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An exhaustive review of a fast-growing discipline: cognitive and behavioural neurology
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.
This book provides an update on neurocognitive and behavioural deficits observed in developmental neurology:
- epilepsy,
- brain malformations,
- tumours,
- autistic spectrum disorders,
- syndromic and non-syndromic intellectual disabilities,
- cerebral palsy
- 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.