Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Introduction to clinical child neuropsychiatry -- 2. Epidemiological overview -- 3. Background factors -- 4. A brief review of normal development -- 5. Mental retardation and other severe learning disorders: an overview -- 6. Disorders of empathy: autism and autism spectrum disorders (including childhood onset schizophrenia) -- 7. Disorders involving obsessions and compulsions (including Tourette syndrome and eating disorders) -- 8. Deficits in attention, motor control and perception, and other syndromes attributed to minimal brain dysfunction -- 9. Sleep and elimination disorders -- 10. Specific syndromes not otherwise referred to -- 11. Psychotic disorders not elsewhere classified (including mania and depression with psychotic features) -- 12. Traumatic brain injury and its neuropsychiatric sequelae -- 13. Epilepsy and psychiatric problems in childhood -- 14. Other neurological disorders/disabilities. 15. Neurodevelopmental examination of the child with neuropsychiatric problems -- 16. Laboratory work-up -- 17. Neuropsychological work-up -- 18. The impact of childhood neuropsychiatric disorders on the family -- 19. Interventions and treatments.

Classification

• LCC: RJ486.5
• Dewey Decimal: 618.92/89

Book Details

• Language: eng
• Physical Description: xvii, 366 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
• Edition Info: (pbk)

Subjects

• Pediatric neuropsychiatry
• Mental Disorders -- therapy
• Mental Disorders -- in infancy & childhood
• Neuropsychology -- in infancy & childhood
• Child development disorders -- Therapy

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