Human Development
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Muscle deficits in cerebral palsy and early loss of mobility: can we learn something from our elders?

29 Sep 2009 Ambulant young people with cerebral palsy (CP) have reduced muscle volumes in their lower limbs (as low as 50% of their weight-matched typically-developing peers). Yet, they may complete a 'timed up-and-go' test at similar speeds to unaffected ... Read more...

Environmental influences on human growth and development: historical review and case study of contemporary influences.

30 Aug 2009 Over the past 100 years, the study of environmental influences on human physical growth and development has focused on the influences of social and economic factors; family and household characteristics; urbanization/modernization; nutrition; and ... Read more...

Human growth from the cell to the organism: saltations and integrative physiology.

30 Aug 2009 The Society for the Study of Human Biology has been at the forefront in the scientific study of human growth. The documentation of variability in growth rate, size, and tempo across populations has provoked exploration for sources of this diversity, ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Human Development'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Muscle deficits in cerebral palsy and early loss of mobility: can we learn something from our elders? 29 Sep 2009
• Environmental influences on human growth and development: historical review and case study of contemporary influences. 30 Aug 2009
• Human growth from the cell to the organism: saltations and integrative physiology. 30 Aug 2009
• Integrative Approaches to the Study of Human Adaptation and Population Health: A Symposium in Honor of A. Roberto Frisancho, April 11, 2008, Columbus, Ohio, USA. Proceedings. 30 Aug 2009
• [From dream to reality: the knowledgeable nurse, promoter of human development] 30 Aug 2009
• Dematuration. 30 Jul 2009
• Conference report: the Nour Foundation Georgetown University & Blackfriars Hall,Oxford University Symposium Series Technology, Neuroscience & the Nature of Being: Considerations of Meaning, Morality and Transcendence part I: The Paradox of Neurotechnology 8 May 2009. 15 Jul 2009
• Mentoring. A quality assurance tool for dentists. Part 4: some tools for mentoring and coaching. The mentoring encounter. 29 Jun 2009
• Early reproductive maturity among Pumé foragers: Implications of a pooled energy model to fast life histories. 29 Jun 2009
• Pooled energy budget and human life history. 29 Jun 2009
• Childhood, adolescence, and longevity: A multilevel model of the evolution of reserve capacity in human life history. 29 Jun 2009
• The black-white test score gap and early home environment. 30 May 2009
• Poverty, human development, and health in Canada: research, practice, and advocacy dilemmas. 30 May 2009
• Poverty and human development. 30 May 2009
• Caregiving by teens for family members with Huntington disease. 20 May 2009
• Towards a new developmental synthesis: adaptive developmental plasticity and human disease. 7 May 2009
• Assessment of Fearless Dominance and Impulsive Antisociality via normal personality measures: convergent validity, criterion validity, and developmental change. 29 Apr 2009
• Early adulthood uprooted: transitoriness in young women with breast cancer. 29 Apr 2009
• Development and aging of the healthy human brain uncinate fasciculus across the lifespan using diffusion tensor tractography. 20 Apr 2009
• Developmental "roots" in mature biological knowledge. 30 Mar 2009

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Technical information about 'Human Development'

Definition: Continuous sequential changes which occur in the physiological and psychological functions during the life-time of an individual.

Descriptor UI: D006803

Alternative terms: Human Development; Development, Human;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; drug effects; physiology; radiation effects;

Tree Number: F01.525; G07.700.320.374;

History Note: 78