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The Child Neurology Society is now accepting applications for the 2020 Bernard D’Souza International Fellowship Award, which will sponsor two child...

The Fourth International Conference on Paediatric Brain Injury has been postponed to October 6-11, 2021

Scientists find responses to mixed odors are more complex than previously thought.

Stem Cell Research have potential to evolve in to very useful Therapy but we need to wait for it being Safe and Effective for whole life. ICMR says it is in ...

Joint webinar series by the European Reference Networks for Rare Neurological Diseases (ERN-RND) and Neuromuscular Diseases (ERN-EuroNMD) and the European Academy of Neurology (EAN). The speaker is pediatric neurologist from the Foundation I.R.C.C.S - Institute of Neurology Carlo Besta, Milan, Italy . She is an expert in pediatric movement disorders.

Abstract: Autoimmune encephalitis (AE) is an important and treatable cause of acute encephalitis. Diagnosis of AE in a developing child is challenging because of overlap in clinical presentations with other diseases and complexity of normal behavior changes. Existing diagnostic criteria for adult AE require modification to be applied to children, who differ from adults in their clinical presentations, paraclinical findings, autoantibody profiles, treatment response, and long-term outcomes. Methods ...

Abstract We aimed to report our institution’s experience with gabapentin therapy to manage agitation and pain in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) setting. This was a retrospective, single center study of NICU patients admitted between January 2015 and December 2017, who received gabapentin. Data on neonatal agitation, pain, Neonatal Pain, Agitation and Sedation Scale (N-PASS) scores, neurosedative medications, and adverse events were collected. Gabapentin was initiated in 16 patients at ...