The Japanese Society of Child Neurology Call for Papers The 30th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Child Neurology (JSCN) will be held at the Tokushimaken Kyodobunkakaikan, Tokushima, from 9th to 11 th June, 1988. 1. All the foreign members of JSCN are encouraged to attend the Meeting and are welcome to submit papers. 2. Acceptance will be based entirely upon quality. The papers accepted will be classified into two categories, namely platform sessions and poster presentations, according to the decisions of the Program Committee. 3. Presentations should be either in Japanese or in English. Simultaneous interpretation is not provided. 4. Those who want to present a paper must submit an abstract not exceeding 200 words to the Program Chairman, not later than 9th January, 1988. Send abstracts and correspondence to: Masuhide Miyao, MD Department of Pediatrics, Tokushima University School of Medicine, Kuramoto-cho 3, Tokushima 770, Japan
The Program of the 17th Meeting of the Chugoku-Shikoku Study Group on Infantile Spasms and Allied Disorders, Okayama, March 28, 1987 The 17th Meeting of the Chugoku-Shikoku Study Group on Infantile Spasms and Allied Disorders was held under the presidency of Prof S Ohtahara, Okayama University, at the Hotel New Okayama, on March 28, 1987. Dr Toshiaki Hashimoto made a special lecture on Sleep in Neurological Disorders of Children. 1. Newly recognized seizures during ACTH treatment Ichiba N (Dept of Pediatrics, Okayama University) 2. Peculiar seizures observed in a case of congenital muscular dystrophy (Fukuyama type) Mizuuchi S, Kohno C (Dept of Pediatrics, National Okayama and South Okayama Hospital) 3. Effectiveness of diazepam syrup on a case with frequent adversive seizures Nagao H, Tanaka K, Takahashi M, Morimoto T, Habara S, Nagai H, Matsuda H (Dept of Pediatrics, Ehime University) 4. Borderland cases of severe myoclonic epilepsy in infancy Ogino T, Ohtsuka Y (Dept of Child Neurology, Okayama University) 5. West syndrome in a case prematurely born after 24 weeks gestation weighing 620 g Terasaki T, Kobashi H, Doi J, Nishibayashi N, Uchida Y, Inoue H (Dept of Pediatrics, Okayama Saiseikai General Hospital)
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6. A case of schizencephaly with the West syndrome Miyake S, Imoto K, Mizuta H, Murakami R, Murao S, Hiramoto K (Dept of Pediatrics, Kagawa Prefectural Central Hospital) 7. A case of infantile spasms with overgrowth and bilateral retinoblastoma Tateishi H, Hayashi T (Dept of Pediatrics, Yamaguchi University) 8. Five cases of the West syndrome Hamada F, Kurashige T (Dept of Pediatrics, Kochi Medical School) 9. Peculiar calcifications noticed after ACTH therapy in two cases with infantile spasms Kamimura N, Tomita Y, Takashima Y (Div of Child Neurology, Totton University) 10. Three cases of infantile spasms with good prognosis Murakawa K, Goda T, Hamaguchi H, Tayama M, Hashimoto T (Dept of Pediatrics, Tokushima University) and Fukuda K, Endo S (Kagawa Children's Hospital) 11. Idiopathic West syndrome Ohtahara S (Dept of Child Neurology, Okayama University) Special Lecture: Sleep in Neurological Disorders of Children Hashimoto T (Dept of Pediatrics, Tokushima University)