Attention and Neurological Disorders

Attention Deficit Disorders Spectrum Neurological and Neuropsychological Basis

Attention deficit disorders are considered a clinical spectrum of an heterogeneous group of disorders with multiple causes, multiple associated findings, and potentially, multiple specific interventions. The hallmark for the diagnosis is inattentive behavior. This presentation contains a review of some of the neurologic and neuropsychologic models available to explain attention and its disorder...

Stem Cell Therapy in Pediatric Neurological Disorders

Pediatric neurological disorders including muscular dystrophy, cerebral palsy, and spinal cord injury are defined as a heterogenous group of diseases, of which some are known to be genetic. The two significant features represented for stem cells, leading to distinguish them from other cell types are addressed as below: they can renew themselves besides the ability to differentiate into cells wi...

Neurological Disorders

Historically, policy makers and researchers have used mortality statistics as the principal measure of the seriousness of diseases, based on which countries and organizations have launched disease control programs. Mortality statistics alone, however, underestimate the suffering caused by diseases that may be nonfatal but cause substantial disability. Many neurological and psychiatric condition...

Mental Health and Neurological Disorders

Proprioceptive reflexes and neurological disorders

Alfred Christiaan SCHOUTEN werktuigkundig ingenieur geboren te Dordrecht, Nederland. Het onderzoek beschreven in dit proefschrift is mede mogelijk gemaakt door financiële on-dersteuning van de Nederlandse organisatie voor wetenschappelijk onderzoek, medische wetenschappen (NWO-MW, project nummer: 902-36-084). De pols manipulator beschreven in dit proefschrift is mede mogelijk gemaakt door een g...