Addresses many of the new advances in pediatric neurology, while also remaining
Table of Contents
Part 1-Introduction
Chapter 1 Approach to the child with a neurologic disease
Chapter 2 Special Techniques for Neurologic Diagnosis
Part 2 - Cardinal Manifestations of Neurologic Disease
Section 1-Disorders of Motility
Chapter 3 Motor Paralysis
Chapter 4 Abnormalities of Movement and Posture Due to Disease of the Basal Ganglia
Chapter 5 Incoordination and Other Disorders of Cerebellar Function
Chapter 6 Tremor, Myoclonus, Focal Dystonias, and Tics
Chapter 7 Disorders of Stance and Gait
Section 2 - Pain and Other Disorders of Somatic Sensation
Chapter 8 Pain
Chapter 9 Other Somatic Sensation
Chapter 10 Headache and Other Craniofacial Pains
Chapter 11 Pain in the Back, Neck, and Extremities
Section3-Disorders of the Special Senses
Chapter 12 Disorders of Smell and Taste
Chapter 13 Disturbances of Vision
Chapter 14 Disorders of Ocular Movement and Pupillary Function
Chapter 15 Deafness, Dizziness, and Disorders of Equilibrium
Section4-Epilepsy and Disorders of Consciousness
Chapter 16 Epilepsy and Other Seizure Disorders
Chapter 17 Coma and Related Disorders of Consciousness
Chapter 18 Faintness and Syncope
Chapter 19 Sleep and Its Abnormalities
Section5-Derangements of Intellect, Behavior, and Language Due to Diffuse and FocalCerebral Disease
Chapter 20 Delirium and Other Acute Confusional States
Chapter 21 Dementia and the Amnesic (Korsakoff) Syndrome with Comments on the Neurology ofIntelligence and Memory
Chapter 22 Neurologic Disorders Caused by Lesions in Particular Parts of the Cerebrum
Chapter 23 Disorders of Speech and Language
Section6-Anxiety and Disorders of Energy, Mood, Emotion and Autonomic and
EndocrineFunctions
Chapter 24 Fatigue, Asthenia, Anxiety, and Depressive Reactions
Chapter 25 The Limbic Lobes and the Neurology of Emotion
Chapter 26 Disorders of the Autonomic Nervous System, Respiration, and
Swallowing
Chapter 27 The Hypothalamus and Neuroendocrine Disorders
Part 3-Growthand Development of the Nervous System and the
Neurology ofAging
Chapter 28 Normal Development and Deviations in Development of the Nervous System
Chapter 29 The Neurology of Aging
Part 4-MajorCategories of Neurologic Disease
Chapter 30 Disturbances of Cerebrospinal Fluid and its Circulation, Including Hydrocephalus, Pseudotumor Cerebri, and Low-Pressure Syndromes
Chapter 31 IntracranialNeoplasms and Paraneoplastic Disorders
Chapter 32 Infections of the Nervous System (Bacterial, Fungal, Spirochetal, Parasitic) andSarcoidosis
Chapter 33 Viral Infections of the Nervous System, Chronic Meningitis, and Prion Diseases
Chapter 34 Cerebrovascular Diseases
Chapter 35 Craniocerebral Trauma
Chapter 36 Multiple Sclerosis and Allied Demyelinating Diseases
Chapter 37 Inherited Metabolic Diseases of the Nervous System
Chapter 38 Developmental Diseases of the Nervous System
Chapter 39 Degenerative Diseases of the Nervous System
Chapter 40 Acquired Metabolic Diseases of the Nervous System
Chapter 41 Diseases of the Nervous System Due to Nutritional Deficiency
Chapter 42 Alcoholand Alcoholism
Part5-Diseases of Spinal Cord, Peripheral Nerve and Muscle
Chapter 43 Neuromuscular
Chapter 44 Diseases of the Spinal Cord
Chapter 45 Electophysiologic and Laboratory Aids in the Diagnosis of Neuromuscular Disease
Chapter 46 The Inflammatory, Metabolic and Toxic Myopathies
Chapter 47 Diseases of the Cranial Nerves
Chapter 48 Principles of Clinical Myology: Diagnosis and Classification of Diseases of Muscle and Neuromuscular Junction
Chapter 49 The Infectious and Inflammatory Myopathies
Chapter 50 The Muscular Dystrophies
Part6-Psychiatric Disorders
Chapter 51 The Neuroses and Personality Disorders
Chapter 52 The Congenital Neuromuscular Disorders
Chapter 53 Myasthenia Gravis and Related Disorders of the Neuromuscular Junction
Chapter 54 The Periodic Paralyses and Hereditary, Nondystrophic Myotonias (ION
Channel Disorders)
Chapter 55 Disorders of Muscle Characterized by Cramp, Spasm, Pain, and Localized Masses
Chapter 56 The Anxiety Neuroses, Hysteria, and Personality Disorders
Chapter 57 Depression and Manic-Depressive (Bipolar) Disease
Chapter 58 The Schizophrenias and Paranoid States
