Journal of Child Neurology
eISSN:
17088283 | ISSN:
08830738 | Current volume: 39 | Current issue: 13-14
Frequency: 10 Times/Year
Each issue of Journal of Child Neurology (JCN) embraces interdisciplinary and peer-reviewed clinical and investigative studies from a wide-variety of neuroscience disciplines, including child neurology, pediatric neurosurgery, pediatric neuroradiology, developmental and behavioral pediatrics, and developmental neurobiology. Articles in JCN cover topics ranging from assessment of new and changing therapies and procedures; diagnosis, evaluation, and management of neurologic, neuropsychiatric, and neurodevelopmental disorders; pathophysiology of central nervous system diseases; and neuroradiologic and imaging evaluations. Focusing on the special needs of neurologic patients from birth to age 18 years, JCN offers highly-cited, cutting-edge original articles written by leading international specialists. Each issue highlights the topics useful in everyday clinical practice, such as:
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
- Autoimmune Neurology
- Behavior Disorders, Learning Disabilities, and Autism
- Brain Development and Malformations
- Cerebral Palsy
- Epilepsy and Febrile Seizures
- Genetic and Metabolic Disorders
- Headache
- Infectious Diseases
- Movement Disorders
- Neonatal Seizures
- Neurodegenerative Diseases
- Neuroinflammatory Diseases
- Neuromuscular Disorders
- Neurorehabilitation
- Stroke in Children
- Traumatic Brain Injuries
- Tumors
JCN will additionally publish special supplement issues on important topics.
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Journal of Child Neurology (JCN) is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed biomedical journal focused on providing resources for practicing child neurologists. Submissions must be relevant to this audience, including the fields of child neurology, pediatric neurosurgery, pediatric neuroradiology, and developmental and behavior pediatrics.
Editor-in-Chief
| Marc C. Patterson, MD, FRACP | Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA |
Deputy Editor
| Alison Christy, MD, PhD | Providence Health and Services, Portland, OR, USA |
Senior Associate Editor
| John Bodensteiner, MD | Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA |
Associate Editor - Behavioral Neurology
| Autumn Ivy, MD, PhD | Children’s Hospital of California, University of California - Irvine, CA, USA |
| Kyle Steinman, MD, MAS | Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, WA, USA |
Associate Editor - Biostatistics
| Yinding Wang | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA |
Associate Editor - Book Reviews
| Margie Ream, MD, PhD | Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH, USA |
Associate Editors - Fetal/Neonatal Neuroscience
| Sonika Agarwal, MBBS, MD, DNB, MNAMS | Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA |
| Tally Lerman-Sagie, MD | Wolfson Medical Centre, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel |
Associate Editor - Emergency Neurology and Neuro Critical Care
Associate Editor – Epilepsy
| Angela Curcio, MD | Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA |
| Aliya Frederick, MD, PhD | University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA |
| Sreenath Thati Ganganna, MBBS, MD | University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA, USA |
| Inna Hughes, MD, PhD | University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA |
| Laura Kirkpatrick, MD | UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA |
| Douglas Nordli, MD | Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| Phillip L. Pearl | Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA |
Associate Editor – Headache
| Joanne Kacperski, MD, FAHS | Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA |
| Jeffrey Strelzik, MD | George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences; Children’s National Hospital, Washington, DC, USA |
Associate Editor – Image Reports
| Azara Singh, MBBS | University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA |
Associate Editor - Infections of the Nervous System
| Daniel Bonthius, MD, PhD | University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA |
Associate Editor- International
| Aviva Fattal-Valevski, MD, MHA | Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel |
Associate Editor - Leukodystrophy
| Denia Ramirez-Montealegre | University of Tennessee Medical Center, Knoxville, TN, USA |
Associate Editor - Medical Education and Humanities
| Ronald Seese | Akron Children’s Hospital, Akron, OH, USA |
Associate Editor – MS and demyelinating disorders:
| Jan-Mendelt Tillema, MD | Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA |
Associate Editor for Neurobiology of Disease Symposia
| Bernard Maria, MD, MBA | Atlantic Health System, Morristown, New Jersey, USA |
Associate Editor – Neurogenetics
| Andrea Gropman, MD | Children's National Medical Center, Children's Research Institute, Washington DC, USA |
Associate Editor - Neurohistory
| Lawrence A. Zeidman, MD | University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA |
Associate Editor – Neuroimaging
| Harry T. Chugani, MD | New York University, NY, USA |
Associate Editor - Neuroimmunology
| Geetanjali Rathore | Children's Hospital and Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA |
Associate Editor - Neuromuscular Disorders
| Michele Yang, MD | Children's Hospital Colorado, USA |
Associate Editor - Pediatric Neuro-Oncology
| Timothy R. Gershon | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA |
Associate Editor – Sleep
| Suresh Kotagal | Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA |
Associate Editor - Special Issues
