Neural plasticity and cognitive development : insights from children with perinatal brain injury / Joan Stiles [and others].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Neuroplasticity and the developing brain -- The basics of brain development -- Etiology and neurological effects of perinatal stroke -- Somatosensory and motor processes -- Visuospatial processes -- Attention, memory, and executive functions -- Early communicative development to first words -- Later language development : syntax and discourse -- Plasticity of overall intellectual functioning : evidence from standardized tests -- Clinical implications -- Toward and integrative model of neurobehavioral development.

The advent of modern neurobiological methods over the last three decades has provided overwhelming evidence that it is the interaction of genetic factors and the experience of the individual that guides and supports brain development. Brains do not develop normally in the absence of critical genetic signaling, and they do not develop normally in the absence of essential environmental input. The key to understanding the origins and emergence of both the brain and behavior lies in understanding how inherited and environmental factors are engaged in the dynamic and interactive processes that define and direct development of the neurobehavioral system.

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