Diagnostic suspicion is based on 3 pillars: There are several diagnostic strategies, which can be grouped into:
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Motor development.
Red flags of neurodevelopment (red flags).
Developmental disorders of the visual pathway (and optic chiasm).
Oculocutaneous albinism is a genetic disorder that conditions not only a retinopathy, but other alterations in the embryological development of the visual pathway, and therefore of neurodevelopment. The main consequence is a loss of stereopsia. There are other neurodevelopmental disorders that also share characteristics with oculocutaneous albinism, such as the syndrome ...
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Brachial preference before 2 years of age.
The development of laterality is one of the curiosities of pediatric neurology that occur during neurodevelopment, and is a direct consequence of human anatomy (the existence of a brain divided into 2 cerebral hemispheres) and the process of progressive specialization that takes place during learning, in which certain areas ...
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Exploration dismorfológica.
When to suspect a genetic disease?
Exploration neurocutaneous.
Coarse facies.
There are many metabolic diseases characterized by coarse facies. Most of them are storage diseases and present a progressive phenotype that becomes more evident with age, making early diagnosis difficult. The best strategy is to implement a targeted screening, using GAGs in a...
Socio-emotional development.
Social and emotional development at 2 months of age Social and emotional development at 4 months of age Social and emotional development at 6 months Social and emotional development at 9 months Social and emotional development at 12 months Social and emotional development at 18 months Social and …
Cognitive assessment of the child.
In clinical practice we have 2 main strategies to obtain information about a child's cognitive functioning.