the aim of this study was to compare gross motor skills development in two subtests (locomotors and object control) in preschool children in the deprived and rich environments. participants in this study were 39 children (mean age: 5 yr). 19 children were selected from deprived environments without extensive motor experiences, and 20 children from a preschool with extensive motor experiences. u...

Background. Dravet syndrome (DS) is an early-onset epileptic encephalopathy that leads to gross and fine motor skills deficits. Objectives. This study aimed to evaluate the results of a motor intervention program in a child with DS. Methods. We analyzed uma child with DS during the 3-year intervention in Physical Education. Interviews with the child’s mother and the teachers’ class diary were...

introduction: transcranial magnetic stimulation (tms) is a useful tool for assessment of corticospinal excitability (cse) changes in both healthy individuals and patients with brain disorders. the usefulness of tms-elicited motor evoked potentials (meps) for the assessment of cse in a clinical context depends on their intra-and inter-session reliability. this study aimed to evaluate if removal ...

Dopaminergic neurons in the basal ganglia normally fire in a continuous manner, maintaining the striatal dopamine concentration at a relatively constant level. In Parkinson's disease, dopaminergic treatment produces a discontinuous stimulation, inducing an intermittent pulsatile activation of the striatal receptors. It is likely that the oscillations in the dopamine level in the striatum contri...

developmental millstones in children with normal, low, and very low birth weights.     abdeyazdan z [1] , ehsanpour s [2] *, hemmati e [3]     received: 22 may , 2013 accepted: 11 sep , 2013   abstract   background & aims : in recent years with the development of nicus, survival rates of vlbw and lbw infants has increased in many countries including iran. there is concern that this increased su...

  Abstract   Background: To improve the debilitating features of Parkinson disease (PD) different   medical and surgical approaches are available. Subthalamic nucleus deep brain   stimulation (STN-DBS) was appeared to be a promising method during last two   decades. This study aimed to evaluate early motor outcomes of this procedure in first   trial of Iranian patients .   Methods: Thirty-seven...