Description Part I considers theoretical perspectives in bridging developmental neuroscience with child psychology, with the role of neuroscience
furthering our understanding of the child's mental development, and a separate chapter outlines the importance of plasticity in this
growth. Chapters also cover methodological issues arising from epidemiological perspectives and from psychometric concepts and issues.
Methods for measuring biological brain function and structure and their particular application to child neuropsychological disorders
are covered next, including ERP, PET, SPECT, MRI and fMRI technologies. Included is a chapter devoted to childhood seizure disorders.
Separate chapters follow on neuropsychological assessment in infancy, in the preschool child, and in school-aged children. Following
this are presentations on the development of motor control, including handedness, and somatosensory perception.
Contents Preface. List of Contributors. 1. On the nature and scope of child neuropsychology (I. Rapin, S.J. Segalowitz). 2. The neuropsychology
of normal development: developmental neuroscience and a new constructivism (S.J. Segalowitz, M. Hiscock). 3. Plasticity: mechanisms,
extent and limits (R. Nass). 4. Epidemiologic perspectives on neuropsychological disorders in children (D.C. Bellinger, L.A. Rappaport
et al.). 5. Electrophysiology in developmental neuropsychology (M. Steinschneider, M. Dunn). 6. The neuropsychology of childhood seizure
disorders (M.T. Stowe, D.M. Masur, S. Shinnar). 7. Neuroimaging in the developmental disorders (J. Juranek, P.A. Filipek). 8. Positron
emission tomography (PET) and single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) in developmental disorders (D.C. Chugani, H.T. Chugani).
9. Conceptual and psychometric issues in the neuropsychologic assessment of children: measurement of ability discrepancy and change (R.D.
Morris, J.M. Fletcher, D.J. Francis). 10. Neuropsychological assessment in infancy (V. Molfese, B. Price). 11. Neuropsychological assessment
of the preschool child (A.G. O'Shea, B. Harel, D. Fein). 12. Neuropsychological assessment of school-aged children (S. Mattis, D.Z. Luck).
13. Behavioral fluctuations and the development of manual asymmetries in infancy: contributions of the dynamic systems approach (D. Corbetta,
E. Thelen). 14. Human handedness: a biological perspective (R.A. Yeo, R.J. Thoma, S.W. Gangestad). 15. Motor soft signs and development
(R.K. Deuel). 16. Somatosensory perception in children (J.E. Casey, B.P. Rourke). Subject Index
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