Aicardi's Diseases of the Nervous System in Childhood

PART 1: FETAL AND NEONATAL NEUROLOGY 

1. Fetal Neurology
André Du Plessis and Michael Johnston

2. Neurological Diseases in the Perinatal Period
Linda de Vries and Miriam Mbiarge

PART 2: MALFORMATIONS OF CORTICAL DEVELOPMENT, NEUROCUTANEOUS SYNDROMES, GENETIC ANOMALIES and DYSMORPHIC SYNDROMES

3. Malformations of Cortical Development
Nadia Bahi-Buisson and Nathalie Boddaert

4. Neurocutaneous Diseases and Syndromes
Alexis Arzimanoglou and Eleni Panagiotakaki

5. Genetic Anomalies and Dysmorphic Syndromes
Bernard Dan

PART 3: NEUROLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES OF PRENATAL, PERINATAL AND EARLY POSTNATAL INTERFERENCE WITH BRAIN DEVELOPMENT

6. Craniosynostosis and Paediatric Craniovertebral Anomalies
Richard Hayward and Dominic Thompson

7. Hydrocephalus and Non-traumatic Pericerebral Collections
Andrew Whitelaw and Christian Sainte-Rose

8. Cerebral Palsy and Related Movement Disorders
Ingeborg Krageloh-Mann

PART 4: METABOLIC, AND HEREDODEGENERATIVE DISORDERS 

9. Metabolic Diseases
Linda De Meirleir and Luc Regal 

10. Heredodgenerative Disorders: Leukodystrophies; Disorders Involving Predominantly the Grey Matter, Poliodystrophies and Ceroid-Lipofuscinoses; Diffuse CNS Involvement Neuroaxonal Dystrophy;
Alexis Arzimanoglou, Victoria San Antonio
Spinocerebellar Degenerations
Robert Ouvrier

PART 5: POSTNATAL EXTRINSIC INSULTS

11. Infectious Diseases
Cheryl Hemingway, Michael Eyre and Alasdair Bamford

12. Parainfectious and other Inflammatory Disorders of Immunological Origin
Michael Johnston and Marc Tardieu

13. Accidental and Non-accidental Injuries by Physical and Toxic Agents
Karen Barlow, Robert Forsyth and Robert Minns

PART 6: TUMOURS AND VASCULAR DISORDERS 

14. Tumours of the Central Nervous System and other Space-Occupying Lesions
Colin Kennedy, David Walker and Aabir Chakraborty

