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Mac Keith Press exists to improve the lives of disabled children by extending the knowledge and understanding of developmental medicine and paediatric neurology.
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This practical guide for assessment and management presents the latest evidence-based approaches to assessing and managing movement disorders in children.
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Myasthenia is a rare, but underdiagnosed and sometimes life-threatening disorder in children. This book will help clinicians and families of children with this rare condition direct management effectively.
New Edition!
The fourth edition of this unique text provides comprehensive information on paediatric neurological disorders in a clinical, user-friendly context.
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This multidisciplinary approach to management provides best practice in the management of the most frequent neuromuscular disorders in children and the key body functions affected by them.
2-Year Impact Factor: 3.532
5-Year Impact Factor: 4.118
Submission to first decision: 23 days
Acceptance to online publication: 52 days
Acceptance rate: 19%
Check out the January 2020 issue now!
Editor's Choice for January: Visual Function Classification System for children with cerebral palsy: development and validation by Giovanni Baranello et al. Check out other recent Editor's Choice papers here.
Featured Podcast: In this podcast, Anna Basu and team discuss their paper 'Early intervention programmes for infants at high risk of atypical neurodevelopmental outcome'.
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Letters to the Editor: The latest Letter to the Editor comes from Susan Harris who highlights tools that can be used in primary care settings to refer infants for diagnostic assessment of cerebral palsy.
Open Access: Compliant with most Open Access funding requirements, all articles in DMCN become free to read twelve months after publication. December 2018 is the latest issue to become freely available.
Virtual Issues: International Alliance of Academies of Childhood Disability President Hans Forssberg introduces our latest Virtual Issue on Childhood Disability Across the World.
60 years of DMCN: DMCN turned 60 in 2018! To celebrate, we picked one key paper per year from inauguration and made it free to read. Have a look at the papers we selected here.
Interested in submitting a paper to our journal? Submit now online
Forthcoming Events:
BPNA
The 2020 BPNA Annual Conference (#BPNA2020) will take place on 29-31 January 2020 in Belfast, UK.
AusACPDM
Head for Perth for the Australasian Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine's next conference, 11-14 March 2020 and be a Visionary!
BACD
The 2020 BACD annual scientific meeting will take place on Friday 13 March 2020, in Sheffield, and will focus on Sensory Impairment.
EACD
Head for Poznan in Poland, 17-20 June 2020 for the next EACD meeting. Get involved with discussions 'From childhood to adulthood with disability'.
AACPDM
Join us for the AACPDM Annual Congress 22-26 September 2020, New Orleans, USA
ICNA
The 16th International Child Neurology Congress will take place 19-23 October 2020, San Diego, USA
Featured Author:
Michael Wade talks about his book 'Movement Difficulties in Developmental Disorders', that he wrote with David Sugden.
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