Brain & Development
Official Journal of the Japanese Society of Child Neurology
Brain and Development is devoted to publishing Review Articles, Full Length Original Papers, Case Reports and Letters to the Editor in the field of Child Neurology and related sciences. Proceedings of meetings, and professional announcements will be published at the Editor's discretion. Letters concerning articles published in Brain and Development and other relevant issues are also welcome.
Announcement
Request for assignment of copyrights on previously published articles in Brain and Development
Editor-in-Chief: M. Kaga
Impact factor: 1.668
5 year impact factor: 1.869
Imprint: Elsevier
ISSN: 0387-7604
Most cited
Top 10 Cited (articles published in the last five years)
Extracted from Scopus (on Sat Jun 29)206 Zang, Y.-F. | Yong, H. | Chao-Zhe, Z. | Qing-Jiu, C. | Man-Qiu, S. | Meng, L. | Li-Xia, T. | Tian-Zi, J. | Yu-Feng, W. Altered baseline brain activity in children with ADHD revealed by resting-state functional MRI Brain and Development, Volume 29, Issue 2, 2007-03-01, Pages 83-91 76 Lossin, C. A catalog of SCN1A variants Brain and Development, Volume 31, Issue 2, 2009-02-01, Pages 114-130 67 Ming, X. | Brimacombe, M. | Wagner, G.C. Prevalence of motor impairment in autism spectrum disorders Brain and Development, Volume 29, Issue 9, 2007-10-01, Pages 565-570 60 Zafeiriou, D.I. | Ververi, A. | Vargiami, E. Childhood autism and associated comorbidities Brain and Development, Volume 29, Issue 5, 2007-06-01, Pages 257-272 58 Takanashi, J.-i. Two newly proposed infectious encephalitis/encephalopathy syndromes Brain and Development, Volume 31, Issue 7, 2009-08-01, Pages 521-528 55 Hara, H. Autism and epilepsy: A retrospective follow-up study Brain and Development, Volume 29, Issue 8, 2007-09-01, Pages 486-490 55 Scheffer, I.E. | Zhang, Y.-H. | Jansen, F.E. | Dibbens, L. Dravet syndrome or genetic (generalized) epilepsy with febrile seizures plus? Brain and Development, Volume 31, Issue 5, 2009-05-01, Pages 394-400 54 Kim, S.U. Genetically engineered human neural stem cells for brain repair in neurological diseases Brain and Development, Volume 29, Issue 4, 2007-05-01, Pages 193-201 51 Brockmann, K. The expanding phenotype of GLUT1-deficiency syndrome Brain and Development, Volume 31, Issue 7, 2009-08-01, Pages 545-552 51 Krägeloh-Mann, I. | Cans, C. Cerebral palsy update Brain and Development, Volume 31, Issue 7, 2009-08-01, Pages 537-544 - View all items
Special issues
- Buy now
The Great East Japan Earthquake : After 2 Years, From the Viewpoint of Child Neurologists
Volume 35, Issue 3,
Published March 2013 - Buy now
Exploring Autism Research Collaboration between Japan and United States Joint Academic Conference on Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)
Volume 35, Issue 2,
Published February 2013 - Buy now
Special section: Perinatal/Fetal Neurology
Volume 35, Issue 1,
Published January 2013
Most downloaded
Most Read Articles - counted by Article downloads on SciVerse ScienceDirect in the period 01 April 2002 to 31 May 2013
Sat Jun 291 Michael V. Johnston Clinical disorders of brain plasticity Brain and Development, Volume 26, Issue 2, March 2004, Pages 73-80 2 Xue Ming | Michael Brimacombe | George C. Wagner Prevalence of motor impairment in autism spectrum disorders Brain and Development, Volume 29, Issue 9, October 2007, Pages 565-570 3 Asuri N. Prasad | Chitra Prasad The floppy infant: contribution of genetic and metabolic disorders Brain and Development, Volume 25, Issue 7, October 2003, Pages 457-476 4 Isabelle Rapin | Michelle Dunn Update on the language disorders of individuals on the autistic spectrum Brain and Development, Volume 25, Issue 3, April 2003, Pages 166-172 5 Dimitrios I. Zafeiriou | Athena Ververi | Euthymia Vargiami Childhood autism and associated comorbidities Brain and Development, Volume 29, Issue 5, June 2007, Pages 