PMID: 6969015Jan 1, 1980Paper

Pathogenesis of infantile cerebral palsy

Zhurnal nevropatologii i psikhiatrii imeni S.S. Korsakova
K A Semenova

Abstract

Some causes of the pathological activity of postural reflexes and other motor disturbances underlying the clinical picture of infantile cerebral paralysis are considered. It is shown that disturbed metabolism of corticosteroids observed in that disease, as well as impaired functional activity of T lymphocytes promote the development of both inflammatory and neuroimmune processes in the brain, mainly in large hemispheres--and this may be one of the causes of the pathological postural activity.

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