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Volpe's Neurology of the Newborn

  • 7th Edition - January 8, 2024
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Joseph J. Volpe, Terrie E. Inder
  • Language: English

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**Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 in Neurology**

Stay up to date with today’s latest advances in diagnosis and management, as well as the many scientific and technological advances that are revolutionizing neonatal neurology, with the definitive text in the field. Volpe's Neurology of the Newborn, 7th Edition, shares the knowledge and expertise of world authority Dr. Joseph Volpe, who, along with Dr. Terrie E. Inder of Children’s Hospital of Orange County and other distinguished editors, brings a wealth of insight to this classic text. Known for its clear, engaging writing style, vibrant, full-color illustrations, and authoritative information throughout, this reference is an indispensable resource for those who provide care for neonates with neurological conditions.

Key features

  • Provides clear, comprehensive coverage of neonatal neurology in Dr. Joseph Volpe’s own legendary, readable manner—for a masterful, cohesive source of answers to any question that arises in your practice
  • Brings the latest science into the clinical setting, with an emphasis on translating new knowledge to the infant’s bedside
  • Offers comprehensive updates with summary tables and text to reflect major advances in the study of hemorrhage; new insights into molecular genetics and molecular characterization of brain tumors; significant advances in drugs and the developing nervous system; and much more
  • Includes new chapters on fetal neurology which address the importance of understanding and investigating the maternal-fetal origins of neonatal disease, as well as new chapters on neurodevelopmental follow-up, inflammation, and neurology in low-resource settings
  • Contains more than 1,000 illustrations: clinical and pathological specimens, key experimental findings, schematics, algorithms, anatomical drawings, and neuroimaging throughout, as well as numerous tables and boxes that synthesize key points
  • 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

Readership

Neonatologists, Pediatric Neurologists, Neonatal/pediatric nurse practitioners

Table of contents

UNIT I: HUMAN BRAIN DEVELOPMENT

1. Neural Tube Development

2. Prosencephalic Development

3. Ventricular Development, Ventriculomegaly, and Hydrocephalus in the Fetus and Newborn

4. Normal and Abnormal Development of the Posterior Fossa Structures

5. Neuronal Proliferation

6. Neuronal Migration

7. Organizational Events

8. Myelination Events

UNIT II: FETAL NEUROLOGY

9. Specialized Diagnostic Studies for Assessment of the Fetal Central Nervous System

10. Placental Conditions With Consequences for the Fetal Brain

11. Maternal and Fetal Conditions With Consequences for the Fetal Brain

UNIT III: NEUROLOGICAL EVALUATION

12. Neurological Examination: Normal and Abnormal Features

13. Specialized Neurological Studies

14. Neurodevelopmental Follow-Up of High-Risk Newborns

UNIT IV: SEIZURES

15. Neonatal Seizures

UNIT V: HYPOXIC-ISCHEMIC AND RELATED DISORDERS

16. Pathophysiology: General Principle

17. Inflammation and the Newborn Brain

18. Encephalopathy of Prematurity: Neuropathology

19. Encephalopathy of Prematurity: Pathophysiology

20. Encephalopathy of the Preterm—Clinical Aspects

21. Intrauterine and Intrapartum Assessment of the Fetus

22. Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy in the Term Infant: Neuropathology

23. Hypoxic-Ischemic Injury in the Term Infant: Pathophysiology

24. Hypoxic-Ischemic Injury in the Term Infant: ClinicalNeurological Features, Diagnosis, Imaging, Management, and Prognosis

25. Stroke in the Newborn

UNIT VI: INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGE

26. Intracranial Hemorrhage: Subdural, Subararachnoid, Subpial, Intraventricular (Term Infant), Miscellaneous

27. Cerebellar Hemorrhage

28. Preterm Intraventricular Hemorrhage/Posthemorrhagic Hydrocephalus

UNIT VII: METABOLIC ENCEPHALOPATHIES

29. Glucose

30. Bilirubin and Brain Injury

31. Amino Acids

32. Organic Acids

UNIT VIII: DEGENERATIVE DISORDERS

33. Degenerative Disorders of the Newborn

UNIT IX: NEUROMUSCULAR DISORDERS

34. Evaluation, Special Studies

35. Arthrogryposis Multiplex Congenita

36. Levels Above Lower Motor Neuron to Neuromuscular Junction

37. Muscle Involvement and Restricted Disorders

UNIT X: INTRACRANIAL INFECTIONS

38. Viral, Protozoan, and Related Intracranial Infections

39. Bacterial and Fungal Intracranial Infections

UNIT XI: PERINATAL TRAUMA

40. Injuries of Extracranial, Cranial, Intracranial, Spinal Cord, and Peripheral Nervous System Structures

UNIT XII: INTRACRANIAL MASS LESIONS

41. Brain Tumors and Vein of Galen Malformations

UNIT XIII: DRUGS AND THE DEVELOPING NERVOUS SYSTEM

42. Passive Addiction and Teratogenic Effects

UNIT XIV: NEUROLOGY IN LOW RESOURCE SETTINGS

43. Neonatal Neurology in the Low Resource Setting for the Term and Preterm Newborn

Review quotes

"This book continues to represent the "gold standard" in neonatal neurology. This edition is released six years after the previous edition in 2018 and continues the precedent set in the last edition of having a lead associate editor and five other associate editors assist Dr. Volpe in this project. The text continues to evolve with 41 contributors, five new chapters and an excellent eBook with ten excellent and instructive videos. Dr. Volpe wrote the first five editions of this iconic text solo, and this seventh edition continues to add new insights from the internationally known editors and contributors that Dr. Volpe has recruited to this collaboration." - ©Doody’s Review Service, 2024, Jay P. Goldsmith, MD (Tulane University School of Medicine), Doody’s Score: 100 - 5 Stars!

Product details

  • Edition: 7
  • Latest edition
  • Published: January 8, 2024
  • Language: English

About the editors

JV

Joseph J. Volpe

Joseph Volpe is generally considered to have founded the field of neonatal neurology.
Affiliations and expertise
Bronson Crothers Professor of Neurology, Emeritus, Harvard Medical School, Neurologist-in-Chief, Emeritus, Boston Children’s Hospital, Department of Pediatric Newborn Medicine, Harvard Institutes of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

TI

Terrie E. Inder

Dr. Inder is a dual-boarded neonatologist and child neurologist and is the current Chair of the Department of Pediatric Newborn Medicine. A native of New Zealand, she previously worked at the University of Melbourne, and Washington University in St. Louis before joining Brigham and Women’s Hospital in 2013. She has a passion for improving long-term outcomes of high-risk infants including premature infants and at-risk term born infants. Dr. Inder is the Mary Ellen Avery Professor of Pediatrics in the Field of Newborn Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
Affiliations and expertise
Mary Ellen Avery Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Chair, Department of Pediatric, Newborn Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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