Description: **Selected for 2026 Doody's Core Titles in Neurology**
Capute and Accardo's Neurodevelopmental Disabilities in Infancy and Childhood, Fourth Edition provides updated foundational, theoretical, and practical knowledge on the spectrum and continuum of neurodevelopmental disabilities shaped by ongoing advances in neuroscience and related disciplines. It reviews the over-arching principles of assessment, diagnosis, and management of patients with a wide range of neurodevelopmental disabilities. Streamlined or fully rewritten chapters, including developmental screening and surveillance, neuroimaging and genetic evaluation, early intervention, principles of pharmacological treatment, principles of successful management programs, aging and transition planning, telemedicine and care in low-resource settings are included. The book's practical, expert-led approach aims to prepare future clinicians to skillfully assess and manage children with neurodevelopmental disabilities with the aid of clinical approach flowcharts to common presentations, diagnostic algorithms and clinic notes templates.Brief description: Dr. Fatima Ismail is an assistant professor of paediatric neurology and developmental medicine at the College of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAE University and an adjunct assistant professor of neurology at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She received her Bachelor of medicine and Bachelor of surgery (M.B.B.S.) degree from UAE University, completed paediatric residency training at the Harriet Lane program at Johns Hopkins Hospital, and advanced training in the Johns Hopkins/Kennedy Krieger conjoint residency in Paediatric Neurology and Neurodevelopmental Disabilities. Dr. Ismail is a diplomate of the American Board of Paediatrics. She is a member of the American Academy of Neurology (AAN), the Child Neurology Society (CNS), the American Neurological Association (ANA) and the International Child Neurology Association (ICNA). Her clinical interest is in improving the neurodevelopmental outcomes of children with acute brain injury (stroke and traumatic brain injury) by implementing brain protective measures and protocols in the neonatal and paediatric intensive care units, and establishing a comprehensive multidisciplinary neuroplasticity-informed neurodevelopmental follow-up programs. Her research focus is on understanding changes in structural, functional and effective connectivity in the developing brain as a function of maturation and following injury using non-invasive brain stimulation (transcranial magnetic stimulation/transcranial direct current stimulation) coupled with EEG and advanced neuroimaging techniques (diffusion tensor imaging and functional MRI).