Children’s brains are always growing and developing, but unfortunately this complex machine can also break down. Traditionally, pediatric neurology has addressed these problems according to the symptoms that cause them: epilepsy, mental retardation, autism and movement disorders, for example. However this approach isn't enough because the categories overlap and the symptoms are only the external manifestation of the underlying problem. Studying only these manifestations isn't normally enough to treat the problem. In this meeting, co-organized by B·Debate and the Sant Joan de Déu Hospital , scientific leaders in different aspects of neurobiology and other sciences coincided and discussed about the relation between the synaptic dysfunction in neuropediatric disorders.
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