Progression of motor disability in cerebral palsy: The role of concomitant epilepsy

The earliest description of the syndrome of cerebral palsy (CP) is attributed to the orthopedic surgeon William Little in 1862 [1]. The International Executive Committee for the Definition of Cerebral Palsy proposed the following definition: “Cerebral palsy describes a group of permanent disorders of the development of movement and posture, causing activity limitation, that are attributed to non-progressive disturbances that occurred in the developing fetal or infant brain” [2]. CP is an umbrella term covering a group of non-progres sive, but often changing, motor impairment syndromes secondary to lesions or anomalies of the brain arising in the early stages of development [3].
Source: Seizure: European Journal of Epilepsy - Category: Neurology Authors: Source Type: research