{"title":"Diagnosing Pseudotumor Cerebri: An Age-based Approach.","authors":"Tuhina Govil-Dalela, Lalitha Sivaswamy","doi":"10.15844/pedneurbriefs-34-19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15844/pedneurbriefs-34-19","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Investigators from Hillel-Yaffe, Carmel, and Bnai Zion Medical Centers in Israel studied the comparative clinical presentations and predisposing factors for idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) across age groups.</p>","PeriodicalId":30710,"journal":{"name":"Pediatric Neurology Briefs","volume":"34 ","pages":"19"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7747552/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38743983","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Long-term Risks of Recurrent Febrile Seizures.","authors":"Daniel A Freedman, Jorge Vidaurre","doi":"10.15844/pedneurbriefs-34-22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15844/pedneurbriefs-34-22","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Investigators from Denmark at Aarhus University studied the long-term risk of epilepsy, psychiatric disorders, and mortality among children with recurrent febrile seizures.</p>","PeriodicalId":30710,"journal":{"name":"Pediatric Neurology Briefs","volume":"34 ","pages":"22"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7747551/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38743892","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rapid Brain MRI Use in a Pediatric Emergency Department.","authors":"Gurpreet Khaira, Jonathan E Kurz","doi":"10.15844/pedneurbriefs-34-21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15844/pedneurbriefs-34-21","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Investigators from the University of Pittsburgh (Department of Emergency Medicine and Division of Pediatric Radiology) and Feinberg School of Medicine (Division of Emergency Medicine) studied the rates of neuroimaging (rapid brain MRI [rMRI], head CT [HCT], and full MRI) before and after implementation of four rapid MRI protocols in their ED.</p>","PeriodicalId":30710,"journal":{"name":"Pediatric Neurology Briefs","volume":"34 ","pages":"21"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7747511/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38743891","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hypoglycemia in Infants and Effect on Neurodevelopment.","authors":"Bridget R McGowan, Tracy S Gertler","doi":"10.15844/pedneurbriefs-34-18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15844/pedneurbriefs-34-18","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In a prospective, randomized treatment trial, investigators from multiple institutions in the HypoEXIT Study Group investigated the developmental outcomes after neonatal hypoglycemia, comparing the traditional glucose threshold 47 mg/dL vs. 36 mg/dL.</p>","PeriodicalId":30710,"journal":{"name":"Pediatric Neurology Briefs","volume":"34 ","pages":"18"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7747512/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38743982","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Neurologic Features with Pathogenic Copy Number Variants.","authors":"Jason Coryell","doi":"10.15844/pedneurbriefs-34-20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15844/pedneurbriefs-34-20","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Investigators from Children's Hospital at Westmead, University of Sydney, performed a retrospective review (2006-2012) of the diagnostic yield of array comparative genomic hybridization (aCGH) among 555 children with diverse neurologic phenotypes in whom a genetic etiology was suspected [1].</p>","PeriodicalId":30710,"journal":{"name":"Pediatric Neurology Briefs","volume":"34 ","pages":"20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7747500/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38743984","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Iron and Insomnia in Autism Spectrum Disorder.","authors":"Innessa Donskoy, Darius Loghmanee","doi":"10.15844/pedneurbriefs-34-17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15844/pedneurbriefs-34-17","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Investigators from four major Universities studied the impact of iron supplementation on insomnia symptoms in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and ferritin levels not indicative of iron deficiency anemia.</p>","PeriodicalId":30710,"journal":{"name":"Pediatric Neurology Briefs","volume":"34 ","pages":"17"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7724765/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38707630","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Plasma Exchange for Treatment of Refractory Demyelination.","authors":"Michael Cronin, Mark S Wainwright","doi":"10.15844/pedneurbriefs-34-16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15844/pedneurbriefs-34-16","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Researchers from the National Pediatric Hospital in Buenos Aires, Argentina, describe their experience with therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE) for refractory inflammatory central nervous system (CNS) attacks in children over the course of the last 15 years.</p>","PeriodicalId":30710,"journal":{"name":"Pediatric Neurology Briefs","volume":"34 ","pages":"16"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7724766/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38707629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Treatment with Ataluren for Duchene Muscular Dystrophy.","authors":"Sameh S Morkous","doi":"10.15844/pedneurbriefs-34-12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15844/pedneurbriefs-34-12","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Investigators from Europe and the USA, representing the STRIDE Registry and Cooperative International Neuromuscular Research Group (CINRG) Duchenne Natural History Study (DNHS), examined the effectiveness of ataluren and standard of care in the Registry versus stand of care alone in the CINRG DNHS.</p>","PeriodicalId":30710,"journal":{"name":"Pediatric Neurology Briefs","volume":"34 ","pages":"12"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7718099/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38709732","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Quality of Life in Multiple Sclerosis.","authors":"Mitchell T Williams, Lalitha Sivaswamy","doi":"10.15844/pedneurbriefs-34-14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15844/pedneurbriefs-34-14","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Investigators from Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden report on their findings comparing quality of life (QoL) measures in both pediatric-onset multiple sclerosis (POMS) and adult-onset multiple sclerosis (AOM).</p>","PeriodicalId":30710,"journal":{"name":"Pediatric Neurology Briefs","volume":"34 ","pages":"14"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7718100/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38709734","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Autism Genetics: Over 100 Risk Genes and Counting.","authors":"Marc P Forrest, Peter Penzes","doi":"10.15844/pedneurbriefs-34-13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15844/pedneurbriefs-34-13","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Researchers from the Autism Sequencing Consortium (ASC) led by Joseph Buxbaum at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai report the largest exome sequencing study in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) to date.</p>","PeriodicalId":30710,"journal":{"name":"Pediatric Neurology Briefs","volume":"34 ","pages":"13"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7718098/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38709733","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}