Book Review: Pellock's Pediatric Epilepsy: Diagnosis and Therapy, Fourth Edition

Pellock ’ s Pediatric Epilepsy : Diagnosis and Therapy

Book Review: 'Teaching and Researching Writing (3rd Edition)'

Writing has an overarching significance in our lives. We experience this significance in our personal, professional and social activities. Much of who we are and who we wish to become in our social life, in the professional community we belong to and even in the privacy of our individual life is the outcome of what we write and how we write. We are often judged and evaluated by our control of i...

Pediatric Differential Diagnosis. 2nd Edition

This 184-page text, in the words of the authors," has been written to assist medical students, residents, pediatricians, nurses, and family practitioners in developing appropriate hypotheses and a differential diagnosis." To this end, it will certainly prove to be very helpful. The volume contains 51 alphabetically listed chapters (six more than the first edition), each dealing with a specific ...

Fanconi Anemia: Guidelines for Diagnosis and Management, Fourth Edition

This chapter will explore the underlying molecular and genetic processes by which FA contributes to conditions such as bone marrow failure, leukemia, squamous cell carcinoma, endocrine abnormalities, and mild-to-severe birth defects (1-3). In general, these conditions arise from genetic mutations that cause chromosome instability and reduce the cell’s ability to repair damage to DNA. At publica...

Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-fourth edition (WISC-IV) short-form validity: a comparison study in pediatric epilepsy.

PURPOSE The purpose of this article was to investigate the accuracy of the WISC-IV short forms in estimating Full Scale Intelligence Quotient (FSIQ) and General Ability Index (GAI) in pediatric epilepsy. METHODS One hundred and four children with epilepsy completed the WISC-IV as part of a neuropsychological assessment at a tertiary-level children's hospital. The clinical accuracy of eight sh...