abstract：:Cisapride was used to treat gastro-oesophageal reflux in seven children with neurodevelopmental disorders and in 15 children who were neurologically normal. 24-hour lower-oesophageal pH monitoring was carried out before and after treatment. The neurologically normal group had a statistically significant decrease after...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Brueton MJ,Clarke GS,Sandhu BK

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty children who had recovered from purulent meningitis one to six years earlier were investigated for long-term impairment of brain and auditory function, using brainstem auditory evoked potentials(BAEP) and developmental screening tests. Neurological and/or audiological BAEP abnormalities were found in 23 per cent...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Jiang ZD,Liu XY,Wu YY,Zheng MS,Liu HC

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of nine randomised controlled trials of prophylactic vitamin E supplementation in very low-birthweight infants (less than 1500g) showed no statistically significant reduction in the incidence of acute retinopathy of prematurity. There was a significant reduction (49 per cent) in the incidence of intraventricu...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Law MR,Wijewardene K,Wald NJ

更新日期：1990-05-01 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：:A child with Joubert syndrome (episodic hyperpnoea, abnormal eye-movements and ataxia) was followed from birth to eight years of age. Although severe mental retardation was suspected until approximately five years of age, unexpected and exceptional mental capacities were evident at later follow-up. Adequate testing an...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Ziegler AL,Deonna T,Calame A

更新日期：1990-03-01 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：:This study examined the social and academic implications of mainstream, mainstream and special (combined) or special-class education for 31 adolescents with spina bifida, and for their primary caretakers. The Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test and the UCLA Loneliness Scale (adolescents) and the Personality Inventory for ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Lord J,Varzos N,Behrman B,Wicks J,Wicks D

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A care-load study was performed on a homogeneous group of 51 children, adolescents and young adults with spastic tetraplegia, born in Sweden between 1959 and 1978. All were immobile and severely mentally retarded, none could speak and the majority had epilepsy, scoliosis and contractures. 16 were living with their fam...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Edebol-Tysk K

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ambulatory status of 74 neonatal intensive care unit survivors with cerebral palsy, excluding those with central nervous system malformations and syndromes, was assessed at eight years of age. Detailed examinations were completed at two and eight years of age; of the 47 who were sitting by two years, 46 became amb...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Watt JM,Robertson CM,Grace MG

更新日期：1989-12-01 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：:Twenty-three Swedish children aged five to 18 years who fulfilled specific criteria for Asperger syndrome were examined and compared with an age- and IQ-matched group with infantile autism. The boy:girl ratio was 10:1. Less than 10 per cent were mentally retarded and 17 per cent were of above-average intelligence. Apa...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Gillberg C

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Central ventilatory dysfunction (CVD) is a significant complication of myelodysplasia with Arnold-Chiari type II defect. The records of 616 patients with myelodysplasia were reviewed and CVD was documented in 35 cases (5.7 per cent): it was the single most common cause of death in this population. There was no signifi...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Hays RM,Jordan RA,McLaughlin JF,Nickel RE,Fisher LD

更新日期：1989-06-01 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：:A cohort of children with deficits in attention, motor control and perception at seven years, drawn from a total population sample of such children in Göteborg, Sweden, was compared at 13 years with a group of normal children with regard to behaviour and school achievement. The index group showed persisting high rates...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Gillberg IC,Gillberg C

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The conduction velocities of motor, IA and non-nociceptive cutaneous sensory fibres have been studied in the ulnar and median nerves of 145 healthy fullterm neonates and in 77 preterm neonates (postconceptional age-range 28 to 42 weeks). The posterior tibial-nerve motor and IA fibres were studied: the sural nerve cuta...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Khater-Boidin J,Duron B

更新日期：1989-02-01 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：:Serial neuropsychological examinations were made of an eight-year-old girl following diagnosis and treatment of a pineocytoma. The tumor was resected and she received intensive radiation therapy to the entire neuraxis, with a boost to the pineal region. A battery of neuropsychological tests was administered every six ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Bendersky M,Lewis M,Mandelbaum DE,Stanger C

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background factors of developmental outcome in a group of 386 neonatal 'at-risk' infants and 107 controls were examined in a prospective nine-year follow-up study. Dichotomized outcome variables were computed for each of the assessments; neurodevelopmental, motor, psycholinguistic, cognitive and school progress. In th...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Lindahl E,Michelsson K,Helenius M,Parre M

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A randomized controlled trial was used to evaluate the effectiveness of relaxation training in the treatment of paediatric migraine. Relaxation training was compared with-two control groups (psychological placebo and 'own best efforts') in a total of 99 children and adolescents with frequent migraine. Daily recording ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： McGrath PJ,Humphreys P,Goodman JT,Keene D,Firestone P,Jacob P,Cunningham SJ

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluated the effectiveness of soft splints made from polyurethane foam in reducing severe knee-flexion contractures of patients with cerebral palsy. The splints were applied nightly over a period of 10 months. Knee-flexion contractures were reduced by an average of 24 degrees in all patients. Younger patie...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Anderson JP,Snow B,Dorey FJ,Kabo JM

