Differential Diagnosis in Pediatric Neuropsychiatry: Complex Case Studies

Differential Diagnosis in Pediatric Neuropsychiatry: Complex Case Studies 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 neuropsychiatryReviews the neuroimaging and neuropsychological tests for each caseHighlights the difficulties in conveying the complexity of the diagnosis to patients and families and provides strategies for cliniciansProvides reviews of pertinent literature from both neurological and psychiatric perspectives to discussed casesIncludes questions at the end of each chapter on the illness and closely related conditions INDICE: 1. Introduction2. My Child Cannot Pay Attention3. My Child is Acting Very Strangely4. My Child Won't Get Out of Bed5. My Child Has Turned Into the Hulk6. My Child is Stuck7. My Child Can't Sleep8. My Child Has Been Making Strange Movements9. My Child Can No Longer.

• ISBN: 978-0-12-818428-8
• Editorial: Academic Press
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 400
• Fecha Publicación: 01/09/2020
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés