cover image - Swaiman's Pediatric Neurology, 7th Edition
ISBN: 9780443109447
Copyright: 2026
Publication Date: 04-23-2025
Page Count: 1664
Imprint: Elsevier
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Swaiman's Pediatric Neurology, 7th Edition

by Stephen Ashwal, MD and Phillip L. Pearl, MD

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cover image - Swaiman's Pediatric Neurology, 7th Edition
ISBN: 9780443109447
Copyright: 2026
Publication Date: 04-23-2025
Page Count: 1664
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $346.99

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For fifty years, experienced clinicians and physicians in training have relied on Swaiman’s cornerstone text as their #1 source for authoritative guidance in pediatric neurology. Swaiman's Pediatric Neurology: Principles and Practice, 7th Edition, continues this tradition of excellence under the expert editorial direction of Drs. Stephen Ashwal and Phillip L. Pearl, along with a team of key leaders in the field who serve as associate and section editors in their areas of expertise. Thorough revisions—including new chapters, new videos, new editors, and expanded content—bring you up to date with this dynamic field.
    • Contains new sections on global child neurology and environment and brain development and a greatly expanded section on neurogenetics, in addition to new chapters on autoimmune epilepsies, immune-mediated movement disorders, and more.
    • Offers expanded online content, including additional figures, tables, and text, as well as new personal introductory videos by many chapter authors.
    • Covers new, emerging, or controversial topics such as COVID-19, teleneurology, environment and brain development, immune-mediated disorders of the nervous system, functional neurological disorders in children, nonverbal learning disorders, and the pharmacological and future genetic treatment of neurodevelopmental disabilities.
    • Provides authoritative coverage of perinatal acquired and congenital disorders, neurodevelopmental disabilities, extensive sections on pediatric epilepsy and movement disorders, nonepileptiform paroxysmal disorders, and disorders of sleep.
    • Features nearly 3,000 line drawings, photographs, tables, and boxes that highlight the text, clarify key concepts, and make it easy to find information quickly.
    • An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud. Additional digital ancillary content may publish up to 6 weeks following the publication date.
  • PART I: Clinical Evaluation
    1. General Aspects of the Patient’s Neurologic History
    2. Neurologic Examination of the Older Child
    3. Neurologic Examination of Young Children (Ages 1–5 Years)
    4. Neurologic Examination of Infants (Ages 0–1 Year)
    5. Motor Signs
    6. Vision Loss
    7. Hearing Impairment
    8. Vertigo
    9. Taste and Smell
    10. Neuropsychological Assessment

    PART II: Care of the Child With Neurologic Disorders
    11. Counseling Children With Neurologic Disorders and Their Families
    12. Pediatric Neurorehabilitation Medicine
    13. Pediatric Palliative Care, Pain, and Symptom Management
    14. Practical Bioethics in Child Neurology
    15. Transitional Care for Children With Neurologic Disorders
    16. Practice Guidelines in Pediatric Neurology
    17. Measurement of Health Outcomes in Pediatric Neurologic Disorders
    18. Computer Resources, Artificial Intelligence, and Telemedicine
    19. Education and Training of Child Neurologists and Workforce Issues

    PART III: Neurodiagnostic Testing
    20. Cerebrospinal Fluid Examination
    21. Pediatric Neuroimaging
    22. Pediatric Neurophysiologic Evaluation

    PART IV: Global Child Neurology
    23. Regional and Global Implications for Children’s Brain Health
    24. Implementing Child Neurology Care in Resource-Limited Settings
    25. Adaptation and Implementation of Guidelines at the Local Level

    PART V: Neonatal Neurology
    26. Neonatal Neuro-Intensive Care
    27. Provoked Neonatal Seizures and Neonatal Onset Epilepsy
    28. Hypoxic-Ischemic Brain Injury in the Term Newborn
    29. Cerebrovascular Disorders in the Newborn
    30. Neonatal Nervous System Trauma
    31. Injury to the Developing Preterm Brain: Intraventricular Hemorrhage and White Matter Injury
    32. Perinatal Metabolic Encephalopathies

    PART VI: Environment and Brain Development
    33. The Neural Exposome and Environmental Neuroscience
    34. Adverse Childhood Experiences
    35. The Neurological Impact of Prenatal Substance Exposure
    36. Environmental Pollutants
    37. Malnutrition, Nutrition, and Dietary Toxins
    38. Poisoning and Drug-Induced Neurologic Diseases

