Table of Contents

SECTION 7  Non epileptic paroxysmal disorders and respiratory disorders Alternating hemiplegia of childhood; Headache in Pediatric Practice; Paediatric narcolepsy: clinical and therapeutical approaches; Paroxysmal movement disorders and episodic ataxias; Tourette syndrome and other tic disorders of childhood; Non-epileptic paroxysmal sleep disorders; Syncopes and other paroxysmal events; Sudden infant death syndrome: An update and new perspectives of etiology; Psychogenic non epileptic seizures SECTION 8  Conversion disorders Conversion disorder SECTION 9  Trauma Traumatic brain injury; Non accidental head injury; Cognitive and psychopathological sequelae of pediatric traumatic brain injury; Obstetrical brachial plexus palsy SECTION 10 Tumors Central nervous system tumors; Pediatric spinal tumors; Neurocognitive effects of CNS tumours SECTION 11  Myelopathy Spinal cord malformations; Acute myelopathy – tumoral or traumatic spinal cord compression; Inflammatory, vascular and infectious myelopathies in children SECTION 12  Vascular disorders Normal and abnormal cerebrovascular development: gene-environment interactions  during early life with later life consequences; Vascular malformations of the brain; Cerebrovascular disorders in childhood; Childhood central nervous system (CNS) vasculitis; Outcome and rehabilitation after childhood stroke SECTION 13  Inflammatory and infectious diseases Brain development and the immune system: an introduction to inflammatory and  infectious diseases of the child’s brain; Mendelian predisposition to herpes simplex encephalitis; Congenital toxoplasmosis; Virus-induced lesions and the fœtal brain: examples of the transmission of HIV-1 and CMV from mother to offspring; Neonatal bacterial meningitis;  Infantile and childhood bacterial meningitis; Brain abscess; Tuberculous meningitis; Parasitic disorders; Aseptic meningitis; Acute polyradiculoneuritis: Guillain-Barré syndrome Germany); Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy; Acute viral encephalitis;  Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis and chronic viral encephalitis; Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease;  Parainfectious meningo-encephalo-radiculo-myelitis (cat scratch disease, lyme borreliosis, brucellosis, botulism, legionellosis, pertussis, mycoplasma); Opsoclonus-myoclonus syndrome; Ataxia; Neurological expression of genetic immunodeficiencies and of opportunistic infections; Anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis in children: the disorder, its diagnosis, and treatment; Immune mediated extrapyramidal movement disorders, including Sydenham’s chorea; Systemic inflammatory and autoimmune disorders; Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis; Pediatric multiple sclerosis; Effect of autoimmune diseases on cognitive function; The neuropsychology of the Klüver Bucy syndrome in children  

Reviews

"Dulac…and coeditors Lassonde and Sarnat bring together neurologists, neuroscientists, pediatricians, and others from around the world for 51 chapters on the diagnosis, treatment, and other aspects of nonepileptic paroxysmal disorders and respiratory disorders, conversion disorders, trauma, tumors, myelopathy, vascular disorders, and inflammatory and infectious diseases." --Reference & Research Book News, December 2013