257-272 6 Russell A Barkley Issues in the diagnosis of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in children Brain and Development, Volume 25, Issue 2, March 2003, Pages 77-83 7 Seung U. Kim Genetically engineered human neural stem cells for brain repair in neurological diseases Brain and Development, Volume 29, Issue 4, May 2007, Pages 193-201 8 Zang Yu-Feng | He Yong | Zhu Chao-Zhe | Cao Qing-Jiu | Sui Man-Qiu | Liang Meng | Tian Li-Xia | Jiang Tian-Zi | Wang Yu-Feng Altered baseline brain activity in children with ADHD revealed by resting-state functional MRI Brain and Development, Volume 29, Issue 2, March 2007, Pages 83-91 9 Jean Aicardi Aicardi syndrome Brain and Development, Volume 27, Issue 3, April 2005, Pages 164-171 10 Harvey B Sarnat | David Nochlin | Donald E Born Neuronal nuclear antigen (NeuN): a marker of neuronal maturation in the early human fetal nervous system1Presented at the XIII International Congress of Neuropathology, Perth, Australia, September 7𢀓12, 1997.1 Brain and Development, Volume 20, Issue 2, March 1998, Pages 88-94 - View all items
Recent articles
Sat Jun 291 Francesca Bonini | Gabriella Egeo | Jinan Fattouch | Martina Fanella | Alessandra Morano | Anna Teresa Giallonardo | Carlo di Bonaventura Natural evolution from idiopathic photosensitive occipital lobe epilepsy to idiopathic generalized epilepsy in an untreated young patient Brain and Development, Available online 29 June 2013 2 Toshiyuki Seto | Hiroharu Takesada | Naoki Matsushita | Kenichi Ishibashi | Naohiro Tsuyuguchi | Taro Shimono | Norikatsu Hikita | Taeka Hattori | Katsuji Tanaka | Haruo Shintaku Twelve-year-old girl with intracranial epidural abscess and sphenoiditis Brain and Development, Available online 29 June 2013 3 Takashi Kusaka | Kenichi Isobe | Saneyuki Yasuda | Kosuke Koyano | Shinji Nakamura | Makoto Nakamura | Masaki Ueno | Takanori Miki | Susumu Itoh Evaluation of cerebral circulation and oxygen metabolism in infants using near-infrared light Brain and Development, Available online 22 June 2013 4 Hans Holthausen | Tom Pieper | Manfred Kudernatsch Towards early diagnosis and treatment to save children from catastrophic epilepsy 𢀓 Focus on epilepsy surgery Brain and Development, Available online 20 June 2013 5 Mitsuru Kashiwagi | Takuya Tanabe | Shuichi Shimakawa | Michiko Nakamura | Shinya Murata | Kousuke Shabana | Jun Shinohara | Yutaka Odanaka | Hideki Matsumura | Koh Maki | Kenichi Okumura | Keisuke Okasora | Hiroshi Tamai Clinico-radiological spectrum of reversible splenial lesions in children Brain and Development, Available online 19 June 2013 6 Jonathan J. Noble | Nicola R. Fry | Andrew P. Lewis | Stephen F. Keevil | Martin Gough | Adam P Shortland Lower limb muscle volumes in bilateral spastic cerebral palsy Brain and Development, Available online 18 June 2013 7 Po-Cheng Hung | Huei-Shyong Wang | Shao-Hsuan Hsia | Alex M.-C. Wong Plasmapheresis as adjuvant therapy in Stevens𢀓Johnson syndrome and hepatic encephalopathy Brain and Development, Available online 15 June 2013 8 Christine Bulteau | Taisuke Otsuki | Olivier Delalande Epilepsy surgery for hemispheric syndromes in infants: Hemimegalencepahly and hemispheric cortical dysplasia Brain and Development, Available online 15 June 2013 9 Roland R. Mettin | Andreas Merkenschlager | Matthias K. Bernhard | Heidrun Elix | Wolfgang Hirsch | Wieland Kiess | Steffen Syrbe Wide spectrum of clinical manifestations in children with tuberous sclerosis complex 𢀓 Follow-up of 20 children Brain and Development, Available online 14 June 2013 10 Hiroyuki Torisu | Kyoko Watanabe | Keiko Shimojima | Midori Sugawara | Masafumi Sanefuji | Yoshito Ishizaki | Yasunari Sakai | Hironori Yamashita | Toshiyuki Yamamoto | Toshiro Hara Girl with a PRRT2 mutation and infantile focal epilepsy with bilateral spikes Brain and Development, Available online 11 June 2013 - View all items
