The Medical News - from News-Medical.Net - Latest Medical News and Research from Around the World - Microcephaly - Children wth microcephaly should be screened for neurlogic and cognative problems, says new American Academy of Neurology and Child Neurology Society guidelines.
PEDIATRICS Journal Abstract of study to determine whether serial head circumference measurements and decreased rate of head growth in asphyxiated full-term newborns during the first few months of life may predict the development of eventual microcephaly.
PubMed Abstract of study: Clinical and brain imaging heterogeneity of severe microcephaly. The aim of this research was to group a large cohort of patients with primary microcephaly into more discrete subtypes, to optimize assessment of the patients based on their clinical and brain imaging findings
American Academy of Neurology - Evalatuion of the Child with Microcephaly - Q & A with Authros Stephen Ashwal, MD, FAAN and David Michelson, MD , Sep 2009
American Academy of Neurology (AAN)- Special Article- Practive Parameter: Evaluation of the child with microcephaly (an evidence-based review). Objective: To make evidence-based recommendations concerning the evaluation of the child with microcephaly
PubMed Abstract: CFP MFC Official Publication of the College of Family Physicians of Canada - Microcephaly and Vulnerability of the Brain int he Etiology of Cerebral Palsy