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Cognitive and behavioural neurology is increasingly the focus of attention from the neurosciences, both in adults and children. This field combines a number of specialties to ensure that neurological conditions are approached from different standpoints. Appropriate cognitive/behavioural evaluation methods should based upon the known characteristics of neuropathology, molecular genetics and neurophysiology of the disorders.
An exhaustive review of a fast-growing discipline: cognitive and behavioural
This book provides an update on neurocognitive and behavioural deficits observed in developmental neurology:
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epilepsy,
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brain malformations,
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tumours,
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autistic spectrum disorders,
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syndromic and non-syndromic intellectual disabilities,
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cerebral palsy
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CNS progressive disorders.
It aims to describe cognitive/behavioural phenotypes, define indications for treatment and rehabilitation, and enhance knowledge acquired from clinical studies.
The contents are addressed to child neurologists and psychiatrists, psychologists, paediaricians, behavioural and speech therapists.