[Organization of neurologic services for newborn infants in the perinatal period]

The authors have demonstrated the current diagnostic potentialities in the assessment of the nervous system status of the fetus and neonate, based on the use of the latest known how. New methods of all-round examinations of perinatal brain injuries given an idea of the site, character, prevalence and gravity of structural and functional brain pathology in neonates, early recognition and estimation of compensatory potencies of perinatal cerebral injuries. The reserves of preventing neurological invalidism since childhood are shown. The role of close cooperation of obstetricians, neonatologists, neuropathologists and other specialists in enhancing the efficacy of rendering neurological assistance to the newborn is emphasized as is the necessity of succession in the work of all the links in the childhood neurological services.