Neural Plasticity and Cognitive Development

Joan Stiles, PhD Emeritus Professor of Cognitive Sciences University of California, San Diego La Jolla, CA Judy S. Reilly, PhD Emeritus Professor of Psychology San Diego State University San Diego, CA Susan C. Levine, PhD Stella M. Rowley Professor Departments of Psychology, Comparative Human Development, and Committee on Education; Chair Department of Psychology University of Chicago Chicago, IL Doris A. Trauner, MD Professor of Neurosciences and Pediatrics University of California, San Diego School of Medicine La Jolla, CA; Chief Pediatric Neurology University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Rady Children's Hospital San Diego San Diego, CA Ruth Nass, MD Professor of Child Neurology, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and Pediatrics New York University School of Medicine New York, NY

• 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 ; Index

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.