Neurological assessment from birth to 6

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Watermark

Publication Year:
2011

ISBN-13: 9782896194476

How to make simple in clinical neurology in the

first years of life? Perinatal insults occur on a brain

which is in rapid development. The clinical presentation

of these pathologies is thus changing particularly

in the neuromotor domain during the first two years.

Therefore the clinician needs precise landmarks to

detect possible deviancy at each stage of development.

In the first edition published in 1998 we proposed

a single and unique assessment tool applicable from

birth to 6 years of life. This first edition already included

the technical description for each maneuvers scoring

and coding system.

After 10 years of use in clinical research as well as

in regular follow-up the current edition is improved:

• research data collected at the corrected age of

2 years have allowed to identify a spectrum of

neurological disabilities from disabling cerebral

palsy to more minor signs;

• the proposed 5-level categorization of neuromotor

disabilities has shown significant correlation

with developmental and intellectual performances

both at preschool and school age providing a

link between early perinatal insults and different

neurodevelopmental disabilities of late emergence.

This assessment tool should be systematically used

with high risk infants to better understand the course

of their development in order to implement early intervention

when neurocranial signs are present. It should

also be used to assess current perinatal practices.