Pediatric Neurology, Part I
：Handbook of Clinical Neurology
( Volume 111 )
Publication subTitle ：Handbook of Clinical Neurology
Publication series ：Volume 111
Author： Dulac Olivier;Lassonde Maryse;Sarnat Harvey B.
Publisher： Elsevier Science
Publication year： 2013
E-ISBN: 9780444626981
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780444528919
P-ISBN(Hardback): 9780444528919
Subject： R741 Neurology
Language： ENG
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Description
The child is neither an adult miniature nor an immature human being: at each age, it expresses specific abilities that optimize adaptation to its environment and development of new acquisitions. Diseases in children cover all specialties encountered in adulthood, and neurology involves a particularly large area, ranging from the brain to the striated muscle, the generation and functioning of which require half the genes of the whole genome and a majority of mitochondrial ones. Human being nervous system is sensitive to prenatal aggression, is particularly immature at birth and development may be affected by a whole range of age-dependent disorders distinct from those that occur in adults. Even diseases more often encountered in adulthood than childhood may have specific expression in the developing nervous system. The course of chronic neurological diseases beginning before adolescence remains distinct from that of adult pathology – not only from the cognitive but also motor perspective, right into adulthood, and a whole area is developing for adult neurologists to care for these children with persisting neurological diseases when they become adults.
Just as pediatric neurology evolved as an identified specialty as the volume and complexity of data became too much for the general pediatician or the adult neurologist to master, the discipline has now continued to evolve into so many subspecialties, such as epilepsy, neuromuscular disease, stroke, malformations, neon
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