Handbook of Neuropsychology, 2nd Edition
Child Neuropsychology, Part 1
- 1st Edition, Volume 8 - December 16, 2002
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editor: Sidney Segalowitz
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 4 - 5 0 3 6 4 - 0
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 4 - 5 0 3 7 3 - 2
Part I considers theoretical perspectives in bridging developmental neuroscience with child psychology, with the role of neuroscience furthering our understanding of the child's… Read more
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Part I considers theoretical perspectives in bridging developmental neuroscience with child psychology, with the role of neuroscience furthering our understanding of the child's mental development, and a separate chapter outlines the importance of plasticity in this growth. Chapters also cover methodological issues arising from epidemiological perspectives and from psychometric concepts and issues. Methods for measuring biological brain function and structure and their particular application to child neuropsychological disorders are covered next, including ERP, PET, SPECT, MRI and fMRI technologies. Included is a chapter devoted to childhood seizure disorders. Separate chapters follow on neuropsychological assessment in infancy, in the preschool child, and in school-aged children. Following this are presentations on the development of motor control, including handedness, and somatosensory perception.
Preface. List of Contributors. 1. On the nature and scope of child neuropsychology (I. Rapin, S.J. Segalowitz). 2. The neuropsychology of normal development: developmental neuroscience and a new constructivism (S.J. Segalowitz, M. Hiscock). 3. Plasticity: mechanisms, extent and limits (R. Nass). 4. Epidemiologic perspectives on neuropsychological disorders in children (D.C. Bellinger, L.A. Rappaport et al.). 5. Electrophysiology in developmental neuropsychology (M. Steinschneider, M. Dunn). 6. The neuropsychology of childhood seizure disorders (M.T. Stowe, D.M. Masur, S. Shinnar). 7. Neuroimaging in the developmental disorders (J. Juranek, P.A. Filipek). 8. Positron emission tomography (PET) and single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) in developmental disorders (D.C. Chugani, H.T. Chugani). 9. Conceptual and psychometric issues in the neuropsychologic assessment of children: measurement of ability discrepancy and change (R.D. Morris, J.M. Fletcher, D.J. Francis). 10. Neuropsychological assessment in infancy (V. Molfese, B. Price). 11. Neuropsychological assessment of the preschool child (A.G. O'Shea, B. Harel, D. Fein). 12. Neuropsychological assessment of school-aged children (S. Mattis, D.Z. Luck). 13. Behavioral fluctuations and the development of manual asymmetries in infancy: contributions of the dynamic systems approach (D. Corbetta, E. Thelen). 14. Human handedness: a biological perspective (R.A. Yeo, R.J. Thoma, S.W. Gangestad). 15. Motor soft signs and development (R.K. Deuel). 16. Somatosensory perception in children (J.E. Casey, B.P. Rourke). Subject Index
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 8
- Published: December 16, 2002
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
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Sidney Segalowitz
Sid Segalowitz has been a professor at Brock University since 1974, during which time he has taught in the Psychology Department and the Centre for Neuroscience and in 2007 became the founding Director of the Jack and Nora Walker Centre for Lifespan Development Research at that institution. He is also Director of the Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory at Brock University and focuses his research on psychophysiological indicators of brain functions reflective of self-regulation of information and affective processing, especially as this relates to personality and development through childhood and adolescence. He has been Editor of the Elsevier journal Brain and Cognition since 2002.