BACKGROUND Periventricular Leukomalacia (PVL) affects white matter, but grey matter injuries have also been reported, particularly in the dorsomedial nucleus and the cortex. Both structures have been related to working memory (WM) processes. The aim of this study was to compare behavioral performances and EEG power spectra during a visuospatial working memory task (VSWMT) of toddlers with a his...

Atopic dermatitis (AD) is one of the common allergic diseases in children. The presence of allergic diseases was found to have association with the risk of developing attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) in children, but it is still inconclusive. This study was to investigate the longitudinal relationship between AD developed during toddlerhood and...

OBJECTIVE To describe the food consumption patterns of US infants and toddlers, 4 to 24 months of age. DESIGN Descriptive analysis of data collected in the 2002 Feeding Infants and Toddlers study based on telephone interviews and 24-hour dietary recalls. SUBJECTS A national random sample of 3,022 infants and toddlers age 4 to 24 months. STATISTICAL ANALYSES PERFORMED The percentage of inf...

Fe deficiency remains the most common nutritional deficiency worldwide and young children are at particular risk. Preventative food-based strategies require knowledge of current intakes, sources of Fe, and factors associated with low Fe intakes; yet few data are available for Australian children under 2 years. This study's objectives were to determine intakes and food sources of Fe for Australi...

CONTEXT Early identification efforts are essential for the early treatment of the symptoms of autism but can only occur if robust risk factors are found. Children with autism often engage in repetitive behaviors and anecdotally prefer to visually examine geometric repetition, such as the moving blade of a fan or the spinning of a car wheel. The extent to which a preference for looking at geomet...

introduction: to evaluate the reliability, validity and feasibility of the persian version of the pediatric quality of life inventory (pedsql™ 4.0tm 4.0) generic core scales in iranian healthy students ages 7-15 and chronically ill children ages 2-18. methods: we followed the translation methodology proposed by developer to validate persian version of pedsql™ 4.0tm 4.0 generic core scales for c...

OBJECTIVE To assess the prevalence of breastfeeding and formula feeding, the age of introduction to specific foods, and the types of foods and beverages consumed by Hispanic infants and toddlers compared with similarly aged non-Hispanic infants and toddlers living in the United States. DESIGN Descriptive and comparative analysis of dietary recall data and responses to specific interview quest...

Posyandu cadres in Padukuhan Tiyasan Condongcatur are part of increasing the success stunting reduction Sleman Regency. The cadre problems limited knowledge about and nutritious food sources for toddlers lack skills processing locally-based foods. This service activity's implementation methods education, training, mentoring. There two main stages implementing program, first stage education an e...