Palmer Clay Richmond, Our Inspiration, 9/11/95 – 10/25/14

He was a teacher, a son, a brother, a friend, an inspiration. Whatever he was to you he was special. Our relationship with him will continue as our experiences with him push us all to love deeper, to work harder and to be better. We love you, Palmer.
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Today, I hear the happiness in my brother’s echoing laugh.  I see the fruit of life in his smiles when my Mom walks into his room.  He is not a vegetable.  I know this, but many don’t.
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Read up on the latest scientific news in the field of pediatric neurology, visit our blog, check out the disease directory, and be sure to check out glossary of terms and all of our educational resources.

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The First Year

National Geographic

In the late 1980s, when the crack cocaine epidemic was ravaging America’s cities, Hallam Hurt, a neonatologist in Philadelphia, worried about the damage being done to children born to addicted mothers. She and her colleagues, studying children from low-income families, compared four-year-olds who’d been exposed to the drug with those who hadn’t. They couldn’t find any significant differences. Instead, what they discovered was that in both groups the children’s IQs were much lower than average. “These little children were coming in cute as buttons, and yet their IQs were like 82 and 83,”…

 

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Our Mission at CNS Foundation

Accept No Boundaries In Our Journey to Find Treatments and Cures for ALL Children Suffering from Brain Disorders

CNS Foundation’s Mission is Three-fold: 

  • Expedite scientific research to find treatments and cures for ALL of the more than 14 million children, in the U.S. alone, living with some form of neurological disorder
  • Provide families and health care professionals with up-to-date information and resources on the latest discoveries in pediatric neurology
  • Educate the public and public officials on the critical importance of funding pediatric neurological research

    

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Stanley Division of Developmental Neurovirology