This is a true "how-to-do-it" book; it is not meant to be a substitute for the more in-depth coverage of books such as the encyclopedic
Pediatric Neurology Principles and Practice+(3), which is a more conventional reference book for the specialist but lacks the lucid pedagogic style of David’s more accessible text.
Neurology of Hereditary Metabolic Diseases of Children+(4) is particularly helpful for a discussion of the differential diagnosis of the hereditary metabolic disorders, compared with the static encephalopathies and developmental abnormalities so commonly seen in pediatric practice. One might wish to begin with
Child and Adolescent Neurology for initial access and then supplement it with
An Atlas of Clinical Syndromes+(5), another Mosby book, a German text that in translation is an enormous catalog of syndromes both common and rare along with their discriminating characteristics. That text will allow the practicing physician to make the kind of diagnosis generally associated with specialty genetic clinics. For the doctor in training, the
Atlas of Pediatric Physical Diagnosis+(6) has 2,248 illustrations to complete the basic library of a practicing pediatric psychiatrist or neurologist.