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Developmental changes in paediatric neurodisability: from concepts to diagnostics and therapy


Mac Keith Press: 50th Anniversary

[Taken from Baxter P. Mac Keith Press: 50th Anniversary. Dev Med Child Neurol 2008; 50: 4.]

We have commissioned a short series of reflective articles to appear in each issue where authors will select a specific paper which has had a major effect on them or their practice. Most of these papers are classics with high numbers of citations but it was not intended to exclusively pick out this group of articles. There is not enough space left here to do justice to the article that had most influence on me, a review by Dr Keith Brown on migraine and migraine equivalents in children, published in 1977. While it is in the top 5% of our cited articles, the impact on me was different in that, as a medical student becoming interested in paediatrics and neurology, and seeing children with paroxysmal events, I found it practically helpful, full of insight, interestingly written, and enjoyable to read. The result was to help develop an interest in paediatric neurology and in particular to make me want to work in Dr Brown’s department, an ambition that I was grateful to achieve some years later. The authors of the other anniversary articles will have their own reasons for selecting them, and many could be equally personal.

In the meantime, Mac Keith Press has had the good fortune to be associated with many notable figures in our field who have made major contributions to the care of children with neurological disabilities. Medical progress seems to be accelerating, bringing real hope and more effective treatments to many children with conditions hitherto thought incurable. The Press will continue to thrive in such an exciting clinical and scientific atmosphere. Here’s to the next 50 years.

Peter Baxter, Former Editor in Chief


1. Migraine and Migraine Equivalents in Children
J. K. Brown
October 1977 
2. Development of the gross motor function classification system (1997)
Christopher Morris
January 2008
3. Development and reliability of a system to classify gross motor function in children with cerebral palsy
Robert Palisano, Peter Rosenbaum, Stephen Walter, Dianne Russell, Ellen Wood, Barbara Galuppi
April 1997 
4. An appreciation of Ronnie Mac Keith (1978)
Martin Bax
February 2008 
5. Varus and valgus deformities of the foot in cerebral palsy (1982)
Mark Paterson
March 2008 
6. Varus and valgus deformities of the foot in cerebral palsy
George C. Bennet, Mercer Rang, Derek Jones
October 1982 
7. The first meta‐analysis of randomized controlled surgical trials in cerebral palsy (2002)
Robert W Armstrong
April 2008 
8. Selective dorsal rhizotomy: meta‐analysis of three randomized controlled trials
John McLaughlin, Kristie Bjornson, Nancy Temkin, Paul Steinbok, Virginia Wright, Ann Reiner, Theodore Roberts, James Drake, Maureen O'Donnell, Peter Rosenbaum, Jason Barber, Anne Ferrel
January 2002 
9. Behaviour after cerebral lesions in children and adults (1962)
Dorothy Bishop
May 2008 
10. Behaviour after Cerebral Lesions in Children and Adults
Hans‐Lukas Teuber, Rita G. Rudel
February 1962 
11. Position as a cause of deformity in children with cerebral palsy (1976)
David Scrutton
June 2008 
12. Position as a cause of deformity in children with cerebral palsy
G. E. Fulford, J. K. Brown
June 1976 
13. The tyranny of the idea of cure (1967)
Richard Robinson
July 2008 
14. The tyranny of the idea of cure
Ronald Mac Keith
June 1967 
15. Or is a children’s physician just naturally nice? (1975)
Richard Robinson
July 2008 
16. Or is a children’s physician just naturally nice?
Ronald Mac Keith
December 1975 
17. ‘Puppet’ children. A report on three cases (1965)
Hilary Hart
August 2008 
18. ‘Puppet’ Children A Report on Three Cases
Harry Angelman
December 1965 
19. Effects of powered mobility on self‐initiated behaviours of very young children with locomotor disability (1986)
Peter Rosenbaum
September 2008 
20. 20. Effects of powered mobility on self‐initiated behaviours of very young children with locomotor disability
Charlene Butler
June 1986 
21. Age of onset and outcome in Landau‐Kleffner syndrome (1985)
Anne O'Hare
October 2008 
22. Age of onset and outcome in ‘acquired aphasia with convulsive disorder’ (Landau‐Kleffner syndrome)
D. V. M. Bishop
December 1985 
23. Visual function in infants with brain lesions (1994)
Eugenio Mercuri
November 2008 
24. Patterns of Visual Impairment Associated with Lesions of the Preterm Infant Brain
M. G. Pike, G. Holmstrom, L. S. de Vries, J. M. Pennock, K. J. Drew, P. M. Sonksen, L. M. S. Dubowitz
October 1994
25. Cerebral palsy and newborn care: I, II, and III (1981)
Fiona Stanley
December 2008 
26. Cerebral palsy and newborn care. I: secular trends in cerebral palsy
John L. Kiely, Nigel Paneth, Zena Stein, Mervyn Susser 
October 1981 
27. Cerebral palsy and newborn care. II: mortality and neurological impairment in low‐birthweight infants
John L. Kiely, Nigel Paneth, Zena Stein, Mervyn Susser
December 1981
28. Cerebral palsy and newborn care. III: estimated prevalence rates of cerebral palsy under differing rates of mortality and impairment of low‐birthweight infants
Nigel Paneth, John L. Kiely, Zena Stein, Mervyn Susser
April 1981