The hypothesis of retarded development is a classic and controversial issue in human evolution. It depends directly on the understanding of ontogenetic trajectories and their basic constituents: timing, rate and associated patterns of maturation. In the present study, we applied geometric morphometrics to investigate postnatal ontogeny in human and chimpanzee skulls (N = 302). We evaluated post...

OBJECTIVES Vascular depression is regarded as a subtype of depression, especially in--but not limited strictly to--older persons, and characterized by a specific clinical presentation and an association with (cerebro)vascular risk and disease. It is also known that depression is a risk factor in the development of myocardial infarction. The possibility of identifying depressed subjects at risk ...

The environmental context in which psychostimulant drugs are administered can have a large effect on both their acute psychomotor activating effects and their ability to induce the psychomotor sensitization associated with repeated drug administration. For example, the acute effects of amphetamine and the development of psychomotor sensitization to amphetamine and cocaine are enhanced when they...

This report is based on a study of 12 cases of depression (8 endogenous, 4 neurotic) with a view to explore the possible association between urinary melatonin and the illness prior to and following treatment. While cases of endogenous depression had low 24 hour as well as nocturnal urinary melatonin levels, the neurotic depressives showed higher than normal levels. A rise in the 24 hour melaton...

This research work was based on an experimental concept of functional clothing for children with psychomotor development limitations. No matter the analyzed pathology, all these children need sensorial stimulation because of their psychomotor difficulties, especially at fine motor skills level. The main objective was to develop functional and comfortable clothing with sensorial stimulation elem...

Now more than ever, let us continue to develop personalized medicine to improve the remission rate for treatment resistant depressed patients. Recent findings about psychomotor retardation a core symptom of depression provide new insights into the predictive efficiency of personalized treatments, such as rTMS.

The primary aim of this study was to characterize oculomotor performances in elderly depressed patients. The second aim was to investigate whether cognitive inhibition measured by the antisaccade task was associated with a psychomotor retardation or rather with a more specific cognitive-motor inhibition deficit. Twenty patients with a major depressive disorder and forty-seven healthy subjects p...

how to cite this article: karimzadeh p, jafari n, jabbehdari s, taghdiri mm, nemati h, saket s, alaee mr, ghofrani m, tonakebni sh. methylmalonic acidemia: diagnosis and neuroimaging findings of this neurometabolic disorder (an iranian pediatric case series). iran j child neurol. 2013 summer; 7(3): 63-66.   objective methylmalonic acidemia is one of the inborn errors of metabolism resulting in ...

how to cite this article: karimzadeh p, ahmadabadi f, jafari n, jabbehdari s, alaee mr, ghofrani m, taghdiri mm, tonekaboni sh. biotinidase deficiency: a reversible neurometabolic disorder (an iranian pediatric case series). iran j child neurol. 2013 autumn; 7(4):47- 52.   objective biotinidase deficiency is one of the rare congenital metabolic disorders with autosomal recessive inheritance. if...

how to cite this article: keihanidoust z, shariat m, rahimian e, tehrani f, saddighi gh. comparative evaluation between diameter difference of the thumb and asymmetry of lateral cerebral ventricles in children with developmental delay: a  new finding. iran j child neurol. summer 2015;9(3):9-12. abstract objective anthropometry (measurement of body dimensions) has been used for clinical diagnosi...