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Clinical Child Neurology

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Overview

  • Provides a valuable resource for all physicians who deal with childhood neurological disorders

  • Covers the management of the full range of disorders based on current scientific evidence

  • Spans neurological aspects of neglected tropical diseases as well as neurogenetic diagnostic and management algorithms

  • Includes didactic videos for epileptic and movement disorders

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About this book

This book, which will hold global appeal, adopts a problem-based approach to childhood disorders of the nervous system with the aim of supporting practicing child neurologists, pediatricians, and residents in training in their management of children with neurological disorders. Throughout, the practical assistance that it offers is based firmly on the best available current scientific evidence. The various pediatric neurologic diseases and organ systems are covered by pediatric neurologists and scientists from leading university hospitals and health centers in both the developed and the developing world. In addition to the full range of more frequent disorders, the book spans the neurological aspects of neglected tropical diseases and neurogenetic diagnostic and management algorithms utilizing the power of emerging DNA technology. A further feature is the inclusion of didactic videos relating to epileptic and movement disorders. As an open access publication with a strong clinical focus, the book will be a handy and valuable reference and resource for all practitioners who deal with childhood neurological disorders.

Editors and Affiliations

  • College of Medicine Division of Pediatric Neurology, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

    Mustafa A.M. Salih

About the editor

Professor Mustafa Abdalla M. Salih earned an MBBS degree, a MD in Clinical Pediatrics, a Doctor of Medicine with Distinction from the University of Khartoum. He also earned a Doctor of Medical Science from Uppsala University in Sweden and he was elected Fellow to The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (FRCPCH, UK). He is Elected Fellow to the American Academy of Neurology (FAAN, USA). He previously served as Lecturer, Associate Professor and Professor of Pediatrics with the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Khartoum in Sudan. Currently, Prof. Salih serves as Professor of Pediatrics and Consultant Pediatric Neurologist at the College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

He has published (as of September 2015) 196 scientific articles in peer-reviewed medical journals, one supplement in the Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases and two supplements in the Saudi Medical Journal. He also authored two chapters in the textbook, Genetic Disorders Among Arab Populations, one chapter in the textbook, Diseases of DNA Repair and seven chapters on pediatric neurology in the Textbook of Clinical Pediatrics.

He is a former editor of the Sudanese Journal of Pediatrics, a former member of the editorial board of the Sudan Medical Journal and Guest Editor to two Saudi Medical Journal Supplements. Currently, he is the International Editor of Sudanese Journal of Paediatrics and Sudan Medical

 Journal. He is also a member of the editorial boards of The Journal of Pediatric Neurology, The Open Pediatric Medicine Journal, The Open Neurology Journal and The International Journal of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine; and Member of the Advisory Board of the Journal of Taibah University Medical Sciences. He holds a United States patent on a diagnostic method for congenital muscular dystrophy, and has evaluated new techniques for the rapid diagnosis of bacterial meningitis. Prof. Salih was awarded the President of Sudan Prize for Distinguished Students, 2 awards from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Khartoum, the Riyadh Neuroscience Award, the Medal of Excellence by the President of Sudan, and The Saudi Neurosciences Society Award for Pioneers and Promoters of Neurosciences in Saudi Arabia, King Saud University Gold Medal, and King Saud University Life-time Scientific Achievement Award. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Clinical Child Neurology

  • Editors: Mustafa A.M. Salih

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43153-6

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-43152-9Published: 09 June 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-43153-6Published: 08 June 2020

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 1433

  • Number of Illustrations: 87 b/w illustrations, 351 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Neurology, Pediatrics

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