This eagerly awaited new edition is comprehensively updated whilst retaining both the popular problem-solving approach and its familiar organisation and style. Notable advances receive careful coverage, from molecular genetics and imaging technology to 'new' diseases and important treatment developments. From the reviews of the first edition: "A 1400 page textbook by a master clinician and teacher with unparalleled experience in both hospital and ambulatory child neurology has to be taken seriously and can be consulted with confidence" ... "It is a user-friendly reference book that belongs on the shelf of child and adult neurologists, pediatricians, neurosurgeons, and general practitioners who need authoritative and complete information about the common and rare neurological disorders they are bound to encounter" ... "readers get the feeling that Dr Aicardi is speaking directly to them and sharing the wisdom accrued from years of clinical experience and teaching" ... "There is much to praise and little to criticise in this treatise." New England Journal of Medicine Received a Highly Commended Certificate (Advanced Edited Book Category) at the Medical Society of London 1998 Medical Book Awards.

Product Description: Clinics in Developmental Medicine No. 168 This book describes the effects that different kinds of epilepsy in children can have on the child's behavior and cognitive development. It is mainly based on the authors' extensive studies over many years...read more

Product Description: Every physician who treats children with epilepsy will welcome this new Third Edition of Dr. Aicardi’s internationally acclaimed text. Now coauthored by three distinguished experts—Alexis Arzimanoglou, MD, Renzo Guerrini, MD, and Jean Aicardi, MD, FRCP—this edition has been completely revised to reflect the past ten years’ advances in diagnosis and therapy...read more

Product Description: Movement Disorders in Children brings the combined expertise and experience of two world-known authorities to the systematic and practical study of movement disorders in infancy and childhood. Aimed at the clinicians and professionals who manage children with these disorders, Emilio Fernandez-Alvarez and Jean Aicardi cover not only the well-known diseases, but also the less well-known conditions, such as ‘transient’ and ‘paroxysmal’ movement disorders...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A distinguished international team of specialists comprehensively examines the clinical, neurophysiological, genetic, pharmacological, and molecular factors which underlie the relationships and differences between epilepsy and movement disorders...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)