Abstract
One definition of the millennium is an anniversary or celebration of “a period of freedom from imperfections in human existence.”
Highlights
In traumatic head injury, improved obstetrics has lessened the frequency of birth head injury, road vehicle accidents and non-accidental injury have increased as causes of childhood head injury, and modifications of the Glasgow Coma Scale aid in the evaluation and prognosis
Infectious disease has increased in importance in pediatric neurology practice and research as a result of HIV-1 infection, the AIDS epidemic, and its frequent CNS complications
The availability of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test facilitates the early diagnosis of viral infections of the CNS
Summary
PEDIATRIC NEUROLOGY AT THE MILLENNIUM A CELEBRATION OR A CHALLENGE? One definition of the millennium is an anniversary or celebration of "a period of freedom from imperfections in human existence." We have not reached this Utopian ideal but, in the relatively short space of time since the specialty of pediatric neurology was envisioned and vigorously developed, in the 1950s, much progress has been accomplished, much for the better but with limiting reservations. Advances in genetics of neurologic disease have been valuable in the diagnosis of neuromuscular disorders, sometimes without the necessity for an invasive muscle biopsy.
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