Résumé

Advances in the neurocognitive sciences, aided by increased imaging power, have extensively confirmed that during early development specific areas of a child's brain are designed to process specific functions - neurologic, cognitive, linguistic, motoric, and visuospatial, among others - and that this processing involves globally complex interconnections with other areas distributed throughout the brain: a lesion in a given area interferes with the functioning and coherence of the system as a whole.

This volume discusses the consequences of early brain injury to many parts of the brain, including the basal ganglia, with their related disorders of aphasia, OCD, and AD/HD, as well as white matter and its associated neuropsychological impairment of intelligence, language, and visuoperception. The corpus callosum and cerebellum are studied as they relate to learning motor sequences and language as well as communication disorders and social behavior.

This book also looks at mirror neurons as they affect the understanding of others' intentions and the development of empathy and gestural and other forms of language. The implications of these findings are examined since they have a critical effect on the rehabilitative and educational efforts that are being designed to mitigate the effects of early brain lesions on the growing child.

Sommaire

  • Cognitive development after early brain lesions: implications for reorganization of function and distributed networks
  • Basal ganglia
  • Basal ganglia and thalamus : connections and functions
  • Aphasia in children with basal ganglia lesions
  • Neuropsychiatric disorders of the basal ganglia: the neurobiology of Tourette syndrome, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
  • Phenomenology of obsessive-compulsive disorder and clinical implications of its comorbidity with Tourette syndrome and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
  • Connecting systems
  • Long-term cognitive and neuropsychological outcome of brain alterations in preterm infants
  • Prematurity: visuo-perceptual disorders
  • Multiple sclerosis in children and adolescents: neurocognitive disorders
  • Corpus callosum malformation in developmental disorders
  • Cerebellum
  • The cerebellum as a multipurpose neural machine: basic principles and future perspectives
  • The role of the cerebellum in processing higher cognitive and social functions in congenital and acquired disease in developmental age
  • The role of cerebellar structures in communication and language disorders
  • Developmental dyspraxias: assessment and differential diagnosis

Caractéristiques

Editeur : John Libbey

Auteur(s) : Charles Njiokiktjien, Daria Riva

Collection : Mariani Foudation Paediatric Neurology

Publication : 1 juillet 2010

Edition : 1ère édition

Intérieur : Noir & blanc

Support(s) : Text (eye-readable) [PDF]

Contenu(s) : PDF

Protection(s) : Marquage social (PDF)

Taille(s) : 5,4 Mo (PDF)

Langue(s) : Anglais

Code(s) CLIL : 3165

EAN13 Text (eye-readable) [PDF] : 9782742009770

EAN13 (papier) : 9782742007783

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