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Overview
Modern neuroimaging offers tremendous opportunities for gaining insights into normative development and a wide array of developmental neuropsychiatric disorders. Focusing on ontogeny, this text covers basic processes involved in both healthy and atypical maturation, and also addresses the range of neuroimaging techniques most widely used for studying children. This book will enable you to understand normative structural and functional brain maturation and the mechanisms underlying basic developmental processes; become familiar with current knowledge and hypotheses concerning the neural bases of developmental neuropsychiatric disorders; and learn about neuroimaging techniques, including their unique strengths and limitations. Coverage includes normal developmental processes, atypical processing in developmental neuropsychiatric disorders, ethical issues, neuroimaging techniques and their integration with psychopharmacologic and molecular genetic research approaches, and future directions. This comprehensive volume is an essential resource for neurologists, neuropsychologists, psychiatrists, pediatricians, and radiologists concerned with normal development and developmental neuropsychiatric disorders.
Synopsis
Covers normative structural and functional brain maturation and mechanisms underlying basic developmental processes through neuroimaging.
Doody Review Services
Reviewer:Christopher J. Graver, PhD(Madigan Army Medical Center)
Description:The plethora of information from advances in neuroimaging over the last couple of decades has greatly enhanced our understanding of both normal and abnormal neural development. This book covers neuroimaging in psychiatric disorders in children.
Purpose:The purpose is to review the literature and update readers on recent advances in our knowledge about abnormal development in psychiatric and behavioral disorders. This is an update of Functional Neuroimaging in Child Psychiatry (Cambridge University Press, 2000), by the same authors.
Audience:The authors do not identify a particular audience, but it would appeal to child psychiatrists, pediatric neuropsychologists, pediatric neurologists, and general neuroscientists. The editors and contributing authors are at the forefront of research in this field.
Features:The book begins with normal neurodevelopment. This intriguing section covers a wide variety of neurodevelopmental features, including morphological development, cognitive control, emotional control, social cognition, and language. It then discusses findings related to developmental neuropsychiatric disorders. Not surprisingly, ADHD is first on the list, but the section also addresses bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, autism, fragile X, anxiety/depression, and anorexia. These chapters include information about both structural and functional neuroimaging and provide good structure and detail for the multitude of features that accompany each disorder. There are helpful tables for referencing the literature, as well as large meta-analytic studies. Neuroimaging figures are high quality and full color. Clinicians will be especially appreciative of the chapter on the use of neuroimaging to assess treatment effects, as it helps to inform mechanism of action and to visualize more than behavioral effects on the biological system. References are current and the book has an extensive index and glossary.
Assessment:This is a comprehensive and intriguing look at neuroimaging in developmental neuropsychiatric disorders. It is well organized with high quality studies and full color figures. It is highly recommended for clinicians and researchers in this area. This edition is well worth the purchase for the updates and expanded topics.
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Reviewer: Christopher J. Graver, PhD, ABPP-CN(Madigan Healthcare System)Description: The plethora of information from advances in neuroimaging over the last couple of decades has greatly enhanced our understanding of both normal and abnormal neural development. This book covers neuroimaging in psychiatric disorders in children.
Purpose: The purpose is to review the literature and update readers on recent advances in our knowledge about abnormal development in psychiatric and behavioral disorders. This is an update of Functional Neuroimaging in Child Psychiatry (Cambridge University Press, 2000), by the same authors.
Audience: The authors do not identify a particular audience, but it would appeal to child psychiatrists, pediatric neuropsychologists, pediatric neurologists, and general neuroscientists. The editors and contributing authors are at the forefront of research in this field.
Features: The book begins with normal neurodevelopment. This intriguing section covers a wide variety of neurodevelopmental features, including morphological development, cognitive control, emotional control, social cognition, and language. It then discusses findings related to developmental neuropsychiatric disorders. Not surprisingly, ADHD is first on the list, but the section also addresses bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, autism, fragile X, anxiety/depression, and anorexia. These chapters include information about both structural and functional neuroimaging and provide good structure and detail for the multitude of features that accompany each disorder. There are helpful tables for referencing the literature, as well as large meta-analytic studies. Neuroimaging figures are high quality and full color. Clinicians will be especially appreciative of the chapter on the use of neuroimaging to assess treatment effects, as it helps to inform mechanism of action and to visualize more than behavioral effects on the biological system. References are current and the book has an extensive index and glossary.
Assessment: This is a comprehensive and intriguing look at neuroimaging in developmental neuropsychiatric disorders. It is well organized with high quality studies and full color figures. It is highly recommended for clinicians and researchers in this area. This edition is well worth the purchase for the updates and expanded topics.