Peripheral neuropathies are diseases that affect the neuromuscular apparatus between the muscles or sensory receptors and connections in the spinal cord and the brain. They affect approximately 20-30% of children attending neuromuscular clinics. Uniquely, this text deals exclusively with such disorders in children and draws together the rapidly expanding but widely scattered knowledge in the field. It is a highly practical text, written by clinical neurologists with long experience in physiology, histopathology, and management of neuropathy. This new edition retains the basic structure of its...

Disorders of neuronal migration are causes of mental handicap, autism, and epilepsy. This book addresses the various aspects of neuronal migration disorders in an ordered way, to help the clinician to aquire insight and proficiency in diagnosis. Individual chapters describe subgroups including: lissencephalies, subependymal heterotopia, non-lissencephalic cortical dysplasias, anomalies of the corpus callosum, hemimegalencephaly, schizencephaly, polymicrogyria and multisystem disorders with impaired migration (such as chromosomal and metabolic syndromes). Neuroradiological and genetic data are...