Neural plasticity and cognitive development : insights from children with perinatal brain injury

Neural plasticity and cognitive development : insights from children with perinatal brain injury / Joan Stiles [and others].

The advent of modern neurobiological methods over the last three decades has provided overwhelming evidence that it is the interaction of genetic factors and the experience of the individual that guides and supports brain development. Brains do not develop normally in the absence of critical genetic...

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Other Authors: Stiles, Joan, Reilly, Judy Snitzer, 1946-, Levine, Susan Cohen
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, ©2012.
Subjects:
Brain-damaged children > Rehabilitation.
Brain > Wounds and injuries > Patients > Rehabilitation.
Brain-damaged children > Education.
Newborn infants.
Child development.
Children.
Infants.
children (people by age group)
infants.
MEDICAL > Surgery > Neurosurgery.
Infants
Children
Child development
Brain-damaged children > Education
Brain-damaged children > Rehabilitation
Brain > Wounds and injuries > Patients > Rehabilitation
Newborn infants
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Table of Contents:
  • Neuroplasticity and the developing brain
  • The basics of brain development
  • Etiology and neurological effects of perinatal stroke
  • Somatosensory and motor processes
  • Visuospatial processes
  • Attention, memory, and executive functions
  • Early communicative development to first words
  • Later language development : syntax and discourse
  • Plasticity of overall intellectual functioning : evidence from standardized tests
  • Clinical implications
  • Toward and integrative model of neurobehavioral development.

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