This book is a collection of some major topics in neonatal neurology, delivering up-to-date data. The book covers several sections in a wide variet...

Extremely preterm infants (gestational age ≤ 27 completed weeks) represent one of the highest risk categories for death and neurodevelopmental impa...

From World Health Organization data, the prevalence of hearing impairment among infants varies between 0.5 and 3.0 cases per thousand, but in child...

Neural Tube Defects (NTDs) are congenital malformations of the central nervous system caused by partial or complete failure of the neural tube to c...

Birth defects are defined as abnormalities of structure, function, or body metabolism that are present at birth. These abnormalities lead to mental...

Increase in survival for very low birth weight infants has been observed, due to various improvements in perinatal care. However neurodevelopmental...

A unique book on diagnosis, consequences and management of neonatal and infantile seizures. There is a very high incidence of seizures during the f...

Birth defects are defined as abnormalities of structure, function, or body metabolism that are present at birth. These abnormalities lead to mental...