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NEUROLOGY 2009;73:733-735
© 2009 American Academy of Neurology
Resident and Fellow Section

Child Neurology: Autism as a model

Considerations for advanced training in behavioral child neurology

Shafali S. Jeste, MD, Sandra L. Friedman, MD and David K. Urion, MD

From the Departments of Neurology (S.S.J., D.K.U.) and Developmental Medicine (S.L.F.), Children's Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.

Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. Shafali Spurling Jeste, Children's Hospital, Boston, Department of Neurology, 300 Longwood Avenue, Fegan 11, Boston, MA 02115 shafali.jeste{at}childrens.harvard.edu.

In this article, we advocate for advanced training for child neurologists in behavior and development in order to facilitate the investigation of childhood behavioral and neurodevelopmental disabilities, with autism serving as a model disorder. We explore the current training options and then propose alternative subspecialty training options that focus on behavior and development, with appreciation that most developmental disabilities are not static encephalopathies but, rather, dynamic processes representing the influence of genetics and environment on neural circuitry.

Disclosure: Author disclosures are provided at the end of the article.






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