Autism spectrum disorders (ASD)are severe neurodevelopmental disorders affecting children′s mental health.ASD have become a global public health concern because of the rising prevalence over the past 30 years. Worldwide there are more and more studies recently,especially in United States of America.Many progresses have been achieved in the areas of diagnostic criteria,epidemiology,etiology and early intervention for ASD.This review discusses these issues.

Objective:To explore the eye-movement characteristics and the visual cognitive processing traits of Chinese children with reading disorder (RD) during reading articles in order to offer reference for measures designed for diagnosis and therapy.Methods: Recorded the series data of eye-movement with Eye-link Ⅱ when the children read articles, and analyzed relevant parameter of eye-movement.Essay one is a narrative article chosen from the textbook of the second grade, whose content is simple and there are subject sentences.Essay two is a narrative article chosen from the Neuropsychology, which is an article used to test optic aphasia patient, and the essay has no subject sentence.Results: ①Results of reading comprehend: For the RD children, the reading score of the first narrative article was lower than that in the normal control group (2.2?1.1/2.9?0.5,t=-2.2,P0.05).For the RD children, the reading time of the two articles was longer than that in normal control group (for article one: 119.3?44.1/63.4?20.4, t=4.3,P

Objectives: To study the executive function (EF) profiles in children with ADHD. Methods: 1.We used some neuropsychological tests,including Stroop test, visual and auditory Go/No-Go tasks, digits reciting inverse, delayed spacial position memory span test, tower of London (TOL), tail making test (TMT),to evaluate the capacity of response inhibition, phonological working memory, visual-spacial working memory, planning and set-shifting of subjects. Results: 1.The ADHD children spent more time to accomplish color naming when the word color was inconsistent with the word meaning than normal control (NC) in Stroop test(p﹤0.05). 2.The ADHD children made more errors than NC in both visual and auditory Go/No-Go test(p﹤0.01). 3.The scores of digits reciting inverse was lower in ADHD than NC(p﹤0.01). 4.The representation of ADHD was poorer than NC in delayed spacial position memory span test(p﹤0.01). 5. In TOL test, the ADHD children spent more time in all of two-move, four-move and five-move tasks than NC, and broke rules more frequently than NC(p﹤0.05). 6.In TMT, the ADHD children spent more time and made more errors on part B than NC(p﹤0.05), and there was no significant difference on part A (p﹥0.05). Conclusions: The obvious impaired executive functions are found in children with ADHD, involving poor response inhibition,impaired working memory, dysfunction of planning and set-shifting.

Objective To investigate the emergency treatment measures of spontaneous frontotemporal intracerebral hematoma.Methods Retrospectively analyzed the rescue process and surgical experiences of 27 patients with spontaneous frontotemporal intracerebral hematoma combined with subarachnoid hemorrhage or ventricular hemorrhage.Twenty-three cases underwent surgery;4 cases with cerebral hernia under general anesthesia underwent craniotomy hematoma clearance,aneurysm clip and decompressive craniectomy;7 cases with previous history of hypertension,considered with hypertensive intracerebral hemorrhage,was performed with craniotomy hematoma clearance and decompressive craniectomy in the emergency under general anesthesia; 12 cases of middle cerebral artery aneurysms bleeding,chosen craniotomy hematoma clearance and aneurysm clip;4 cases found nothing by digital subtraction angiography (DSA) or CT angiography (CTA),were given conservative treatment,one of them was found arteriovenous malformations after 1 month,which was treated by γ-ray.Results After the surgery,2 cases died due to severe cerebral infarction,25 cases were followed up for 6 months,according to the Glasgow outcome scale(GOS) classification:17 cases with good prognosis,7 cases with poor prognosis,1 case with vegetative state.Conclusions Cerebral hernia formation in patients with spontaneous frontotemporal intracerebral hematoma should relieve cerebral hernia and mass effect as soon as possible,early surgery to save lives.Which of them without brain hernia,after diagnosis by CTA or DSA,choice suitable treatment.Sufficient preoperative evaluation,suitable surgical timing and good microsurgical techniques can improve the prognosis.

