Informationen zum Autor Juan M. Pascual is a Professor at the Eugene McDermott Center for Human Growth and Development, and in the Departments of Neurology and Neurotherapeutics, Physiology and Pediatrics, at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas. Klappentext A review of childhood neurodegenerative and other progressive but non-degenerative disorders to guide their diagnosis and management. Zusammenfassung This essential book teaches medical practitioners how to diagnose and offer appropriate management for childhood neurodegenerative disorders. Individual disorders are analyzed by age of onset! from conditions present in utero through to adolescence! making it a practical guide for neurologists! pediatricians and other healthcare professionals. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Introduction; Section 1. Introduction; Part II. Rise and Decline of the Child; Section 2. Human Neurological Development; Part III. Mechanisms of Neurological Loss of Function; Section 5. Degeneration in the Central Nervous System; Part IV. Neurodegenerative and Other Progressive Disorders in Childhood; Section 7. Progressive in Utero Disorders; Part V. Regression in Other Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders; Section 12. Epilepsy; Part VI. Induced Regression; Section 21. Loss of Sensory Organs.

Autorentext
Juan M. Pascual is a Professor at the Eugene McDermott Center for Human Growth and Development, and in the Departments of Neurology and Neurotherapeutics, Physiology and Pediatrics, at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas.

Klappentext

A review of childhood neurodegenerative and other progressive but non-degenerative disorders to guide their diagnosis and management.

Zusammenfassung
This essential book teaches medical practitioners how to diagnose and offer appropriate management for childhood neurodegenerative disorders. Individual disorders are analyzed by age of onset, from conditions present in utero through to adolescence, making it a practical guide for neurologists, pediatricians and other healthcare professionals.

Inhalt

Part I. Introduction; Section 1. Introduction; Part II. Rise and Decline of the Child; Section 2. Human Neurological Development; Part III. Mechanisms of Neurological Loss of Function; Section 5. Degeneration in the Central Nervous System; Part IV. Neurodegenerative and Other Progressive Disorders in Childhood; Section 7. Progressive in Utero Disorders; Part V. Regression in Other Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders; Section 12. Epilepsy; Part VI. Induced Regression; Section 21. Loss of Sensory Organs.