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Investigators from hospitals in Brazil tested verbal fluency in 20 adolescent patients, ages ranged from 11 to 16 years (mean 13.8 years), with Sydenham chorea compared with 20 patients with rheumatic fever without chorea and 20 healthy controls, matched for age and gender.

Investigators at University of Copenhagen, Denmark, evaluated whether 4 weeks of 30 min daily treadmill training with an incline may facilitate corticospinal transmission and improve control of the ankle joint in 16 children, aged 5-14 years, with cerebral palsy.

The outcome of 19 infants with complications of Arnold-Chiari malformation and meningomyelocele was reviewed at the Depts.

Investigators from the Mayo Clinic, Rochester MN, determined the use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in an outpatient pediatric neurology clinic, and assessed family attitudes toward the efficacy of CAM versus prescription medications.

The transcription of cytokine genes in peripheral blood leukocytes (PBL) of 23 children (mean age 3.2 years) with influenza (mostly type A) complicated by encephalopathy (11 patients) or febrile convulsions (12 patients) was compared with systemic cytokine responses in 23 (mean age 5.0 years) with influenza but without neurologic complications, in a study at Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan.

Records of 38 patients, 23 boys and 15 girls (ages 3 months to 16 years [42% ages 3-12 months]), seen between 1990 and 1997 with proven herpes simplex encephalitis (HSE), were reviewed retrospectively to determine the diagnostic reliability of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) results, in a study at the Neuropediatric Service, Hopital Saint Vincent de Paul, Paris, France.

Investigators at the Karol Marcinkowski University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland, analyzed the records of 194 children diagnosed with Epstein-Barr virus infection and having the viral capsid antigen IgM antibody.

Investigators from Great Ormond Street Hospital, and Institute of Child Health, London, UK, reviewed the case notes of all patients treated with methylphenidate (MPH) for ADHD at an epilepsy center between 1998 and 2005.

The risk of early drug use asociated with ADHD was evaluated in a community-based sample of 717 (412 low birth weight, 305 normal birth weight) children examined at 6 years of age and at follow-up at age 11 years, at the Department of Psychiatry, Henry Ford Health Sciences Center, Detroit, MI.

Investigators from University of Washington, Seattle, WA; Harvard U, MA; St Louis, MO; Atlanta, GA; Northwestern U, and Shriner’s Hospital, Chicago, compared the development of school-aged children with single-suture craniosynostosis (sagittal, metopic, unicoronal, lambdoid) and unaffected children.

Investigators from the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada, and Okayama University Hospital, Japan, analyzed the high occurrence rate (OR) of interictal high frequency oscillations (HFOs) at 80-200 Hz (ripples) and >200 Hz (fast ripples, FRs).

Investigators at University Hospital of Bonn and 13 other centers in Germany, France, and Italy conducted a prospective, longitudinal observational study (2008-2011) of offspring or siblings of patients with spinocerebellar ataxias (SCA)-1, 2, 3, and 6.

Investigators at University of Rochester Medical Center, NY; Hopital Archet-CHU de Nice, France; and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY, studied the frequency of Coats syndrome and its association with D4Z4 contraction size in 408 patients identified with facioscapulohumeral dystrophy type 1 (FSHD1).

Researchers at St Thomas’ Hospital, London, and Leeds General Infirmary, UK studied prospectively the clinical features of syncope-like epileptic seizures (SLES) and their frequency in children aged 1 – 15 years with Panayiotopoulos syndrome (PS) who were referred for an EEG.

Researchers at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN performed retrospective chart reviews of 6 children with epilepsy and CDKL5 mutations.

Physician screening practices at a hospital-based, university-affiliated pediatric primary care center serving an urban high-risk population in Rochester, NY were evaluated to determine the feasibility of the 1991 Centers for Disease Control guidelines.

Researchers at Universities of Melbourne and Queensland, Australia, compared the incidence and natures of fetal malformations (FMs) recognized at birth with those recognized in the first post-natal year.

Developmental language impairment in 59 children, aged 5-7 years, exposed to a thiamine deficiency in defective milk formula fed during the first year of life is studied by researchers at Tel Aviv University and Sourasky Medical Centre, Israel.

Researchers at Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI studied 14 children with bilateral Sturge-Weber syndrome, representing 12.7% of a total of 110 patients with the disorder.

The degree of muscle involvement of lower leg muscles of 34 patients with DMD >8 years, using muscle MRI, was estimated in a multicenter study at the Institute of Child Health and other centers in London, in the UK, and 1 in Rome, Italy.

Researchers at the University of Liverpool and the Department of Neurology, Royal Group of Hospitals, Belfast, UK, investigated the early cognitive development of 155 children born to women with epilepsy (WWE) and exposed in utero to the antiepileptic drug, levetiracetam (LEV) or sodium valproate (VPA).

Long-term neurodevelopmental outcome of preterm infants with cerebellar hemorrhages detected only on MRI was studied at University of California, San Francisco.

Investigators from Okayama University and Medical Center report five pediatric patients with ictal fear followed from Jan 2003 to Dec 2012. The age of epilepsy onset ranged from 8 months to 9 years and 10 months.

