a cohort of 610 infants born preterm at <33 weeks' gestation. The prevalence of epilepsy in this cohort was 4.3% as determined by a postal questionnaire survey. Most children with epilepsy (16 of 24) had high-risk c...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Amess PN,Baudin J,Townsend J,Meek J,Roth SC,Neville BG,Wyatt JS,Stewart A

更新日期：1998-11-01 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：: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：:Three cases with sensory peripheral neuropathies are reported. Case 1 presented with scoliosis, and cases 2 and 3 presented with abnormal gait. None had trophic limb changes, evidence of weakness, or a tendency to self-mutilation and each had normal motor studies on neurophysiological testing. Sural nerve biopsies sho...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Bye AM,Baker WD,Pollard J,Wise G

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three groups of children with communication disorders were examined using a series of psycholinguistic markers to explore whether the tasks could identify children with impairments other than specific language impairment (SLI), and to examine whether the different groups within this clinical population could be distin...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Botting N,Conti-Ramsden G

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pattern of growth of 235 very low-birthweight children, whose weights were appropriate for gestational age, was characterised by a significant decline in weight, length and head circumference from birth to discharge from hospital, followed by partial recovery in all three measures of growth by two years corrected ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Astbury J,Orgill AA,Bajuk B,Yu VY

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to analyze retrospectively which neuromotor behaviors in a sample of four-month-old low-birthweight infants were most predictive of later cerebral palsy. The infants were evaluated at four months corrected age on the Movement Assessment of Infants (MAI) and were followed to between three ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Harris SR

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00