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Nov 2007: "The Physiology of Motor Development : Implications for Children with Motor Disabilities": The meeting was held at the Novartis Foundation in London. It brought together specialists in the field of neurodisability to discuss the physiology of motor development. The importance of understanding the physiology of movement is vital if children and adults with neurological problems are to be assessed and treated in the most effective manner. Abstracts are available (password protected) and there is space for comment. Click here to access the site. |
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May 2007: "Quality of Life for the Young Adult with Neurodisability": This section contains details of the meeting on Quality of Life for the Young Adult with Neurodisability which took place on 9 and 10 May 2007. A website is available for those involved in the meeting to exchange ideas and discuss how the ideas discussed at the meeting can be taken forward. Click here to access the site. |
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Dec 2006: "Disordered Auditory Processing in the Child": Nature, Assessment and Intervention: A multidisciplinary approach: This workshop run with the help of Anne O’Hare from Edinburgh brought together three groups of clinicians in terms of Speech and Language Therapists, paediatric audiologists and basic scientists to discuss auditory processing in the child. A website is available for those involved in the meeting to exchange ideas and discuss how the ideas discussed at the meeting can be taken forward. Click here to access the site. |
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April 2006: "Functioning Brain Changes in Puberty and Adolescence": The transition period when a child moves from paediatric to adult care is frequently noted as the time when services distintegrate and changes occur. Young disabled adults will recount how these changes may lead on to an unhappy life. There is a paucity of material available about brain changes in adolescence and this meeting brought together many distinguished workers in the field. A publication is being planned. |
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Nov 2005: "Visual Impairment": This workshop was run with the help of Gordon Dutton , professor of ophthalmology from Glasgow. Visual impairment due to brain damage, first called cortical and later also cerebral visual impairment (CVI) is now the leading cause of childhood visual impairment in industrialised countries. This workshop brought together international experts in the field to review current knowledge and the aetiological and neuropathological under-pinnings of these conditions. A book is being published as a result of this workshop. |
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April 2005: "Childhood Hemiplegia (Stroke)": Fairly consistently in epidemiological literature on cerebral palsy about one third of this population have hemiplegia. In general the ‘stroke’ cases have been regarded in the past as not susceptible to intervention with a view to prevention. This workshop reviewed the causes of perinatal stroke and considered what steps can be taken to prevent or ameliorate the damage. |
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July 2004: "Definition and Classification of Cerebral Palsy": a meeting supported jointly by The Castang Foundation and the United Cerebral Palsy Research and Educational Foundation in Washington: (This workshop met in Washington and was directed by Dr Martin Bax & Professor Murray Goldstein, director of UCPRA with a planning committee comprising: Olof Dammann, Bo Jacobsson, Karl Kuban, Alan Leviton, Nigel Paneth & Peter Rosenbaum. A website is available for exchange of ideas by Workshop participants. |
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October 2003: "Placental Function": a meeting held at the Royal Society of Medicine (supported by the Mac Keith meetings and organised with the assistance of Professor Philip Baker and Professor Colin Sibley from Manchester): A publication is planned and a website is being made available to participants for exchange of ideas). |
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February 2003: "Perinatal Brain Injury and Nutrition": (This meeting was also supported by the Novartis Foundation). Dr Peter Sullivan from Oxford helped to organise this meeting which discussed feeding and nutritional problems in children with neurodevelopmental disorders. A website is available to participants for exchange of ideas. |
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November 2002: The Role of Co-morbidities in the Causation of Neurodevelopmental Disorders: (this meeting also supported by the Novartis Foundation): organised with the assistance of Keith Brown, University of Edinburgh and Christopher Gillberg (Karolinska Institut, Sweden) The aim of this meeting was to try to unravel how different types of pathology: genetics, developmental and asphyxial and other damage cause the very varied clinical picture often seen in neurodevelopmental disorders. |
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April 2002: "Roles for Cytokines in Developmental Disabilities": (held in Boston USA and supported by United Cerebral Palsy Research Foundation, director Professor Murray Goldstein with the assistance of Olaf Dammann and Alan Leviton from Harvard University and The Little Foundation. This meeting was held to increase understanding of inflammatory mechanisms in developmental disorders and to contribute to the development of prevention and treatment strategies. |
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February 2002: "How soon will be prevent neurodisability in childhood"?: held at the Novartis Foundation in London, with the support of the Novartis Foundation and the Little Foundation): This meeting reviewed progress in prevention of neurodisability over the previous decade and the implications for research and prevention in future. |
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October 2001: Drugs in Pregnancy and Their Consequences: Open meeting at the Royal Society of Medicine supported by Mac Keith Meetings and The Little Foundation. |
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February 2001: "Thyroid Function in pregnancy and the infant": held at The Royal Society of Medicine (supported by Mac Keith meetings and The Little Foundation). The aim of this meeting was to assess the role of thyroid hormones in fetal development and in the perinatal period. 8. Comorbidities Meeting. |
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October 2000: "Obstetric & Fetal Factors in Childhood Disability": a meeting held at the Royal Society of Medicine (supported by Mac Keith Meeting and the Little Foundation). |
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February 2000: "Neuroprotection of the Infant Brain": a publication from this workshop was developed and published as a supplement by the Mac Keith Press. Suppl. 86, March 2001. Vol.43 ‘Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology’. Edited by Olaf Damman & Hugo Lagerkrantz. |
