BACKGROUND Autism is a pervasive developmental disorder, characterized by pervasive impairment in several areas of development, including social interactions and communication skills. The purpose of this study was to investigate the development profiles and determine the relationship of social function with motor and speech functions in children with autism. METHODS We collected the medical r...

Objectives: To identify and assess the level of development of motor abilities in older pre-school -age children with speech disorder. Methods: The study included 200 older pre-school age children, 100 children with a healthy level of speech development and 100 with speech disorder, in Belgorod and Belgorod region (Russian Federation). The study looked at scientific sources; motor abilities te...

BACKGROUND Children with congenital heart diseases (CHD) are considered to be at high-risk for neurodevelopmental delay, but scant Indian data are available. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the neurodevelopmental status of children with CHD. METHODS We enrolled consecutive children aged 6-30 months with echocardiographically-confirmed CHD between June 2013 and January 2014. Children with clinically r...

The popular IEEE 802.11 WLAN today does not provide any quality-of-service (QoS) because of its contention-based channel access nature of the medium access control (MAC). Therefore, we proposed a simple software upgradebased solution, called a dual queue scheme, to provide QoS to real-time services such as Voiceover-IP (VoIP) in our previous work. The dual queue scheme operates on top of the le...

PURPOSE Despite a growing body of knowledge on bipolar spectrum disorder (BSD), relatively little is known about the clinical characteristics of BSD in elderly people. We investigated the prevalence of BSD in elderly patients with recurrent depression. PATIENTS AND METHODS A total of 65 elderly outpatients (≥60 years of age) who met the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders IV...

BACKGROUND We investigate the rate of bipolar spectrum disorder comorbid with ADHD features using two screening instruments, the Mood Disorder Questionnaire (MDQ) and the Wender Utah Rating Scale (WURS), in a nonclinical young adult population. METHODS College and graduate students aged 18 years or older from four universities in Korea were selected. Comorbidity was defined as both MDQ positi...

Dear Editor Bipolar spectrum disorder (BSD) is common in the general population with a lifetime prevalence of 2.4–5%. A recent cross-national community epidemiological study confirmed that it is a common and valid illness entity across 11 countries (Merikangas et al., 2011). Although BSD has been uncommonly studied in community settings (Benazzi, 2007; Lee et al., 2009), its early age of onset,...

This study was conducted to identify the potential relationship between the dietary intake level of soy isoflavones and perimenstrual symptomatology. The research design was a cross-sectional study. The sample was made up of 84 Korean women living in the USA, aged 28-40 years. The Moos Menstrual Distress Questionnaire (MDQ) and the Food Frequency Questionnaire were used as measurement tools. Th...

objective sensorineural hearing loss is believed to be the result of a physiologic malfunction in the inner ear or acoustic nerve. depending on the rapidity of progression and severity, sensorineural hearing loss can be endlessly annoying, frightening and can constitute a permanent after effect. moreover, there is no surgical procedure that can reverse or lessen the severity of a sensorineural ...