This book is a case-based introduction to pediatric neuropsychiatry that reflects real-world clinical care of children and adolescents with complex neuropsychiatric disorders. Adult neuropsychiatry is well-established, but accessible references and available practitioners knowledgeable in pediatric neuropsychiatry are still rare. In every community, there are children and adolescents experiencing challenging neuropsychiatric conditions; they and their caregivers often struggle to find professionals well-educated in this field. This text helps to fill that gap and move the field forward.
This drastically expanded second edition includes more than twenty new chapters, in addition to extensively updated existing chapters, and covers topics that were not included in the first edition, such as cerebral palsy, Down syndrome regression disorder, mitochondrial disorders, and pediatric neurodegenerative diseases. Several chapters focusing on the pediatric neuropsychiatric examination have also been added. While the basic neuropsychiatric examination chapter in the first edition was very popular, the field has advanced to the degree that additional chapters on neuropsychological assessment and on hospital neuropsychiatry have been added. Chapters carried forward from the first edition have all been revised with updated case details and with new literature reflecting advancements in the field. Wherever possible, comments from patients and families themselves, describing their experiences during the intervening years in their own words, are provided throughout the text.
The second edition of Pediatric Neuropsychiatry will be of great use to a wide range of clinicians, including pediatric psychiatrists and neurologists, general and developmental pediatricians, neuropsychologists, and a broad range of behavioral and psychotherapeutic providers. Sub-specialists in adult neurology, psychiatry, and neuropsychiatry may also find this text useful, as they must often take on young patients due to the lack of available pediatric subspecialists. Educators, advocates, speech-language pathologists, occupational therapists, and many others working with children who have complex neuropsychiatric conditions will find a wealth of helpful knowledge in this book.
Aaron J. Hauptman, MD
Kennedy Krieger Institute
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Dr. Aaron J. Hauptman is a pediatric and adult neuropsychiatrist. He works with individuals and their families struggling with the emotional, behavioral and cognitive impacts of neurodevelopmental disabilities, neurological disorders and pediatric acquired brain injuries. He is Director of Education and Training, and Associate Director of Neuropsychiatry, at the Center for Developmental Behavioral Health at the Kennedy Krieger Institute. He is also an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where he has been a perennial award-winning lecturer. In addition, Dr. Hauptman is Associate Training Director of the Developmental Neuropsychiatry Scholars Program at the Kennedy Krieger Institute, a one-of-a-kind multidisciplinary pediatric neuropsychiatry training program.
Dr. Hauptman’s work and teaching focus on integrating an understanding of localization-based brain function and neurodevelopment into psychiatric formulation and treatment. This is grounded in his training in general adult psychiatry, child/adolescent psychiatry and neuropsychiatry/behavioral neurology. He works with patients and their families struggling with neuropsychiatric sequelae of conditions such as cerebral palsy, epilepsy syndromes, and neuro-genetic conditions and is especially focused in his practice on the care of individuals with pediatric neurodegenerative diseases.
Jay A. Salpekar, MD
Kennedy Krieger Institute
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Dr. Jay Salpekar is an internationally renowned pediatric neuropsychiatrist and Director of Neuropsychiatry at the Kennedy Krieger Institute. He is also an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Salpekar has A.B. and M.D. degrees from Washington University in St. Louis and completed an internship and residency in general psychiatry at Barnes Hospital. He then completed a child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at the Yale University Child Study Center. Dr. Salpekar is a fellow of the American Neuropsychiatric Association and of the American Epilepsy Society and a distinguished fellow of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. He recently completed a term as medical staff president at the Kennedy Krieger Institute.
Dr. Salpekar has held multiple leadership positions in the American Neuropsychiatric Association and in the American Epilepsy Society. He is also active in the International League Against Epilepsy, advocating for comprehensive neuropsychiatric treatment in pediatric epilepsy. He has been an editorial reviewer for over two dozen medical journals and is on the editorial board of four medical journals spanning neuropsychiatry, pediatrics, psychiatry and neurology. He is widely sought for publishing editorials and commentary discussing modern paradigms for neuropsychiatry. Dr. Salpekar has been an academic physician and scholar for over two decades and has been a principal investigator in national and international clinical research collaborations in neuropsychiatry. Current research efforts include testing novel treatments addressing psychiatric conditions associated with epilepsy.