| James W. Wheless, MD | The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA |
Associate Editor - Stroke and Vascular Neurology
| Catherine Amlie-Lefond, MD | University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA |
| Jenny Wilson | Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, OR, USA |
Founding Editor
Editorial Board
| Pasquale J. Accardo, MD | Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, Richmond, VA, USA |
| Guillermo Agosta, MD | Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Gulay Alper, MD | Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA |
| Banu Anlar, MD | Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey |
| Shawn C. Aylward, MD | Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH, USA |
| Nigel Bamford | Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA |
| Ian J. Butler, MD | UTHealth McGovern Medical School, Houston, TX, USA |
| Keith Coffman, MD | Children's Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO, USA |
| Abigail Collins, MD | Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO, USA |
| Anne Comi, MD | Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, MD, USA |
| Shlomi Constantini, MD, MSc | Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel |
| Patricia K. Crumrine, MD | Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA |
| Emily de los Reyes, MD | The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA |
| Aron J. Diament, MD | University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil |
| Michael M. Dowling, MD, PhD | UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA |
| Michael Duchowny, MD | Nicklaus Children’s Hospital, Miami, FL, USA |
| Kevin C. Ess, MD, PhD | Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA |
| Jason Fangusaro, MD | Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA |
| Donna M. Ferriero, MD | University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA |
| Francis M. Filloux, MD | University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA |
| Laura Flores-Sarnat, MD | University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, USA |
| Stephen Fulton, MD | University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA |
| Thomas J. Geller, MD | St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO, USA |
| Amy C. Goldstein, MD | Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA |
| Meredith Golomb, MD | Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA |
| William Graf, MD | Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA |
| Lorie Hamiwka, MD | Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, WA, USA |
| Kenton R. Holden, MD | Greenwood Genetic Center, Greenwood, SC, USA |
| Mackenzie Howard, PhD | University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA |
| Keith Hyland, PhD | Horizon Molecular Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA |
| Rebecca Ichord, MD | Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA |
| Christine Imms, MD | Australian Catholic University in Melbourne, Australia |
| Yuwu Jiang, MD, PhD | Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, China |
| Sergiusz Jóžwiak, MD | Children's Memorial Health Institute, Warsaw, Poland |
| Stanley D. Johnsen, MD | St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix, AZ, USA |
| Lori Jordan, MD | Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA |
| Makiko Kaga, MD | National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Tokyo, Japan |
| Angelina M. Kakooza, MMed | Makerere University College, Kampala, Uganda |
| Edward M. Kaye, MD | Stoke Therapeutics, Bedford, MA, USA |
| Gesina Keating, MD | Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA |
| Marjolijh Ketelaar, PhD | University Medical Center Utrecht, Netherlands |
| Mary Kay Koenig, MD | University of Texas Medical School, Houston, TX, USA |
| Alfried Kohlschütter, MD | University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany |
| Mark S. Korson, MD | Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA |
| Barry E. Kosofsky, MD, PhD | Cornell University, New York, NY, USA |
| Eric Heath Kossoff, MD | Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA |
| Michael Kruer, MD | Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA |
| Paul D. Larsen, MD | University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA |
| Mark Libenson, MD | Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
| Taryn Liu, MD | Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA, USA |
| Kenneth J. Mack, MD, PhD | Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA |
| Annette Majnemer, OT, PhD | McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada |
| Macpherson Mallewa, MBBS, PhD, MRCP | Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, Blantyre, Malawi |
| Elysa Marco, MD | University of California - San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA |
| Bernard Maria, MD, MBA | Atlantic Health System, Morristown, New Jersey, USA |
| Harold Marks, MD | Drexel University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA |
| Hugh McMillan, MD, DSc | University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada |
| Douglas C. Miller, MD, PhD | University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA |
| Steven Miller | |
| Jonathan Mink, MD, PhD | University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA |
| Mark Mintz, MD | The Center for Neurological and Neurodevelopmental Health, Voorhees, NJ, USA |
| Wendy G. Mitchell, MD | Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| Leslie A. Morrison, MD | University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA |
| Kathryn North, MD, FRACP | Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia |
