Developmental task is the most common diagnostic tool used in children with developmental disturbances. It follows according to physiology of the development of the child. Transition through the "mile stones" describes the development of the child in four areas-motor, speech, social and visuo-motor coordination. Systematic diagnostic researches allowed preparation of detailed developmental sche...

during the recent decades, substantial changes are made in the borders and contents of physiology as a basic course for the students in medicine. here some strategies are presented to preserve the classical and integrative approaches in teaching physiology, while these approaches extent our knowledge to molecular, sub-cellular and cellular levels.

Juvenile male zebra finches learn their songs over distinct auditory and sensorimotor stages, the former requiring exposure to an adult tutor song pattern. The cortical premotor nucleus HVC (acronym is name) plays a necessary role in both learning stages, as well as the production of adult song. Consistent with neural network models where synaptic plasticity mediates developmental forms of lear...

Understanding the role of ontogeny in the disposition and actions of medicines is the most fundamental prerequisite for safe and effective pharmacotherapeutics in the pediatric population. The maturational process represents a continuum of growth, differentiation, and development, which extends from the very small preterm newborn infant through childhood, adolescence, and to young adulthood. De...

Division of Biophysics and Neurobiology, Department of Molecular Physiology, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Aichi, Japan (Y.K.); Vollum Institute, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, Oregon (J.P.A.); Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts (D.E.C.); Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department...

The interdisciplinary nature of Developmental Psychobiology (DPB) means that it already unifies many perspectives in psychology. DPB explanations of the development of both individual differences and species-typical behaviors include information from cells, tissue, organ systems, family, societal groups, and sociocultural customs to explain the development of both “normal” and “abnormal” behavi...