Emerging Subspecialties in Neurology: Pediatric stroke and cerebrovascular disorders.

In 1895, a neuropathologist at the University of Vienna observed that “a large number of cases of infantile cerebral palsy is caused by the same factors that bring about the majority of cases of cerebral paralysis of adults: by tearing, embolism, and thrombosis of cerebral vessels.”1 While Sigmund Freud would go on to become better known for other endeavors, his observation that children can have strokes paved the way for the development of the emerging subspecialty of pediatric stroke and cerebrovascular disorders.