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Cerebral Palsy

Cerebral palsy is a group of permanent disorders of movement and posture caused by non-progressive damage to the developing brain, occurring before, during, or shortly after birth. It is among the most common causes of physical disability in childhood, producing impairments such as spasticity, weakness, and involunt…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 10 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 54× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2470-5020 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Cerebral palsy is a group of permanent disorders of movement and posture caused by non-progressive damage to the developing brain, occurring before, during, or shortly after birth. It is among the most common causes of physical disability in childhood, producing impairments such as spasticity, weakness, and involuntary movement that affect motor control and daily function, often alongside associated sensory, cognitive, or communication difficulties. Management is multidisciplinary, combining rehabilitation, therapy, and supportive care. The articles gathered here relate to neurodevelopmental injury, pediatric neurology, and therapeutic approaches relevant to this context. Developmental neurobiology appears in work on oligodendrocyte development and Wnt signaling, processes central to the myelination whose disruption contributes to motor disorders. Pediatric neurological treatment is represented by review of cerebrolysin use in a childhood neurological disease and by discussion of blinding in therapeutic clinical research of neurological disorders. Brain injury and its consequences feature in reports of cerebral lesion and necrosis following cardiorespiratory arrest. Supportive and rehabilitative themes include music therapy in health services and nutritional management in children with complex physiology. Together these contributions reflect concerns surrounding cerebral palsy and related conditions: understanding how early brain injury impairs motor development, and advancing rehabilitative, nutritional, and therapeutic strategies that support function and quality of life in affected children.

Research published in this journal

10 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

2017

The Evolution of Fetal Surgery

Knezevich MichelleCorresponding author
Division of Pediatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI.
Exact topic Fetal Surgery doi:10.14302/issn.2997-2086.jfs-17-1663

How this research is being cited

The 10 articles above have been cited 54 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Cerebral Palsy, linking to each citing work.

Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Neurological Research and Therapy (ISSN 2470-5020).

Journal editorial board
Ian J Martins · Australia Giuseppe Lanza · Italy Ion Codreanu · United States

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