THE INCIDENCE of cerebral palsy in the resident population of Rochester, Minnesota, as
described later in this paper, has been found to be considerably less than that reported in …

HISTORY The story of those having cerebral palsy is one of children being hidden away in
the home as a curse on the family or sent to mental institutions. Medieval mosaics …

As part of a door‐to‐door survey of major neurological disorders, the prevalence of cerebral
palsy was ascertained in the institutionalized and non‐institutionalized biracial population of …

Epidemiology has been defined as the study of health and disease in populations, but
Morris (1975) comments that'This is the epidemiology of antiquity..., today it [epidemiology] is …

Of the several categories of problems called “developmental disabilities,” only mental
retardation has been the subject of as much etiologic investigation as cerebral palsy (CP) …

Asmall group” met recently in Edinburgh to discuss the terminology and classification of
cerebral palsy. At the meeting, a good deal of thinking and discussion went into the basis of …

The majority of the members of the American Academy for Cerebral Palsy voted to exclude
progressive neurological diseases and neoplastic diseases of the brain from the …

1. Some of the definitions of cerebral palsy accepted in this paper do not exclude hereditary
and familial cases. 2. 2. Prenatal causes are occupying a steadily growing part in the …

ALARGE number of clinical and pathologic studies of cerebral palsy (CP) have accumulated
in tile past 100 years since Little's 1 classic publication appeared in 1862. In recent years the …

The methods of estimating and indicating the prevalence of cerebral palsy in a population
are critically discussed. A survey is given of the occurrence of cerebral palsy in a 10‐year …