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

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Stiles, Joan, Reilly, Judy Snitzer, 1946-, Levine, Susan Cohen
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, ©2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.