objective the purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence and the most common risk factors of motor developmental delay in infants. materials & methods following ethical approval, a study was carried out on the prevalence and risk factors of infants with motor developmental delay. the first stage was conducted through a cross-sectional study to determine the prevalence of motor develo...

Background: Developmental and behavioral disorders are the most prevalent problems in children after infection and trauma. Growth and development are influenced by genetic, social and environmental factors that incept of the early life of the fetal and neonatal periods. Due to the importance of the development in children, this study was conducted to determine the relationship between growth in...

how to cite this article: keihanidoust z, shariat m, rahimian e, tehrani f, saddighi gh. comparative evaluation between diameter difference of the thumb and asymmetry of lateral cerebral ventricles in children with developmental delay: a  new finding. iran j child neurol. summer 2015;9(3):9-12. abstract objective anthropometry (measurement of body dimensions) has been used for clinical diagnosi...

Child growth is a dynamic process and has different stages including the development of gross motor, fine motor, communication, and personal-social abilities. Developmental disorders as one of the most common problems in the process child growth This study aimed to determine the developmental level of infants under two years who were admitted to the health care centres' of Kurdistan University ...

objective neuropsychological impairment is an important co-morbidity of chronic epilepsy. the aim of this study was to determine the state of the cognitive and motor development of patients with refractory epilepsy. materials & methods  we studied 150 consecutive children with epilepsy who were referred to mofid children hospital, a third level public referral university hospital in tehran, ira...

how to cite this article: yaghini o, kelishadi r, keikha m, niknam n, sadeghi s, najafpour e, ghazavi mr. prevalence of developmental delay in apparently normal preschool children in isfahan, central iran. iran j child neurol. summer 2015;9(3):17-23. abstract objective developmental delay screening is essential in pediatric medicine. the purpose of this study was to estimate the developmental d...

objective to evaluate the developmental situation of children that undergo operation because of syndromic and non-syndromic craniosynostosis. materials & methods in this prospective study, 24 children (4 to 16 months of age) who underwent neurosurgeryical intervention because of non-syndromic (79%) and syndromic (21%) craniosynostosis were recruited. for psychological evaluation, the bayley sca...

objective low birth weight (birth weight 2500 g) can be one of the serious problems in children. the purpose of this study was to evaluate the developmental status of lbw preterm neonates admited at neonatal intensive care unit (nicu) at the corrected ages of six and 12 months via the persian version of ages and stages questionnaires (asq). materials & methods in a follow up study, fifty lbw pr...