In our Fetal-Neonatal Neurology Program at Boston Children’s Hospital, we provide comprehensive care for babies who experienced a brain injury or have a congenital neurological condition.
We care for children with a variety of conditions, including:
Conditions acquired in utero (before a child is born) — also called congenital (present at birth) conditions.
Brain malformations:
- Holoprosencephaly
- Schizencephaly
- Lissencephaly
- Pachygyria
- Polymicrogyria
- Periventricular nodular heterotopia
- Other migrational disorders
- Focal cortical dysplasias
- Chiari malformations, types I and II (spina bifida)
- Agenesis or dysgenesis of the corpus callosum
- Dandy-Walker malformation and other malformations of the posterior fossa
- Congenital hydrocephalus, e.g., due to aqueductal stenosis
Congenital infections:
Conditions acquired by newborns and young infants:
Neurological symptoms or signs in newborns or young infants:
