Imprinting, latchment and displacement: a mini review of early instinctual behaviour in newborn infants influencing breastfeeding success.

Unlabelled: Instinctive behaviours have evolved favouring the mother-infant dyad based on fundamental processes of neurological development, including oral tactile imprinting and latchment. Latchment is the first stage of emotional development based on the successful achievement of biological imprinting. The mechanisms underpinning imprinting are identified and the evolutionary benefits discussed.

The psychological outcome of constitutional delay of growth and puberty.

Does being of short stature (SS) matter? Growth studies are important because endocrinologists need to be able to give not only diagnostic but also prognostic indication to those of SS, and give advice for or against treatment. Studies on body height may give significant insight into the behavioural-hypothalamic-pituitary axis underlying the surface effect on social behaviour. This research presents adult follow-up studies of 49 males who attended at a growth clinic as children and who were diagnosed as having the condition of maturational delay short stature (MDSS).

A comparative study of the effects of carbamazepine and the NMDA receptor antagonist remacemide on road tracking and car-following performance in actual traffic.

Rationale: Antiepileptic drugs are known to produce side effects which may impair driving performance. Performance effects, however, may differ substantially between individual antiepileptic drugs.

Objective: To compare the effects of carbamazepine, remacemide, and placebo on actual driving performance during a 12-day incremental dosing regimen.

Specific learning disability in children with neurofibromatosis type 1: significance of MRI abnormalities.

To determine whether previously reported areas of increased T2 signal intensity on MRI examination in children with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF 1) are associated with deficits in development and learning common in this population, we evaluated 51 children with NF 1 (aged 8 to 16 years). Forty children completed the full assessment protocol (MRI, medical, psychometric, speech therapy, and occupational therapy assessments). The mean Full Scale IQ scores for the entire study population showed a left shift compared with the normal population, and the distribution of IQ scores was bimodal, suggesting that there are two populations of patients with NF 1--those with and those without a variable degree of cognitive impairment.