Developmental Neurology

Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology

The first studies about the use of taping to improve motor functions in children needing neurorehabilitation were published 8 years ago and reported conflicting results. In a study of improving outcomes of physical therapy, Footer et al. did not find any significant improvement in seated postural control in children with quadriplegic cerebral palsy (CP) when therapeutic taping was applied for 1...

Some aspects of developmental neurology: a review.

The increasing interest in the ontogenetic and genetic aspects of abnormal development and neo plasia in the nervous system makes a presentation of some aspects of neuroembryology timely. Seem ingly unrelated medical problems of growth are coming more and more to have a common meeting ground in basic fields of developmental biology. In medical practice, for example, a newborn anencephalic monst...

Neurology

tion has a function to fulfill; each phenomenon therefore has a significance. This does not mean that it has a purpose; it was not made as a "part of an intelligent design". Barcroft's book not only makes delightful reading but it is also distinctly useful. In order to understand the bodily functions it is important to memorize the facts of physiology, but this task is made easier if the facts ...

[Neurology].

Aducanumab reduces the burden of amyloid plaques in Alzheimer's disease, with significant improvement of clinical scores. Endovascular thrombectomy is recommended in patients with acute stroke with proximal occlusion of the anterior circulation. CGRP antagonists and botulinum toxin are effective in migraine. ZIKA virus infection has been linked to the Guillain-Barré syndrome. Edaravone has been...

Neurology