Principles of Pediatric Neuropsychiatry through Complex Clinical Cases (Enhanced Edition‪)‬

Principles of Pediatric Neuropsychiatry through Complex Clinical Cases provides basic diagnosis and treatment tactics, along with the tools that clinicians need to perform both a psychiatric and neurological “consultation,” including differential diagnoses and questions to ask. Readers are then offered the neuropsychiatric details of the particular illness that has afflicted sample patients, along with treatment guidelines offered to said patient and their parents. Cases presented include the following topics: Absence Seizures, ESES, Myotonic Dystrophy, Adrenal Leukodystrophy, ADHD with Comorbidities, Wilson’s Disease, ASD, Schizophrenia, Astrocytoma with Hypoactive Delirium, Systemic Lupus Erythematous, Traumatic Brain Injury, OCD, Tourette’s, Klein Levin Syndrome, and more.Presents the most complex cases in Pediatric NeuropsychiatryProvides the combined perspectives of the pediatric neurologist and psychiatrist at every stage of the patient evaluationHighlights the difficulties in conveying the complexity of the diagnosis to patients and families and provides strategies for cliniciansProvides concise reviews of demographic factors, clinical presentation, and diagnostic and treatment considerations for central pediatric neuropsychiatric conditionsIncludes take-home generalizable principles for differentiating psychiatric syndrome from a neurological disease etiology