Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Comprehensive Developmental Neuroscience

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.

Features leading experts in various subfields as section editors and article authorsPresents articles that have been peer reviewed to ensure accuracy, thoroughness and scholarshipCovers disorders of the nervous system that arise through defects in neural development

1. Neural-Tube Defects 2. Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder: Targeted Effects of Ethanol on Cell Proliferation and Survival 3. Azetidine-2-Carboxylic Acid and Other Nonprotein Amino Acids in the Pathogenesis of Neurodevelopmental Disorders 4. Down Syndrome 5. Lissencephalies and Axon Guidance Disorders 6. Developmental Disabilities, Autism, and Schizophrenia at a Single Locus: Complex Gene Regulation and Genomic Instability of 15q11–q13 Cause a Range of Neurodevelopmental Disorders 7. Fragile X Clinical Features and Neurobiology 8. Autisms 9. Neurodevelopmental Genomics of Autism, Schizophrenia, and Related Disorders 10. Excitation–Inhibition Epilepsies 11. Sensory Organ Disorders (Retina, Auditory, Olfactory, Gustatory) 12. The Developmental Neurobiology of Repetitive Behavior 13. Disorders of Cognitive Control 14. Language Impairment 15. New techniques in quantitative genetics 16. Network analysis and disease modelling 17. Zika virus 18. iPS as a model for human developmental disorders 19. Down syndrome 20. Rett syndrome 21. Astrocytes in neurological and psychiatric disorders 22. Intellectual disability 23. Tourette 24. Primate models of brain disorders