Early Motor Developmental Milestones and Personality Traits in Midlife: A 50-Year Follow-Up Study
Children, 2023 Background The purpose of this study was to investigate if infants’ age at attaining motor developmental milestones is associated with the big five personality traits 50 years later.
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Motor Milestones: Sensory Motor Trends of Young Children with Classic Galactosemia. [PDF]
J Occup Ther Sch Early Interv, 2023 Speech problems affect about 66% of children with classic galactosemia (CG), but little is known about early motor and sensory motor development in this at-risk population (Rubio-Gozalbo et al., 2019). Research has been focused on speech and language development leaving a paucity of data on motor and sensory differences.
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Later achievement of infant motor milestones is related to lower levels of physical activity during childhood: the GECKO Drenthe cohort. [PDF]
BMC Pediatr, 2019 BackgroundThe aim of this study is to investigate whether age of infant motor milestone achievement is related to levels of physical activity (PA), weight status and blood pressure at age 4–7 years of age.MethodsIn the Dutch GECKO (Groningen Expert ...
Brouwer SI, Stolk RP, Corpeleijn E.
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Survival, Motor Function, and Motor Milestones: Comparison of AVXS-101 Relative to Nusinersen for the Treatment of Infants with Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type 1. [PDF]
Adv Ther, 2019 IntroductionInfants with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) type 1 typically face a decline in motor function and a severely shortened life expectancy. Clinical trials for SMA type 1 therapies, onasemnogene abeparvovec (AVXS-101) and nusinersen, demonstrated ...
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Predicting the Relationship Between Breastfeeding and Gross Motor Milestones Development: The Practice and Prevalence of Breastfeeding in Metropolitan Areas of Sindh, Pakistan. [PDF]
Cureus, 2019 Objective Breastfeeding is known to be beneficial for the health of both the child and the mother. The primary aim of this study is to assess the effect of lactation on the development of gross motor milestones.
Khan AA +4 more
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Psychomotor development in very and extremely low-birth-weight preterm children: Could it be predicted by early motor milestones and perinatal complications? [PDF]
AIMS Neuroscience, 2022 Preterm-born children are at risk of slower psychomotor development. This risk may be associated with low birth weight and other perinatal factors and morbidities.
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A Multisectoral Food-Assisted Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition Program Targeted to Women and Children in the First 1000 Days Increases Attainment of Language and Motor Milestones among Young Burundian Children. [PDF]
J Nutr, 2019 Background Child development is affected by multiple factors throughout pregnancy and childhood. Multisectoral programs addressing these factors may improve children's development.
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Effectiveness of a training program for the acquisition of motor milestones in infants: a randomized clinical trial [PDF]
Italian Journal of PediatricsBackground In infants, the acquisition of all motor milestones is considered an expression of correct motor development during the first months of life.
Luis Fernández-Sola +4 more
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Infant Motor Milestones and Childhood Overweight: Trends over Two Decades in A Large Twin Cohort. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2020 Background: Poor motor skill competence may influence energy balance with childhood overweight as a result. Our aim was to investigate whether the age of motor milestone achievement has changed over the past decades and whether this change may contribute to the increasing trend observed in childhood overweight.
Brouwer SI +6 more
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Toddlers’ Fine Motor Milestone Achievement is Associated with Early Touchscreen Scrolling [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 Touchscreen technologies provide an intuitive and attractive source of sensory/cognitive stimulation for young children. Despite fears that usage may have a negative impact on toddlers’ cognitive development, empirical evidence is lacking.
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