15. Cerebrovascular Disorders
Gabrielle de Veber and Adam Kirton

PART 7: PAROXYSMAL DISORDERS

16. Epilepsies and other Seizure Disorders
Alexis Arzimanoglou and Mike Duchowny

17. Headache disorders
Kenneth Mack

18. Sleep Disorders
Patricia Franco

PART 8: MOVEMENT DISORDERS

19. Movement and Basal Ganglia Disorders
Paddy Grattan-Smith, Russell Dale and Emilio Fernandez-Alvarez

20. Tics and Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome
Robert Ouvrier and Russell Dale 

21. Non-epileptic Paroxysmal Movement Disorders
Paddy Grattan-Smith

PART 9: DISORDERS OF THE OCULOMOTOR, VISUAL, AUDITORY AND VESTIBULAR SYSTEMS

22. Disorders of Oculomotor, Motor and Visual Functions
Carey Matsuba

23. Disorders of Auditory and Vestibular Functions
Anne O’Hare

PART 10: NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASES

24. Diseases of the Motor Neuron
Francesco Muntoni and Mariacristina Scoto

25. Disorders of the Peripheral Nerves
Robert Ouvrier and Manoj Menezes

26. Muscle Disorders
Monique Ryan, Kathryn North and Francesco Muntoni

PART 11: NEUROLOGICAL MANIFESTATIONS OF SYSTEMIC DISEASES 

27. Electrolyte and Acid-Base Metabolism Disturbances, Nutritional Disorders and other Systemic Diseases
Peter Baxter

PART 12: DEVELOPMENTAL AND NEUROPSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS OF CHILDHOOD

28. Normal, Delayed and Disordered Development
Bruce Shapiro

29. Autism Spectrum Disorder and Autistic-like Conditions
Anne O'Hare and Roberto Tuchman

30. Attention-Deficit–Hyperactivity Disorder and Co-existing Impairments
Bruce Shapiro

31. Disorders of Speech, Language and Communication
Anne O'Hare

32. Psychogenic Neurological Disorders
Paddy Grattan-Smith

This classic text on paediatric neurology is now in its 4th edition. Leading academics from around the world present evidence from their various areas of expertise, placing it firmly in the clinical context. Each chapter covers the basic science of the disorder and relevant genetic advances. New to this edition are chapters on fetal neurology, movement disorders, basal ganglia disease and psychogenic disorders. References at the end of each chapter are thorough, guiding the clinician to relevant further reading.

The international team of editors has maintained the clinical approach of the late Jean Aicardi, which distinguishes this book from others in the field. Succinctly given, patient-focused information makes Aicardi's Diseases of Nervous System in Childhood a comprehensive yet readable resource for busy clinicians in paediatric neurology, general paediatrics, neurodisability and all the related medical disciplines.

About the Authors

Alexis Arzimanoglou is the Director of the Paediatric Epilepsy and Functional Neurology Department at the University Hospitals of Lyon, France and Visiting Professor at the Universitat de Barcelona, Spain, coordinating the Epilepsy Research Program at the Hospital San Juan de Dios. He trained in Neurology at Great Ormond Street, London, UK and at the Hôpital de la SALPETRIERE and in Child Neurology as a fellow of Jean AICARDI at the Hôpital des Enfants Malades in Paris, France. He then with worked with Jean Aicardi for over 25 years. He served as Chair of the Scientific Committee of the European Paediatric Neurology Society, elected member of the European Commission of the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) and President of the Société Européenne de Neurologie. He is currently as International League Against Epilepsy Ambassador for Epilepsy for the ILAE, Editor-in-Chief of the ILAE Educational Journal, Epileptic Disorders and Associate Editor of the European Journal of Paediatric Neurology, official journal of the European Paediatric Neurology Society. He is the author of two books, editor of seven and an author or co-author of over one hundred scientific articles.

Anne O'Hare is Professor of Community Paediatrics and Director of the Salvesen Mindroom Centre for Learning Difficulties, at the University of Edinburgh, UK. She is a developmental paediatrician with extensive clinical experience in neurodisability, neuroscience and child protection. Her research interests include how neurodevelopmental conditions impact on the development of speech, language, communication, motor skills and learning and the development of effective interventions. She has co-edited and contributed to numerous book chapters and articles in her field.

Michael Johnston is Professor of Neurology, Paediatrics and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Chief Medical Officer and Blum Moser Endowed Professor of Paediatric Neurology at the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. His clinical and research interests include fetal and neonatal neurology, as well as care for older children with cerebral palsy and neurogenetic disorders. He has received the Bernard Sachs award from the Child Neurology Society and the Frank Ford Lecture Award from the International Child Neurology Association (ICNA) as well as the Jacob Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award from the National Institutes of Health.

Robert Ouvrier is Emeritus Professor of Child Neurology at the University of Sydney, Australia. After training in general paediatrics in Sydney, Perth and Papua-New Guinea, he undertook specialist training in child neurology at the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, the University of Kentucky (1969-70) and the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore USA (1971-72). He was Head of the Department of Neurology at the Children's Hospital at Westmead, Sydney for 25 years. In 1999, he became the Foundation Head of the Institute for Neuroscience and Muscle Research at The Children's Hospital, Westmead. He was President of the International Child Neurology Association from 2006-2010. He is the author of two books, 30 book chapters and an author or co-author of over 150 scientific articles on paediatric neurology.