Table of Contents

1. FETAL AND NEONATAL NEUROLOGY (Linda de Vries). 2. MALFORMATIONS OF THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM (Jean Aicardi).

3. NEUROCUTANEOUS DISEASES AND SYNDROMES (Jean Aicardi).

4. NEUROLGOICAL AND BEHAVIOURAL ASPECTS OF GENETIC ABNORMALITIES AND DYSMORPHIC SYNDROMES (Christopherg Gillberg, Jean Aicardi and 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 Martin Bax).

8. METABOLIC DISEASES (Hélène Ogier and Folker Hanefeld).

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

10. INFECTIOUS DISEASES (Hermione Lyall and Cheryl Hemingway).

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

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

13. TUMOURS OF THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM AND OTHER SPACE-OCCUPYING LEASIONS (Jean Aicardi).

14. CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS (Jean Aicardi).

15. EPILEPSY AND OTHER SEIZURE DISORDERS (Alexis Arzimanoglou).

16. PAROXYSMAL DISORDERS OTHER THAN EPILEPSY (Jean Aicardi).

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

18. HEARING IMPAIRMENT (Anne O'Hare).

19. NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASES (Jean Aicardi).

20. DISORDERS OF THE PERIPHERAL NERVES (Robert Ouvrier).

21. MUSCLE DISORDERS (Kathryn North and Lloyd Shield).

22. NEUROLOGICAL MANIFESTATIONS OF SYSTEMC DISEASES (Jean Aicardi).

23. MENTAL AND BEHAVIOURAL DEVELOPMENT (Christopher Gillberg and Martin Bax).

About the Author

Jean Aicardi (Hôpital Robert-Debré, Paris, France)

Reviews

"This continues to set a high standard for other pediatric neurology textbooks to emulate ... .A comprehensive, single-volume general pediatric neurology reference." ( Doody's Book Review, February 2010 ) "[A] marvelous textbook. ... This third edition of this classic text is a must for the bookshelves of all child neurologists, neurodevelopmental pediatricians, and behavioral pediatricians." ( Pediatric Neurology , December 2009) "There is so much excellence and wisdom and scholarship within the covers of this book. ... You could not do better than have Diseases of the Nervous System in Childhood in your luggage." ( European Journal of Paediatric Neurology , 2009)