Clinical Child Neuropsychiatry

"The strength of the book is in its clear and non-patronizing presentation of information including that which may appear rather basic but is not necessarily common knowledge; and in the enthusiastic encouragement of clinicians interested in understanding the medical and neuropsychiatric issues relevant to their patients problems. I found it a friendly book to read and thought it might even win over some trainee child psychiatrists presently disenchanted with medicine by its enthusiastic tone and reassuriaing practicality." Karen Moses, The Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences

Part I. General Methodological Concerns: 1. Introduction to clinical child neuropsychiatry; 2. Epidemiological overview; 3. Background factors; 4. Normal development; Part II. Clinical Disorders: 5. Mental retardation and other severe learning disorders: an overview; 6. Disorders of empathy: autisma and autism spectrum disorders; 7. Disorders involving obsessions and compulsions; 8. Deficits in attention, motor control and perception, and other syndromes attributed to 'minimal brain dysfunction'; 9. Sleep and elimination disorders; 10. Specific syndromes presenting with neuropsychiatric problems ('behavioural phenotypes') not described elsewhere; 11. Psychotic disorders not elsewhere classified; 12. Traumatic brain injury and its neuropsychiatric sequelae; 13. Epilepsy and psychiatric problems in childhood; 14. Other neurological disorders/disabilities; Part III. Assessment: 15. Neurodevelopmental examination of the child with neuropsychiatric problems; 16. Laboratory work-up; 17. Neuropsychological work-up; Part IV. Intervention: 18. The impact of childhood neuropsychiatric disorders on the family; 19. Interventions and treatments; Appendices; Index.