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9780195389944

Neural Plasticity and Cognitive Development Insights from Children with Perinatal Brain Injury

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    9780195389944

  • ISBN10:

    0195389948

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2012-05-29
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Summary

The advent of modern neurobiological methods over the last three decades has provided overwhelming evidence that it is theinteractionof 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,andthey 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 Developmentfocuses 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 Developmentposits 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.

Table of Contents

Preface
Neurobiology
Neuroplasticity and the Developing Brain
The Basics of Brain Development
Etiology and Neurological Effects of Perinatal Stroke
Behavioral Studies
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 and Theoretical Implications
Clinical Implications
Toward and Integrative Model of Neurobehavioral Development
Index
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