title: Historical perspectives on the etiology of cerebral palsy.
abstract: This essay presents the early history on the evolution of concepts about the etiology of cerebral palsy, especially the contributions of the early pioneers. Insight into how they derived their hypotheses, including the errors they made, can help one understand the complex processes of deciphering etiologic associations.
authors.affiliation: Pregnancy and Perinatology Branch, CDBPM, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, 20892-MS7510, USA. rajut@mail.nih.gov
authors.forename: Tonse N K
authors.initials: TN
authors.lastname: Raju
mesh_terms: D001317:Austria; D002547:Cerebral Palsy / Q000209:etiology / Q000266:history*; D004739:England; D005602:France; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D008513:Medicine in Literature; D008512:Medicine in the Arts; D014481:United States