abstract：:Recurrent headaches in children are most often migraines and are based in a genetic predisposition with a low headache threshold. As with any pain experience, there is a large emotional component associated with an attack of migraines that grows in amplitude as the headaches become more frequent and resistant to medic...

journal_title：Seminars in pediatric neurology

authors： Farmer K,Dunn D,Scott E

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A seven year-old male presented to his pediatrician with choreiform movements and a recent history of sore throat. He was diagnosed with Sydenham's chorea based on clinical criteria and laboratory evidence. Worsening symptoms prompted a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain which demonstrated evidence of Moyam...

journal_title：Seminars in pediatric neurology

authors： Cardenas JF,Chapman K

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alpers disease is a mitochondrial depletion syndrome characterized by psychomotor retardation, intractable epilepsy, and liver failure. Polymerase gamma (POLG) gene mutations are a known cause of the disease. We describe a case in which a 14-month-old female presented with epilepsia partialis continua evolving into ge...

journal_title：Seminars in pediatric neurology

authors： Cardenas JF,Amato RS

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cerebral cortex is the area of the brain where higher-order cognitive processing occurs. The 2 hemispheres of the cerebral cortex communicate through one of the largest fiber tracts in the brain, the corpus callosum. Malformation of the corpus callosum in human beings occurs in 1 in 4000 live births, and those aff...

journal_title：Seminars in pediatric neurology

authors： Donahoo AL,Richards LJ

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adults treated in infancy for conditions such as spina bifida and hydrocephalus are not cured of their conditions even after reaching adulthood. However, patients who have received coordinated care within a children's facility are unlikely to find the same type of coordinated care when they become adults. This article...

journal_title：Seminars in pediatric neurology

authors： Rekate HL

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 5-year-old was admitted after an episode of loss of consciousness and an episode of convulsive activity. Information that aids in differentiating seizures and syncope is discussed. ...

journal_title：Seminars in pediatric neurology

authors： McGregor A

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two consanguineous siblings presented with developmental regression and emerging spasticity. Cranial magnetic resonance imaging in both showed diffuse leukoencephalopathy. Further investigation established the siblings as having complex 1 deficiency consequent to a novel homozygous mutation in NDUFV1, a nuclear-encode...

journal_title：Seminars in pediatric neurology

authors： Breningstall GN,Shoffner J,Patterson RJ

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Newborn screening has evolved from a single test for a single metabolite to a test that detects more than 90 metabolites on a single blood spot. In the past decade, the panel of newborn-screening disorders has rapidly expanded and will continue to grow as more is discovered about the human genome. It continues to be a...

journal_title：Seminars in pediatric neurology

authors： Copeland S

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The occurrence of seizures in the sleep state is observed in nearly one third of patients. This is caused by an intimate relationship between the physiological state of sleep and the pathological process underlying epileptic seizures. Both sleep and sleep deprivation influence the frequency of epileptiform discharges ...

journal_title：Seminars in pediatric neurology

authors： Kotagal P,Yardi N

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Velocardiofacial syndrome, also called Shprintzen syndrome or DiGeorge sequence, is one of the most common genetic disorders in humans. Caused by a microdeletion on chromosome 22, it manifests in a remarkable variety of symptoms in multiple systems. The most frequent anomalies involve palatal function, facial features...

journal_title：Seminars in pediatric neurology

authors： Hay BN

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous neurosurgical approaches are available for children presenting with hypothalamic hamartomas (HHs) associated with severe epilepsy. A concern regarding the impairment of short-term memory after resective surgery is promoting the exploration of less invasive alternatives like radiosurgery. Gamma knife radiosurg...

journal_title：Seminars in pediatric neurology

authors： Régis J,Scavarda D,Tamura M,Villeneuve N,Bartolomei F,Brue T,Morange I,Dafonseca D,Chauvel P

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein misfolding and aggregation are common to many disorders, including neurodegenerative diseases referred to as "conformational disorders," suggesting that alterations in the normal protein homeostasis might contribute to pathogenesis. Cells evolved 2 major components of the protein quality control system to deal...

journal_title：Seminars in pediatric neurology

authors： Outeiro TF,Tetzlaff J

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epilepsy in children is mostly diagnosed and treated in an ambulatory office setting. This article reviews the literature and offers opinions about the best practice from the time of diagnosis through to remission and beyond. The diagnosis and assignment of an epilepsy syndrome may be difficult, and even experts disag...

