Somatic Symptom Disorders Anna Lopatin Dickerman Philip R. Muskin INTRODUCTION Somatic symptom disorders are a group of psychiatric illnesses in which patients experience bodily symptoms along with associated abnormal thoughts,…
Anxiety Disorders, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Franklin R. Schneier INTRODUCTION Anxiety is an adaptive emotional state related to anticipation of threat; it can encompass fearful thoughts, symptoms of…
Mood Disorders Licínia Ganança Alejandro S. Cazzulino Maria A. Oquendo INTRODUCTION Mood disorders are defined by the presence of a distinct period of persistently altered disposition, specifically, depressed, manic, or…
HIV, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, and Drug Effects Claudia A. Chiriboga PEDIATRIC AIDS AND HIV INFECTION Most children with AIDS in the United States are infected perinatally. Intravenous (IV) drug abuse…
Congenital and Childhood Central Nervous System Tumors James H. Garvin Jr INTRODUCTION Childhood brain tumors range from benign congenital lesions to aggressive, infiltrative cancers. Cure rates for malignant brain tumors…
Pediatric Brain Injury and Shaken Baby Syndrome Joshua Cappell Steven G. Kernie INTRODUCTION The still-developing nervous system holds the potential for greater recovery from traumatic brain injury while also carrying…
Stroke in Children Sally M. Sultan INTRODUCTION There are two classifications for pediatric stroke: by age and by stroke subtype. By age, a perinatal stroke occurs during gestation through 28…
Seizures in Children James J. Riviello Jr Douglas R. Nordli Jr INTRODUCTION A seizure is a paroxysmal neurologic event resulting from excessive central nervous system (CNS) excitation, the hypersynchronous neuronal…
Progressive Muscular Dystrophies Mathula Thangarajh Petra Kaufmann Louis H. Weimer Michio Hirano Lewis P. Rowland DEFINITION A muscular dystrophy has five essential characteristics: It is a myopathy, as defined by…
