Encyclopedia of Child and Adolescent Health

Abstract

9780128188736_WEB01 -- Front Cover -- Encyclopedia of Child and Adolescent Health -- Copyright -- Contents of Volume 1 -- List of Contributors For volume 1 -- Editor-in-Chief and Section Editors Bios -- Preface -- Introduction to the brain development section -- References -- Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in typical and atypical brain development: Challenges and suggestions -- Abbreviations -- Background -- Magnetic resonance imaging -- Excitation and relaxation -- Functional magnetic resonance imaging -- Reliability of FMRI -- Typical brain development -- Atypical brain development and challenges associated with neuroimaging -- Elements of the preparation process -- Natural sleep -- Sedation -- Mock scanner -- Behavioral interventions as preparation methods -- Antecedent-based interventions (ABI) -- Task analysis (TA) -- Technology-aided instruction and intervention (TAII) -- Summary and conclusion -- Translational implications -- References -- Synaptic plasticity during brain development: Implications for therapeutic reorganization of neural circuits -- Introduction -- Mechanisms for brain plasticity -- Activity-dependent synaptic plasticity -- Structural plasticity -- Reorganization of neural circuits by synaptic plasticity -- Impaired synaptic plasticity in brain disorders -- Promoting synaptic plasticity for rehabilitation -- Translational implications -- Conclusion -- References -- Genetics of cortical development -- Introduction -- Cellular diversity and organization -- About areas -- About layers -- PN types -- Overview of the development of the cerebral cortex -- Genetic control of specification of projection neurons -- At the level of progenitors -- Postmitotic control of neuronal identity -- Cortical malformations -- Malformations of progenitors and proliferation -- Malformations of migration.