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VOLUME 17
Movement disorders in children: an update with video recordings covers a wide range of disease conditions that are characterized by involuntary movements possibly associated with signs of more diffuse dysfunction of the nervous system. These include both genetically determined and acquired conditions, running a clinical course that may be progressive, static, or paroxysmal.
Recent years have witnessed growing interest in the movement disorders of children. There has been an increase in our understanding of the pathogenesis of these disorders, and new perspectives for their diagnosis and treatment have emerged. This book aims to provide neurologists, paediatricians, and specialists in developmental medicine with a comprehensive update on these issues.
The more recent advances on dystonias, neurotransmitter disorders, chorea and PANDAS, tics and Tourette syndrome, paroxysmal dyskinesias, psychogenetic movement disorders and other specific syndromes and diseases—such as opsoclonus-myoclonus, rapid onset dystonia-parkinsonism, pantothenate kinase-associated neurodegeneration and Rett syndromes—are illustrated, and current topics on genetics, biochemistry, brain imaging, physiological investigations, quantitative assessment, and the pharmacological and surgical treatment of childhood movement disorders are covered.
The book also includes rich video documentation which we trust may be a helpful and crucial contribution for all professionals involved in the field of movement disorders, where the correct semiologic definition of the different conditions is one of the most important but problematic steps in the diagnostic work-up.
Table of contents
Nosography and semiology of movement disorders in childhood
The genetics of dystonia
Neuroradiological findings in paediatric movement disorders
Neurophysiological investigations in movement disorders
Quantitative assessment of paediatric movement disorders
Primary dystonia
Update on myoclonus-dystonia
Pharmacological treatment of childhood dystonia
Deep brain stimulation of the globus pallidus internus for the treatment of
childhood-onset dystonia
Dopa-responsive dystonias/dyskinesias (DRDs): diagnosis and monitoring of the treatment
Clinical and aetiological spectrum of dopa-responsive syndromes
Sydenham’s chorea
Opsoclonus-myoclonus syndrome
Pantothenate kinase-associated neurodegeneration
Functional (psychogenic) movement disorders in childhood
Movement disorders in Rett syndrome
Rapid-onset dystonia-parkinsonism
Alternating hemiplegia of childhood (AHC)