OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Brain & Development is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	33
Acknowledgments to Anonymous Reviewers in 2023	22
Key considerations for the diagnosis of Guillain-Barré syndrome in pediatric populations	19
Introduction of the new Editor-in-Chief of Brain & Development	18
Dr. Michael V. Johnston	17
Contents	17
Second nationwide survey of bilirubin encephalopathy in preterm infants in Japan	17
Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy: Long-term prognosis and risk factors	16
Long-term clinical and MRI follow-up in two POMT2-related limb girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMDR14) patients	15
Cover	15
Chemotherapy-induced autoimmune-mediated encephalitis during germinoma treatment	14
Dravet syndrome and hemorrhagic shock and encephalopathy syndrome associated with an intronic deletion of SCN1A	14
Editorial Board	13
Cover	13
Cover	12
Clonic seizures, continuous spikes-and-waves during slow sleep, choreoathetosis and response to sulthiame in a child with FRRS1L encephalopathy	12
Call for Abstracts for Oral and Poster Presentations	12
Effects of increased physical therapy staffing in the neonatal intensive care unit on oral feeding maturation and neurodevelopment of extremely low birth weight infants	10
Contents	10
Later efficacy of nusinersen treatment in adult patients with spinal muscular atrophy: A retrospective case study with a median 4-year follow-up	10
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS FOR ORAL AND POSTER PRESENTATIONS	10
Reply to letter to the editor “Regarding nusinersen and other therapeutic strategies for improved motor function”	10
Cover	10
Severe and rare neurological manifestations following COVID-19 infection in children: A Malaysian tertiary centre experience	9
Contents	9

A case with congenital disorder of glycosylation with defective fucosylation 2 and new mutation in FUK gene	9
New Year’s greetings	9
Current state of hemispherectomy and callosotomy for pediatric refractory epilepsy in Denmark	9
Refractory cerebral infarction in a child with an ACTA2 mutation	8
Interacting with AP1 complex mutated synergin gamma (SYNRG) reveals a novel coatopathy in the form of complicated hereditary spastic paraplegia	8
Acknowledgments to Anonymous Reviewers in 2021	8
Regarding the impact of maternal dyslipidemia on infant neurodevelopment	8
Cover	8
Potential of arterial spin labeling in elucidating the pathogenesis of the splenium of the corpus callosum and cerebellar dentate nucleus in encephalopathy	8
Verification of the ability of the new MRI classification system to predict neurodevelopmental outcome in very low-birth-weight infants	8
Editorial Board	7
Emotional and behavioral problems in pediatric patients with migraine and tension-type headache	7
Successful treatment of congenital myasthenic syndrome caused by a novel compound heterozygous variant in RAPSN	7
Contents	7
Improving pediatric magnetic resonance imaging safety by enhanced non-technical skills and team collaboration	7
Tendency and risk factors of acute pancreatitis in children with severe motor and intellectual disabilities: A single-center study	7
Color density spectral array findings on continuous EEG during therapeutic hypothermia in children with acute encephalopathy	7
Isolated sixth nerve palsy as an initial presentation of primary angiitis of the central nervous system	7
Reply to “Levacetylleucine a game changer for Niemann-Pick disease type-C”	7
Myoclonic super-refractory status epilepticus with favourable evolution in a teenager with FIRES: Is the association of vagus nerve stimulation and cannabidiol effective?	6
A pediatric case of transient periictal MRI abnormalities after repeated seizures	6
Involuntary movements as a prognostic factor for acute encephalopathy with biphasic seizures and late reduced diffusion	6
Serial changes of T1-, T2-weighted MR imaging and MR spectroscopy in Tay-Sachs disease with late onset spasms.	6
Early risk factors for encephalopathic transformation in children with benign childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes	6
Recurrence of Tic disorders in children after medication withdrawal: A cohort study on long-term outcomes	6
Editorial Board	6
A first case of childhood chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy associated with alopecia universalis	6
