کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
3037670 1184425 2011 4 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Three-year-old child with meroacrania – Neurological signs
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علم عصب شناسی علوم اعصاب تکاملی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Three-year-old child with meroacrania – Neurological signs
چکیده انگلیسی

Neurological findings in a three-year-old child with meroacrania provide new insights into how the nervous system develops and functions in the absence of superior levels of control from the time of origin. The girl is the first child of a non-consanguineous white Brazilian couple, born at term, weighing 2650 g and measuring 44 cm in length. Upon examination at 43 months, she had quadriplegia, global hypotonia with occasional body hypertonia in a decorticate posture, hyperreflexia, ankle clonus, and extensor plantar response. This case allowed us to verify that, in the absence of upper structures and subcortical nuclei, there are clear signs that suggest corticospinal primacy in motor functions without a substitute pathway. Sound orientation responses suggest the independence of the vestibular-acoustic-ocular system, and manifestations of responsiveness to the environment raise questions about consciousness.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Brain and Development - Volume 33, Issue 1, January 2011, Pages 86–89
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