| Hope O'Brien, MD, FAHS | Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA |
| Hema Patel, MD | Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, IN, USA |
| Kristina E. Patrick, PhD, ABPP, BCBA | University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA |
| Milivoj Velickovic Perat, MD | University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia |
| Danielle Pier, MD | MassGeneral Hospital for Children, Boston, MA, USA |
| Sigita Plioplys, MD | Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL, USA |
| Deborah L. Renaud | Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA |
| Wammanda D. Robinson, FWACP | Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Zaria, Nigeria |
| Michael Rotstein | Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel |
| Pauline Samia, MPhil | Aga Khan University-Nairobi, Kenya |
| Harvey B. Sarnat, MD | Alberta Children's Hospital, Calgary, AB, Canada |
| G. Bradley Schaefer, MD | University of Arkansas, Little Rock, AR, USA |
| L. Gail Scher, MBBCh, MMed, FCPaeds (SA) | Wits University, Johannesburg, South Africa |
| Nina Felice Schor, MD, PhD | University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA |
| Namrata Shah, MD | The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA |
| Renée Shellhaas | University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, MI, USA |
| Michael Shevell, MD | McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada |
| Pratibha Singhi, MD | Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Chandigarh, India |
| Lalitha Sivaswamy, MD | Children's Hospital of Michigan, Detroit, MI, USA |
| John Slopis, MD | The University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA |
| Steven P. Sparagana, MD | Texas Scottish Rite Hospital, Dallas, TX, USA |
| Kyle Steinman, MD, MAS | Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, WA, USA |
| Ann H. Tilton, MD | Children's Hospital New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, USA |
| Alcy R. Torres, MD | Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA |
| Nerija Viaciene-Magistris, MD | Kaunas University of Medicine, Kaunas, Lithuania |
| Nathan Watemberg, MD | Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel |
| Mary Anne Whelan, MD, PhD | The Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital, Cooperstown, New York, NY, USA |
| Jo Madeleine Wilmshurst, MB, BS, MRCP, FCP | University of Cape Town, South Africa |
| Elaine C. Wirrell, MD | Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA |
| Max Wiznitzer, MD | Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA |
| Gordon Worley, MD | Duke University, Durham, NC, USA |
| Joanna Wrede, MD | Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, WA, USA |
| Yvonne Wu, MD, MPH | University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA |
Director, Residents and Fellows Board
| Sonika Agarwal, MBBS, MD, DNB, MNAMS | Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA |
Editorial Board – Resident/Fellow Section
| Richard B. Carozza, MD | Vanderbilt Children's Hospital |
| Eva Catenaccio, MD | Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA |
| Hsiao-Tuan Chao, MD, PhD | Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA |
| Angela Curcio, MD | Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA |
| Louis Dang, MD, PhD | University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, MI, USA |
| Danielle de Campo, MD | Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA |
| Radhika Dhamija, MBBS | Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, AZ, USA |
| Eleni Drakou, MD | Isabelle Rapin Division of Child Neurology, Saul R. Korey Department of Neurology, Montefiore Medical Center |
| Wendy Edlund, MD | Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN, USA |
| Kathryn Elkins, MD | Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA |
| Whitney Fitts, MD | Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA |
| Aliya Frederick, MD, PhD | University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA |
| Daniel Freedman, MD | Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH, USA |
| Dawn Gano, MD | University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA |
| Katie Ihnen, MD | Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA |
| Bianca C. Kapoor-Heaphy, MD | Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA |
| Dennis Keselman, MD | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA |
| Evan Lewis, MD | SickKids Hospital - Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada |
| Grant L. Lin, MD, PhD | Stanford University, Department of Neurology |
| Nehali Mehta, MD | Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA |
| Maksim Parfyonov | British Columbia Children’s Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada |
| Ashmitha Raja | Wakeforest University, Winston-Salem, NC, USA |
| Praveen K. Ramani | UAMS College of Medicine, Arkansas Children's Hospital |
| Praveen Kumar Ramani, MD | UAMS College of Medicine, Arkansas Children's Hospital |
| Ronald R. Seese, MD, PhD | Akron Children’s Hospital, Akron, OH, USA |
| David Stark, MD | Mt. Sinai Hospital, New York, NY, USA |
| Sara Trowbridge, MD | Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, MA, USA |
| Michelle Tutmaher, MD | Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA |
| Marissa Vawter, MD | Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA |
| Khushboo Verma, MBBS | Stanford Health Care, Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Palo Alto, California, USA |
| Jo Jo Yang, MD | Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford, Palo Alto, CA, USA |
| Alex Zygmunt, MD | Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA |
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