Aicardi''s Diseases of the Nervous System in Childhood

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Ein einzigartiges Fachbuch mit umfassenden Informationen zu neurologischen Erkrankungen bei Kindern ? anwenderfreundlich mit einem klinischen Ansatz.Dieser Klassiker der Neuropädiatrie erscheint jetzt in der 4. Auflage. Führende akademische Wissenschaftler aus aller Welt präsentieren ihre Erkenntnisse aus verschiedenen Wissensgebieten und verankern dieses Fachbuch nachhaltig im klinischen Umfeld. In jedem Kapitel werden die wissenschaftlichen Grundlagen einer Erkrankung und die zugehörigen Fortschritte auf dem Gebiet der Genetik behandelt. Neu in dieser Auflage si...

List of contents

Jean Aicardi (1926-2015)
 
Jean Aicardi: A Brief Curriculum Vitae
 
About the Editors
 
Authors' Appointment
 
Preface to Third Edition
 
Preface to Fourth Edition
 
Acknowledgements
 
PART 1: FETAL AND NEONATAL NEUROLOGY
 
1. Fetal Neurology
 
Adré J Du Plessis and Michael V Johnston
 
2. Neurological Diseases in the Perinatal Period
 
Miriam Martinez-Biarge and Linda S de Vries
 
PART 2: BRAIN MALFORMATIONS, NEUROCUTANEOUS SYNDROMES, GENETIC ANOMALIES and DYSMORPHIC SYNDROMES
 
3. Developmental Brain Malformations
 
Nadia Bahi-Buisson and Nathalie Boddaert
 
4. Neurocutaneous Diseases and Syndromes
 
Eleni Panagiotakaki and Alexis Arzimanoglou
 
5. Genetic Anomalies and Dysmorphic Syndromes
 
Karine Pelc and Bernard Dan
 
PART 3: NEUROLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES OF PRENATAL, PERINATAL AND EARLY POSTNATAL INTERFERENCE WITH BRAIN DEVELOPMENT
 
6. Osseous Malformations of the Skull and Craniovertebral Junction
 
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 Krägeloh-Mann
 
PART 4: METABOLIC AND HEREDODEGENERATIVE DISORDERS
 
9. Metabolic Diseases
 
Linda De Meirleir
 
10. Heredodgenerative Disorders
 
Victoria San Antonio, Jaume Campistol Plana, Alexis Arzimanoglou and Robert Ouvrier
 
PART 5: POSTNATAL EXTRINSIC INSULTS
 
11. Infectious Diseases
 
Michael Eyre, Alasdair Bamford and Cheryl Hemingway
 
12. Parainfectious and Other Inflammatory Disorders of Immunological Origin
 
Marc Tardieu and Michael Johnston
 
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, Other Space-Occupying Lesions and Pseudotumour Cerebri
 
Colin Kennedy, Aabir Chakraborty and David Walker
 
15. Cerebrovascular Disorders
 
Gabrielle deVeber and Adam Kirton
 
PART 7: PAROXYSMAL DISORDERS
 
16. Epilepsy and Other Seizure Disorders
 
Alexis Arzimanoglou and Michael S Duchowny
 
17. Headache Disorders in Children
 
Kenneth J Mack
 
18. Sleep Disorders
 
Patricia Franco
 
PART 8: MOVEMENT DISORDERS
 
19. Basal Ganglia Disorders and Movement Disorders
 
Paddy Grattan-Smith, Russell C Dale and Emilio Fernandez-Alvarez
 
20. Tics and Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome
 
Robert Ouvrier and Russell C Dale
 
21. Non-Epileptic Paroxysmal Movement Disorders
 
Paddy Grattan-Smith, Russell C Dale and Emilio Fernandez-Alvarez
 
PART 9: DISORDERS OF THE OCULOMOTOR, VISUAL, AUDITORY AND VESTIBULAR SYSTEMS
 
22. Disorders of Visual and Oculomotor Functions
 
Carey Matsuba
 
23. Disorders of Auditory and Vestibular Functions
 
Anne O'Hare
 
PART 10: NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASES
 
24. Diseases of the Motor Neuron
 
Mariacristina Scoto and Francesco Muntoni
 
25. Disorders of the Peripheral Nerves
 
Manoj Menezes and Robert Ouvrier
 
26. Muscle Disorders
 
Monique M Ryan, Francesco Muntoni and Kathryn N North
 
PART 11: NEUROLOGICAL MANIFESTATIONS OF SYSTEMIC DISEASES
 
27. Electrolyte and Acid-Base Metabolism Disturbances, Nutritional Disorders and Other Systemic Diseases
 
Peter Baxter
 
PART 12: DEVE

Product details

• Authors: a Arzimanoglou, Alexi Arzimanoglou, Alexis Arzimanoglou, Alexis O'' Hare Arzimanoglou, Alexis Ouvrier Arzimanoglou, Micha Johnston, Michael Johnston, Ann O' Hare, Anne O' Hare, Robert A. Ouvrier
• Publisher: MacKeith Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9781909962804
• ISBN: 978-1-909962-80-4
• No. of pages: 1524
• Series: Clinics in Developmental Medicine; Clinics in Developmental Medic
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Neurologie, Medizin, Pädiatrie, Neurology, Pediatrics, Medical Science, KINDERNEUROLOGIE