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Investigators from Ruth Children's Hospital, Haifa, and Schneider Medical Center, Petah Tikuah, Israel, evaluated the long-term motor and neurocognitive outcome of 43 children hospitalized during 2002-2012 with acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM), and identified prognostic risk factors.

Investigators at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London, and multiple centers in the UK, Europe, US, Melbourne, Australia, and Canada, analyzed ECG recordings of 52 patients with alternating hemiplegia from 9 countries; all had whole-exome, whole-genome, or direct Sanger sequencing of ATP1A3; 47 had a confirmed missense mutation in ATP1A3.

Investigators from Universities of Glasgow and Bristol, UK, determined the value of head circumference (HC) as a screening measure, the incidence of head centile shifting, and the relationship between extremes of head size and later neurodevelopmental problems.

Investigators from New York University, NY, studied 14 patients with congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis (CIPA), compared to 10 patients with chronically deficient sympathetic activity (pure autonomic failure), and 15 normal age-matched controls.

The outcome of 19 infants with complications of Arnold-Chiari malformation and meningomyelocele was reviewed at the Depts.

Investigators from the Mayo Clinic, Rochester MN, determined the use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in an outpatient pediatric neurology clinic, and assessed family attitudes toward the efficacy of CAM versus prescription medications.

Investigators from the University School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, report an outbreak of acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) occurring in 2014-2015 in several States and reported to the CDC.

The transcription of cytokine genes in peripheral blood leukocytes (PBL) of 23 children (mean age 3.2 years) with influenza (mostly type A) complicated by encephalopathy (11 patients) or febrile convulsions (12 patients) was compared with systemic cytokine responses in 23 (mean age 5.0 years) with influenza but without neurologic complications, in a study at Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan.

Records of 38 patients, 23 boys and 15 girls (ages 3 months to 16 years [42% ages 3-12 months]), seen between 1990 and 1997 with proven herpes simplex encephalitis (HSE), were reviewed retrospectively to determine the diagnostic reliability of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) results, in a study at the Neuropediatric Service, Hopital Saint Vincent de Paul, Paris, France.

Investigators at the Karol Marcinkowski University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland, analyzed the records of 194 children diagnosed with Epstein-Barr virus infection and having the viral capsid antigen IgM antibody.

Investigators from Great Ormond Street Hospital, and Institute of Child Health, London, UK, reviewed the case notes of all patients treated with methylphenidate (MPH) for ADHD at an epilepsy center between 1998 and 2005.