New Diagnostic and Therapeutic Tools in Child Neurology

The book provides a comprehensive review and update of the newest diagnostic
and therapeutic tools in paediatric neurology. Special attention is paid to
neuroradiologic and neurophysiologic techniques and to their clinical
application, with guidelines and suggestions on how an integrated approach can
be used to reach diagnosis. Some of the chapters focus on the newborn infant
and the first years of life, highlighting the most appropriate MRI, clinical,
and EEG techniques to investigate the developing brain. Techniques used in
older children are also presented, including state-of-the art insights that
afford a better understanding of the correlation between function and brain
structure in young patients with brain lesions.

New genetic discoveries are particularly emphasized, as is the possibility of
performing accurate phenotype-genotype correlation by combining latest methods
such as muscle MRI and genetic information in order to identify diagnostic MRI
patterns associated with specific genetic disorders.

In all chapters an effort is made to combine technical data with clinical
applications in order to highlight, when possible, how these novel procedures
can also be used in rehabilitation.

This book will be of interest to paediatricians, paediatric neurologists,
neonatologists, and, indeed, to all those who are involved in the diagnosis
and care of children with neurologic disabilities.

Available in print version and eBook.