Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Research challenges and solutions
Herausgeber: Herwegen, Jo van; Riby, Deborah

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Produktbeschreibung

Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Research Challenges and Solutions provides a thorough overview of the key issues involved in researching neurodevelopmental disorders. The book will be indispensable reading for advanced students, researchers, and practitioners in the fields of developmental psychology, developmental psychopathology, special needs education, neuropsychology, and neurodevelopmental disorders.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9781848723283
• ISBN-10: 1848723288
• Artikelnr.: 41246831

Autorenporträt

Jo Van Herwegen is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at Kingston University, UK. She is co-ordinator of the Child Development and Learning Difficulties Unit. Her research focuses on language and number development in both typical and atypical populations, including Williams syndrome, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Down syndrome, and Specific Language Impairment. Deborah Riby is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at Durham University, UK and is an Honorary lecturer at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. She is co-ordinator of the Developmental Psychology Research Group and head of the North East Williams Syndrome Research Group. Her research focuses on syndrome-specific signatures of cognition and behaviour, primarily focusing on the developmental disorders Williams syndrome and Autism.

Inhaltsangabe

SECTION ONE: General Research Challenges 1. Neurodevelopmental disorders:
definitions and issues, Jo Van Herwegen, Deborah Riby & Emily K. Farran 2.
Why development matters in neurodevelopmental disorders, George Ball &
Annette Karmiloff-Smith 3. Making use of brain - behaviour links, Brian W.
Haas 4. Researching the brain in neurodevelopmental disorders, Sarah
Lloyd-Fox 5. Causal modelling of developmental disorders: insights from
animal and computational models of Specific Language Impairment, Themis
Karaminis 6. ACORNS: a tool for visual modeling of causes and outcomes in
neurodevelopmental disorders, Derek G. Moore & Rachel George SECTION TWO:
Disorders and their Challenges for Researchers 7. Variability in
neurodevelopmental disorders: Evidence from Autism Spectrum Disorders,
Tony Charman 8. Different profiles of development: evidence from children
with primary language impairment, Victoria Knowland & Nicola Botting 9.
Comorbidity in neurodevelopmental disorders: evidence from ADHD, Sinead
Rhodes 10. Genetic disorders as models of high neurocognitive risk:
Evidence from fragile X syndrome Brianna Doherty, Andria Shimi & Gaia
Scerif 11. Experimental difficulties in neurodevelopmental disorders:
evidence from Down Syndrome, Harry Purser 12. Eye tracking and
neurodevelopmental disorders: evidence from cross-syndrome comparisons,
Mary Hanley SECTION THREE: Applied issues in neurodevelopmental disorders
13. Uses of new technologies by young people with neurodevelopmental
disorders: Motivations, processes and cognition, Sue Fletcher-Watson &
Kevin Durkin 14. Anxiety in neurodevelopmental disorders: Phenomenology,
assessment and intervention, Victoria Grahame & Jacqui Rodgers