    PART VII: Congenital Structural Defects
    39. Introduction to Human Brain Malformations
    40. Disorders of Neural Tube Development
    41. Disorders of Forebrain Development
    42. Disorders of Cerebellar and Brainstem Development
    43. Microcephaly and Megalencephaly: Disorders of Brain Size
    44. Malformations of Cortical Development
    45. Hydrocephalus, Cysts, and Cystic Malformations
    46. Congenital Anomalies of the Skull
    47. Prenatal Diagnosis of Structural Brain Anomalies

    PART VIII: Neurogenetics
    48. Neurogenetics in the Genome Era
    49. Genetic Counseling in the Genomic Era
    50. Chromosomes and Chromosomal Abnormalities
    51. Single-Gene Abnormalities
    52. Neurocutaneous Disorders
    53. Emerging Gene-Based Pathways: Channelopathies (Epilepsy and Beyond)
    54. Emerging Gene-Based Pathways: mTORopathies
    55. Emerging Gene-Based Pathways: RASopathies
    56. Emerging Gene-Based Pathways: Chromatin Remodeling Disorders
    57. The Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinoses

    PART IX: Metabolic Disorders
    58. Approach to the Patient With a Metabolic Disorder
    59. Aminoacidemias and Organic Acidemias
    60. Urea Cycle Disorders
    61. Diseases Associated With Primary Abnormalities in Carbohydrate Metabolism
    62. Disorders of Glycosylation
    63. Lysosomal Storage Diseases
    64. Mitochondrial Diseases
    65. Peroxisomal Disorders
    66. Neurotransmitter-Related Disorders
    67. Disorders of Vitamin Metabolism

    PART X: Neurodevelopmental Disorders
    68. Neurodevelopmental Disabilities: Conceptual Framework
    69. Intellectual Developmental Disorder and Global Developmental Delay
    70. Regressive and Degenerative Genetic Neurological Disorders
    71. Developmental Encephalopathies
    72. Developmental Language Disorders
    73. Nonverbal Learning Disorders
    74. Dyslexia
    75. Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
    76. Autism Spectrum Disorder
    77. Cerebral Palsy
    78. Developmental Coordination Disorder
    79. Treatment of Neurodevelopmental Disorders
    80. Neuropsychopharmacology

    PART XI: Epilepsy
    81. Overview of Seizures and Epilepsy in Children
    82. Principles of Management and Outcome
    83. Pathophysiology of Seizures and Epilepsy
    84. Epilepsy Genetics
    85. Febrile Seizures
    86. Generalized Seizures
    87. Focal and Multifocal Seizures
    88. Myoclonic Seizures
    89. Infantile Epileptic Spasms Syndrome
    90. Status Epilepticus
    91. Electroclinical Syndromes: Neonatal Onset
    92. Electroclinical Syndromes: Infantile Onset
    93. Electroclinical Syndromes: Childhood Onset
    94. Electroclinical Syndromes: Adolescent Onset
    95. Focal Structural Epilepsy
    96. Acquired Epilepsies: Trauma, Stroke, and Tumors
    97. Inherited Metabolic Epilepsies
    98. Antiseizure Medication Therapy in Children
    99. Epilepsy Surgery in the Pediatric Population
    100. Neuromodulation in Epilepsy
    101. Ketogenic Diets
    102. Behavioral, Cognitive, and Social Implications of Childhood Epilepsy
    103. Mortality in Children With Epilepsy

    PART XII: Nonepileptiform Paroxysmal Disorders
    104. Headache in Children and Adolescents
    105. Breath-Holding Spells and Reflex Anoxic Seizures
    106. Psychogenic Nonepileptic Seizures and Psychiatric Disorders
    107. Functional Neurological Symptom Disorder in Children and Adolescents
    108. Syncope and Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome
    109. Brief Resolved Unexplained Events, Apparent Life-Threatening Events, and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

    PART XIII: Disorders of Sleep
    110. Restless Legs Syndrome and Periodic Limb Movement Disorder in Children and Adolescents
    111. Nocturnal Paroxysmal Disorders
    112. Disorders of Excessive Sleepiness

    PART XIV: Disorders of Balance and Movement
    113. The Cerebellum and the Hereditary Ataxias
    114. Movement Disorders: An Overview
    115. Paroxysmal Dyskinesias
    116. Movement Disorders of Infancy
  • Stephen Ashwal, MD, Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics, Former Chief of the Division of Child Neurology and Pediatrics, Loma Linda University School of Medicine, Loma Linda, California, USA and Phillip L. Pearl, MD, Director of Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology, William G. Lennox Chair and Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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