Movement Disorders in Childhood, Third Edition provides the most up-to-date information on the diseases and disorders that affect motor control, an important area of specialization within child neurology. In this new edition, each chapter has been fully revised to include all of the latest scientific and therapeutic advances. Updates include new insights in motor development, control, goal-directed and habitual behaviors, classifications of movements and their complex and integrated circuitry. The authors also discuss developments in pathophysiologic mechanisms, immunology and metabolic disorders. New chapters include coverage of genetics of movement disorders and movement disorders in psychiatric conditions.
Appendices include an updated and revised drug index and genetic search strategy.
An updated Companion website hosts selected educational videos to help diagnose movement disorders.
Key Features
- Provides the only current reference specifically focused on childhood movement disorders
- Investigates the underlying etiologies and mechanisms of these disorders
- Revised and updated with new materials and a more disease-oriented approach
- Contains new chapters on the genetics of movement disorders and movement disorders in psychiatric conditions
- Includes new videos of instructive and unusual childhood movement disorders
Section I. Overview
1. Basal Ganglia Anatomy, Biochemistry, and Physiology
2. Cerebellar Anatomy, Biochemistry, Physiology, and Plasticity
3. Classification of Movement Disorders
4. Diagnostic Evaluation of Children with Movement Disorders
5. Motor Assessments
Section II. Developmental Movement Disorders
6. Transient and Developmental Movement Disorders
Section III. Paroxysmal Movement Disorders
7. Tics and Tourette Syndrome
8. Motor Stereotypies
9. Paroxysmal Dyskinesias
Section IV. Hyperkinetic and Hypokinetic Movement Disorders
10. Chorea, Athetosis, and Ballism
11. Dystonia
12. Myoclonus
13. Tremor
14. Ataxia
15. Parkinsonism
16. Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia
Section V. Selected Secondary Movement Disorders
17. Metabolic Disorders with Associated Movement Abnormalities
18. Movement Disorders in Autoimmune Diseases
19. Movement Disorders in Sleep
20. Cerebral Palsy
21. Movement Disorders and Neuropsychiatric Conditions
22. Drug-Induced Movement Disorders in Children
23. Functional Movement Disorders
Appendix A: Drug Appendix
Appendix B: Search Strategy for Genetic Movement Disorders
