Forewords

It is a great pleasure to publish and archive the abstracts of the presentation that will be made at the 2025 Annual Conference of the British Paediatric Neurology Association (BPNA) in Oxford. These abstracts cover a very wide range of timely topics in paediatric neurology in terms of clinical presentations, diagnostics, and management, often with clear implications for clinical practice. Interestingly, most of the themes identified by the recent BPNA effort in conjunction with the National Institute for Health and Care Research and the James Lind Alliance, as research priorities regarding the effectiveness of interventions for the benefit of children with neurological conditions, are represented, including early intervention, sleep, emotional well-being, psychological interventions for functional neurological disorders, pharmacological treatment of hypertonia, and non-medical interventions for motor disorders.¹ Several abstracts involve interesting use of technologies such as machine learning or telemedicine. Many have a direct educational value in addition to scientific quality; a few address quality improvement of service or training. A proportion of the presented works result from international collaboration.

Readers of this Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology supplement must bear in mind that although each of the abstracts was carefully selected by the BPNA for presentation at the Annual Conference, the submitted material did not go through the review and editorial process that is applied to full papers received at the Journal. The abstracts serve as a base for the actual presentation and discussion during and around the meeting, which is also a form of peer review and constructive interaction. I hope that a number of these presentations will eventually be written up as research articles and duly submitted.

Bernard Dan

Editor in Chief

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