It has been almost 10 years since the accident at Tokyo Electric Power Co., Inc.'s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in March 2011.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between the characteristics of spontaneous movements in preterm infants at term age and developmental delay at 3 years of age.
Method: We analysed video recordings of the spontaneous movements in the supine position of 124 preterm infants (44 males, 80 females) at 36 to 44 weeks postmenstrual age (PMA). The infants were born preterm (22-36wks PMA; birthweight 489-1696g) and had not received a diagnosis of a neurological or developmental disorder by the age of 3 years.
Recently, interhemispheric disconnection syndromes have been noted in patients with agenesis of the corpus callosum (ACC) during the performance of certain tasks. However, few studies have demonstrated an asymmetric disconnection syndrome. In this report, we present just such a syndrome in a patient with ACC, who manifested ambidexterity (but with a left-hand tendency) and had high intelligence, no neurological deficits, and no associated malformations.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHand-mouth contacts (HMCs) and other spontaneous movements of five low-risk preterm infants were studied longitudinally after their birth until 60 weeks postmenstrual age. For all infants, HMCs that emerged in the preterm period could not be observed transiently after 45 weeks, however, they re-emerged after 50 weeks postmenstrual age. In actograms of the infants' behaviors, the frequency of other spontaneous movements, such as head rotation, showed the same re-emerging pattern.
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