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A child with lobar holoprosencephaly presented with spastic diplegia and mild mental retardation, compounded by attention deficits and hyperactivity. His facial features were normal, and except for borderline microcephaly, there were no other predictors of holoprosencephaly. This patient represents the mild end of the...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Shanks DE,Wilson WG

更新日期：1988-06-01 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：:A follow-up study was done of extremely low-birthweight infants (less than or equal to 1000g) born between 1976 and 1979, a period when aggressive intervention was not routine practice. The survival rate was 19 per cent. 44 of the 46 survivors were followed to a mean age of 6 1/2 years. By five years of age 23 of the ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Lefebvre F,Bard H,Veilleux A,Martel C

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 12-week-old girl presented with cutaneous haemangiomata and hemihypertrophy of the chest and right upper extremity--stigmata of the Klippel-Trenaunay-Weber syndrome. Screening cranial CT-scan followed by cerebral angiogram revealed what is believed to be the first reported occurrence of a cerebral arteriovenous fist...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Oyesiku NM,Gahm NH,Goldman RL

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors studied the intellectual outcome of 45 of the 47 schoolchildren who had been born with very low birthweights (less than 1501 g) in Wolverhampton between 1975 and 1978 and were free of major handicap. Their outcome was compared with that of a control group matched for age, sex, race and social class. The ve...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Lloyd BW,Wheldall K,Perks D

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carpal tunnel syndrome is extremely rare in childhood and in almost all previously reported cases it has been secondary to some underlying condition. Three 13- to 14-year-old girls are described with idiopathic carpal tunnel syndrome, confirmed by EMG and relieved by surgical decompression. A noteworthy feature in chi...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Sainio K,Merikanto J,Larsen TA

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Modified Gubbay tests, assessing various aspects of motor performance, were administered to 885 Manchester children in mainstream primary education, and centile tables were drawn up by age. Children who had performed badly on one of the four tests were retested two years later, when they were found to have 'caught up'...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Ehrhardt P,McKinlay IA,Bradley G

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An 11-year old girl is described who acquired conduction aphasia after head trauma. Detailed study of her repetition defect showed that it was because of impaired short-term verbal memory. CT scan showed two hypodense areas in the left hemisphere, which included the supramarginal gyrus and Wernicke's area. This case i...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Martins IP,Ferro JM

更新日期：1987-08-01 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

abstract：:The relationship between skeletal age and cognitive ability was examined in a probability sample representative of 12- to 17-year-old males in the United States. Skeletal age was measured by radiographic determination of bone maturation. Cognitive development was assessed by WISC Vocabulary and Block-design subtests. ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Goldstein HS

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differentiating a sudden-onset concomitant squint from a paralytic squint in an ill child can be difficult, but the distinction is important in view of the neurological implications of the latter. Furthermore, the two types may co-exist, and four such cases are described. The causes of sudden-onset squint are discusse...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Watson AP,Fielder AR

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the North Paddington Primary School Study 350 children were identified at five and studied over a five-year period. The children were given a comprehensive examination on entry to school, the findings from which are briefly described. Here the results of the neurodevelopmental assessment are reviewed. Children with...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Bax M,Whitmore K

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood and saliva were collected from 48 children, aged three to 17 years, before a morning dose of carbamazepine and then at three, six and eight hours afterward. There was no significant difference in the ratio of 10-11 epoxy-carbamazepine to total carbamazepine for children on carbamazepine alone (0.18) and those on...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Tomlin PI,McKinlay I,Smith I

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of a study of a nationally representative sample of disabled children and controls are presented. The findings suggest that although, at any one time, families containing a disabled child are not no more likely to be one-parent families, disabled children do appear to be more likely to experience a spell i...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Cooke K,Bradshaw J,Lawton D,Brewer R

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bethanechol is a direct agonist of the acetylcholine receptor that was recently introduced in the therapy of gastro-oesophageal reflux. Acute dystonic reactions to bethanechol were observed in a 10-month-old infant who also demonstrated similar dystonic reactions to dopamine receptor blocking agents of two different c...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Shafrir Y,Levy Y,Beharab A,Nitzam M,Steinherz R

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reports a total population-based cohort study of over 500 surviving children born in 1974, 1975 and 1976, who were identified as having been a low birthweight (less than 200g). The prevalence of cerebral palsy (CP) diagnosed by age six years was compared for groups who had various antenatal and perinatal at...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Stanley FJ,English DR

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four boys with the combination of infantile autism and the fragile-X syndrome were given oral folic acid and placebo, according to a double-blind crossover design. One boy's behaviour appeared to improve on folic acid, but another boy did not seem to be affected at all. For the remaining two boys the results were equi...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Gillberg C,Wahlström J,Johansson R,Törnblom M,Albertsson-Wikland K

更新日期：1986-10-01 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：:Fixation, nystagmus, pursuit, rapid voluntary, other types of eye movements and associated head movements of visually impaired children were studied. It was concluded that their eye and head movements reflect the severity and onset of their visual loss. ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Jan JE,Farrell K,Wong PK,McCormick AQ

更新日期：1986-06-01 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