title: A historical perspective on cerebral palsy as a concept and a diagnosis.
abstract: Sigmund Freud was the first to write about cerebral palsy as a nosographic category, uniting various infantile motor deficits of brain origin. He did not ascribe more than a temporary value to the term (infantile) cerebral palsy, but it has become--and still is--an indispensable part of the nosographic system. Nevertheless, it is still easier to explain what cerebral palsy is not than to define it precisely.
authors.affiliation: Division of Neurology, University Medical Centre, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kavcic
authors.forename: D B
authors.initials: DB
authors.lastname: Vodusek
mesh_terms: D001237:Asphyxia / Q000175:diagnosis; D002547:Cerebral Palsy / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000266:history; D003210:Concept Formation; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D009460:Neurologic Examination; D009626:Terminology as Topic