Recent studies by the Kids Neuroscience Centre have highlighted the clinical significance of the antibodies that cause spinal inflammation. These findings recently helped a three-year-old child, James, get back on his feet after losing his ability to walk.

Families and doctors looking after children with a rare form of cerebral palsy, associated with a gene called ADCY5, have chanced upon a precision therapy that is making lives easier for these children. The team at the Kids Neuroscience Centre are now guiding eligible patients to trial caffeine.