Western Encephalitis and Cerebral Ontogenesis

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And if you say, "Why should we trouble with these relics and with all this past history?" then I will say that in order to understand the correct functioning of the nervous system and its pathology, we need to know the evolutionary and embryological processes that have made it what it is. How else should we expect to learn how to control and heal it?1 WESTERN encephalitis (WE) virus has special proclivity for the nervous systems of infants. Between 25% and 30% of all cases of WE occur in infants less than 1 year of age.2 Furthermore, sequelae are much more frequent and more severe When the illness occurs in infancy than when it occurs in older persons.3-5 A recent analysis of findings of the California Encephalitis Clinical Follow-Up Study, which is now in its second decade, showed that 79% of 29 children who had WE