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：:Children born to mothers who had abused alcohol throughout pregnancy had severe behavioural and intellectual problems which remained at age 11 to 14 years. Of 24 children examined, 10 had attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) with or without developmental coordination disorder, two had Asperger syndrome, and...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Aronson M,Hagberg B,Gillberg C

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A behavioural modification package incorporating stimulus control, cueing, and rapid-extinction techniques was applied to a group of 15 children with severe learning disability who had chronic sleep disorders. Improvements in their night-settling and night-waking patterns occurred quickly (within a few days) and, in 1...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Bramble D

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cranial CT and MRI appearances of a 14-year-old girl with Parry-Romberg syndrome and epilepsy are described. The findings are compared with the two published descriptions of MRI and CT in such patients. MRI appearances in our patient differ from those published and may be consistent with a vascular malformation. T...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Taylor HM,Robinson R,Cox T

更新日期：1997-07-01 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：:Feeding abilities in 20 individuals with Rett syndrome aged 1 1/2 to 33 years were investigated by history and clinical assessment during a meal, followed by videofluoroscopy of feeding. All were shown to have reduced movements of the mid and posterior tongue, with premature spillover of food and liquid from the mouth...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Morton RE,Bonas R,Minford J,Kerr A,Ellis RE

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to look at the maturational profile of gait parameters by measuring ground reaction forces during independent walking in children. Fifty-four normal children aged 1 to 5 years were examined. The children walked with eight force transducers under each sole. Gait velocity and step length increa...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Preis S,Klemms A,Müller K

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Progressive calcification of the brain and the spinal cord at early infantile onset was observed in two siblings. They showed growth failure, psychomotor deterioration, deafness, vestibular dysfunction, microcytic hypochromic anemia, abnormal ratios of lymphocyte subpopulations, and slightly decreased bicarbonate on b...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Yoshimura M,Hara T,Maegaki Y,Koeda T,Okubo K,Hamasaki N,Sly WS,Takeshita K

更新日期：1997-03-01 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：:An 11-year-old girl was evaluated for walking difficulties and fatigue at the end of the day in the last 2 years. Handwriting was also difficult with 'cramps' after a short time of writing. Neurological examination was normal most of the time but in the evening and after exercise, an abnormal walking posture and rare ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Deonna T,Roulet E,Ghika J,Zesiger P

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The paper reports the second of two studies designed to evaluate the effectiveness of the Kinaesthetic Training Programme (Laszlo and Bairstow, 1985) for children with movement difficulties. Three groups of 12 children were matched on age, IQ and sex as well as degree of kinaesthetic and motor impairment. One group re...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Sims K,Henderson SE,Morton J,Hulme C

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a population-based sample of 149 children with hemiplegia, IQ was highly correlated with a simple-to-calculate index of neurological severity. Performance IQ was an average of 13 points lower then verbal IQ-a difference that seemed to reflect specific visuospatial difficulties rather than an effect of the motor dis...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Goodman R,Yude C

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cross-correlograms between voluntarily active soleus (SOL) and tibialis anterior (TA) motor units were generated from seven control subjects and six subjects with spastic cerebral palsy (CP). Short-duration central peaks were observed in three subjects with spastic diplegia only. All subjects demonstrated reciprocal i...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Brouwer B,Smits E

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In four generations of a family with autosomal dominant hyperekplexia (startle disease), untreated affected adult members had pes cavus and extensor plantar responses, as well as hyper-reflexia. Electroencephalography during a startle, electromyography, nerve conduction velocities and somatosensory evoked potentials w...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Baxter P,Connolly S,Curtis A,Spencer V,Ravindranath C,Burn J,Gardner-Medwin D

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors assessed 137 VLBW children and 162 controls for laterality by observation and questionnaire at 12 years of age. A significantly higher proportion of the VLBW children were either left-handed or mixed-handed. A number of motor cognitive and educational outcome variables were measured. Impaired manual dexter...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Powls A,Botting N,Cooke RW,Marlow N

