Co-ordination of tongue movements and peri-oral muscle activities during nutritive sucking.

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：:Intrathecal baclofen is used in the management of spasticity associated with cerebral palsy (CP). Sudden cessation of intrathecal baclofen may give rise to the potentially life-threatening baclofen withdrawal syndrome. We report three cases in which intravenous diazepam is used effectively in the management of planned...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Cruikshank M,Eunson P

更新日期：2007-08-01 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：:Fifty-one extremely preterm infants were studied to ascertain whether there is an association between sonographic abnormalities and neurological examination at term, controlling for factors such as low birthweight and chronic lung-disease. Their mean birthweight was 956g and mean gestational age was 27.9 weeks. Sonogr...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Bozynski MA,DiPietro MA,Meisels SJ,Plunkett JW,Burpee B,Claflin CJ

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Difficult-to-treat epilepsies and attention-deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) often co-occur. Because of concerns about the use of stimulants in children with this comorbidity, the impact of ADHD treatment on seizure frequency and severity is not known. This pilot study evaluated the safety and efficacy of meth...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Santos K,Palmini A,Radziuk AL,Rotert R,Bastos F,Booij L,Fernandes BS

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The aim of this study was to assess the rate of fracture before and after a 1-year course of intravenous pamidronate in children with spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy (CP) who had previously experienced fractures. METHOD:Twenty-five children (nine males, 16 females) with quadriplegic CP in Gross Motor Function ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Bachrach SJ,Kecskemethy HH,Harcke HT,Hossain J

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A two-month-old child born with marked microcephaly (head circumference 17cm) was found at autopsy to have gliomesodermal tissue replacing the telencephalon (atelencephaly). This finding, together with genital anomalies and hypoplasia of the extremities, suggests arrest at the fifth week of fetal life. The clinical an...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Garcia CA,Duncan C

更新日期：1977-04-01 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：:Artificial urinary sphincters were implanted in 30 incontinent children between four and 17 years of age. At follow-up for periods from three months to four years, 28 children are continent for at least three hours during the day and are dry at night. Two have had the device removed because of erosion and are still in...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Kroovand RL

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reports the results of verbal and haptic intelligence tests for the whole population of the visually impaired, braille-educated Dutch children and Dutch-speaking children in Belgium. The scores of children with and without usable vision generally confirmed expectations. Children with usable vision had highe...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Dekker R

更新日期：1993-06-01 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：: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：:Extra-articular subtalar arthrodesis with cancellous bone graft and internal fixation was performed on 20 feet of 12 children with myelomeningocele, whose average age at operation was 7.4 years. Indication for surgery was progressive hindfoot valgus deformity causing difficulty in fitting orthoses. At average follow-u...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Aronson DD,Middleton DL

更新日期：1991-03-01 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：:A prospective study was made of levels of lactate and hydroxybutyrate dehydrogenase in the blood and cerebrospinal fluid of 57 term neonates, in relation to the time elapsed since delivery, neonatal examinations (Apgar score, neurological symptoms and EEG findings) and psychomotor outcome at one year of age. Serum det...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Dalens B,Viallard JL,Raynaud EJ,Dastuge B

更新日期：1981-04-01 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：:Quantitative analyses of cross-sectional areas of the thalami, caudate nuclei, and lentiform nuclei were performed in 29 preterm infants (16 males, 13 females; mean age 29.6 weeks, age range 27 to 24 weeks,) with periventricular leukomalacia (PVL). MRI was carried out in the infants between 9 and 18 months of correcte...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

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

更新日期：2001-07-01 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：: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：:A case of multiple mucosal neuromata and a calcitonin-secreting medullary carcinoma of the thyroid is described. Unusual features were the neonatal presentation with large bowel obstruction and severe feeding difficulties associated with giant neuromata of the intestine; severe hypotonia; developmental delay; and the ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Moyes CD,Alexander FW

更新日期：1977-08-01 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：: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：:Neural reuse is the process by which neural elements originally developed for one purpose are put to many different subsequent uses. In this brief review I will outline the role of neural reuse in the development of the brain. Special attention will be paid to elucidating and differentiating between two different mech...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Anderson ML

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:In a prospective, longitudinal study, we investigated the influence of the severity of motor impairment on changes in body characteristics in children with moderate-to-severe cerebral palsy (CP). METHOD:Twenty-six single children and adolescents (15 females, 11 males; mean age 10y 6mo, SD 3y 3mo) with spastic (qua...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Ohata K,Tsuboyama T,Haruta T,Ichihashi N,Nakamura T

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This systematic review examines the effects of casting, either alone or in combination with botulinum toxin type A (BTX-A), on equinus in children with cerebral palsy (CP). Comparisons are made between casting alone and no treatment, between casting alone and BTX-A alone, between combined casting and BTX-A and each tr...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Blackmore AM,Boettcher-Hunt E,Jordan M,Chan MD

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy and effectiveness of exercise interventions that may improve postural control in children with cerebral palsy (CP). METHOD:A systematic review was performed using American Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine (AACPDM) and Preferred Reporting Items ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Dewar R,Love S,Johnston LM

更新日期：2015-06-01 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：:Plasticity of visual systems after early brain damage has been extensively studied in animal models but poorly documented in children after visual pathway lesions. This report describes the visual recovery of a male child who had a bilateral occipital lobe infarction at the age of 2 years 6 months, 10 days after colon...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Bova SM,Giovenzana A,Signorini S,La Piana R,Uggetti C,Bianchi PE,Fazzi E

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Status dystonicus is a rare, but life-threatening movement disorder emergency. Urgent assessment is required and management is tailored to patient characteristics and complications. The use of dystonia action plans and early recognition of worsening dystonia may potentially facilitate intervention or prevent progressi...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Allen NM,Lin JP,Lynch T,King MD

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To characterize growth trajectories of children who develop multiple sclerosis compared to typically developing, regional peers and Centers for Disease Control (CDC) normative values. METHOD:This case-control study collected weight, height, and body mass index (BMI) in 40 consecutive pediatric patients with multip...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Brenton JN,Woolbright E,Briscoe-Abath C,Qureshi A,Conaway M,Goldman MD

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00