Objective To compare the intelligence quotient (IQ) between children with Asperger syndrome (AS) and children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in order to provide reliable evidence for differential diagnosis.Methods The intelligence of 141 children with AS,154 children with ADHD and 102 normal control (NC) children aged 6-13 years old examined by the China-Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children was analyzed,and the diagnoses of AS and ADHD was made according to the Fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder.Results The proportions of children at low level of IQ (borderline and mental retardation range) in children with AS and with ADHD group were both significantly higher than those of NC group.The proportions of children at top level of IQ (superior and very superior range) in ADHD group were significantly lower than those of AS and NC groups.In the AS group,higher proportions of verbal IQ (VIQ) at top level and performance IQ (PIQ) at low level were found.The average VIQ,PIQ and full IQ (FIQ) of the AS,ADHD and NC groups were (102.55 ± 17.27,91.31 ± 16.01,97.10 ± 15.88),(95.39 ±13.49,94.16 ± 12.92,94.40 ± 12.78) and (104.06 ± 13.66,103.05 ±11.80,103.91 ± 12.92),respectively.The VIQ,PIQ and FIQ in ADHD group were lower than those in NC group significantly(P ＜ 0.01);compared with NC group,the PIQ and FIQ in AS group were significantly lower (P ＜ 0.01),while the VIQ was not significantly different(P ＞0.05).The AS and ADHD group scored both lower than the NC groupin the subtests ofcomprehension, coding, picture completion andpicture arrangement (P ＜ 0.01).The difference values between VIQ and PIQ in the AS,ADHD and TD group were(11.23 ± 17.29),(1.23 ± 13.10) and (1.00 ± 10.91),respectively,among which only the value in AS group was statistically significant (P ＜ 0.01) but not in ADHD and NC group(P ＞0.05).The proportion of children having a VIQ-PIQ difference value more than 15 in AS group was 54.60％ (77/141 cases),which was significantly higher than that in ADHD [22.07％ (34/154 cases)] and NC groups [13.72％ (14/102 cases)] (P ＜ 0.01),while the latter 2 value had no statistical difference (P ＞ 0.05).The differences among scores on the three Kaufman factors were significant in AS group (P ＜ 0.01) but not in ADHD and NC groups(P ＞ 0.05).Conclusions Compared with ADHD and normal control children,there are some unique intelligence profiles in children with AS,which show VIQ and PIQ separation,imbalance intelligence structure as well as strengths and weaknesses coexisting.Furthermore,children with ADHD and AS children share common features in some subtests scores.

Objective To investigate the effects of arsenic trioxide (ATO) on the expression of autoan-tibody and interleukin (IL)-10 IL-12 in MRL/lpr mice. Methods MRL/lpr mice wereseparated into 3 different groups. The 3 groups received arsenic trioxide (ATO, 0.4 mg·kg~(-1)·d~(-1)), cyclophosphamide (CTX,50 mg/kg) and sodium chloride (NS, volume weight-determined) abdominal injection respee-tively. The treatment stopped 2 months later. Afterwards, the rates of CD3~+(T) cells, CD3~+CD4~+(Th) cells and the CD3~+CD4~+cells which produced IL-10 and IL-12 were detected using single-cell measurement of intr-acellular eytokines by flow cytometry after polyclonal stimulation with PMA and ionomycin for 4 hours in 5% CO_(2.)Serum levels of IL 10 and IL-12 were assessed using the Mouse cytokines ELISA Kit. One-way ANOVA LSD test and paires t test were used for statistical analysis.Results ①The level of anti-dsDNA antibody after treatment was 0.92±0.06, while it was 1.14±0.58 before treatment. So the ds-DNA antibody level was significantly decreased in ATO group (P<0.01), while it was dramatically increased in the NS groups (P<0.05) after the treatment;②ATO group had significantly less CD3~+ cells and CD3~+CD4~+ cells[(44±4)% and (20±4)%]compared withNS group [(59±5)%and(30±3)%](P<0.01).③The serum level of IL-12 in the ATO group was (84±12) pg/ml,while it was (103±13)pg/ml in the NS group (P=0.018).④The intracellular levels of IL-10 and IL-12 produced by CD3~+CD4~+ (Th) cells in the ATO group were ( 1.5±0.4)% and (2.43±0.42)%, which was significantly lower than those in the NS group respectively (2.5±0.5)% and (3.24±0.40)%(P<0.01). Conclusion Arsenic trioxide can reduce the production of anti-dsDNA antibody,inhibit the activation and proliferation of both T cells and Th subsets in the MRLApr mice, and hence decrease the serum levels of IL-12 and the levels of IL-10, IL-12 produced by Th cells.

