Contents:

General Pediatric Neurologic Diseases and Disorders

Common Pediatric Neurologic Problems

A Proposed Approach to Nosology

Bibliography

This new edition fills an important gap in the literature by providing a concise treatment of pediatric neurology that focuses on the most commonly seen diseases with clinical guidelines that help today« busy practitioner find answers quickly. The book is divided into three sections starting with the tools required for a pediatric neurologic evaluation, then moving through classic disease states and disorders with the last section focusing on approaches to key clinical problems in children and adolescents. Each section is edited by the key opinion leaders in the field with dynamic features that get to the information quickly including:
Tools for diagnosis
Chapter opening outlines
Disease "Features" tables
"Pearls and Perils" boxes
"Consider Consultation When« " boxes
Selected annotated bibliographies
Key Clinical Questions Common terms and phrases: abnormalities absence seizures acid activity acute ADHD adolescence adrenoleukodystrophy adults assessment associated ataxia atrophy autism behavior brain injury brainstem cause cell cerebellar cerebral palsy chil Child Neurol childhood clinical cognitive coma common congenital Consistent features cortical defects deficiency developmental diagnosis Discriminating features disease disorders dren dysfunction dyspraxia dystonia early effects encephalopathy enzyme epilepsy etiology evaluation factors febrile seizures focal Friedreich ataxia function gene genetic headache hemorrhage hypotonia imaging impairment increased infantile infants infection intracranial language lesions levels lissencephaly malformations medulloblastoma meningitis metabolic motor movements muscle mutations myoclonic neonatal nerve neuroimaging neurologic examination neurons neuropathy normal occur onset outcome patients Pearls and Perils Pediatr peroxisomal preschool present progressive protein result Rett syndrome risk severe signs sleep spastic spikes spinal stroke studies symptoms syndrome Table therapy tion treatment tumors usually Variable features visual white matter