
David GosarLjubljana University Medical Centre | UMC · Department of Child, Adolescent and Developmental Neurology
David Gosar
Doctor of Psychology
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BACKGROUND
Children treated for cancer may experience a decline in performance for a variety of reasons, one of which is the impact of treatment. Children treated for leukemias and brain tumours are at the highest risk of developing neurocognitive sequale (Daly and Brown, 2015).
METHODS
In our study we used Bayesian regression to identify assessme...
In addition to difficulties with social communication and behaviour flexibility, children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often experience difficulty responding to sensory input. Our aim was to assess the sensitivity of the Questionnaire on Children’s Processing of Sensory Input to sensory issues experienced by children with ASD. Based on the r...
Background
Identifying common factors that affect public adherence to COVID-19 containment measures can directly inform the development of official public health communication strategies. The present international longitudinal study aimed to examine whether prosociality, together with other theoretically derived motivating factors (self-efficacy, p...
The CTNNB1 Syndrome is a rare neurodevelopmental disorder associated with developmental delay, intellectual disability, and delayed or absent speech. The aim of the present study is to systematically review the available data on the prevalence of clinical manifestations and to evaluate the correlation between phenotype and genotype in published cas...
Introduction
While online consultations have shown promise to be a means for the effective delivery of high-quality mental healthcare and the first implementations of these digital therapeutic contacts go back nearly two decades, uptake has remained limited over the years. The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic dramatically altered this relative stands...
The present study explores the transmission of attachment and family functioning across three generations. It is based on a sample of 460 female emerging adults (aged 18–26), their mothers (N = 440), fathers (N = 368), maternal grandmothers (N = 224), and maternal grandfathers (N = 113). Participants self‐assessed their attachment anxiety and avoid...
Background
Despite the low rate of neurological deficits following the SARS-COV-2 infection in the pediatric population, children and adolescents who develop multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C) after being infected with SARS-COV-2 are at a higher risk for neurological abnormalities and brain injury, increasing the risk of adverse cognitive an...
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic fundamentally disrupted humans’ social life and behavior. Public health measures may have inadvertently impacted how people care for each other. This study investigated prosocial behavior, its association well-being, and predictors of prosocial behavior during the first COVID-19 pandemic lockdown and soug...
A population-based cross-sectional study was conducted during the first COVID-19 wave,
to examine the impact of COVID-19 on mental health using an anonymous online survey, enrolling 9565 individuals in 78 countries. The current sub-study examined the impact of the pandemic and the associated lockdown measures on the mental health, and protective be...
Duchennova mišična distrofija (DMD) je najpogostejša in ena najresnejših mišičnih bolezni otroške dobe. Gre za na kromosom X vezano recesivno živčno-mišično bolezen, ki jo povzroča mutacija v genu za distrofin. Primarno prizadene skeletne mišice in srčno mišico. Pri večini dečkov se klinični znaki bolezni izrazijo z napredujočo mišično šibkostjo me...
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic is a massive health crisis that has exerted enormous physical and psychological pressure. Mental healthcare for healthcare workers (HCWs) should receive serious consideration. This study served to determine the mental-health outcomes of 1,556 HCWs from 45 countries who participated in the COVID-19 IMPACT project, a...
This study aimed to compare the mediation of psychological flexibility, prosociality and coping in the impacts of illness perceptions toward COVID-19 on mental health among seven regions. Convenience sampled online survey was conducted between April and June 2020 from 9130 citizens in 21 countries. Illness perceptions toward COVID-19, psychological...
Background
The COVID-19 pandemic triggered vast governmental lockdowns. The impact of these lockdowns on mental health is inadequately understood. On the one hand such drastic changes in daily routines could be detrimental to mental health. On the other hand, it might not be experienced negatively, especially because the entire population was affec...
Background
Adaptive skills represent the ways that children and adolescents meet their basic needs for self-care, decision making, communication, and learning in their daily life. Having a neuromuscular disease (NMD) not only presents mental health issues, but also impacts these skills.
Aims
Our study aimed to compare the adaptive skills and menta...
Introduction
Studies have shown that adolescents with moderate hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy (HIE) may have specific cognitive deficits, especially reduced speed of information processing. The aim of our study was to confirm these earlier findings find out whether the degree of impairment in speed of information processing correlates with the de...
Background: Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a developmental disorder characterized by deficits in social interaction, restricted interest and repetitive behavior. Oxidative stress in response to environmental exposure plays a role in virtually every human disease and represents a significant avenue of research into the etiology of ASD. The aim of...
The aim of the present study was to evaluate the association between prenatal exposure to mercury (Hg) and neurodevelopment of the child, taking into account genetic polymorphism of apolipoprotein E (Apoe) and other relevant confounders. Six hundred and one mother-child pairs were recruited from the central Slovenia region and 243 from Rijeka, on t...
Self-harming behaviour most commonly begins in adolescence and is more frequent among adolescent females. We explored the hypothesis that adolescent females who deliberately selfharm were more likely to perform worse on a decision-making task. Previous research in adolescents who self-harm reported impaired decision-making. However, research put li...
The aim of the present study was to determine the levels of metals in blood (zinc (Zn), copper (Cu), aluminium (Al), lead (Pb) and mercury (Hg)), as well as the specific porphyrin levels in the urine of patients with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) compared with patients with other neurological disorders. The study was performed in a group of childr...
High professional expertise organized in multidisciplinaryteams is needed to provide comprehensive epilepsy care. InEurope, 54 million people live in 24 countries with a populationof less than 5 million and 12.5 millions live in countrieswith a population of less than 3 million. Adjusted solutionsare needed for severely aff ected people with epilep...
High professional expertise organized in multidisciplinary teams is needed to provide comprehensive epilepsy care. In Europe, 54 million people live in 24 countries with a population of less than 5 million and 12.5 millions live in countries with a population of less than 3 million. Adjusted solutions are needed for severely affected people with ep...
Vrednosti težkih kovin v krvi in specifičnih porfirinov v urinu pri otrocih z avtizmom Heavy metals and specific porphyrine levels in children with autism Izvleček Izhodišča: Namen naše študije je bil primerjati skupino otrok s spektroavtističnimi motnjami (SAM) in kontrolno skupino otrok z drugimi nevrološkimi motnjami/boleznimi glede krvnih vredn...
Background and purposeSome 3%−10% of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) experience disease onset before the age of 18 years (‘early’ onset MS, EOMS). Optical coherence tomography is a non-invasive method to measure retinal nerve fibre layer thickness (RNFLT) and total macular volume (TMV) and may be useful to differentiate axonal and neuronal da...
Background: The aim of our study was to determine the levels of heavy metals in blood (zinc, copper, aluminium, lead, mercury), as well as the specific porphyrin levels in the urine of patients with ASD compared with patients with other neurological disorders. Methods: The study was performed in a group of children with ASD (N = 52, average age = 6...
Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the most common mental health disorders in childhood; symptoms persist into adulthood in a majority of patients. It is among the most heritable of psychiatric disorders with a high risk for familial aggregation and has been linked in adulthood with impairment across a variety of domains, inc...
To address the specific impairment of imitation in autism, the imitation abilities of 22 children with fragile X syndrome (FXS) with and without autism were compared. Based on previous research, we predicted that children with FXS and autism would have significantly more difficulty with non-meaningful imitation tasks. After controlling for full-sca...
Background: Impaired social interaction and communication are beside a restricted repertoire of activities and behaviours the core features of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). As these feature manifests themselves by the age of three they may greatly hamper the child's inclusion into preschool institution and may require special educational interven...