Abstract

The Journal is the primary organ of Continuing Paediatric Medical Education in Sri Lanka. The journal also has a website. Free full text access is available for all readers.The Sri Lanka Journal of Child Health is now indexed in SciVerse Scopus (Source Record ID 19900193609), Index Medicus for South-East Asia Region (IMSEAR), CABI (Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International Global Health Database), DOAJ and is available in Google, as well as Google Scholar.The policies of the journal are modelled on the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Guidelines on Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing. Sri Lanka Journal of Child Health is recognised by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) as a publication following the ICMJE Recommendations.

Highlights

  • The downregulation of Brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) is seen at the specific degenerative part of the brain in each neurodegenerative disease

  • There is an association between BDNF level and severity of the neuro-deficit

  • Since there is usually a cellular abnormality that results in deteriorated BDNF in neurodegenerative disease, the BDNF becomes a newly proposed therapeutic alternative for management of the patient

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Review Article

Clinical usefulness of brain-derived neurotrophic factor in paediatric psychiatry Sri Lanka Journal of Child Health, 2022; 51(1): 129-133 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4038/sljch.v51i1.10020 (Key words: Brain - derived neurotrophic factor, Psychiatry, Paediatrics)

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Psychiatric disorders
Infectious disease
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