Neural Plasticity and Cognitive Development
Insights from Children with Perinatal Brain Injury
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 14 June 2012
- ISBN 9780195389944
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages384 pages
- Size 165x236x22 mm
- Weight 700 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Neural Plasticity and Cognitive Development addresses fundamental questions about human brain development through the study of children with early occurring focal brain injury. It is argued that the capacity for adaptation is not the result of early insult. Rather, it reflects normal developmental processes which are both dynamic and adaptive operating against a backdrop of serious perturbation of the neural substrate.
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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 signaling, and they do not develop normally in the absence of essential environmental input. The key to understanding the origins and emergence of both the brain and behavior lies in understanding how inherited and environmental factors are engaged in the dynamic and interactive processes that define and direct development of the neurobehavioral system.
Neural Plasticity and Cognitive Development focuses on children who suffered focal brain insult (typically stroke) in the pre- or perinatal period which provides a model for exploring the dynamic nature of early brain and cognitive development. In most, though not all, of the cases considered, the injuries affect substantial portions of one cerebral hemisphere, resulting in patterns of neural damage that would compromise cognitive ability in adults. However, longitudinal behavioral studies of this population of children have revealed only mild cognitive deficits, and preliminary data from functional brain imaging studies suggest that alternative patterns of functional organization emerge in the wake of early injury. Neural Plasticity and Cognitive Development posits that the capacity for adaptation is not the result of early insult. Rather, it reflects normal developmental processes which are both dynamic and adaptive operating against a backdrop of serious perturbation of the neural substrate.
The authors thoroughly cover a vast temporal range of studies, converging the thoughts and findings of researchers from as far back as Broca with those published very recently... the book is chock-full of cautionary notes to clinicians, which could only have been obtained with the benefit of career-long attention to the dynamic process of neurobehavioral development.
Table of Contents:
PREFACE
PART 1: NEUROBIOLOGY
CHAPTER 1: Neuroplasticity and the Developing Brain
CHAPTER 2: The Basics of Brain Development
CHAPTER 3: Etiology and Neurological Effects of Perinatal Stroke
PART 2: BEHAVIORAL STUDIES
CHAPTER 4: Somatosensory and Motor Processes
CHAPTER 5: Visuospatial Processes
CHAPTER 6: Attention, Memory and Executive Functions
CHAPTER 7: Early Communicative Development to First Words
CHAPTER 8: Later Language Development: Syntax and Discourse
CHAPTER 9: Plasticity of Overall Intellectual Functioning: Evidence from Standardized Tests
PART 3: CLINICAL AND THEORETICAL IMPLICATIONS
CHAPTER 10: Clinical Implications
CHAPTER 11: Toward and Integrative Model of Neurobehavioral Development
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