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Movement Disorders in Childhood,

Edition 3

Editors: By Harvey S. Singer, Jonathan W. Mink, Donald L. Gilbert and Joseph Jankovic

Publication Date: 14 Jul 2022

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Movement Disorders in Childhood, Third Edition provides the most up-to-date information on the diseases and disorders that affect motor control, an important area of specialization within child neurology. In this new edition, each chapter has been fully revised to include all of the latest scientific and therapeutic advances. Updates include new insights in motor development, control, goal-directed and habitual behaviors, classifications of movements and their complex and integrated circuitry. The authors also discuss developments in pathophysiologic mechanisms, immunology and metabolic disorders. New chapters include coverage of genetics of movement disorders and movement disorders in psychiatric conditions.

Appendices include an updated and revised drug index and genetic search strategy.

An updated Companion website hosts selected educational videos to help diagnose movement disorders.

Key Features

Provides the only current reference specifically focused on childhood movement disorders
Investigates the underlying etiologies and mechanisms of these disorders
Revised and updated with new materials and a more disease-oriented approach
Contains new chapters on the genetics of movement disorders and movement disorders in psychiatric conditions
Includes new videos of instructive and unusual childhood movement disorders

About the author

By Harvey S. Singer, Professor Emeritus, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Neurology, and the Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, MD, United States; Jonathan W. Mink, Frederick A. Horner, MD Distinguished Professor in Pediatric Neurology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Department of Neurology, Division of Child Neurology, Rochester, NY, United States; Donald L. Gilbert, Division of Neurology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center; Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati; Cincinnati, OH, United States and Joseph Jankovic, Parkinson's Disease Center and Movement Disorders Clinic, Department of Neurology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States

Section I. Overview
1. Basal Ganglia Anatomy, Biochemistry, and Physiology
2. Cerebellar Anatomy, Biochemistry, Physiology, and Plasticity
3. Classification of Movement Disorders
4. Diagnostic Evaluation of Children with Movement Disorders
5. Motor Assessments

Section II. Developmental Movement Disorders
6. Transient and Developmental Movement Disorders

Section III. Paroxysmal Movement Disorders
7. Tics and Tourette Syndrome
8. Motor Stereotypies
9. Paroxysmal Dyskinesias

Section IV. Hyperkinetic and Hypokinetic Movement Disorders
10. Chorea, Athetosis, and Ballism
11. Dystonia
12. Myoclonus
13. Tremor
14. Ataxia
15. Parkinsonism
16. Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia

Section V. Selected Secondary Movement Disorders
17. Metabolic Disorders with Associated Movement Abnormalities
18. Movement Disorders in Autoimmune Diseases
19. Movement Disorders in Sleep
20. Cerebral Palsy
21. Movement Disorders and Neuropsychiatric Conditions
22. Drug-Induced Movement Disorders in Children
23. Functional Movement Disorders

Appendix A: Drug Appendix
Appendix B: Search Strategy for Genetic Movement Disorders

ISBN: 9780128205525

Page Count: 746

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9781437723694; 9780444528919; 9780124170445

Neurologists, pediatricians, developmental pediatricians, and clinical researchers interested in pediatric neurology