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A feeding bottle equipped with micro-video-camera and pressure sensor was devised to show the inside of the mouth and record sucking pressure. Activities of the temporal (TM), masseter muscle (MM), orbicular muscle of the mouth (OM) and suprahyoid muscles (SM) of 25 healthy infants were examined. Tongue and jaw moveme...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Tamura Y,Horikawa Y,Yoshida S

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Individuals with congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) provide a test population for the theory that elevated testosterone levels alter prenatal brain development and increase the risk of learning disabilities. Eleven subjects with CAH, five of their non-CAH siblings and 16 matched control subjects participated in two ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Plante E,Boliek C,Binkiewicz A,Erly WK

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes the prospective follow-up of a 2-year-old child with narcolepsy. The initial clinical diagnosis was confirmed by the onset of cataplexy when the child was 5 years old. He does not have the HLA genotype characteristic of narcolepsy or an identifiable brain lesion, although he has megalencephaly an...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Winter E,Prendergast M,Green A

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors looked for differences in the energy expenditure patterns of ambulant children with cerebral palsy and spina bifida. Oxygen consumption was measured according to type of cerebral palsy or level of spina bifida lesion, and in healthy children. The rate of oxygen consumption (mL/kg/min) was significantly hig...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Duffy CM,Hill AE,Cosgrove AP,Corry IS,Graham HK

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Familial dysautonomia (FD), an autosomal recessive peripheral nervous system disorder, affects almost exclusively children of Jewish Ashkenazi origin and causes profound generalized autonomic dysfunction. Excessive drooling is frequent and is traditionally attributed to swallowing difficulties. Although true hypersali...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Mass E,Wolff A,Gadoth N

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of arthrogryposis multiplex congenita in an eight-year-old girl was recounted by Thomas of Monmouth in a mid twelfth-century English hagiographic narrative, The Life and Miracles of St William of Norwich. The child had deformities of both hands and both feet at birth, and she developed torticollis and probably ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Gordon EC

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current information was obtained from 117 respondents, including 71 who completed interviews, of a population of 810 individuals who had been diagnosed with cerebral palsy between 1951 and 1974. Original chart reviews constituted the basis for predicting employment capabilities of the interviewed cohort. A comparison ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： O'Grady RS,Crain LS,Kohn J

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the effect of chronic exposure to lead on children's ability to maintain upright postural balance as a biological marker of lead-induced modifications of the neuromotor system. For this study, 162 six-year-old children, with a five-year geometric mean lead concentration in blood of 11.9 microgr...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Bhattacharya A,Shukla R,Dietrich K,Bornschein R,Berger O

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case-control study (64 cases and 209 controls) was carried out to identify risk factors for the co-occurrence of early-onset partial epilepsy, cerebral palsy and mental retardation in children with and without cerebral malformations. History of epilepsy in first-degree relatives, maternal diseases in the two years b...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Curatolo P,Arpino C,Stazi MA,Medda E

更新日期：1995-09-01 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：:This study reports moderate to high Pearson correlations between Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scale (VABS) subscale and total scores and a variety of cognitive, academic and motor performance tests on a population of extremely low-birthweight infants assessed at eight years of age. The subscales describe adaptive behavi...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Rosenbaum P,Saigal S,Szatmari P,Hoult L

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The compliance and maturation of visual acuity of 1245 2 1/2- to nine-year-olds was investigated. Testing was undertaken as part of routine surveillance. Ability to letter match, to achieve a binocular measure and to achieve monocular measures for children under three years was 89, 78 and 37 per cent, for children age...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Salt AT,Sonksen PM,Wade A,Jayatunga R

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although autism can occur in conjunction with a range of other conditions, the association with Down syndrome is generally considered to be relatively rare. Four young boys with Down syndrome are described who were also autistic. All children clearly fulfilled the diagnostic criteria for autism required by the ICD-10 ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Howlin P,Wing L,Gould J