journal_title：Seminars in pediatric neurology

authors： Camfield P,Camfield C

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The heterogeneous childhood limb-girdle muscular dystrophies have originally been defined as a group of autosomal recessive and dominant diseases with progressive weakness and wasting of shoulder and pelvic-girdle muscles. Over the last 12 years, the underlying genetic defects for many of the diseases have been identi...

journal_title：Seminars in pediatric neurology

authors： Straub V,Bushby K

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) is an autosomal dominant disorder with variable expression. The complications are age specific. Neurologic complications include tumors of the peripheral nerves, nerve roots, and plexi; spinal cord compression; dural ectasias; learning disabilities; attention deficit; headaches; seizures...

journal_title：Seminars in pediatric neurology

authors： Tonsgard JH

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possibility of sudden unexpected death in people with epilepsy (SUDEP) is very frightening for parents of a child with epilepsy. The mechanism for SUDEP is unclear but is probably most commonly related to postictal respiratory insufficiency. Occasionally the cause is a cardiac arrhythmia induced by a seizure. Even...

journal_title：Seminars in pediatric neurology

authors： Camfield P,Camfield C

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracranial pressure (ICP) and skull volume are intricately related. Craniosynostosis alters skull volume, and the many forms of craniosynostosis complicate the relationship to ICP even further. Patients with single-suture synostosis are less likely to experience elevated ICP than patients in whom multiple sutures, c...

journal_title：Seminars in pediatric neurology

authors： Bristol RE,Lekovic GP,Rekate HL

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ethical issues in the critical care unit frequently arise in children with neurological problems. These ethical issues frequently challenge our medical management of such cases and can be quite problematic. This article reviews key ethical issues that may arise including informed consent, futility, justice/rationing, ...

journal_title：Seminars in pediatric neurology

authors： Shevell M

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebral palsy (CP) registers appear to be appropriate tools for answering questions regarding the prevalence and characteristics of this common childhood disability. Registers are population databases issuing from multiple sources, relying on a clear definition and inclusion and exclusion criteria of CP, and requirin...

journal_title：Seminars in pediatric neurology

authors： Cans C,Surman G,McManus V,Coghlan D,Hensey O,Johnson A

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nature of sleep-related breathing problems varies with age. Ventilatory function may be compromised at the level of the brainstem, the autonomic nerves, or the upper airway musculature. These disorders are state-dependent, being impacted by both rapid eye movement and non-rapid eye movement sleep, and also by the ...

journal_title：Seminars in pediatric neurology

authors： Kotagal S

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many genetic conditions can result in ataxia. Careful clinical, radiologic, and genetic evaluation permits the specific diagnosis of many of these conditions, which in turn facilitates medical care for the patient and genetic counseling for the patient and family. Predictive, prenatal, and carrier testing are possible...

journal_title：Seminars in pediatric neurology

authors： Nance MA

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence and sex distribution of spinal cord injury (SCI) changes with age. Motor vehicle accidents, bicycle accidents, sports accidents, and violence are major causes in the pediatric population. Pulmonary complications may be severe and life-threatening in the acute phase. Chronically, the degree of ventilatory...

journal_title：Seminars in pediatric neurology

authors： Zidek K,Srinivasan R

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The paroxysmal dyskinesias (PxDs) are involuntary, intermittent movement disorders manifested by dystonia, chorea, athetosis, ballismus or any combination of these hyperkinetic disorders. Paroxysmal kinesigenic dyskinesia (PKD), one of the four main types of PxD, involves sudden attacks of dyskinesias induced by volun...

journal_title：Seminars in pediatric neurology

authors： Lotze T,Jankovic J

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A brain, a neural structure located in the head, differs from a ganglion by the following characteristics: (1) a brain subserves the entire body, not just restricted segments; (2) it has functionally specialized parts; (3) it is bilobar; (4) commissures and neurons form the surface with axons in the central core; (5) ...

journal_title：Seminars in pediatric neurology

authors： Sarnat HB,Netsky MG

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes language development from infancy through 8 years of life for a large sample of very low birth weight (VLBW) (high medical risk, n = 94; low medical risk, n = 132) and term (n = 134) children. Children of high and low medical risk status showed lower levels and slower rates of development compare...

journal_title：Seminars in pediatric neurology

authors： Landry SH,Smith KE,Swank PR

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The protein surplus myopathies have emerged as a newly recognized subgroup of morphologically defined myopathies within the spectrum of congenital myopathies because of the accumulation of protein aggregates, some of them mutant proteins. Currently, nosologic, including molecular criteria include desmin-related myopat...

journal_title：Seminars in pediatric neurology

authors： Goebel HH,Borchert A

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has contributed dramatically to our understanding of the newborn with neurologic problems. Recently developed magnetic resonance techniques, such as fetal MRI and MR spectroscopy, offer additional insight into normal and pathologic processes affecting the fetal and neonatal CNS. This a...

