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Capute and Accardo's Neurodevelopmental Disabilities in Infancy and Childhood
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eBook - ePub
Capute and Accardo's Neurodevelopmental Disabilities in Infancy and Childhood
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**Selected for 2026 Doody's Core Titles in Neurology**Capute and Accardo's Neurodevelopmental Disabilities in Infancy and Childhood, Fourth Edition provides updated foundational, theoretical, and practical knowledge on the spectrum and continuum of neurodevelopmental disabilities shaped by ongoing advances in neuroscience and related disciplines. It reviews the over-arching principles of assessment, diagnosis, and management of patients with a wide range of neurodevelopmental disabilities. Streamlined or fully rewritten chapters, including developmental screening and surveillance, neuroimaging and genetic evaluation, early intervention, principles of pharmacological treatment, principles of successful management programs, aging and transition planning, telemedicine and care in low-resource settings are included.The book's practical, expert-led approach aims to prepare future clinicians to skillfully assess and manage children with neurodevelopmental disabilities with the aid of clinical approach flowcharts to common presentations, diagnostic algorithms and clinic notes templates.
- Provides the most comprehensive, authoritative, and up-to-date single volume on practical aspects of care for patients with neurodevelopmental disabilities
- Presents a reorganized single volume that is more accessible than previous editions
- Features new chapters on telemedicine, novel therapies, care in low resource settings, and the future of neurodevelopmental disabilities
- Includes full color illustrations throughout, along with explanatory figures
- Covers clinical approaches and diagnostic algorithms and templates for clinic notes that are available for online download
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- List of Illustrations
- List of Tables
- Chapter 1 : The evolution of neurodevelopmental disabilities: an updated view of the spectrum
- Chapter 2 : Patterns of typical and atypical neurodevelopment
- Chapter 3 : Biological basis of neurodevelopmental disabilities
- Chapter 4 : Epigenetics in neurodevelopmental disabilities
- Chapter 5 : Neuroplasticity in neurodevelopmental disorders
- Chapter 6 : Developmental surveillance and screening
- Chapter 7 : Developmental history
- Chapter 8 : The physical evaluation
- Chapter 9 : Developmental testing for the physician
- Chapter 10 : The etiologic evaluation
- Chapter 11 : Intrauterine alcohol and drug exposure: preventable causes of intellectual and behavioral disorders
- Chapter 12 : Early brain injury
- Chapter 13 : Pediatric acquired brain injury
- Chapter 14 : Developmental and epileptic encephalopathies
- Chapter 15 : Cerebral palsy
- Chapter 16 : Developmental coordination disorder and minor neuromotor dysfunction
- Chapter 17 : Movement disorders and genetic mimics of cerebral palsy
- Chapter 18 : The neurodevelopmental movement disorders: tics and stereotypies
- Chapter 19 : Spinal cord disorders
- Chapter 20 : Neuromuscular disorders
- Chapter 21 : Neurodegenerative diseases
- Chapter 22 : Neurometabolic disorders
- Chapter 23 : Approach to diagnosis and management of genetic neurodevelopmental disorders
- Chapter 24 : Intellectual and developmental disabilities
- Chapter 25 : Specific learning disabilities
- Chapter 26 : Speech and language disorders
- Chapter 27 : Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
- Chapter 28 : Autism spectrum disorder
- Chapter 29 : Vision and hearing impairment
- Chapter 30 : Systemic diseases with increased risk of neurodevelopmental disabilities
- Chapter 31 : Developing a management program
- Chapter 32 : Early Intervention
- Chapter 33 : Principles of pharmacotherapy
- Chapter 34 : Disruptive behaviors/self-injury in neurodevelopmental disabilities
- Chapter 35 : Sleep disorders
- Chapter 36 : Dysphagia and feeding disorders
- Chapter 37 : Mood and anxiety disorders in neurodevelopmental disorders
- Chapter 38 : Neurorehabilitation and specific therapies
- Chapter 39 : Surgical interventions in cerebral palsy: orthopedics and neurosurgery
- Chapter 40 : Innovative therapies
- Chapter 41 : The medical home
- Chapter 42 : Classroom setting
- Chapter 43 : Transition and aging
- Chapter 44 : Management in low-resource settings
- Chapter 45 : Community
- Chapter 46 : Telemedicine in neurodevelopmental disorders
- Chapter 47 : Legislative mandates
- Chapter 48 : Neuroethics: a brief overview
- Chapter 49 : Neurodevelopmental disabilities: a look at the future
- Appendices
- Index
- A
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