Includes Index.

Contents: General aspects of hereditary metabolic diseases of the nervous system -- The neurology of neonatal hereditary metabolic diseases -- Early infantile progressive metabolic encephalopathies: Clinical problems and diagnostic considerations -- Late infantile progressive genetic encephalopathies::(Metabolic encephalopathies of the second year of life) -- Childhood and adolescent hereditary metabolic disorders -- Distinction between hereditary metabolic diseases and other diseases of the child's nervous system -- Visceral and other tissue abnormalities associated with hereditary metabolic encephalopathies -- Laboratory tests for the diagnosis of hereditary metabolic encephalopathies -- Treatment and prevention of neurometabolic disorders.