Clinical Child Neurology

Description:

This book, which will hold global appeal, adopts a problem-based approach to childhood disorders of the nervous system with the aim of supporting practicing child neurologists, pediatricians, and residents in training in their management of children with neurological disorders. Throughout, the practical assistance that it offers is based firmly on the best available current scientific evidence. The various pediatric neurologic diseases and organ systems are covered by pediatric neurologists and scientists from leading university hospitals and health centers in both the developed and the developing world. In addition to the full range of more frequent disorders, the book spans the neurological aspects of neglected tropical diseases and neurogenetic diagnostic and management algorithms utilizing the power of emerging DNA technology. A further feature is the inclusion of didactic videos relating to epileptic and movement disorders. As an open access publication with a strong clinical focus, the book will be a handy and valuable reference and resource for all practitioners who deal with childhood neurological disorders.

Table of Contents:

1. Neurological Evaluation of Infants and Children

2. Neurological Disorders in the Neonate

3. Cranial Nerve Disorders

4. Childhood Neuro-Ophthalmic Disorders

5. Movement Disorders in Childhood

6. Assessment and Management of the Child with Cerebral Palsy

7. Approach to Rehabilitation in the Child with Neurodisability

8. Developmental Delay and Intellectual Disability

9. Communication Disorders in Pediatrics

10. Autism Spectrum Disorder

11. ADHD: Clinical Management

12. A Diagnostic Approach for Neurogenetic Disorders in the Genome Era

13. Neurocutaneous Syndromes

14. Neurometabolic Disorders

15. Inherited Neurotransmitter Disorders

16. Neuroendocrine Disorders

17. Neurology of Nutritional Disorders

18. Neuroinfections and Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD)

19. Immune-Mediated Encephalidities

20. Neuroinflammatory and Demyelinating Disorders of Childhood

21. Childhood Stroke

22. Classification of Childhood Epileptic Seizures

23. Common Childhood Epilepsy Mimics

24. Febrile Seizures

25. Pediatric Status Epilepticus

26. Approach to a Child with Epilepsy

27. Antiepileptic Drugs

28. Infantile and Early Childhood Epileptic Syndromes

29. Childhood and Adolescent Epileptic Syndromes

30. Treatable Metabolic Epilepsies

31. The Epileptic Encephalopathy with Continuous Spike and Waves During Slow-Wave Sleep

32. Management of Refractory Childhood Epilepsy and Epilepsy Surgery

33. Disorders of Head Shape and Size

34. Traumatic Brain Injury and Disorders of Intracranial Pressure in Children

35. Pediatric Brain Tumors

36. Headache in Childhood

37. Spinal Cord Disorders and Paraplegias

38. Approach to Motor Unit Diseases and the Floppy Infant Syndrome

39. Anterior Horn Cell Diseases

40. Plexopathies and Radiculopathies

41. Peripheral Nerve Disorders

42. Neuromuscular Transmission Disorders

43. Hereditary and Acquired Myopathies

44. Myotonic Dystrophy and Periodic Paralyses

45. Metabolic Myopathies

46. Inflammatory Myopathies

47. Ethical Issues in Clinical Child Neurology

Correction to: Neurometabolic Disorders

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