The overactive child (Clinics in developmental medicine)

Taylor, Eric A.

Science & Math

Mac Keith Press

This book is concerned with one of the major areas of misdiagnosis in medicine today.  It has been estimated that as many as thirty percent of children typed as "epileptic" when presenting with loss of consciousness, falls or other paroxysmal episodes have, in fact, non-epileptic attacks. Yet because of the stigma attached to this label, and the frequent side effects of anti-epileptic drugs, it is important that the alternative etiological mechanisms be recognized.      The most common of these conditions, the vagalmediated anoxic seizure or fainting fit, is so frequent that it will be encountered by anyone involved in the practice of clinical medicine in its widest sense.  These seizures are discussed in depth using original data and extensively reviewing the literature.  Many other less common, but nonetheless important, varieties of fits, faints and "funny turns" are self-induced by a Valsalva maneuver, and motor events ranging from day-dreaming to the effects of suffocation and brain swelling.      As Jean Aicardi writes in his foreword to this volume: "Over 140 case histories...bring the flavor of real life into an exhaustive, yet highly readable account...This monograph is undoubtedly the most comprehensive source of information available about the various types of anoxic attacks, their clinical and EEG features, mechanisms and prognosis...This is a delightful book that anyone involved in clinical medicine in general and child neurology in particular will enjoy reading."

Fits and Faints (Clinics in Developmental Medicine (Mac Keith Press))

Medical Books

Stephenson, J. B. P.

Medicine

This book is a practical guide for primary-care doctors and health visitors involved in the detection of developmental problems in children whose parents are worried that their child is not developing like other children. It will be of assistance to pediatricians and pediatric neurologists in providing a developmental perspective in the diagnostic process in their work with children with chronic neurological disorders. The tests described have been standardized by the author and cover the essentials of developmental examination: history--including parents' views of their child's development; clinical tests of hearing; examination of visual behavior and visual acuity; observation of developing motor skills; language/performance profiles in which any substantial unevenness or an overall low score may reveal a developmental problem. In practice the range of average ability is wide, so a distinctive feature of this book is a standardized data base in graphical form that can be used to identify readily those children (lowest twenty percent) who warrant further specialist investigation or treatment. It is particularly relevant today when general practitioners are being directed to take an active role in such preventive work.

Developmental Examination of Infants and Preschool Children (Clinics in Developmental Medicine (Mac Keith Press))

Egan, Dorothy F.

Basic Sciences

The second edition of The Floppy Infant is devoted to the recognition and diagnosis of the floppy infant syndrome. It includes a review of some of the more important causes and provides a practical approach to the assessment and management such children require. The text of the first edition has been completely revised, but the emphasis has not changed: it remains an immensely practical handbook for the clinician.

The Floppy Infant (Clinics in Developmental Medicine)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Dubowitz, Victor

Psychology & Counseling

The Neurological Assessment of the Pre-Term and Full-Term Newborn Infant (Clinics in Developmental Medicine (Mac Keith Press))

Dubowitz, Lilly

This book explains clearly how to examine and assess a young child who has a possible neurological problem. The emphasis is on the logical approach to identifying the child's problem, and encompasses a thorough assessment of the child's needs. The book includes a comprehensive section on developmental assessment from birth through the preschool years; it also reviews all the specialized investigation techniques with which the clinician needs to be familiar. The authors are both experts in their field and write from a wealth of clinical experience. Their concern for the child within his family and wider environment is underlined throughout the text. The skills involved in the neurological evaluation of the child are carefully and thoroughly explained.

Neurological Evaluation of Infants and Children (Clinics in Developmental Medicine (Mac Keith Press))

In the past few years, considerable interest has developed in ultrasound scanning of the newborn brain. This book deals with all aspects of intracranial ultrasound examination of the infant's brain and spinal cord. The authors represent the specialties of neonatology and pediatric radiology, and the book has an international background of European and American experience. The authors discuss the instrumentation and role of ultrasound in imaging the brain compared with other techniques and devote a major chapter to normal appearances and methods of scanning. Other chapters deal with hemorrhagic and ischemic cerebral injuries of both preterm and term infants, together with the sequelae that may develop as a result of these lesions. Infection, both prenatal and postnatal, viral and bacterial, is fully discussed. In addition, a number of chapters consider the diagnosis of intracranial cerebral anomalies. This book is intended to be of value both to the novice ultrasonographer and to the more experienced scanner wishing to have an initial overview of the subject.

Ultrasound of the Infant Brain (Clinics in Developmental Medicine (Mac Keith Press))

Levene, Malcolm I.

Williams, Jonathan L.

Fawer, Claire-Lise

This study demonstrates that children in the Nordic countries enjoy an excellent standard of health, cutting across the usual boundaries of class, employment, income, education and housing.

Children's Health and Well-Being in the Nordic Countries (Clinics in Developmental Medicine (Mac Keith Press))

Jakobsson, Gunborg

Köhler, Lennart

This important monograph summarizes a comprehensive study on the maturation of walking in normal children. Research, undertaken at one of the world's leading gait analysis centers, involved over 400 studies on a total of nearly 300 children in ten age-groups from one to seven years. Data are presented on anthropometric measurements; tests of developmental progress; time/distance parameters such as stride length and walking velocity; twelve joint angles on each side measured throughout the gait cycle; dynamic electromyography of phasic activity in seven lower-extremity muscle groups; and force measurements including vertical force, fore/aft shear, medial/lateral shear and torque. At each age, composite joint-angle graphs and time/distance parameters are brought together with film tracings of a representative child in that age group. In addition, advanced methods of statistical analysis have been applied to the joint-angle data to define prediction regions within which ninety-five percent of normal children should lie throughout the gait cycle. Finally, a "decision tree" is presented from which a fitted age can be inferred for a subject based on non-age-specific data gathered in a motion analysis lab. Practical applications are demonstrated in a chapter devoted to two case studies.

The Development of Mature Walking (Clinics in Developmental Medicine (Mac Keith Press))

Sutherland, David

Olshen, Richard

Biden, Edmund

Wyatt, Marilynn

The advent of hormonal infertility treatments and in vitro fertilization techniques have led to a sharp increase in the number of quadruplet and higher-order conceptions in recent years. Improved neonatal care and nutrition have meant that many more of these babies survive. Yet it appears that very little research has been done into the lives of such children and the psychodevelopmental consequences of their multiple status. In this book, Marie M. Clay brings together what is known from historical records and reports in the medical, psychological, and popular press. She points to the contribution that research studies on higher multiple sets could make to our understanding of genetic-environmental interactions and gives valuable methodological advice for those wishing to initiate such a study. Changes in social practices and medical knowledge are highlighted, various aspects of pregnancy and birth are discussed, and the practical and emotional problems faced by families of multiple sets are sensitively described. Appended to the book are an illustrated "Catalog" of quadruplet case reports gleaned from the literature, including birth details and postnatal histories, plus a directory of multiple birth associations, support groups, and study centers around the world.

Quadruplets and Higher Multiple Births (Clinics in Developmental Medicine (Mac Keith Press))

Clay, Marie M.

Women's Health

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