Editor’s Choice
Every issue, Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology‘s Editor in Chief, Bernard Dan, identifies one key paper as the Editor’s Choice. Here, we bring together recent Editor’s Choice papers.
2026
2025
December: Chronic lower back pain in adults with cerebral palsy: Stigma, anxiety, and physical decline
November: Genetic testing in cerebral palsy with clinical and neuroimaging variables
October: Global evidence of disability: What is the economic context?
July: Wearable sensors in paediatric neurology
June: Proposed updated description of cerebral palsy
May: Serum metabolomics after exercise in ambulatory individuals with cerebral palsy
March: Autism screening and diagnostic outcomes among toddlers born preterm
February: International consensus definitions for infection-triggered encephalopathy syndromes
2024
November: Mothering and mother–child interactions in the unaffected siblings of autistic children
April: Principles for good scholarship in systematic reviews
March: Probability of independent walking and wheeled mobility in individuals with cerebral palsy
February: Disability and narrative medicine: Challenges and opportunities
2023
2022
December: Global prevalence of cerebral palsy: A systematic analysis
November: The subtypes of developmental coordination disorder
October: ‘Impairments of the brain’: Global South perspectives on childhood neurodevelopmental disability
August: Eating and drinking ability and nutritional status in adults with cerebral palsy
July: Neurological effects of COVID-19 in infants and children
June: Genetic diagnosis of basal ganglia disease in childhood
March: Risk of early- and late-onset Alzheimer disease and related dementia in adults with cerebral palsy
2021
December: Somatosensory deficits and neural correlates in cerebral palsy: a scoping review
September: Viral gene therapy for paediatric neurological diseases: progress to clinical reality
August: Precision medicine for genetic childhood movement disorders
April: Dysarthria syndromes in children with cerebral palsy
March: Differential diagnosis of progressive intellectual and neurological deterioration in children
January: Methodological quality of clinical guidelines for universal newborn hearing screening
2020
December: Cognitive improvement after cochlear implantation in deaf children with associated disabilities
November: Pain in children with dyskinetic and mixed dyskinetic/spastic cerebral palsy
October: Symptomatic cervical spinal stenosis in spastic cerebral palsy
July: Expediting clinician assessment in the diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder
June: Risk factors for neonatal brachial plexus palsy: a systematic review and meta‐analysis
May: Long‐term effects of selective dorsal rhizotomy in children with cerebral palsy: a systematic review
March: Sitting in patients with spinal muscular atrophy type 1 treated with nusinersen
February: The expanding spectrum of movement disorders in genetic epilepsies
January: Visual Function Classification System for children with cerebral palsy: development and validation
2019
December: Physical activity and sedentary behaviour in children with spina bifida
November: Communication in Angelman syndrome: a scoping review
October: Walking and living independently with spina bifida: a 50‐year prospective cohort study
September: Hand Assessment for Infants: normative reference values
August: Mental health disorders, participation, and bullying in children with cerebral palsy
June: Cannabinoids for the treatment of spasticity
May: Childhood disintegrative disorder and autism spectrum disorder: a systematic review
February: Cerebral palsy trends in Australia (1995–2009): a population‐based observational study
January: Nusinersen treatment of spinal muscular atrophy: current knowledge and existing gaps
2018
2017
December: Efficacy of oral pharmacological treatments in dyskinetic cerebral palsy: a systematic review
October: Repair of neonatal brain injury: bringing stem cell‐based therapy into clinical practice
September: Clinical clues for autoimmunity and neuroinflammation in patients with autistic regression
July: Prevalence and characteristics of autism spectrum disorders in children with cerebral palsy
June: Functional outcomes in children and young people with dyskinetic cerebral palsy
May: The genetic basis of cerebral palsy
January: A pediatric institutional acute stroke protocol improves timely access to stroke treatment