Cognitive Effects of Early Brain Injury (The Johns Hopkins Series in Psychiatry and Neuroscience) - Hardcover

Dorman

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0801848563 ISBN 13: 9780801848568

Publisher: John Hopkins University Press, 1994

Synopsis

This text offers an overview of the effects of genetic, prenatal, and perinatal brain disorders on cognitive development and learning in children. Summarizing the available data as well as presenting previously unpublished research, the book aims to provide clinicians with practical information that will aid their diagnostic and therapeutic work with children who have sustained early brain injury. The chapters of the book address early neurologic development and pathology; genetic and congenital disorders that affect cognition; the influences on cognition of toxicants, infections and premature birth; the results of a follow-up study of prematurely born children; and the development of language and visuospatial abilities and learning disabilities after early brain injury. Throughout, the authors present the published literature within a critical framework that aims to allow readers to assess the methodology and draw their own conclusions. The book should interest research and clinical neuropsychologists, cognitive psychologists, psychiatrists and other neuroscientists.

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Review

"Valuable as a reference source for diagnosis of children with brain injury and to provide predictive information helpful for family and school intervention... A useful companion to general reference texts in clinical neuropsychology." -- Contemporary Psychology

Edition details

• Publisher: John Hopkins University Press
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0801848563
• ISBN 13: 9780801848568
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320