Objective:To explore the way and feasibility of carrying out developmental-behavioral pediatrics(DBP) teaching for medical students on probation.Method :To divide 230 medical students on probation into experimental group(120 students) and control group(110 students).The former group spent four class hours in child developmental-behavioral outpatient department and another four hours in sensory integrative therapy room to assist doctors in their training work as volunteers,and their rest probation contents were the same as those of the latter group which had classes according to teaching outline of pediatrics.Test scores of pediatrics of the two groups were compared.Questionnaires filled in by students of experimental group were analyzed.Results of the two groups,scores of pediatrics were not different,which showed that scores weren't influenced by extra teaching contents.Results of questionnaires showed that teaching of DBP was welcome to students,and they had made advances in relative knowledge and their overall quality.Conclusion: It is necessary to carry out DBP teaching.The teaching way of this study has got good effect and is feasible.

BACKGROUND: Clinical researches found that portal vein occlusion was beneficial to inhibit growth of hepatocarcinoma, promote compensatory hyperplasia of un-blocking hepatic tissue and decrease metastasis of portal vein occlusion; however, it should be fu~her proved by animal experiments.OBJECTIVE: To investigate models of portal vein occlusion of hepatic VX2 tumor in rabbits and evaluate value of multi-slice CT.DESIGN: Randomized grouping design and animal study.SETTING: Department of Radiology, Xinqiao Hospital of the Third Military Medical University of Chinese PLA.MATERIALS: The experiment was carried out in the Imaging Department of Xinqiao Hospital of the Third Military Medical University of Chinese PLA from July 2002 to January 2005. Forty New Zealand rabbits were divided according to digital table into 4 groups: immediate group (transplantation of tumor after immediate portal vein occlusion), 3-week group (transplantation of tumor at 3 weeks after portal vein occlusion), negative control group and positive control group, 10 in each group.METHODS: Hepatic VX2 tumor was transplanted with abdominal-embedding innoculation at immediate portal vein occlusion and 3 weeks after portal vein occlusion. Meanwhile, they were divided into negative control group (Left external branch of portal vein was done sham-operative block,and left exite was embedded and inoculated pseudoly) and positive control group (Transplanted tumor did not suffer from portal vein occlusion). All rabbits were scanned with multi-slice CT.MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: General changes of liver, changes of tumor, metastasis of tumor, vascular-imaging displaying rate of multi-slice CT of hepatic artery and portal vein, blood flow of liver, blood volume,mean transit time, permeability of vascular surface and fraction of hepatic arterial infusion (HAI).RESULTS: All 40 animals were involved in the final analysis. ① Tumor did not grow in both immediate group and 3-week group. In 3-week group,left endite was atrophied and growth of tumor was inhibited. The maximal diameter of tumor was smaller than that in positive control group [(2.55 ±0.46), (3.59±0.37) cm, t=5.57, P ＜ 0.001]. Incidences of metastasis in liver and lung were lower in 3-week group than those in positive control group (10%, 40%; 100%, 90%); however, there was no significant difference. ② Scanning with multi-slice CT, displaying rate of branches hepatic artery was lower in grade Ⅲ than that in grade Ⅰ and Ⅱ (40%, 70%,100%, P ＜ 0.05); but there was no significant difference of displaying rate of portal vein at various grades (P ＞ 0.05). ③ Values of blood flow of liver,blood volume, mean transit time and permeability of vascular surface were lower in immediate group and 3-week group than those in control groups,but values of HAI were increased.CONCLUSION: Ligating left external branch of portal vein is an ideal way to establish models of portal vein occlusion of hepatic VX2 tumor in rabbits; furthermore, multi-slice CT plays a key role in evaluating effect of portal vein occlusion.