Novel and recurrent ASPM mutations of founder effect in Chinese population	6
Identification of a novel BICRA variant leading to the newly described Coffin–Siris syndrome 12	6
Neurological outcome and health-related quality of life among Malaysian children with stroke	6
Spinal muscular atrophy with predominant lower extremity (SMA-LED) with no signs other than pure motor symptoms at the intersection of multiple overlap syndrome	6
Diagnostic challenges of primary diffuse leptomeningeal melanomatosis in early adolescence: A case report	6
A six-year longitudinal study of neurocognitive problems in children with epilepsy	6
Anti-GM2 antibody positive Guillain-Barré syndrome presenting with ataxia in a pediatric patient: An atypical manifestation	6
Association of O blood type with the prognosis of acute necrotizing encephalopathy in childhood: A single-center cohort study	6
Differentiating early clinical features of Panayiotopoulos syndrome from acute encephalopathy	6
Clinical factors related to bilirubin encephalopathy in preterm infants: A case-control study	6
A female case of 5,10-methenyltetrahydrofolate synthetase deficiency with novel neuro-imaging abnormalities	5
Obituary Dr. Milivoj Velickovic Perat	5
Increase in children with developmental delay: Survey on 18-month-old children in Togane city, Japan	5
Fosphenytoin dosing regimen including optimal timing for the measurement of serum phenytoin concentration in pediatric patients	5
Two types of early epileptic encephalopathy in a Pitt-Hopkins syndrome patient with a novel TCF4 mutation	5
Thyroid crisis mimicking clinically mild encephalitis/encephalopathy with a reversible splenial lesion: A pediatric case report	5
Contents	5
Myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody-associated cerebral cortical encephalitis with super-refractory status epilepticus	5
Hemiplegic migraine type 2 caused by a novel variant within the P-type ATPase motif in ATP1A2 concomitant with a CACNA1A variant	5
A pilot study of combining social skills training and parenting training for children with autism spectrum disorders and their parents in Japan	5
Cranial shapes of Japanese preterm infants at one month of age using a three-dimensional scanner	5
The diagnostic values of red flags in pediatric patients with headache	5
The first pediatric case of mild encephalitis/encephalopathy with a reversible splenial lesion (MERS) associated with Neisseria meningitidis	5

A novel de novo TET3 loss-of-function variant in a Turkish boy presenting with neurodevelopmental delay and electrical status epilepticus during slow-wave sleep	5
Clinical value of therapeutic drug monitoring for levetiracetam in pediatric patients with epilepsy	5
A case of bilateral limbic and recurrent unilateral cortical encephalitis with anti-myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody positivity	5
Handgrip and finger flexion strength in children: A cross-sectional assessment of age-related normative data and application as a clinical functional marker in paediatric neuromuscular disorders	4
Altered serum levels of platelet-derived growth factor receptor β and cluster of differentiation 13 suggest a role for pericytes in West syndrome	4
A new case of concurrent existence of PRRT2-associated paroxysmal movement disorders with c.649dup variant and 16p11.2 microdeletion syndrome	4
Short-term clinical outcomes of onasemnogene abeparvovec treatment for spinal muscular atrophy	4
Children with migraine and tension-type headache: Do they have behavioral and emotional issues?	4
Epidemiological investigation of spinal muscular atrophy in Japan	4
Announcements	4
A female case of L1 syndrome that may have developed due to skewed X inactivation	4
Announcements	4
Epidemiological study on pediatric-onset dystonia in Japan: A questionnaire-based survey	4
Neurological insights on two siblings with GM3 synthase deficiency due to novel compound heterozygous ST3GAL5 variants	4
A de novo CHD3 variant in a child with intellectual disability, autism, joint laxity, and dysmorphisms	4
Next generation sequencing in children with unexplained epilepsy: A retrospective cohort study	4
Low-dose phenobarbital for epilepsy with myoclonic absences: A case report	4
Blood coagulation dynamics during adrenocorticotropic hormone therapy in pediatric patients with infantile spasms	4
Sex interaction of white matter microstructure and verbal IQ in corpus callosum in typically developing children and adolescents	4