Investigators at the Mott Children’s Hospital, Ann Arbor, MI, report 4 infants with diffuse brain injury and cerebral atrophy who developed cerebral venous sinus thrombosis and were treated with the low-molecular-weight heparin, enoxaparin.

Investigators from Ankara Pediatrics, Turkey, evaluate the clinical symptoms and etiology in records of 53 patients (32 female) diagnosed with pseudotumor cerebri (PTC) in a child neurology department between 2005 and 2012.

The American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Genetics present a recommended clinical genetics diagnostic approach to the evaluation of intellectual disability or global developmental delays.

Investigators at Newcastle University, UK, and Hopitaux de Paris, France, report 5 patients from 3 unrelated families with a strikingly homogeneous clinical entity combining congenital myasthenia with distal muscle weakness and atrophy resembling a distal myopathy.

Investigators from Leiden University, the Netherlands, used quantitative MR imaging to study brain microstructure in 30 patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) and 22 age-matched controls (age 8-18 years).

Investigators at Auburn University, Huntsville, AL, and other centers, reviewed reports in the literature (1966-May 15, 2014) of priapism associated with methylphenidate (MPH), amphetamines, and atomoxetine used in treatment of ADHD.

Investigators at University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, report cardiac autonomic dysfunction and arterial stiffness among children and adolescents with ADHD treated with stimulants.

Investigators at Seoul National Hospital, and other centers in Seoul, Korea, studied the genetic, perinatal, and developmental risk factors in 147 children, ages 6 to 15 years, diagnosed with ADHD.

Investigators from Okazaki City Hospital, and other centers in Japan retrospectively evaluated the clinical features, ultrasonography, and EEG findings in 22 preterm infants with PVHI and 49 with PVL.

Investigators at Boston Children's Hospital and other centers compared the characteristics of patients with status epilepticus (SE) lasting 5-29 min with those with SE lasting >30 min.

Investigators at University of Toronto and McMaster University, Canada, report a 22-year-old woman with multiple episodes of status epilepticus and migratory cortical stroke-like lesions.

Investigators from University of California, San Francisco; King's College London, UK; and University of Utah, Salt Lake City, studied patients with ‘visual snow’ to characterize the phenotype and compare it to migraine aura.

The FEBSTAT study team of investigators determined whether febrile status epilepticus (FSE) produces acute hippocampal injury that evolves to hippocampal sclerosis.

Investigators from Taichung, Taiwan, conducted a nationwide population-based retrospective study of the association between febrile seizure (FS) and allergic rhinitis.

Researchers at Technische Universitat, Munich, and other centers in Germany, studied the prevalence of KIR4.1-IgG by ELISA in 47 children with acquired demyelinating disease (ADD), in 22 with other neurologic diseases, 22 with autoimmune disease, and in 18 healthy controls.

Researchers at the National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Kodaira, and multiple centers in Japan, analyze the clinical features and ATP1A3 mutations in 35 Japanese children diagnosed with alternating hemiplegia of childhood (AHC).

Investigators at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, PA; UCLA; and Univ Wisconsin, Madison, WI, draw attention to the lack of attention to comorbidities in the treatment of epilepsy.

Investigators at University of Western Australia conducted a population-based, case-control study of maternal, pregnancy, and newborn risk factors by gender for children prescribed stimulant medication for treatment of ADHD.

Investigators from Boston Children's Hospital; the Lahey Clinic, Burlington, MA; and Ohio State University, report 3 children presenting between ages 9 and 10 years with proximal lower extremity weakness with areflexia and low-amplitude compound muscle action potentials, and diagnosed with Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome.

Investigators at University of Bologna and other centers in Italy, Finland, USA, and UK, performed clinical, polysomnographic, and cataplexy-video assessments at diagnosis (mean age of 10 +/- 3 years) and after a median follow-up of 3 years.

Investigators at Georgia Regents University, Augusta, GA, and multiple centers (25) in the USA and UK, studied the Neurodevelopmental Effects of Antiepileptic Drugs (NEAD Study) in 195 children of pregnant women with epilepsy who had received AED monotherapy (carbamazepine, lamotrigine, phenytoin, or valproate) from 1999 to 2004.

Investigators at Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, China, reviewed children diagnosed with acute transverse myelitis (ATM) between 1995 and 2008 and selected 39 patients diagnosed according to the new Johns Hopkins Consortium criteria.

Investigators from UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, studied the cause, course, and outcomes of 757 patients who were admitted over 54 months following mild head injury (MHI) complicated by intracranial hemorrhage (ICH).

The literature on benign neonatal sleep myoclonus (BNSM) was reviewed and synthesized by researchers at University of Bern, Switzerland.

Two infants presenting within a period of weeks with gram negative meningitis and diagnosed with Curranino syndrome are reported from Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, and Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA.

Researchers at Children's Hospital of Michigan, Detroit report a boy aged 12 years with a 12-month history of ADHD, OCD, and stimulant-induced tourette syndrome that resolved following surgical removal of a right temporal lobe and basal ganglia oligodendroglioma.

The independent and joint effects of prenatal tobacco and childhood lead exposures on ADHD in a national sample of US children were studied by researchers at Cincinnatti Children's Hospital, OH; British Columbia Children's Hospital, Vancouver, Canada; and University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.