Objective To explore the difference in early symptoms between 2-3 years old autism spectrum disorder (ASD) children and healthy children through video analysis,in order to provide evidence for the identification and screening of ASD children.Methods The study involved 25 cases of ASD children who were admitted to Children Development and Behavior Center,the Third Affiliated Hospital,Sun Y at-Sen University,and confirmed with diagnosis standards of Diagnosis and Statistical Manual of Medical Disorder 5th edition (DSM-5) and 21 healthy children recruited in community.Three-minute videos of children in standard procedure were collected.Mter that,all the videos were scored on 5 items by 2 professional evaluators,unaware of diagnostic status.Comparison analysis of video scores between ASD and the healthy controls was made,and the sensitivity and specificity of video analysis were evaluated.Results Response to roll-call score was higher in ASD children [2 (2) scores] than that of the healthy children [0 (0) scores],response to audible object score was higher in ASD children [0(1) scores] than that of the healthy children [0(0) scores],social smiling score was higher in ASD children [1 (1) scores] than that of the healthy children [0 (1) scores],and total score was higher in ASD children [4 (2) scores] than that of the healthy children [2 (0) scores],and the differences were statistically significant (Z =2.272,P =0.000;Z =0.976,P =0.010;Z =1.763,P =0.001;Z =2.355,P =0.000).But,no difference was found in speech and finger pointing (all P ＞ 0.05).The consistency between three-minute video analysis and standard diagnosis was 0.652 (P =0.000),with 80.0％ of sensitivity and 85.7％ of specificity.Conclusions The ASD children perform worse than the healthy children in response to roll-call,response to audible object and social smiling.Three-minute standard video analysis can help to detect the early symptoms of ASD children.This result also demonstrates the potential of video-based analysis used as a ASD screening instrument in 2-3 years old children.

Objective To explore the profile of cognitive response to five facial expressions in 6-to 12-month-old infants. Method One hundred and fifty-five 6-to 12-month-old healthy infants were recruited to view five kinds of normative facial emotional expression pictures which presented on computer screen. The visual attention, self emotional and behavioral responses of each infant toward the facial expressions were recorded by a web camera and then were coded and analyzed from the videotaped observations. Results The visual preference to expressions was different in different groups. 6-to 8-month-old infants looked back ( such as 1.50 ± 0.73,1.39 ±0.81,1.67 ±0.87 ) more to all expressions than 9-to 12-month-old infants( 1.10 ± 0.53,1.04 ± 0.51,1.12 ±0. 61 ). 6-to 8-month-old infants exhibited no obvious difference(P＞ 0.05 ) while 9-to 12-month-old infants exhibited significant difference in self emotional responses (include positive and negative) to different expressions (P ＜0. 05 ). Infants appeared some positive behaviors including looking back at mother,finger-pointing and phonating to expressions during the observation. Conclusions Infants over 6-month-age could discriminate different facial expressions,recognize and comprehend happy expression earlier. 9-to 12-month-old infants began to understand the negative emotional significance of negative facial expressions gradually, but their comprehension to negative emotional expressions was rudimentary.