Front Cover -- The cerebellum: Disorders and treatment -- Copyright -- Available titles -- Foreword -- Preface -- Contributors -- Contents -- Section I: Disorders -- Chapter 1: Fetal cerebellar disorders -- Normal prenatal development of the posterior fossa -- Neurosonography -- MRI -- The approach during the third trimester -- Prenatal Diagnosis Of Posterior Fossa Anomalies -- Dandy-Walker malformation (DWM) -- Posterior fossa fluid collections -- Mega cisterna magna -- Posterior fossa arachnoid cysts -- Blake's pouch cyst -- Cerebellar vermis hypoplasia -- Cerebellar hypoplasia -- Unilateral cerebellar hypoplasia (UCH) -- Pontocerebellar hypoplasia -- Rhombencephalosynapsis (RES) -- Joubert syndrome and related disorders -- Ethical And Medicolegal Aspects Of Counseling On Fetal Cerebellar Disorders -- References -- Chapter 2: Chiari 1 deformity in children: etiopathogenesis and radiologic diagnosis -- Introduction -- Definitions pertaining to the chiari 1 deformity: classification -- Development of the occipitocervical transition -- Clinical features of the chiari 1 deformity -- The neuroradiologic tools of diagnosis -- The bony landmarks of the CVJ (Table 2.2 and Fig. 2.2) -- The osteoneural landmarks of the CVJ -- The proportional integrity of the bony posterior fossa -- Diagnostic assessment of the chiari 1 deformity -- Abnormalities of the neuraxis -- Growth abnormalities of the cranium -- Growth abnormalities of the posterior fossa -- Shallowness of the posterior fossa -- Growth abnormalities of the whole cranium -- Iatrogenic craniocerebral disproportion -- Excessive tissue in the posterior fossa or entire skull -- Complex Chiari 1 deformities -- Proatlantal hypoplasia -- Segmentation disorders of the CVJ -- Differential diagnosis of Chiari 1 deformity -- Pseudotumor cerebri -- Chronic hydrocephalus -- Management -- Signs and symptoms
Diagnostic studies -- Surgical technique -- Surgical technique -- Complications -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Cerebellar injury in preterm infants -- Introduction -- Classification of cerebellar injury -- Primary cerebellar injury -- Cerebellar hemorrhage -- Etiology of cerebellar hemorrhage -- Distribution of cerebellar hemorrhage -- Outcome of cerebellar hemorrhage -- Cerebellar infarct -- Cerebellar hypoplasia of prematurity -- Etiology of cerebellar hypoplasia of prematurity -- Crossed cerebrocerebellar diaschisis -- Supratentorial hemorrhage -- Glucocorticoid exposure -- Opioids and pain -- Nutrition and somatic growth -- Cardiorespiratory instability -- Socioeconomic status -- Prognosis of cerebellar hypoplasia -- Summary and future directions -- References -- Chapter 4: Cerebellar involvement in autism and ADHD -- Introduction -- Motor impairment in ASD and ADHD -- Motor impairment in autism spectrum disorder -- Motor impairment in attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder -- Cerebellar pathology -- Cerebellar abnormalities in ASD postmortem studies -- Structural neuroimaging in ASD -- Cerebellar abnormalities in ADHD -- Lessons from preclinical models -- Cerebellar deficits in mouse models of ASD -- Cerebellar deficits in mouse models of ADHD -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 5: Recessive ataxias -- Introduction -- Scars: a diversity of genes and pathways and the power of ngs -- The most frequent scars -- Friedreich ataxia -- Autosomal-recessive spastic ataxia of Charlevoix-Saguenay -- Spastic paraplegia type 7 -- Spectrin repeat-containing nuclear envelope protein 1 ataxia -- Ataxia telangiectasia -- Ataxia with oculomotor apraxia type 2 -- Polymerase gamma ataxia -- Ataxia with oculomotor apraxia type 1 -- Autosomal-recessive inheritance of genes known to cause autosomal-dominant ataxia -- AFG3L2 (SCA28)