Movements and postures of infants aged 3 to 5months: To what extent is their optimality related to perinatal events and to the neurological outcome?

Early Human Development

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 231-237

  Yuge, Mariko ^a   Marschik, Peter B ^b   Nakajima, Yayohi ^c   Yamori, Yuriko ^d   Kanda, Toyoko ^d   Hirota, Haruyo ^d   Yoshida, Nahoko ^d   Einspieler, Christa ^b  

^a Kyoto Prefectural Chutan Higasi Public Health Office   (Japan)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c JAPANESE RED CROSS MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^d St Joseph's Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fidgety movements; General movements; Optimality concept; Spontaneous movements; Video analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BODY MOVEMENT; BODY POSTURE; CEREBRAL PALSY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEVELOPMENTAL COORDINATION DISORDER; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; INFANT; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PERINATAL DEVELOPMENT; PERVASIVE DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED; PREDICTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REHABILITATION CENTER;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; POSTURE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 79951770636     PISSN: 03783782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2010.12.046     Document Type: Article

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