Category archives: Neurodevelopmental
Exploration material.
Material necessary for a neuropediatric consultation.
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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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.
Corrected age and prematurity.
Neurodevelopmental assessment.
By neurodevelopment we mean the process of acquiring skills and abilities carried out by the central nervous system throughout childhood. It is a hierarchical, sequential and stereotyped process, genetically encoded but modulated by the environment. We can classify neurodevelopment into different domains, depending on the skills that are ...