Download or read book Principles of Pediatric Neuropsychiatry through Complex Clinical Cases written by Ayol Samuels and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2024-03-29 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 complexes cases in pediatric neuropsychiatry Reviews the neuroimaging and neuropsychological tests for each case Highlights the difficulties in conveying the complexity of the diagnosis to patients and families and provides strategies for clinicians Provides reviews of pertinent literature from both neurological and psychiatric perspectives to discussed cases Includes questions at the end of each chapter on the illness and closely related conditions