Editorial Board	4
Developmental and epileptic encephalopathy in a young Italian woman with a de novo missense variant in the CLCN4 gene: A case report	4
MR vessel wall enhancement in a pediatric focal cerebral arteriopathy	4
Treatment of severe acute necrotizing encephalopathy of childhood with interleukin-6 receptor blockade in the first 24 h as add-on immunotherapy shows favorable long-term outcome at 2 years	4
Early non-convulsive seizures are associated with the development of acute encephalopathy with biphasic seizures and late reduced diffusion	4
Long-term hearing and neurodevelopmental outcomes following Kawasaki disease: A population-based cohort study	4
Phenotypes of SMA patients retaining SMN1 with intragenic mutation	4
Contents	4
Novel ALG12 variants and hydronephrosis in siblings with impaired N-glycosylation	4
Increased cytokines/chemokines and hyponatremia as a possible cause of clinically mild encephalitis/encephalopathy with a reversible splenial lesion associated with acute focal bacterial nephritis	4
Autosomal dominant ADAR c.3019G>A (p.(G1007R)) variant is an important mimic of hereditary spastic paraplegia and cerebral palsy	4
Effective treatments for FGF12-related early-onset epileptic encephalopathies patients	4
Neurochemistry evaluated by MR spectroscopy in a patient with SPTAN1-related developmental and epileptic encephalopathy	4
Editorial Board	4
Case report of a rare purine synthesis disorder due to 5-aminoimidazole-4-carboxamide ribonucleotide formyltransferase (AICAR) deficiency	3
Overlapping features of restless legs syndrome and growing pains in Turkish children and adolescents	3
Early risk factors for encephalopathic transformation in children with benign childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes	3
Homozygous SQSTM1 nonsense variant identified in a patient with brainstem involvement	3
Predictors of ADHD persistence in elementary school children who were assessed in earlier grades: A prospective cohort study from Istanbul, Turkey	3
A patient with early-onset SMAX3 and a novel variant of ATP7A	3
Which aEEG patterns could predict neurodevelopmental outcome in preterm neonates? – A systematic review	3
Refractory status epilepticus with fever due to mumps vaccine-induced encephalitis caused secondary encephalopathy mimicking acute encephalopathy with biphasic seizures and late reduced diffusion	3
Spontaneous and reflex movements after diagnosis of clinical brain death: A lesson from acute encephalopathy	3
Contents	3
Acknowledgments to Anonymous Reviewers in 2022	3
Editorial Board	3
Cover	3
Combined medical therapy and neurosurgical revascularization preventing stroke in post-varicella angiopathy: Case report and review of literature	3
Call For Abstracts For Oral And Poster Presentations The International Session	3
Biotin-thiamine responsive basal ganglia disease in the era of COVID-19 outbreak diagnosis not to be missed: A case report	3
Cover	3
Sialic acid and anti-ganglioside M1 antibodies are invaluable biomarkers correlated with the severity of autism spectrum disorder	3
The relation between neuroimaging and visual impairment in children and adolescents with cerebral palsy: A systematic review	3
Surgery for intractable epilepsy after severe encephalopathy with reversible splenial lesion and new onset hippocampal lesion associated with parechovirus	3
A nationwide survey of adenovirus-associated encephalitis/encephalopathy in Japan	3
Subcortical infarction in a young adult with Hunter syndrome	3
Creatinine-to-cystatin C ratio estimates muscle mass correlating the markers of the patients with severe motor and intellectual disabilities	3
Contents	3
Paroxysmal limb dystonias associated with GABBR2 pathogenic variant: A case-based literature review	3
Prophylactic antiseizure medications for recurrent status epilepticus in nonsyndromic childhood epilepsy	3
Parental germline mosaicism in SCN3A-related severe developmental disorder	3
Professor Verne S. Caviness	3
Translation and validation of the Thai Version of the Japanese Sleep Questionnaire for Preschoolers (JSQ-P)	3
Amnestic aphasia in MELAS can be epileptogenic	3
Thalamic aphasia associated with mitochondrial encephalopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke-like episodes: A case report	3
Cortical cystic lesions – A typical endpoint of a stroke-like lesion	3
Editorial Board	3