Here's an odd mention of cerebral palsy. It comes in article warning about the dangers of toxic modern chemicals on humans and human development. Perhaps incorrectly, we tend to think of the incidence of cerebral palsy as being static. This research would suggest not, potentially at least.
In yet another warning, researchers from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York and the University of Southern Denmark predicted a “silent pandemic” of brain conditions such as autism, cerebral palsy and attention deficit disorders, identifying 202 substances known to poison the brain as “the tip of a very large iceberg”.
The whole article can be found in today's Daily Telegraph "Human bodies contain too many damaging chemicals".
Make what you will of it and of the reference to cerebral palsy. Googling "silent pandemic" + "Mount Sinai School of Medicine" seems to link back to work first reported in 2006. Adding "cerebral palsy" brings up a variety of years including links - like mine - to today's Daily Telegraph and similar articles. Maybe it's all just a re-hash of 'old news'? Still, the notion that the incidence of cerebral palsy could be increasing strikes me as worth checking out.
