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Clinical Child Neuropsychiatry

by Christopher Gillberg, 366 pp., ill., Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1995, $79.95.

Clinical Child Neuropsychiatry, by the Swedish child psychiatrist Christopher Gillberg, is among the first, if not the first, textbook to be exclusively devoted to the behavioral, emotional, and cognitive aspects of brain disorders that have onset in infancy, childhood, or adolescence. As such, it covers both neurodevelopmental disorders traditionally assigned to the province of child psychiatry, such as mental retardation, autism, and attention deficit disorders, as well as a wide range of neurologically based and/or genetic conditions that are frequently associated with comorbid psychiatric problems. Among the latter are numerous rare named syndromes, some of which are associated with specific behavioral phenotypes (as in Williams and Prader-Willi syndromes), the behavioral concomitants of frank neurologic conditions, including traumatic brain injury (TBI), epilepsy, and brain tumors, and the sequelae of treatment interventions such as anticonvulsant therapy or brain irradiation.

The book is organized into four sections. An introductory …