Pediatric neurology. Part I / volume editors, Olivier Dulac, Maryse Lassonde, and Harvey B. Sarnat.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dulac, Olivier, 1946- editor.

Lassonde, Maryse, editor.

Sarnat, Harvey B., editor.

Series:

Handbook of clinical neurology ; v. 111, 3rd ser.

Handbook of clinical neurology ; v. 111 (3rd series)

Pediatric neurology ; pt. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pediatric neurology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxx, 818, 44 pages) : illustrations (some color).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Elsevier, 2013.

Amsterdam : Elsevier, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The child is neither an adult miniature nor an immature human being: at each age, it expresses specific abilities that optimize adaptation to its environment and development of new acquisitions. Diseases in children cover all specialties encountered in adulthood, and neurology involves a particularly large area, ranging from the brain to the striated muscle, the generation and functioning of which require half the genes of the whole genome and a majority of mitochondrial ones. Human being nervous system is sensitive to prenatal aggression, is particularly immature at birth and development m

Contents:

section 1. General introduction

section 2. Toxicity and deficiency, fetopathies

section 3. Cerebral palsy

section 4. Developmental abnormalities and mental retardation

section 5. Neuroectodermoses

section 6. Epilepsy.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780444626981

0444626980

OCLC:

849932593