The Changing Nervous System

• Part I SHAPING THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM1: Philip G. Nelson, Roger Davenport: Wiring the Brain: Activity Dependent and Activity Independent Development of Synaptic Circuits2: Mark R. Rosenzweig: Effects of Differential Experience on Brain and Cognition Throughout the Life Span3: William T. Greenough, James E. Black, Anna Klintsova, Kathy E. Bates, Ivan Jeanne Weiler: Experience and Plasticity in Brain Structure: Possible Implications of Basic Research Finding For Developmental DisordersPart II MECHANISMS OF REORGANIZATION4: Craig H. Bailey: Structural Changes Underlying Long-Term Memory5: Asaf Keller: The Role of Intrinsic Circuitry in Motor Cortex Plasticity6: Bertram R. Payne: Immature Visual Cortex Lesions: Global Rewiring, Neural Adaptations, and Behavioral SparingPart III NEURODEVELOPMENTAL COURSE OF EARLY BRAIN DISORDERS7: H. Julia Hannay, Jack M. Fletcher, Michael E. Brandt: The Role of the Corpus Callosum in the Cognitive Development of Children with Congenital Brain Malformations8: Maureen Dennis, C. Ross Hetherington, Brenda J. Spiegler, Marcia A. Barnes: Functional Consequences of Congenital Cerebellar Dysmorphologies and Acquired Cerebellar Lesions of Childhood9: Barry Gordon, Dana Boatman, Ronald P. Lesser, John Hart, Jr.: Recovery from Acquired Reading and Naming Deficits Following Focal Cerebral Resection10: Elizabeth Bates: Plasticity, Localization and Language Development11: Dorothy M. Aram: Neuroplasticity: Evidence from Unilateral Brain Lesions in Children12: Marian Sigman and Norman Kim: Continuity and Change in the Development of Children with Autism13: Eric Courchesne, Rachel Yeung Courchesne, Karen Pierce: Biological and Behavioral Heterogeneity in Autism: Role of Pleiotropy an EpigenesisPart IV INTERVENTIONS14: Susan J. Landry: Issues in Developing Effective Interventions15: Michael M. Merzenich, Gabrielle Saunders, William M. Jenkins, Steven Miller, Bret Peterson, Paula Tallal: Pervasive Developmental Disorders: Listening Training and Language AbilitiesPart V CONCLUSIONS16: Bennett A. Shaywitz: Development, Learning, and Neuroplasticity: Where We Are Now

"The book is well written and illustrated. The editors have done and admirable job of modifying the text to include appropriate references to material in other chapters." --Annals of the Royal College of Physicins and Surgeons of Canada"This book provides a useful review of the mechanisms of neural plasticity and reorganization that underlie such recovery and describes many examples. It is a must for anyone interested in current research on neural plasticity and its application to the problems of early damage to the nervous system. All the chapters display a commendably high standard of writing, which make them not only interesting but also easy to read." -- John Stein, Trends inNeuroscience