Main description:

Principles of Pediatric Neuropsychiatry through Complex Clinical Cases provides basic diagnosis and treatment tactics, along with the tools that clinicians need to perform both a psychiatric and neurological "consultation," including differential diagnoses and questions to ask. Readers are then offered the neuropsychiatric details of the particular illness that has afflicted sample patients, along with treatment guidelines offered to said patient and their parents. Cases presented include the following topics: Absence Seizures, ESES, Myotonic Dystrophy, Adrenal Leukodystrophy, ADHD with Comorbidities, Wilson's Disease, ASD, Schizophrenia, Astrocytoma with Hypoactive Delirium, Systemic Lupus Erythematous, Traumatic Brain Injury, OCD, Tourette's, Klein Levin Syndrome, and more.

Contents:

1. Introduction
2. "My Child Cannot Pay Attention"
3. "My Child is Acting Very Strangely"
4. "My Child Won't Get Out of Bed"
5. "My Child Has Turned Into the Hulk"
6. "My Child is Stuck"
7. "My Child Can't Sleep"
8. "My Child Has Been Making Strange Movements"
9. "My Child Can No Longer..."