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My task is to review those risks that are subject to quantification for three major groups of neurodevelopmental disorders, namely, mental retardation, epilepsy, and cerebral palsy. The material is in large part taken from a chapter in the book Prenatal and Perinatal Factors Associated With Brain Disorders (Freeman 1985). The work for that chapter was shared with my Sergievsky Center colleagues, Hauser, Kiely, Paneth, and Stein. Since the publication of the book, two papers by Nelson and Ellenberg (1985 a, b) have appeared on the subject of risk factors in cerebral palsy in the National Collaborative Perinatal Project (NCPP). I have also drawn freely on this large body of new material.
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Susser, M. (1988). The Quantification of Risk Factors in Major Neurodevelopmental Disorders. In: Kubli, F., Patel, N., Schmidt, W., Linderkamp, O. (eds) Perinatal Events and Brain Damage in Surviving Children. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-72850-1_2
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