CSF levels of lactate and hydroxybutyrate dehydrogenase as indicators of neurological sequelae after neonatal brain damage.

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：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：:The short- and long-term outcome and special problems of 24 children with infantile spasms and tuberous sclerosis (TS) was studied. The diagnosis of TS is frequently missed: white spots on the skin have to be carefully looked for. In the present study, these spots were always found, and calcifications or hypodense are...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Riikonen R,Simell O

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To evaluate studies on the psychometric properties of measurement tools used to quantify functional mobility in children with hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP) and other childhood neurological conditions. METHOD:Two independent reviewers identified measures previously used by clinicians to quantify functional mo...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Adair B,Said CM,Rodda J,Morris ME

更新日期：2012-07-01 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：:The use of statistics in medical diagnoses and biomedical research may affect whether an individual may live or die, whether their health is protected or jeopardized. Because society depends on sound statistical practice, all practitioners of statistics, whatever their training or occupation, have social obligations t...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Rigby AS

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical course and outcome of eight term infants with intracranial hemorrhage are reported. Before computerized tomography became available, term infants with intracranial hemorrhage were usually diagnosed only at autopsy and the hemorrhage was associated with a trauamtic birth or severe asphyxia. In contrast, si...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Cartwright GW,Culbertson K,Schreiner RL,Garg BP

更新日期：1979-12-01 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：AIM:To examine the neurobiology of long-term neuropsychological deficits after neonatal extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). METHOD:This cross-sectional study assessed white matter integrity and hippocampal volume of ECMO survivors (8-15y) and healthy children (8-17y) using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and st...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Schiller RM,van den Bosch GE,Muetzel RL,Smits M,Dudink J,Tibboel D,Ijsselstijn H,White T

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To explore the views and practices of paediatric occupational therapists and physical therapists in Canada and the USA regarding the implementation of power mobility for children with mobility limitations. METHOD:This descriptive study utilized a web-based survey that included questions pertaining to therapists' d...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Kenyon LK,Jones M,Livingstone R,Breaux B,Tsotsoros J,Williams KM

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Language lateralization with functional transcranial Doppler sonography (fTCD) and lexical word generation has been shown to have high concordance with the Wada test and functional magnetic resonance imaging in adults. We evaluated a nonlexical paradigm to determine language dominance in children. METHOD:In 23 rig...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Haag A,Moeller N,Knake S,Hermsen A,Oertel WH,Rosenow F,Hamer HM

更新日期：2010-04-01 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：:Short-term test-retest reliability of the 10-metre fast walk test (10mFWT) and 6-minute walk test (6MWT) was evaluated in 31 ambulatory children with cerebral palsy (CP), with subgroup analyses in Gross Motor Function Classification System (GMFCS) Levels I (n=9), II (n=8), and III (n=14). Sixteen females and 15 males ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Thompson P,Beath T,Bell J,Jacobson G,Phair T,Salbach NM,Wright FV

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-three survivors of a prospective study of infants with Down's syndrome were followed up at eight or nine years of age. All but three lived at home, and those three came home for weekends or school holidays. IQs varied from less than 20 to 80 (mean 48). IQ and adaptive behaviour scores were related to birthweigh...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Gath A,Gumley D

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Children with mild developmental delay without dysmorphic features do not often have identifiable underlying aetiological factors. We report on a 5-year-old girl with mild developmental delay and dysmorphic features which were previously unrecognized. She was found to have supernumerary ring chromosome 19 mosaicism wh...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Vaz I,Larkins SA,Norman A,Green SH

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neurodevelopmental status of 171 very preterm infants whose brains had been scanned prospectively with ultrasound was assessed blind at four years using a wide range of tests, including tests of cognitive function. Highly significant correlations were found between the ultrasound appearance of the brain and outcom...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Costello AM,Hamilton PA,Baudin J,Townsend J,Bradford BC,Stewart AL,Reynolds EO

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A three-year cohort of extremely low-birthweight (ELBW, less than 1000g) survivors born between 1st January 1979 and 31st December 1981 were followed prospectively at one, two and five years of age, corrected for preterm birth. 57 of 110 infants survived, and 53 children were still alive at five years. The diagnoses o...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