journal_title：Seminars in pediatric neurology

authors： Bangert BA

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclic vomiting is a variant of migraine that is discussed in depth. The importance of the diagnostic criteria, differential diagnosis, supportive and pharmacologic therapies is stressed. ...

journal_title：Seminars in pediatric neurology

authors： Li BU

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Childhood stoke is increasingly recognized, but studies remain largely descriptive. Important differences from adult stroke include the following: (1) frequently delayed or missed diagnosis, (2) heterogenous and overlapping risk factors, and (3) developmental differences in the cerebrovascular, neurologic, and coagula...

journal_title：Seminars in pediatric neurology

authors： deVeber G,Roach ES,Riela AR,Wiznitzer M

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article contains a discussion and detailed pictorial account of diagnostic and neurosurgical therapeutic procedures used to help pediatric patients who have medically intractable epilepsy. The operations discussed are placement of sphenoidal electrodes, strips and grids, temporal and extratemporal resections, cor...

journal_title：Seminars in pediatric neurology

authors： Iskandar BJ,Ramirez LF

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An acute flaccid paraparesis or ascending quadriparesis in an infant or child constitutes a very important pediatric neurology emergency. The Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is the most frequent cause. This is primarily an autoimmune, post-infectious, demyelinating, peripheral nervous system process. A small percentage ...

journal_title：Seminars in pediatric neurology

authors： Jones HR Jr

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Imaging of the brachial plexus and peripheral nerves is challenging in the pediatric patient. Magnetic resonance imaging is the modality of choice as it is not invasive and demonstrates proximal and distal lesions. This may be used to detect nerve root avulsions, nerve ruptures, pseudo-meningoceles, brachial plexus sc...

journal_title：Seminars in pediatric neurology

authors： Birchansky S,Altman N

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 13-year-old boy with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome characterized by absence, myoclonic, complex-partial, and secondarily generalized tonic-clonic seizures, presents with progressive obtundation and loss of motor and verbal skills over a 2-day period. Initial evaluation revealed therapeutic phenytoin serum concentrations. ...

journal_title：Seminars in pediatric neurology

authors： Gidal BE,Seltz JN,Rutecki P

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An 11-year-old girl presented with a syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion, which was transitory and, initially, of obscure origin. Subsequently, the patient's hypothalamic disorder emerged as a component of a steroid-responsive relapsing encephalomyelitis with cerebral pathology restricted to the b...

journal_title：Seminars in pediatric neurology

authors： Breningstall GN

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Advances in infant cardiac surgery have resulted in a dramatic decline in mortality rates; however, neurological morbidity remains an important concern. The effectiveness of a number of interventional strategies to prevent or minimize brain injury during open heart surgery are currently being investigated. This articl...

journal_title：Seminars in pediatric neurology

authors： du Plessis AJ,Johnston MV

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The discovery of new cytogenetic and molecular genetic techniques and principles has been explosive in recent years. A secure diagnosis based on molecular evidence has become possible for many syndromes previously only clinically defined, which has helped enormously in predicting children's developmental progress, in ...

journal_title：Seminars in pediatric neurology

authors： Macmillan C

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pediatric brain tumors should be treated at multispecialty centers where the pediatric neurosurgeon constitutes a critical component to the team. Pediatric brain tumors are relatively rare, and diagnosis is often delayed because of the protean manifestations of these tumors clinically. The tumors can occur anywhere al...

journal_title：Seminars in pediatric neurology

authors： Mickle JP

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The craniovertebral junction is the most complex of the axial skeleton, residing between the skull and the upper cervical spine. Congenital, developmental, and acquired bony abnormalities result in compression and distortion of the neural structures, the vertebrobasilar vascular system, and the cerebrospinal fluid cha...

journal_title：Seminars in pediatric neurology

authors： Menezes AH

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The organization of language-relevant brain systems was examined in normally developing and language-impaired children. Atypical patterns of brain activity were observed in subsets of children with specific language impairment (SLI) for both sensory (auditory and visual) and language processing. However, it was not th...

journal_title：Seminars in pediatric neurology

authors： Mills DL,Neville HJ

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although no single neurological manifestation is specific of mitochondrial encephalopathies, several neurological syndromes are clearly suggestive of the diagnosis. Muscle biopsy for histochemicals, biochemical, and mitochondrial DNA studies is frequently necessary to establish diagnosis of mitochondrial encephalopath...

journal_title：Seminars in pediatric neurology

authors： Maertens P

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00