Neuromyelitis optica (NMO) is a demyelinating disease consisting of relapsing-remitting optic neuritis and myelitis with a more severe course than Multiple Sclerosis. Recently, it has been shown that almost 50% of patients with NMO can have brain magnetic resonance imag...

Introduction. Cochlear implantation (CI) was a significant surgical innovation in the 20th century and represented the first artificial sensory organ that was applied in clinical medicine. Currently, CI is still one of the most effective medical procedures. Nonetheless,...

Treball Final de Grau en Psicologia. Codi: PS1048.Curs: 2014/2015 Specific language impairment (SLI) is a language disorder that delays the majority of language skills in children who have no hearing loss or other developmental delays. Its origin and nature have been lo...

Children exposed to alcohol prenatally can experience significant deficits in cognitive and psychosocial functioning as well as alterations in brain structure and function related to alcohol’s teratogenic effects. These impairments are present both in children with feta...

Specific cognitive abilities and motor function were investigated at 5½ years in 104 children of epileptic mothers and in 105 control children with normal intelligence at the Child Neurology Department, Children’s Castle Hospital, Lastenlinnantie, Helsinki, Finland.

The Zika virus (ZIKV) attracted attention due to one striking characteristic: the ability to cross the placental barrier and infect the fetus, possibly causing severe neurodevelopmental disruptions included in the Congenital Zika Syndrome (CZS). Few years after the epid...

IntroductionFlaviviridae family belongs to the Spondweni serocomplex, which is mainly transmitted by vectors from the Aedes genus. Zika virus (ZIKV) is part of this genus. It was initially reported in Brazil in December 2014 as an unknown acute generalized exanthematous...

Behavioral and EEG asymmetry and asynchrony of 8,680 infantile spasms were analysed in a review of 75 consecutive video-EEG recordings performed at UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles from 1982 to 1992.

Investigators at the Paediatric Neurology Department, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, and other centers in the UK and USA carried out a population-based study of children, 1-24 months of age, with new-onset epilepsy, ascertained over 13 months from 15...

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