abstract：:Twenty-one individuals (19 females, two males) with teenage-onset anorexia nervosa (AN), 19 of whom were weight restored, were assessed using single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) 7 years after onset of AN, at a mean age of 22 years. For comparison we recruited a younger group without neuropsychiatric dis...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Råstam M,Bjure J,Vestergren E,Uvebrant P,Gillberg IC,Wentz E,Gillberg C

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study was to determine audiological function at 14 years of age of very-low-birthweight (VLBW < or = 1500 g) children compared with a cohort of normal birthweight (NBW > 2499 g) children. Participants were consecutive surviving preterm children of birthweight < 1000 g born between 1977 and 1982 (n=86) a...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Davis NM,Doyle LW,Ford GW,Keir E,Michael J,Rickards AL,Kelly EA,Callanan C

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gliomatosis cerebri is the unifying term used when diffuse glial infiltration occurs throughout the cerebral hemispheres. The very few cases reported in children have presented with intractable epilepsy, corticospinal tract deficits, unilateral tremor, headaches, and developmental delay. Antemortem diagnosis is diffic...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Jayawant S,Neale J,Stoodley N,Wallace S

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurological integrity in sick children is difficult to assess clinically. The aim of this study was to determine the predictive value of EEG activity recorded with a bedside EEG analysing monitor in an intensive care unit. EEG activity was monitored in 108 children (age range 2 weeks to 16 years, median 1.7 years) co...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Murdoch-Eaton D,Darowski M,Livingston J

更新日期：2001-02-01 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

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：:Five children (three males, two females; four right-, one left-handed; age range 6 to 14 years) who developed aphasia after gross-total excision of left predominantly thalamic tumors are reported. Three patients had Broca aphasia, one had mixed transcortical aphasia, and one patient had conduction aphasia. In the mont...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Nass R,Boyce L,Leventhal F,Levine B,Allen J,Maxfield C,Salsberg D,Sarno M,George A

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Somatosensory evoked potentials (SSEPs) are a very sensitive measure of the functional integrity of the neuroaxis, including peripheral and central structures. When used in diagnostic mode they can provide additional information regarding the probable areas of dysfunction. SSEPs were recorded from 44 children (64 feet...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Nadeem RD,Brown JK,Lawson G,Macnicol MF

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The assumption that children born preterm have difficulties in maintaining active attention was tested in passive and active tasks. Twenty 5-year-old children born preterm at 26 to 32 weeks gestational age were compared with 20 children born at term, matched for age and IQ, using an auditory paradigm. In the passive t...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Dupin R,Laurent JP,Stauder JE,Saliba E

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty-nine very-low-birthweight infants out of a population of 923 had cerebral palsy (CP) at an 18-month follow-up. Thirty-nine of these had cranial ultrasound abnormalities in the neonatal period and 30 had normal cranial ultrasounds. The distribution of subtypes of CP differed markedly between the two groups, with ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Wheater M,Rennie JM

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 14-month-old girl presented after 3 days of fever, floppiness, and diffuse urticarial exanthem. She developed encephalitis and carditis and 1 week later, intractable seizures. Initial CT and MRI showed no changes in the brain parenchyma. On days 14 and 34 after the onset of symptoms, a human herpesvirus-6 (HHV-6) ge...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Rantala H,Mannonen L,Ahtiluoto S,Linnavuori K,Herva R,Vaheri A,Koskiniemi M

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to determine whether there are primary effects of prematurity on the development of explicit memory. Elicited imitation of action sequences was used to compare immediate and 15-minute delayed memory in term and preterm infants (19 months corrected age; n=48) who were at low risk: none had exp...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： de Haan M,Bauer PJ,Georgieff MK,Nelson CA

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies on hand motor control in children with cerebral palsy (CP) have focused on the coordination of fingertip forces during the grasping and lifting of objects. However, little is known about the ability to replace and release an object from grasp, a function that is just as important for fine dexterity. The...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Eliasson AC,Gordon AM

更新日期：2000-04-01 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：: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：:To test the hypothesis that children with suboptimal fetal growth have significantly poorer mental health outcomes than those with optimal growth, a population random sample survey of children aged 4 to 16 years in Western Australia in 1993 was conducted. The Child Behavior Checklist (Achenbach 1991a) and the Teacher ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Zubrick SR,Kurinczuk JJ,McDermott BM,McKelvey RS,Silburn SR,Davies LC

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three seizure types have been described in the neonate: electroclinical, electrographic, and clinical only. Controversy still exists about whether the episodic abnormal movements seen in some infants, which are not accompanied by simultaneous ictal discharges on the EEG, are true seizures. Twenty-four infants with sei...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Boylan GB,Pressler RM,Rennie JM,Morton M,Leow PL,Hughes R,Binnie CD

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to compare the linear growth of children with cerebral palsy (CP) with that of children without CP. The segmental lengths (humerus, ulna, femur, tibia, and spine), recumbent length, body weight, and bone age of 62 children with CP (age range 2.25 to 14 years, mean 7.13 years) were measured an...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Kong CK,Tse PW,Lee WY

更新日期：1999-11-01 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：:As infants with bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) have difficulty maintaining adequate levels of oxygenation during rest, it was decided to investigate how the additional respiratory demands associated with nutritive feeding disrupt their breathing rates. The sucking and breathing patterns of six (three male, three fem...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Craig CM,Lee DN,Freer YN,Laing IA

更新日期：1999-09-01 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 common synaptic drive shared between two groups of motor neurones synchronizes the timing of discharges between the motor-neurone groups. Recordings were made of motor-unit discharges during cocontraction of ipsilateral pairs of thumb muscles in eight subjects with cerebral palsy (CP) aged 4 to 13 years and eight ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Gibbs J,Harrison LM,Stephens JA,Evans AL

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:According to traditional neurophysiological theory, consciousness requires neocortical functioning, and children born without cerebral hemispheres necessarily remain indefinitely in a developmental vegetative state. Four children between 5 and 17 years old are reported with congenital brain malformations involving tot...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Shewmon DA,Holmes GL,Byrne PA

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined phonological working memory and speech discrimination among children with attention-deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) with and without motor problems. Forty-one children were assigned to three groups; children with ADHD (N=9), children with ADHD plus developmental coordination disorder (ADHD+, ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Norrelgen F,Lacerda F,Forssberg H

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lesch-Nyhan syndrome (LNS) is a rare disorder of metabolism caused by a defective gene on the X chromosome. It is typically characterized by choreoathetosis, hypertonia, hyperreflexia, and self-mutilation. The present study is a 4-year follow-up investigation of the cognitive status of six subjects with a mean age of ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Matthews WS,Solan A,Barabas G,Robey K

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study examines the coordination of fingertip forces during object manipulation in both the involved and non-involved hand of 14 children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy (CP) aged between 8 and 14 years. While no impairment could be observed in the non-involved hand, subtle deficits in the sequencing of the ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Gordon AM,Charles J,Duff SV

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thrombotic and thromboembolic complications are the main causes of morbidity and mortality in patients with homocystinuria. However, it is unusual for thrombosis and infarction to be the presenting feature leading to investigation for homocystinuria and cerebrovascular lesions in the first year of life. We describe a ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Cardo E,Campistol J,Caritg J,Ruiz S,Vilaseca MA,Kirkham F,Blom HJ

更新日期：1999-02-01 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：:We describe a girl with a brain-stem tumour and symptoms very similar to those of Rett syndrome (RS). Her early history was uneventful and development was normal (except for hypotonia). At the age of 6 months her development slowed. Subsequently, deterioration occurred and the features characteristic of RS were seen: ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Vanhala R,Gaily E,Paetau A,Riikonen R

更新日期：1998-12-01 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：:A prospective 14-year outcome study of two children meeting DSM-IV criteria for childhood disintegrative disorder is presented. Their ages at first evaluation were 4 years 7 months and 6 years 3 months. Both are now adults and continue to have a severe pervasive developmental disorder, mental retardation, seizure diso...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Burd L,Ivey M,Barth A,Kerbeshian J

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to determine the effect of hamstring botulinum toxin A (Btx-A) injection in 10 children with crouch gait in terms of changes in muscle length and lower-limb kinematics. Before Btx-A injection limb kinematics were recorded. Maximum hamstring lengths and excursions were calculated by computer modelling ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Thompson NS,Baker RJ,Cosgrove AP,Corry IS,Graham HK

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ohtahara syndrome is a rare cause of epileptic seizures during the neonatal period. This is believed to be the first report of this syndrome with a specific metabolic defect. Defects in respiratory chain function may be more common than previously assumed in patients with this epilepsy syndrome. ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Williams AN,Gray RG,Poulton K,Ramani P,Whitehouse WP

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to produce and sustain a criterion level of precision isometric grip force was studied in a group of 7- to 12-year-old children with cerebral palsy (CP) and in a control group. On-line visual feedback of the forces produced relative to a stationary target was provided for each 5-second trial. Subjects prac...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Valvano J,Newell KM

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The extent to which children with either specific language impairment (SLI) or developmental coordination disorder (DCD) could be considered dyspraxic was examined using three tasks involving either familiar, or unfamiliar actions. SLI is diagnosed in children who fail to develop language in the normal fashion for no ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Hill EL

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Individuals with Down syndrome (DS), a disorder of known genetic etiology (trisomy of chromosome 21), exhibit several types of structural brain abnormalities that are detectable pathologically and by MRI. In addition, in middle age, individuals with DS develop histological and, in some cases, clinical features of Alzh...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Pearlson GD,Breiter SN,Aylward EH,Warren AC,Grygorcewicz M,Frangou S,Barta PE,Pulsifer MB

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A population-based group of 27 children with total blindness due to retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), born in Sweden from 1980 to 1990, was examined. They constituted all but two of the total of 29 children with total blindness due to ROP known to the national register of visually impaired children when reviewed from ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Jacobson L,Fernell E,Broberger U,Ek U,Gillberg C

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diagnosis of Rett syndrome is currently determined by a series of criteria, the first three of which are concerned with the initial period of normality. Using the Australian Rett Syndrome Database, information about this early period was obtained by questionnaires to paediatricians and families. For girls born bet...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Leonard H,Bower C

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An unusual presentation of biotinidase deficiency is described. The disorder classically presents in infancy or early childhood with intractable seizures, hypotonia, ataxia, hearing loss, dermatitis, and alopecia. A 5-year-old girl developed acute visual loss associated with optic atrophy, and disturbance of gait with...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Rahman S,Standing S,Dalton RN,Pike MG

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This research examined family stress and sibling reactions in families of children with 5p- (cri du chat) syndrome aged 1 to 18 years who were living at home. In Study 1, 99 parents reported on themselves and their child with 5p-, as well as on family demographics, social supports, and stress. The best predictor of fa...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Hodapp RM,Wijma CA,Masino LL

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00