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The Child Neurology Society ( USA ) is now accepting applications for the 2012 Bernard D’Souza International Fellowship Award, which will sponsor all expenses for a child neurologist from a developing country to attend the 41st Annual Meeting of the CNS to be held in Huntington Beach, California, from October 31-November 3, 2012. This will be preceded, or followed, by a visit to a selected training program in North America. The purpose of the award is to promote child neurology in developing countries. Applicants must have trained in a developing country, should be...

The Rapid Anticonvulsant Medication Prior to Arrival Trial (RAMPART) trial results published in the NEJM suggest that IM midazolam is at least as safe and effective as IV lorazepam for prehospital termination of seizures in status epilepticus. This double-blind, randomised, phase 3, noninferiority trial designed and conducted by the Neurological Emergencies Treatment Trials (NETT) network, a multidisciplinary clinical trials infrastructure funded by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), compared the efficacy of intramuscular midazolam with that of intravenous lorazepam for children and adults in status epilepticus treated by paramedics. ...

Seizures in early life are associated with autism with about 40% of patients with autism also having epilepsy as comorbidity. A study from Boston Children's Hospital finds a reason for the link, and suggests that the mTOR inhibitor rapamycin ,already shown to be safe in children, could help prevent autism from developing in newborns who have seizures. Frances Jensen (standing) with her postdoc Jocelyn Lippman BellFrances Jensen and colleagues at the Department of Neurology and the F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center at Boston Children's Hospital used a rat model to show that early seizures...

The Annual General Meeting of the ICNA Annual General Meeting will be held on Tuesday 29th May, 18.30-19.30 at the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre , Brisbane. All ICNA members are welcome and encouraged to attend this meeting. Agenda 1. Welcome - Harry Chugani , USA 2. Reports President -Harry Chugani, USA Secretary Jo Wilmshurst, South Africa Treasurer - Orvar Eeg-Oloffson, Sweden President elect - Ingrid Tein, Canada 3. 2014 Congress update and 2016 Congress announcements 4....

A group of scientists has found that video games such as Nintendo's Wii offer an enjoyable opportunity to promote light to moderate physical activity in children with CP, and may have a role to play in rehabilitation therapy. Their research is published online in the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. According to the lead investigator Elaine Biddiss, PhD, of Toronto's Bloorview Research Institute at Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital, and the University of Toronto, CanadA, active video games (AVG) provide a low-cost, commercially available system that can be strategically selected to address specific therapeutic...

The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), National Institutes of Health (NIH) is requesting your input on version 2 of the Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Common Data Element (CDE) recommendations. The TBI CDEs were developed as the result of a U.S. multiagency collaboration between the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR), the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), and the Defense Centers of Excellence (DCoE). This collaboration previously resulted in the development of Version 1.0 of the TBI...

See why you should come to Brisbane Welcome to the Joint 12th International Child Neurology Congress and 11th Asian and Oceanian Congress of Child Neurology, the largest child neurology congress ever held in Australia.  We are preparing a world class scientific program, an international array of speakers from North America, Central and South America, Asia, Oceania, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The congress aims to cover all aspects of child neurology and affiliated topics. There are a number of exciting themes in the program including: ​New developments...

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The European Paediatric Neurology Society's Researcher Meeting will take place from 14th & 15th December 2012 in Rheinfelden, Germany close to Basel. While the main topics are epilepsy and ataxia other research groups including neurometabolic diseases, autoimmune-inflammatory-diseases, neonatal neurology, neurodegeneration and neuroprotection, genetics, developmental neurology, and neuromuscular diseases will also feature in the meeting. If you would like to create a new research group? – Please contact the organizers. Organisation committee on behalf of the Swiss Neuropaediatric Society: Prof. Barbara Plecko Prof. Bernhard Schmitt Prof. Maja Steinlin Organisation secretariat: Marianne Probst Neuropädiatrie, Inselspital 3010 Bern - 031 632...

Shaul Harel was born Charlie Hilsberg in Brussels, Belgium in 1937, the youngest of five children. His father was a haberdasher and a Cantor, distinguished for his particularly beautiful voice. A happy childhood and formal education were irrevocably and brutally disrupted at age five. In the first stage of Nazi occupation of Belgium his oldest brother volunteered to do agricultural work in Germany with the promise that this would save further trouble to his family. He was sent to Auschwitz. The deportation and deaths of Shaul's parents and his becoming one of the "hidden children" followed. Dr. Harel has...