Colin Kennedy studied Psychology and Medicine in Oxford and London and, as a postgraduate, in London, Southampton and Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore. He was the founding paediatric neurologist and, for 25 years, clinical lead of the Southampton-based service. He led a series of studies that established the benefit of universal newborn hearing screening and the introduction of patient/parent reported outcomes into European treatment trials for and clinical care of children with brain tumours. He is past president of the BPNA and the EPNS. He works with WHO to 'level up' the health care of children with neurological problems across WHO Europe.

• Part 1: Principles of Child Neurology In Infancy1 Terms, definitions and conceptsColin Kennedy2 Interprofessional working: user and carer involvementAudrone Prasauskiene and Maryze Schoneveld van der Linde3 Clinical epidemiology and evidence-based medicineAndrew L. Lux4 Promoting child developmentAudrone Prasauskiene5 The Neonatal examination and neurodevelopmental assessmentLeena Haataja, Vittorio Belmonti and Giovanni Cioni6 Neurological examination beyond the neonatal periodColin Kennedy7 Prevention, vaccination and ScreeningJane Williams and Colin Kennedy8 Cranial imagingBrigitte Vollmer and Harriet Joy9 Neurophysiology (EEG & aEEG)Bernhard Schmitt and Varsine Jaladyan10 Biochemical and haematological testingValerie Walker and Mary Morgan11 Genetic testingGeoffrey Woods and Catarina Olimpio12 Drug treatments: drugs, vitamins and mineralsImti Choonara and Peter Baxter13 Nonpharmacological treatmentIlona Autti-RämöPart 2: Settings In Clinical Practice14 Birth Asphyxia and other acute encephalopathies in the newbornGian Paolo Chiaffoni and Daniele Trevisanuto15 Inheritited metabolic encephalopathies of infancyBarbara Plecko16 Neontal SeizuresBarbara Plecko17 Acute encephalopathy and traumatic brain injuryTiina Talvik, Fenella Kirkham, Tuuli Metsvaht and Inga Talvik18 StrokeFenella Kirkham, Tiina Talvik, Rael Laugesaar, Tuuli Metsvaht and Inga Talvik19 Acute neurological illness with fever: meningitis, encephalitis and infective space-occupying lesionsRachel Kneen and Charles Newton20 Post-neonatal epileptic seizuresHans Hartmann and J. Helen Cross21 Non-epileptic paroxysmal disorders in infancyJohn B.P. Stephenson and Alla Nechay22 Microcephaly, including congenital infectionsAlasdair Parker, Vlatka Mejaski-Bosnjak and Richard Chin23 Macrocephaly, including hydrocephalus and brain tumorsColin Kennedy24 The floppy infantHelgi Hjartarson and Thomas Sejersen25 Infancy sleep and behaviourOuti Saarenpää-Heikkilä, E. Juulia Paavonen and Kaija Puura26 Early developmental impairment and neurological abnormalities at birthRichard W. Newton, Ilona Autti-Rämö and Audrone Prasauskiene27 Cerebral palsyFlorian Heinen and Peter Baxter28 Central nervous system disorders of movement other than cerebral palsyPeter Baxter and Florian Heinen29 Progressive loss of skillsMeral Topcu, Dilek Yalnızoglu and Richard Newton