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busy practitioners with standard-of-care reviews'' for this fascinating but daunting branch of medicine. Child and adolescent neurology is divided into three sections. The first deals with tools for diagnosis-history, examination, and investigations. The second and longest section contains chapters on a range of neurological diseases and disorders, such as the epilepsies, neuromuscular disease, and normal and disordered prenatal development of the nervous system. The approach is detailed and academic but not exhaustive. It aims to be pithy, and can sometimes be cryptic. It is salutary to realise the number of conditions for which a genetic basis has been discovered, but to be told the acronym of the gene involved without indication of the pathogenetic mechanism adds little. The third section deals with common problems such as coma, headache, and ADHD. Advice is usually sensible, sometimes controversial, and occasionally banal (''Patients with epileptic seizures may benefit from antiepileptic drugs'').Throughout the book there are boxes containing ''nosologic diagnosis features'', ''pearls and perils'', ''key clinical questions'', and advice about when to refer. The editor makes a feature of the nosologic tables, which aim to define a single discriminator for each condition, and devotes an appendix to explaining his approach. Unsurprisingly, this is successful when applied to inborn errors of metabolism, often not so good elsewhere. Most chapters are generously illustrated and have a selected bibliography annotated with indications of the main findings of research papers and pointers to the particular strengths of textbooks. There is in addition a complete list of citations. Generally the more recent references are up to 2003 with a few from 2004. Current management in child neurology is also divided into three parts. Section 1 is headed ''Clinical practice trends'' and includes epidemiology, neurological examination, and a chapter on the internet in child neurology containing many useful addresses. Section 2 is ''The office visit'', with separate chapters on various aspects of childhood headache, epilepsy, behavioural problems, school readiness, developmental delay, and other complaints and conditions. The final section is on ''The hospitalised child'' and includes trauma, meningitis and encephalitis, status epilepticus, and other conditions, ending with brain death. An accompanying CD contains all the information contained in the book and is fully searchable with appropriate software. There are 98, generally short, chapters by 134 authors, each with ''suggested readings''-selected and often impressively recent references, many from 2004, one or two even from 2005; and also a list of web based ''practitioner and patient resources''. The brevity of some chapters is achieved by subdivision. There are, for example, six chapters on various aspects of migraine, all by different authors. There is some repetition of information and some recommendations are controversial or anecdotally based. The target readership might ...
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