In the early 1990s when I was a young pediatrician, I was responsible for evaluating children with developmental and learning problems. Two unrelated boys, ages 7 and 9, were found to have IQs in the ...

Infantile spasms represent a severe epileptic encephalopathy predominantly affecting early childhood, with West syndrome constituting a well‐defined clinical subset marked by a triad of spasms, ...

A new study conducted in Australia may have identified why babies die from the heartbreaking and mysterious condition of sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS. Researchers are calling the small ...

New research from Tufts University School of Medicine and the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences suggests that the timing of the death of certain inhibitory neurons in the brain shortly after ...

Infantile epileptic spasms syndrome (IESS), often called infantile spasms, is the most common form of epilepsy seen during infancy. Prompt diagnosis and referral to a neurologist are essential. But ...

Twin girls, J.D. and K.D., were born at full term to apparently healthy parents. There was no consanguinity, and an older sibling was in good health. A mild, afebrile diarrheal illness had complicated ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Facial infantile hemangiomas at multiple sites may put infants at risk for posterior fossa malformations, ...