Aicardi's Diseases of the Nervous System in Childhood

Professor Alexis Arzimanoglou is the Director of the Department of Paediatric Clinical Epileptology, Sleep Disorders and Functional Neurology at the University Hospitals of Lyon, France and Visiting Professor at the Universitat de Barcelona, Spain, coordinating the Epilepsy Research Program at the Hospital San Juan de Dios. He graduated from the Salonica University, Greece, trained in Neurology at Great Ormond Street, London, UK and at the Hôpital de la Salpetriere and in Child Neurology as a fellow of Jean Aicardi at the Hôpital des Enfants Malades in Paris, France. He then with worked with Jean Aicardi for over 25 years. He served as: Chair of the Scientific Committee of the European Paediatric Neurology Society; Editor-in-Chief of the International League Against Epilepsy (IALE) educational journal Epileptic Disorders; Elected member of the European Commission of the ILAE. Together with Jean Aicardi and Renzo Guerrini he authored Aicardi's Epilepsy in Children. He is the editor of seven books and an author or co-author of over one hundred scientific articles in the fields of cognition, medical and surgical treatment of childhood epilepsies.

Professor Anne O’Hare is Professor of Community Paediatrics and Director of the Salvesen Mindroom Centre for Learning Difficulties, at the University of Edinburgh, UK. She is a developmental paediatrician with extensive clinical experience in neurodisability, neuroscience and child protection. Her research interests include how neurodevelopmental conditions impact on the development of speech, language, communication, motor skills and learning and the development of effective interventions. She has co-edited and contributed to numerous book chapters and articles in her field.

Professor Michael V Johnston is a Professor of Neurology, Pediatrics and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Chief Medical Officer and the Blum Moser Endowed Professor of Pediatric Neurology at the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He trained in pediatrics, neurology and neuroscience at Johns Hopkins, and his clinical and research interests include fetal and neonatal neurology, as well as care for older children with cerebral palsy and neurogenetic disorders including Rett syndrome. He has been active in development of strategies to protect the developing brain from hypoxic-ischemic injury. He is one of the founding faculty members of the Neurosciences Intensive Care Nursery (NICN) research and clinical care group at Johns Hopkins Hospital, and he has also been a leader in of the Phelps Cerebral Palsy Center at Kennedy Krieger.

Professor Robert Ouvrier is the Emeritus Professor of child neurology in the University of Sydney. After training in general paediatrics in Sydney, Perth and Papua-New Guinea, he undertook specialist training in child neurology at the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, the University of Kentucky (1969-70) and the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore USA (1971-72). He was then Head of the Department of Neurology at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Sydney for 25 years. In 1999, he became the Foundation Head of the Institute for Neuroscience and Muscle Research at The Children's Hospital, Westmead. He was President of the International Child Neurology Association from 2006-2010. He is the author of two books, thirty book chapters and an author or co-author of over 150 scientific articles on paediatric neurology.

PART 1: FETAL AND NEONATAL NEUROLOGY
1. Fetal Neurology
André Du Plessis and Michael Johnston
2. Neurological Diseases in the Perinatal Period
Linda de Vries and Miriam Mbiarge
PART 2: MALFORMATIONS OF CORTICAL DEVELOPMENT, NEUROCUTANEOUS SYNDROMES, GENETIC ANOMALIES and DYSMORPHIC SYNDROMES
3. Malformations of Cortical Development
Nadia Bahi-Buisson and Nathalie Boddaert
4. Neurocutaneous Diseases and Syndromes
Alexis Arzimanoglou and Eleni Panagiotakaki
5. Genetic Anomalies and Dysmorphic Syndromes
Bernard Dan
PART 3: NEUROLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES OF PRENATAL, PERINATAL AND EARLY POSTNATAL INTERFERENCE WITH BRAIN DEVELOPMENT
6. Craniosynostosis and Paediatric Craniovertebral Anomalies
Richard Hayward and Dominic Thompson
7. Hydrocephalus and Non-traumatic Pericerebral Collections
Andrew Whitelaw and Christian Sainte-Rose
8. Cerebral Palsy and Related Movement Disorders
Ingeborg Krageloh-Mann
PART 4: METABOLIC, AND HEREDODEGENERATIVE DISORDERS
9. Metabolic Diseases
Linda De Meirleir and Luc Regal
10. Heredodgenerative Disorders: Leukodystrophies; Disorders Involving Predominantly the Grey Matter, Poliodystrophies and Ceroid-Lipofuscinoses; Diffuse CNS Involvement Neuroaxonal Dystrophy;
Alexis Arzimanoglou, Victoria San Antonio
Spinocerebellar Degenerations
Robert Ouvrier
PART 5: POSTNATAL EXTRINSIC INSULTS
11. Infectious Diseases
Cheryl Hemingway, Michael Eyre and Alasdair Bamford
12. Parainfectious and other Inflammatory Disorders of Immunological Origin
Michael Johnston and Marc Tardieu
13. Accidental and Non-accidental Injuries by Physical and Toxic Agents
Karen Barlow, Robert Forsyth and Robert Minns
PART 6: TUMOURS AND VASCULAR DISORDERS
14. Tumours of the Central Nervous System and other Space-Occupying Lesions
Colin Kennedy, David Walker and Aabir Chakraborty
15. Cerebrovascular Disorders
Gabrielle de Veber and Adam Kirton
PART 7: PAROXYSMAL DISORDERS
16. Epilepsies and other Seizure Disorders
Alexis Arzimanoglou and Mike Duchowny
17. Headache disorders
Kenneth Mack
18. Sleep Disorders
Patricia Franco
PART 8: MOVEMENT DISORDERS
19. Movement and Basal Ganglia Disorders
Paddy Grattan-Smith, Russell Dale and Emilio Fernandez-Alvarez
20. Tics and Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome
Robert Ouvrier and Russell Dale
21. Non-epileptic Paroxysmal Movement Disorders
Paddy Grattan-Smith
PART 9: DISORDERS OF THE OCULOMOTOR, VISUAL, AUDITORY AND VESTIBULAR SYSTEMS
22. Disorders of Oculomotor, Motor and Visual Functions
Carey Matsuba
23. Disorders of Auditory and Vestibular Functions
Anne O’Hare
PART 10: NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASES
24. Diseases of the Motor Neuron
Francesco Muntoni and Mariacristina Scoto
25. Disorders of the Peripheral Nerves
Robert Ouvrier and Manoj Menezes
26. Muscle Disorders
Monique Ryan, Kathryn North and Francesco Muntoni
PART 11: NEUROLOGICAL MANIFESTATIONS OF SYSTEMIC DISEASES
27. Electrolyte and Acid-Base Metabolism Disturbances, Nutritional Disorders and other Systemic Diseases
Peter Baxter
PART 12: DEVELOPMENTAL AND NEUROPSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS OF CHILDHOOD
28. Normal, Delayed and Disordered Development
Bruce Shapiro
29. Autism Spectrum Disorder and Autistic-like Conditions
Anne O'Hare and Roberto Tuchman
30. Attention-Deficit–Hyperactivity Disorder and Co-existing Impairments
Bruce Shapiro
31. Disorders of Speech, Language and Communication
Anne O'Hare
32. Psychogenic Neurological Disorders
Paddy Grattan-Smith