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endogenous opioid dysfunction hypotheses for the development of autism are reviewed, along with clinical empirical studies of opiate antagonists in autism and self-injurious behaviour. There is not yet sufficient evidence to suggest the use of opiate antagonists in the treatment of autism. Further research, particular...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Gillberg C

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Occasionally children undergoing cardiac surgery using cardiopulmonary bypass with deep hypothermia and cardiac arrest develop a postoperative syndrome of acute chorea. The authors report the neuropathological findings in two such children surgically treated for congenital heart disease. Examination of the brain showe...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Kupsky WJ,Drozd MA,Barlow CF

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report an association between developmental language disorder and acquired aphasia in a 13-year-old right-handed boy. Acquired aphasia was caused by a right-frontal abscess (crossed aphasia). It was non-fluent, with a disorder of auditory comprehension, an unusual feature of prerolandic lesions. This case ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Martins IP,Antunes NL,Castro-Caldas A,Antunes JL

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relation between neurodevelopmental status at one and eight years of age was investigated in a cohort of 207 infants born between 1979 and 1982 at < 33 weeks of gestation. The probability of a major disabling impairment at eight years was only 1 per cent among 164 children with normal neurodevelopment at one year,...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Roth SC,Baudin J,Pezzani-Goldsmith M,Townsend J,Reynolds EO,Stewart AL

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a population of 850,000, the authors studied afebrile seizures that follow febrile seizures. Review of all paediatric EEGs identified 504 children with epilepsy beginning between 1977 and 1985. Follow-up averaged 85 months. 14.9 per cent had preceding febrile seizures: 13 per cent complex partial, 13 per cent parti...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Camfield P,Camfield C,Gordon K,Dooley J

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty-three healthy children aged between six and 12 years were tested to determine the intra-rater reliability of four clinical cutaneous and proprioceptive sensory assessment tools: touch pressure, vibration perception, thermal discrimination and kinaesthesis. The tests were carried out bilaterally on proximal and d...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Thibault A,Forget R,Lambert J

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Minor neurological dysfunction (MND) and quality of movement were studied in relation to neonatal cerebral damage and developmental assessments at 3 1/2 years of age in 66 very low-birthweight children without obvious disability. MND was found in 19 children and was significantly related to the quality of movement. Th...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Weisglas-Kuperus N,Baerts W,Fetter WP,Hempel MS,Mulder PG,Touwen BC,Sauer PJ

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors used the Teller acuity cards to assess the visual acuity of 51 infants and children with Down syndrome aged between two months and 18 years. The success rate and test times were comparable to those reported for normally developing children. Even those subjects in the study who were free of ocular disorders...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Courage ML,Adams RJ,Reyno S,Kwa PG

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between aspiration, as identified by videofluoroscopic swallowing (VFS) study, and pneumonia in children with suspected dysphagia. Data were retrospectively collected and analysed from 142 children referred for VFS over a one-year period. The median age was...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Taniguchi MH,Moyer RS

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fourteen patients with cerebral palsy (CP), 12 with Friedreich's ataxia (FA) and 26 with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) were studied to determine whether the shape of the scoliosis curve differs between these categories. The slope of the regression relationship between vertebral rotation and lateral deviation w...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Aronsson DD,Stokes IA,Ronchetti PJ,Labelle HB

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of 115 children with dyskinetic cerebral palsy (CP) in the Mersey region, 17 were born at term and at an appropriate weight for age, and have preserved cognitive abilities. 10 of these are likely to have sustained intrapartum asphyxial brain-damage as the cause of their CP. In such circumstances, a characteristic patt...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Rosenbloom L

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Animal studies suggest that spatial skills are dependent on an intact septum pellucidum. This theory was tested by comparing patients who were visually impaired due to bilateral optic nerve hypoplasia: 13 with a septum pellucidum were compared with six children without a septum pellucidum. There was no difference in s...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Groenveld M,Pohl KR,Espezel H,Jan JE

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00