In the first edition of this text in 1992 Professor Aicardi argues for the continuing role of clinical history and examination in the face of rapidly advancing techniques of neuroimaging and neurophysiology. In his preface to the second edition he describes the need for someone to marshall and make sense of the deluge of information available in a world in which only computerised networks can keep pace with new developments and new data in medical sciences. The experience in the field of childhood neurology …