Main description:

Clinics in Developmental Medicine No. 252

• The premier textbook of clinical child neurology


• Comprehensive descriptions of the neurological disorders of theneonate, infant, child and adolescent


• Third edition comprehensively revised and updated

Diseases of the nervous system in infancy and childhood have aprofound impact on the lives of patients and their families and areprobably the most disruptive of all paediatric ailments. Aicardi′sDiseases of the Nervous System in Childhood is thus theessential resource for child neurologists, neurologists,paediatricians, and physicians in developmental medicine. The thirdedition has been extensively updated to incorporate the tremendousvolume of new information since the previous edition, but remainsas clinically oriented as its predecessors. Because of the enormousand wide–ranging amount of new material available, Aicardi and hisco–editors have been joined by an eminent team of internationalexperts who have contributed many of the chapters.

Reviews of the second edition

"This book is one of the best of its kind and, as with the firstedition, will continue to take first place on the shelf of allpaediatric neurologists. It is also highly readable, and willremain the ′friendly companion at the bedside′ that ProfessorAicardi aims for."
from a review in Journal of Neurology

"This text is an excellent investment for any paediatricdepartment as a bench book: trainees will rely on it forpostgraduate examinations and many physicians in general andneurological practice of children and adults will covet the copythat is now at my right hand."
from a review in Journal of the Royal Society ofMedicine

Contents:

1. FETAL AND NEONATAL NEUROLOGY (
Linda de Vries).

2. MALFORMATIONS OF THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM (JeanAicardi).

3. NEUROCUTANEOUS DISEASES AND SYNDROMES (JeanAicardi).

4. NEUROLGOICAL AND BEHAVIOURAL ASPECTS OF GENETIC ABNORMALITIESAND DYSMORPHIC SYNDROMES (Christopherg Gillberg, Jean Aicardiand Martin Bax).

5. OSSEOUS MALFORMATIONS OF THE SKULL AND CERVICAL VERTEBRAE(Jean Aicardi).

6. HYDROCEPHALUS AND NON–TRAUMATIC PERICEREBRAL COLLECTIONS(Jean Aicardi).

7. CEREBRAL PALSY (Ingeborg Krägeloh–Mann and MartinBax).

8. METABOLIC DISEASES (Hélène Ogier and FolkerHanefeld).

9. HEREDODEGENERATIVE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISORDERS (JeanAicardi and Folker Hanefeld).

10. INFECTIOUS DISEASES (Hermione Lyall and CherylHemingway).

11. PARAINFECTIOUS AND OTHER INFLAMMATORY DISORDERS OFNEUROLOGICAL ORIGIN (Folker Hanefeld and Jean Aicardi).

12. ACCIDENTAL AND NON–ACCIDENTAL INJURIES BY PHYSICAL AGENTSAND TOXIC AGENTS (Keith Brown and Robert Minns).

13. TUMOURS OF THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM AND OTHERSPACE–OCCUPYING LEASIONS (Jean Aicardi).

14. CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS (Jean Aicardi).

15. EPILEPSY AND OTHER SEIZURE DISORDERS (AlexisArzimanoglou).

16. PAROXYSMAL DISORDERS OTHER THAN EPILEPSY (JeanAicardi).

17. DISORDERS OF OCULOMOTOR AND VISUAL SYSTEMS (Matsuba Careyand Jean Aicardi).

18. HEARING IMPAIRMENT (Anne O′Hare).

19. NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASES (Jean Aicardi).

20. DISORDERS OF THE PERIPHERAL NERVES (RobertOuvrier).

21. MUSCLE DISORDERS (Kathryn North and LloydShield).

22. NEUROLOGICAL MANIFESTATIONS OF SYSTEMC DISEASES (JeanAicardi).

23. MENTAL AND BEHAVIOURAL DEVELOPMENT (Christopher Gillbergand Martin Bax).