BACKGROUND Though the Down syndrome behavioural phenotype has been described as involving relative strengths in visuo-spatial processing and sociability, and relative weaknesses in verbal skills and motor planning, the early emergence of this phenotypic pattern of strengths and weaknesses has not yet been fully explored. METHOD In this study, we compared the performance of eighteen 2 to 3-yea...

Department of Molecular Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris Park Avenue, Bronx, NY 10461, USA, Department of Pediatrics, Brown University Medical School, Providence, RI 02912, USA, Departments of Medicine and Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania, 954 Biomedical Research Building (BRB) II/III, 421 Curie Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA and Depar...

This study investigates the relationship between child care arrangements and developmental outcomes of young children using data from Cycle 1 of the Canadian National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth. Models of the determinants of Motor and Social Development (MSD) scores for children aged 0-47 months, and of the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test assessment scores (PPVT-R) for children a...

BACKGROUND The ability to understand and locally control the morphogenesis of mammalian cells is a fundamental objective of cell and developmental biology as well as tissue engineering research. We present parylene-C (ParC) deposited on polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) as a new substratum for in vitro advanced cell culture in the case of Human Hepatocarcinoma (HepG2) cells. PRINCIPAL FINDINGS Our ...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of electrical stimulation over the gastrocnemius-soleus muscle on gross motor skills in hemiparetic cerebral palsied children. Subjects and Methods: Thirty patients with spactic hemiparetic cerebral palsy (age ranges from three to eight years) were equally divided into two groups; control group (A) and study group (B). Group (A) received a...

breastfeeding plays a pivotal role in the promotion of health and prevention of psychological problems in children. this study aimed to compare the effects of breastfeeding educational programs on the development of infants aged 1-3 months based on the model of belief, attitude, subjective norm, and enabling factors (basnef) and application of acupressure on the gb-21 point. methods: this quasi...