Main description:

Neurodevelopmental Disorders, the latest release in the Comprehensive Developmental Neuroscience series, presents the most thorough coverage available, addressing all aspects on how the nervous system and its components develop. This book brings together the latest research in this rapidly evolving field, with section editors discussing the technological advances that are enabling the pursuit of new research on brain development. This volume focuses on neurodevelopmental disorders in humans and experimental organisms. Particular attention is paid to the effects of abnormal development and on new psychiatric/neurological treatments being developed based on our increased understanding of developmental mechanisms.

Contents:

I: NEURAL DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS

1. Neurocutaneous Syndromes: Neurofibromatosis and Tuberous Sclerosis

Mustafa Sahin

2. Azetidine-2-Carboxylic Acid and Other Nonprotein Amino Acids in the Pathogenesis of Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Edward Rubenstein

3. Autisms

Antonio M. Persico

4. Developmental basis of ZIKA virus induced neuropathology

Hongjun Song and Guo-li Ming

5. iPSC Models of Human Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Flora M. Vaccarino

6. Cornelia de Lange Syndrome: Insights into Neural Development from Clinical Studies and Animal Models

Anne Leighton Calof, Rosaysela Santos, Laura Groves, Chris Oliver and Arthur D. Lander

7. Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder

Sandra Mooney

8. Neural Tube Defects

Lee Niswander

9. Developmental disabilities, autism and schizophrenia at a single locus: complex gene regulation and genomic instability of 15q11-q13 cause a range of neurodevelopmental disorders

Lawrence T. Reiter

10. Lissencephalies

Elliott Sherr and Bethany Johnson-Kerner

11. Rett Syndrome

Jeffrey Lorenz Neul

12. Focal Cortical Dysplasias

Christopher A. Walsh and Alissa M. D'Gama

13. White Matter Disorders

Benjamin Lawrence Lynner Clayton, Paul Tesar, Kevin Cameron Allan, Zachary Scott Nevin and Matthew Sean Elitt

14. Language Impairments

R. Holly Fitch

15. Fragile X Syndrome

Randi Hagerman

16. Microcephalies

Youngshin Lim and Jeffrey Alan Golden