To date, the lifetime prevalence of Bipolar Disorder (BD) and BD patients’ access to mental health care in England has not been systematically studied. We used data from Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey 2014 (N = 7546). The Mood Disorders Questionnaire (MDQ) was screen for BD. Associations between sociodemographic clinical variables use services were investigated. Weighted regression modellin...

LEARNING TOMOVE AND MOVING TO LEARN 113 Chapter Overview 114 Behavioral Development Is Motor Development 115 Brain? Body? Both. More! 116 EMBODIED MOVEMENT 118 Incidental Activity and Consequential Function 119 Developmental Continuity: Ontogenetic Adaptations, Historical Antecedents, and Primitives 122 Variability: Problem and Promise 124 The Passage of Time and Development 126 Adaptation and ...

UNLABELLED The importance of movement is often overlooked because it is such a natural part of human life. It is, however, crucial for a child's physical, cognitive and social development. In addition, experiences support learning and development of fundamental movement skills. The foundations of those skills are laid in early childhood and essential to encourage a physically active lifestyle. ...

BACKGROUND Preterm infants with chronic lung disease (CLD) had impaired cognitive development and poorer eye-hand coordination at 10 months of age. AIMS To study whether this effect of CLD persisted until school age and whether the severity of CLD affected outcome. METHOD Cognition and visual-motor skills were examined (Wechsler preschool and primary scale of intelligence, and tests from th...

AIM To examine the spectrum of neurological dysfunction and perceptual-motor difficulties at school age in a cohort of prematurely born children, and the relation of these measures to neonatal brain lesions, intelligence quotient, and behavioural adjustment. METHOD One hundred and eighty three children were tested at the age of 6 years using Touwen's Examination of the Child with Minor Neurol...

Background: The inverse relationship between movement speed and accuracy in goal-directed aiming is mostly investigated using the classic Fitts’ paradigm. According to Fitts’ law, movement time scales linearly with a single quantity, the index of difficulty (ID), which quantifies task difficulty through the quotient of target width and distance. Fitts’ law remains silent, however, on how ID aff...

Background: Toddlers with celiac disease are at risk of developmental delay due to frequent hospitalization and food deprivation. But an appropriate program to improve development of these children does not exist. Aim: Determination of the effect of a developmental stimulation program on development of toddlers’ fine motor skills. Methods: This clinical trial conducted on 50 eligible 1-3 year-o...

Assessment of risk factors Childhood risk factors were assessed up to 9 years of age: neurodevelopmental characteristics (perinatal insults, gross motor skills, and intelligence quotient); parental characteristics (mother’s internalising symptoms, including depression and anxiety, mother–child interactions, criminal conviction history, and parental disagreement about discipline); family charact...