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

更新日期：1990-07-01 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：:Post-discharge preventive intervention programmes with involvement of the parent may support the resilience and developmental outcomes of infants born very preterm. Randomized controlled trials of home-based family-centred intervention programmes in very preterm infants that aimed to improve cognitive outcome, at leas...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： van Wassenaer-Leemhuis AG,Jeukens-Visser M,van Hus JW,Meijssen D,Wolf MJ,Kok JH,Nollet F,Koldewijn K

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper considers whether pathological influences affect hand-preference among children with epilepsy or mental retardation, for whom there is no evidence of gross motor defect. Data on two tasks of manual skill were analysed for a group of over 12,000 children. The predicted association between poor skill with the...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Bishop DV

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anti-Helicobacter pylori antibodies were determined in 157 institutionalised Cantonese children, mean age 9.5 +/- 3.9 (SD) years, with profound neurodevelopmental disabilities. Eighty-seven (55.4%) were H. pylori seropositive compared with four of 50 (8%, P > 0.0002) of an age-matched control group, mean age 7.2 +/- 4...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Lewindon PJ,Lau D,Chan A,Tse P,Sullivan PB

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The past decade of research in neuroscience and stroke rehabilitation has demonstrated that the adult brain is capable of recovery through physiological processes (often called 'plasticity'). Some of the recovery is spontaneous and some is a result of experience, including interventions such as physical therapy, which...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Wittenberg GF

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To conduct a longitudinal follow-up of the development of global cognitive abilities and adaptive skills in individuals with congenital and childhood forms of myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1). METHOD:Fifty-one participants (29 males, 22 females, mean age 19y 5mo, SD 4y 11mo, range 10y 10mo-28y 11mo) were divided in...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Lindeblad G,Kroksmark AK,Ekström AB

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe four children with dysmorphic syndrome with severe learning disability (SLD). Their chromosomes had been normal on conventional cytogenetic examination. However, screening using a multiprobe fluorescence in situ hybridisation (FISH) technique for subtelomeric abnormalities revealed a deletion of the p arm ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Knight-Jones E,Knight S,Heussler H,Regan R,Flint J,Martin K

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Therapeutic hypothermia is among the adjuvant therapies suggested for refractory or super-refractory status epilepticus (R/SR-SE) in paediatric patients. Experimental evidence of neuroprotective and antiseizure effects provides a strong rationale for using therapeutic hypothermia in patients with status epilepticus. T...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Legriel S

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to examine the descriptive epidemiology of vision impairment among 6- to 10-year-old children in metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Children with vision impairment (n=310; 42% black, 56% white; 57% male, 43% female), defined as a best corrected visual acuity in the better eye of 20/70 ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Mervis CA,Boyle CA,Yeargin-Allsopp M

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To examine cross-sectional differences in patterns of daily physical activity accumulation between preschool children at risk for developmental coordination disorder (DCD) compared to typically developing children. METHOD:In total, 514 children (292 males, 222 females; 4-5y) were recruited as part of the Coordinat...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： King-Dowling S,Kwan MYW,Rodriguez C,Missiuna C,Timmons BW,Cairney J

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The aim of this study was to conduct a systematic review in order to identify the risk factors for cerebral palsy (CP) in children born at term. The secondary aim was to ascertain if the potential for prevention of these risk factors has been adequately explored. METHOD:A MEDLINE search up to 31 July 2011 was comp...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： McIntyre S,Taitz D,Keogh J,Goldsmith S,Badawi N,Blair E

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sensory and motor function were evaluated in 84 children and adolescents with epilepsy but not additional neuroimpairments such as mental retardation or cerebral palsy. The influence of sex, age, age at onset of epilepsy, duration, seizure type and frequency and medication was analysed. The Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Beckung E,Uvebrant P

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monozygotic twin boys with fragile X syndrome underwent thorough genetic, psychiatric, neurological, and language evaluations at 10 years of age. They both demonstrated physical features, speech and language difficulties, social problems, and attentional deficits that characterize the behavioural phenotype of fragile ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Sheldon L,Turk J

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00