About the Book
This important Handbook presents the latest research and practical knowledge about a broad range of disorders with a genetic component that affect children's learning, behavior, and development. The book demonstrates the difference that well-planned interventions and accommodations can make in the health and functioning of children with mild to severe neurodevelopmental impairment. Chapters offer in-depth discussions of specific disorders, including learning disabilities, ADHD, Tourerette syndrome, anxiety disorders, pervasive developmental disorders, and numerous less frequently encountered conditions. Current research on etiologies is reviewed, neurodevelopmental, psychosocial, and medical implications are considered, and practical suggestions are provided for assessment and clinical management.
Table of Contents:
Part I: Basic Principles and Applications. Goldstein, Reynolds, Neurodevelopmental and Genetic Disorders in Children: An Introduction. Reynolds, Mayfield, Neuropsychological Assessment in Genetically Linked Neurodevelopmental Disorders. Carey, McMahon, Neurobehavioral Disorders and Medical Genetics: An Overview. Bigler, Nielsen, Wilde, Bartholomew, Brooks, Bradford, Neuroimaging and Genetic Disorders. Whelan, Integrative Developmental Neuropsychology: A General Systems and Social-Ecological Approach to the Neuropsychology of Children with Neurogenetic Disorders. Part II: Disorders Primarily Affecting Learning and Behavior.Ingalls, Goldstein, Learning Disabilities. Goldstein, Attention-deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. Brown, Ivers, Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome. Pliszka, Olvera, Anxiety Disorders. Klin, Volkmar, Autism and Other Pervasive Developmental Disorders. Part III: Disorders with Broader-Spectrum Effects.Powell, Schulte, Turner Syndrome. Hagerman, Lampe, Fragile X Syndrome. M.B. Brown, The Mucopolysaccharidoses. Teeter, Noonan Syndrome. Nilsson, Bradford, Neurofibromatosis. Smith, Sickle Cell Disease. Cody, Kamphaus, Down Syndrome. Cody, Hynd, Klinefelter Syndrome. Waisbren, Phenylketonuria. Brown, Hoadley, Rett Syndrome. Morales, Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome. Bennett, Ho-Turner, Seizure Disorders. Dykens, Cassidy, Prader-Willi Syndrome. Morris, Mervis, Williams Syndrome.
About the Author :
Sam Goldstein, PhD, Neurology, Learning and Behavior Center, University of Utah Cecil R. Reynolds, PhD, Department of Educational Psychology, Texas A&M University
Review :
"A landmark publication. This seminal work will become the definitive reference for practitioners who work with children and adults with neurodevelopmental and genetic disorders. It is the first to compile, in a single volume, medical and neuropsychological research, assessment methods, and intervention strategies appropriate for the most commonly encountered of these disorders. Chapters are scholarly, comprehensive, and relevant. Neuropsychologists and developmental psychologists, school psychologists, pediatric neurologists, pediatricians, and special educators, as well as students in these disciplines, will find this impressive volume indispensable as a working textbook and standard reference source." --Robert W. Elliott, PhD, ABCN, ABPN, Manhattan Beach, CA "Developmental disorders are rapidly disclosing their secrets, and the intertwined nature of behavior and neurobiology is increasingly revealed. Students and practitioners trained in a behavioral perspective, accordingly, need to develop a working understanding of the accompanying neurobiology. This comprehensive and well-referenced book helps readers do just that, offering succinct and clear explanations of essential biological concepts. The volume helps clinical psychologists gain a better grasp of fundamental brain-based processes and master the interdisciplinary discourse in which behavioral interventions are nowadays embedded." --Marcel Kinsbourne, MD, Professor of Psychology, New School University, Research Professor of Cognitive Studies, Tufts University, Medford, MA
, .."the text brings together leading experts in genetics, neurodevelopment, developmental psychopathology, and neuropsychology to provide a magnum opus resource manual for clinicians....Where the chapters excel is in providing excellent historical overviews as well as specific and practical frameworks for assessment and treatment that are detailed and comprehensively biopsychosocial....The chapters are uniformly well written and cohesive; treatment recommendations follow nicely from the neuropsychological assessment strategies that are presented....Goldstein and Reynold's text succeeds marvelously in providing a comprehensive resource on genetic disorders and neurodevelopment in childhood. The book is to be recommended to clinicians including child psychiatrists, pediatric neurologists, general and behavioral pediatricians, child psychologists and neuropsychologists, and especially those who may be several years out of training and wish to update their knowledge of the relationship between genetics and neuropsychology. For the practicing clinician involved in the day-to-day assessment and treatment of children, this text is a required resource on the bookshelf. The child clinician of the 21st century needs a working knowledge of genetics, neurodevelopment, and neuropsychology, even if these are not primary areas of interest or expertise. A working knowledge of these areas is essential for contemporary clinicians to be fully competent in assessing the range and complexity of children seen in clinical practice and to offer the most up-to-date treatment and management interventions. The text has both great practical utility, e.g., providing discrete frameworks for assessment anddetailed recommendations for interventions in learning-disabled children, as well as a cohesive wide-angle perspective on the vast, exciting, and promising area of the impact of genetics on neurodevelopment."-- American Journal of Psychiatry
, .."many of the chapters should provide the student, clinician, and researcher with a valuable information resource for specific disorders. This volume should facilitate raising the awareness of the issues pertinent to the genetic basis of many childhood disorders and their associated neurobehavioral manifestations."-- Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society
, .."a most useful addition to clinic and departmental libraries as an up-to-date reference volume on these important conditions. I shall also be recommending it to trainees as a good introduction to this range of developmental disorders and current knowledge and thinking about them."-- Child Psychology and Psychiatry
