Clinical child neuropsychiatry

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.

pt. I. General methodological concerns. Introduction to clinical child neuropsychiatry -- Epidemiological overview -- Background factors -- A brief review of normal development -- Part II -- Clinical disorders. Mental retardation and other severe learning disorders: an overview -- Disorders of empathy : autism and autism spectrum disorders (including childhood onset schizophrenia) -- Disorders involving obsessions and compulsions (including Tourette syndrome and eating disorders) -- Deficits in attention, motor control and perception, and other syndromes attributed to minimal brain dysfunction -- Sleep and elimination disorders -- Specific syndromes not otherwise referred to -- Psychotic disorders not elsewhere classified (including mania and depression with psychotic features) -- Traumatic brain injury and its neuropsychiatric sequelae -- Epilepsy and psychiatric problems in childhood -- Other neurological disorders/disabilities -- pt. III. Assessment. Neuorodevelopmental examination of the child with neuropsychiatric problems -- Laboratory work-up -- Neuropsychological work-up -- pt. IV. Intervention. The impact of childhood neuropsychiatric disorders on the family -- Interventi…