Full Description
Neuropsychiatry is a rapidly expanding field, linking the traditional areas of neurology and psychiatry, which has benefited greatly from recognition of the role of genetic and environmental determinants of psychiatric disorder particularly in childhood and adolescence. Based on twenty years of clinical experience and eighteen years of research, Professor Gillberg has utilised his unique and detailed interdisciplinary knowledge of neurobiology, pharmacology, epidemiology and neuropsychology to compile this comprehensive reference to clinical assessment and treatment of the many neuropsychiatric disorders of childhood which, at a conservative estimate, affect five in every hundred children. This is valuable reference resource that is sure to be welcomed by a wide range of professionals and researchers including child neurologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, speech therapists and special education teachers.
Contents
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.
