Neurological problems in children account for around one-third of the paediatrician's workload. This book presents a clear approach to the investigation and diagnosis of neurological illness through clinical observation and offers guidance on subsequent management. The presentation of children with neurological illness is usually in a well defined pattern. The book presents details on pattern recognition, offering a rational approach to the diagnostic method and subsequent management. The authors present a fresh approach to diagnosis with the emphasis on recognition of well-defined patterns of movement, which can be more easily assimilated by the non-specialist. A unique feature is the importance given to counselling skills which, together with an entire chapter on clinical examination, offers real benefit in the paediatric clinical setting. A subsequent chapter is devoted to the child with special needs - again addressing particular problems and offering sound advice and clinical insight into how to deal with them. Headache, infections, encephalopathy, neuromuscular disorders, tumours, developmental anomalies, hydrocephalus, epilepsy - these are some of the conditions discussed and illustrated. A final chapter on procedures and applications in neuroradiology illustrates the latest techniques and how they are used to establish or confirm the diagnosis. Throughout, the authors provide the core information which paediatricians need to make correct diagnoses and manage the case successfully. This atlas has been produced by a group of paediatric neurologists and consultants in paediatrics, neurosurgery and neuroradiology, who between them, represent a wide-ranging experience which will be reflected in the depth of coverage.