Male predominance in incidence of neurodevelopmental disorders is often highlighted. Many active strands research are exploring possible mechanisms, including genetic and hormonal factors, their interplay with environmental variables. However, for many conditions (e.g. attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder [ADHD], autism spectrum [ASD], intellectual disability, cerebral palsy [CP]), the reas...

Introduction Allergic immune reactions and adverse to foods, have been described as having growth concerns in children with food allergy. Moreover, dysregulation inflammation documented typical hallmarks both allergic neurodevelopmental conditions. Objectives In this review, we address the association of allergy altered neurodevelopment children. Methods We comprehensively review scientific lit...

Objective To assess the diagnostic status, the sociodemographic and health profiles for students with special educational needs (SEN) in a public educational system, and to map their use of educational/social services. Methods The sample comprised 1,202 SEN students from a total of 59,344 students. Results Only 792 students of the 1,202 had an established diagnosis. The most prevalent SEN c...

Neurodevelopmental care, which is any NICU intervention undertaken to improve neurodevelopmental outcome, includes NICU design, nursing routines, nursing care plans, management of pain, feeding methods and, most importantly, encouraging parental involvement with their NICU infant. Recognition that sensory stimulation can overwhelm preterm infants and increase physiologic signs of stress led to ...

This paper is based on a theory being developed in collaboration with Seymour Papert [Note 1] in which we v i e w t h e m i n d a s a n o r g a n i z e d s o c i e t y o f intercommunicating "agents". Each such agent is, by itself, very simple. The subject of this paper is how that simplicity affects communication between different parts of a single mind and, indirectly, how it may affect inter...

Dramatic, seemingly exponential advances have brought about much hope towards improving the efficacy of management of patients with conditions long-thought incurable, such as neurogenetic disorders. These advances have been both technological and conceptual. They result from refinements in the understanding of pathophysiology and intensive developments of approaches to compensate or bypass the ...

Pain in the developing fetus is controversial because of the difficulty in measuring and interpreting pain during gestation. It has received increased attention lately because of recently introduced legislation that would require consideration of fetal pain during intentional termination of pregnancy. During development, sensory fibers are abundant by 20 weeks; a functional spinal reflex is pre...

Copy number variants (CNVs), characterized in recent years by cutting-edge technology, add complexity to our knowledge of the human genome. CNVs contribute not only to human diversity but also to different kinds of diseases including neurodevelopmental delay, autism spectrum disorder and neuropsychiatric diseases. Interestingly, many pathogenic CNVs are shared among these diseases. Studies sugg...