Childhood stroke: the unkindest cut of all: a history of cerebrovascular disease in childhood -- Development of the brain circulation -- Epidemiology of childhood stroke -- Clinical and imaging features of childhood stroke -- Risk factors and triggers for cryptogenic (and symptomatic) stroke -- Arterial ischaemic stroke and vascular disease in childhood -- Cerebral sinovenous (venous sinus) thrombosis -- Haemorrhagic stroke -- Neonatal stroke -- Vein of galen aneurysmal malformation -- Sturge-Weber syndrome -- Hempilegic migraine -- Alternating hemiplegia of childhood -- Inborn metabolic disease and acute focal neurology -- Symptomatic stroke -- Acute management -- Recurrence, outcome and rehabilitation -- Future directions.