Welcome to the May 2011 edition of the Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology podcast series. In this podcast, Dr Peter Baxter, Editor in Chief of the Journal, looks at the article ‘Spectrum of neurodevelopmental disabilities in children with cerebellar malformations’ by Marie-Eve Bolduc, Adré J Du Plessis, Nancy Sullivan, Omar S Khwaja, Xun Zhang, Katherine Barnes, Richard L Robertson, Catherine Limperopoulos, and the accompanying commentary, also in the May 2011 issue: ‘Cognitive functions in children with cerebellar malformations’ by Dr Andrea Poretti. Dr Peter Baxter talks to Professor Catherine Limperopoulos (Division of Diagnostic Imaging and Radiology, Children’s National MedicalCenter, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA), one of the authors of the article and Dr Andrea Poretti (Division of Pediatric Radiology, Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA). Read the paper here: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-8749.2011.03929.x/abstract Read the commentary here: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-8749.2011.03925.x/abstract