Journal ArticlePediatrics · September 1, 2023
The 75 years since Pediatrics was first published has witnessed an explosion of the scientific knowledge base informing child health. Yet, the path leading to the present has not been linear. We examine several articles that illustrate some of the unexpect ...
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Journal ArticleJ Hist Med Allied Sci · March 23, 2023
The history of medicine has only unevenly been integrated into medical education. Previous attempts to incorporate the subject have focused either on the first year, with its already over-subscribed curriculum, or the fourth year in the form of electives t ...
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Journal ArticleJ Child Psychol Psychiatry · September 2021
BACKGROUND: This study is part of a larger research program focused on developing objective, scalable tools for digital behavioral phenotyping. We evaluated whether a digital app delivered on a smartphone or tablet using computer vision analysis (CVA) can ...
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Journal ArticleJAMA Pediatr · August 1, 2021
IMPORTANCE: Atypical eye gaze is an early-emerging symptom of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and holds promise for autism screening. Current eye-tracking methods are expensive and require special equipment and calibration. There is a need for scalable, fea ...
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Journal ArticleAutism Res · March 2021
Commonly used screening tools for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) generally rely on subjective caregiver questionnaires. While behavioral observation is more objective, it is also expensive, time-consuming, and requires significant expertise to perform. As ...
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Journal ArticleIEEE Trans Affect Comput · 2021
Observational behavior analysis plays a key role for the discovery and evaluation of risk markers for many neurodevelopmental disorders. Research on autism spectrum disorder (ASD) suggests that behavioral risk markers can be observed at 12 months of age or ...
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Journal ArticleAutism · October 2020
This was a project in primary care for young children (1-2 years old). We tested a parent questionnaire on a tablet. This tablet questionnaire asked questions to see whether the child may have autism. We compared the paper and pencil version of the questio ...
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Journal ArticleSci Rep · January 14, 2020
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper. ...
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Journal ArticleAutism · April 2019
To demonstrate the capability of computer vision analysis to detect atypical orienting and attention behaviors in toddlers with autism spectrum disorder. One hundered and four toddlers of 16-31 months old (mean = 22) participated in this study. Twenty-two ...
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Journal ArticlePerspect Biol Med · 2019
Dr. Leo Kanner, in his delineation of autism as a clinical entity, is also remembered for having created a powerful stereotype of parents of autistic children as highly educated, intelligent, and emotionally distant. As historians have come to understand t ...
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Journal ArticleSci Rep · November 19, 2018
Evidence suggests that differences in motor function are an early feature of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). One aspect of motor ability that develops during childhood is postural control, reflected in the ability to maintain a steady head and body positio ...
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Journal ArticleNPJ Digit Med · 2018
Current tools for objectively measuring young children's observed behaviors are expensive, time-consuming, and require extensive training and professional administration. The lack of scalable, reliable, and validated tools impacts access to evidence-based ...
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Journal ArticleJ Pediatr · April 2017
OBJECTIVES: To assess changes in quality of care for children at risk for autism spectrum disorders (ASD) due to process improvement and implementation of a digital screening form. STUDY DESIGN: The process of screening for ASD was studied in an academic p ...
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Journal ArticlePediatrics · September 1, 2023
The 75 years since Pediatrics was first published has witnessed an explosion of the scientific knowledge base informing child health. Yet, the path leading to the present has not been linear. We examine several articles that illustrate some of the unexpect ...
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Journal ArticleJ Hist Med Allied Sci · March 23, 2023
The history of medicine has only unevenly been integrated into medical education. Previous attempts to incorporate the subject have focused either on the first year, with its already over-subscribed curriculum, or the fourth year in the form of electives t ...
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Journal ArticleJ Child Psychol Psychiatry · September 2021
BACKGROUND: This study is part of a larger research program focused on developing objective, scalable tools for digital behavioral phenotyping. We evaluated whether a digital app delivered on a smartphone or tablet using computer vision analysis (CVA) can ...
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Journal ArticleJAMA Pediatr · August 1, 2021
IMPORTANCE: Atypical eye gaze is an early-emerging symptom of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and holds promise for autism screening. Current eye-tracking methods are expensive and require special equipment and calibration. There is a need for scalable, fea ...
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Journal ArticleAutism Res · March 2021
Commonly used screening tools for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) generally rely on subjective caregiver questionnaires. While behavioral observation is more objective, it is also expensive, time-consuming, and requires significant expertise to perform. As ...
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Journal ArticleIEEE Trans Affect Comput · 2021
Observational behavior analysis plays a key role for the discovery and evaluation of risk markers for many neurodevelopmental disorders. Research on autism spectrum disorder (ASD) suggests that behavioral risk markers can be observed at 12 months of age or ...
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Journal ArticleAutism · October 2020
This was a project in primary care for young children (1-2 years old). We tested a parent questionnaire on a tablet. This tablet questionnaire asked questions to see whether the child may have autism. We compared the paper and pencil version of the questio ...
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Journal ArticleSci Rep · January 14, 2020
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper. ...
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Journal ArticleAutism · April 2019
To demonstrate the capability of computer vision analysis to detect atypical orienting and attention behaviors in toddlers with autism spectrum disorder. One hundered and four toddlers of 16-31 months old (mean = 22) participated in this study. Twenty-two ...
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Journal ArticlePerspect Biol Med · 2019
Dr. Leo Kanner, in his delineation of autism as a clinical entity, is also remembered for having created a powerful stereotype of parents of autistic children as highly educated, intelligent, and emotionally distant. As historians have come to understand t ...
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Journal ArticleSci Rep · November 19, 2018
Evidence suggests that differences in motor function are an early feature of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). One aspect of motor ability that develops during childhood is postural control, reflected in the ability to maintain a steady head and body positio ...
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Journal ArticleNPJ Digit Med · 2018
Current tools for objectively measuring young children's observed behaviors are expensive, time-consuming, and require extensive training and professional administration. The lack of scalable, reliable, and validated tools impacts access to evidence-based ...
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Journal ArticleJ Pediatr · April 2017
OBJECTIVES: To assess changes in quality of care for children at risk for autism spectrum disorders (ASD) due to process improvement and implementation of a digital screening form. STUDY DESIGN: The process of screening for ASD was studied in an academic p ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Public Health · February 2008
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The controversy regarding the once widely used mercury-containing preservative thimerosal in childhood vaccines has raised many historical questions that have not been adequately explored. Why was this preservative incorporated in the first place? Was ther ...
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Journal ArticleSemin Fetal Neonatal Med · February 2005
This article considers errors of care in neonatology. In the 19th century errors that resulted in high infant mortality were shaped by the social environment, and in this setting the development of the incubator failed. In the early 20th century, with the ...
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Journal ArticlePediatr Res · February 2004
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Vaccines against childhood diseases represent some of the most important applications of 20th-century pediatric research. This survey examines how the components of the current U.S. immunization schedule emerged in three phases during the course of the cen ...
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Journal ArticleVaccine · September 8, 2003
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This historical essay analyzes the role played by Great Britain in the pertussis vaccine controversy of the 1970s and 1980s. Public backlash against this vaccine not only took place earlier in Britain than the United States, but also was so widespread that ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Public Health · February 2000
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Childhood immunization constitutes one of the great success stories of American public health in the 20th century. This essay provides a historical examination of this topic through 4 particularly important examples: diphtheria, pertussis, polio, and measl ...
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Journal ArticleJ Perinatol · 2000
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The invention of the incubator in 1880 ignited a dramatic outpouring of popular and professional excitement over the prospect of reducing premature infant mortality. Yet the technology itself progressed slowly and fitfully over the next 50 years. The story ...
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