Paediatric Neurology

Abstract This pocket handbook of paediatric neurology continues to provide practical advice on the clinical approach, and ‘at a glance’ overviews and aides-memoire, to common and rare disorders and clinical scenarios. Precise and compact, the book includes many helpful tables (on aetiologies and differential diagnoses) and figures (e.g. innervations, neuroradiological anatomy). The book is divided into seven chapters: (1) Clinical approach; (2) Principles of investigation (both giving practical guidance on an orderly approach to how and why to perform specialist tests and how to interpret the results, along with introductions to neurophysiology and neuroradiology); (3) Signs and symptoms (offering a distinctive clinically orientated systematic approach); (4) Specific conditions; (5) ‘Real-life’ examples of consultations with other services; (6) Emergencies; and (7) A comprehensive, practically orientated Pharmacopoeia. The Handbook’s contributors are trainees who have recently got to grips with the subject, and senior colleagues whose long teaching and clinical experience bring a fresh and pragmatic approach to everyday clinical situations. This equips general and neurodevelopmental paediatricians with the knowledge they need to meet the neurological needs of the young people they see. The Handbook provides an ideal introduction and essential reference for trainees on short-term child neurology attachments and subspecialty trainees in neurology, neurodisability, and developmental paediatrics alike. It will also provide a valuable quick reference guide to the experienced Paediatric Neurologist. This new edition benefits from the international perspective of the lead Editors, and provides particular updates on neurogenetic investigation, neuromuscular disease, neuroinflammatory diseases, and epilepsy in childhood.