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Neurocognitive Approaches to Developmental Disorders: A Festschrift for Uta Frith

A Special Issue of the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

• Edited by Dr Dorothy Bishop, Margaret Snowling, Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

Uta Frith has been an outstandingly influential figure in the field of developmental neuropsychology for over 40 years, and is internationally renowned for her work...

Published December 20th 2007 by Psychology Press.

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Encephalitis: Assessment and Rehabilitation Across the Lifespan

A special issue of Neuropsychological Rehabilitation

• Edited by Bonnie-Kate Dewar, Huw Williams

Encephalitis - inflammation of the brain - has significant cognitive, behavioural and emotional consequences.

This special edition describes the pathway of recovery following encephalitis, from medical...

Published September 6th 2007 by Psychology Press.

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Early Experience, the Brain, and Consciousness

An Historical and Interdisciplinary Synthesis

• By Thomas C. Dalton, Victor W. Bergenn

This new book examines the interrelationship between neuroscience and developmental science to help us understand how children differ in their capacity to benefit from their...

Published May 30th 2007 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Sickle Cell Disease: “Brain Injury by Blood”

A special issue of the journal Child Neuropsychology

• Edited by Leslie Berkelhammer

This special issue reviews the literature on the neuropsychological sequelae and CNS complications of pediatric sickle cell disease while also emphasizing the integration of neuro...

Published March 22nd 2007 by Psychology Press.

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Autism Spectrum Disorders

A Special Issue of Child Neuropsychology

• Edited by Natacha Akshoomoff

Children with autism spectrum disorders share a pervasive impairment in the development of reciprocal social interaction skills but vary in their verbal and nonverbal communication...

Published November 2nd 2006 by Psychology Press.

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Gaze-Following

Its Development and Significance

• Edited by Ross Flom, Kang Lee, Darwin Muir

What does a child’s ability to look where another is looking tell us about his or her early cognitive development? What does this ability—or lack...

Published September 13th 2006 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Working Memory and Neurodevelopmental Disorders

• Edited by Tracy Packiam Alloway, Susan E. Gathercole

Short-term or working memory - the capacity to hold and manipulate information mentally over brief periods of time - plays an important role in supporting a wide...

Published August 31st 2006 by Psychology Press.

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Selective Deficits in Developmental Cognitive Neuropsychology

A special issue of the journal Cognitive Neuropsychology

• Edited by Bradley C. Duchaine

Traditionally, cognitive neuropsychology has focused on selective impairments in individuals who suffered brain damage as adults. However, in recent years, there have been a number...

Published July 20th 2006 by Psychology Press.

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A Young Mind in a Growing Brain

• By Jerome Kagan, Norbert Herschkowitz

A Young Mind in a Growing Brain summarizes some initial conclusions that follow simultaneous examination of the psychological milestones of human development during its first...

Published May 20th 2005 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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A Casebook of Ethical Challenges in Neuropsychology

• Edited by Shane S. Bush

The American Psychological Association published a revision of the Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct in 2002.This text, a companion to the 2002...

Published November 11th 2004 by Taylor and Francis.

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