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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stiles, Joan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Neuroplasticity.

Brain--Growth.

Brain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (383 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 defi

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-025571-4

0-19-023502-0

1-280-59589-2

9786613625724

0-19-993850-4

OCLC:

793996710