Congenital abnormalities of the central nervous system

Neurology in Practice

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2003, Pages

  Verity, Christopher ^a   Firth, Helen ^a   Ffrench Constant, Charles ^a  

^a ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AGYRIA; ALEXANDER DISEASE; BRAIN MALFORMATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CEREBELLUM HYPOPLASIA; CONGENITAL DISORDER; CORPUS CALLOSUM AGENESIS; DANDY WALKER SYNDROME; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENETIC COUNSELING; HEREDITY; HETEROTOPIA; HUMAN; JOUBERT SYNDROME; MICROCEPHALY; MICROGYRIA; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; PACHYGYRIA; PORENCEPHALY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SCHIZENCEPHALY; SYRINGOMYELIA; ULTRASOUND; WALKER WARBURG SYNDROME; ANENCEPHALUS; ENCEPHALOCELE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPINA BIFIDA;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MOVEMENT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; GENETIC COUNSELING; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NERVOUS SYSTEM MALFORMATIONS; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; SPINAL DYSRAPHISM;

EID: 0037372943     PISSN: 14737086     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

References (7)

1. Aicardi J. Diseases of the nervous system in childhood, 2nd ed. London: Mac Keith Press, London, 1998. This is a standard work, which contains an excellent chapter on malformations of the nervous system.
2. Baraitser M. (1997). The genetics of neurological disorders, 3rd ed. Oxford Monographs on Medical Genetics. 34. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. Another standard reference book, which remains useful despite the evolution of computerised neurogenetic databases.
3. Barkovitch AJ. Pediatric neuroimaging, 2nd ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott-Raven, 1996. This comprehensive textbook has a useful chapter that includes scans illustrating the normal development of the nervous system. There are also chapters on congenital abnormalities of the brain and spine.
4. Faerber EN, ed. CNS Magnetic resonance imaging in infants and children. Clinics in Developmental Medicine No. 134. London: Mac Keith Press, 1995. More useful scans of children with developmental problems.
5. Friede RL. Developmental neuropathology, 2nd revised and expanded edition. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1989. This is a neuropathology textbook dealing with these complicated developmental abnormalities. It supplements and underpins the more recent work, which is based more on imaging and genetic studies than neuropathology.
6. Gleeson JG, Walsh CA. Neuronal migration disorders: from genetic diseases to developmental mechanisms. Trends in Neuroscience 2000;23:352-9. An excellent recent review.
7. Govaert P, de Vries LS. An atlas of neonatal brain sonography. Clinics in Developmental Medicine Nos. 141-142. London: Mac Keith Press, 1997. Ultrasonography is now the means of performing early and non-invasive examinations of the infant brain so this is an important reference work for those looking after newborns.