Full Description
Developmental Disorders of the Brain: Brain and Behaviour addresses disabilities that occur or have their roots in the early, developmental phase of life which are of utmost concern to parents, siblings, carers and teachers.
This text describes the latest clinical and behavioral findings of disorders which largely or entirely involve the frontostriatal (basal ganglia) system including Tourette's, Obsessive-Compulsive and Attention-Deficit-Hyperactivity disorders, Schizophrenia, Autism, gambling and addiction, depression, and Conduct, Developmental Motor Co-ordination, and language disorders. Examples of disorders involving the frontocerebellar are also described such as Asperger's disorder, Williams, Fragile X, and Cerebellar Cognitive Affective syndromes, and Friedreich Ataxia. This book also discusses the relevant anatomy, physiology and pathology, and some of the major functions mediated by affected or relevant structures, together with accounts of the latest recording, brain imaging and stimulating techniques related to these kinds of disorders.
Covering both frontostriatal and frontocerebellar, systems which control and direct normal behavior, and which can fail with often distressing consequences during development, as well as addressing behavioural, clinical, pathophysiological and technical aspects, this text is vital to understanding, diagnosis and management of developmental disorders of the brain. This text will be of great interest to clinicians, researchers, teachers and parents.
Contents
Acknowledgements; Foreword; 1. The Basal Ganglia 2. The Frontal Cortex 3. Cerebellar Cognitive Affective Syndrome 4. New Technologies In Clinical Neuroscience 5. Developmental Coordination Disorder 6. Language Disorder 7. Autism Spectrum Disorder 8. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder 9. Conduct Disorder and Oppositional Defiant Disorder 10. Depression 11. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder 12. Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome 13. Addiction 14. Gambling Disorder 15. Schizophrenia 16. Williams Syndrome 17. Friedreich Ataxia 18. Fragile X Syndrome and other FMR1-related conditions 19. Cerebellar-Frontal-Parietal Axis in Developmental Disorders 20. Last Thoughts; Index
