Neuroimaging in Developmental Clinical Neuroscience

Modern neuroimaging offers tremendous opportunities for gaining insights into normative development and a wide array of developmental neuropsychiatric disorders. Focusing on ontogeny, this text covers basic processes involved in both healthy and atypical maturation, and also addresses the range of neuroimaging techniques most widely used for studying children. This book will enable you to understand normative structural and functional brain maturation and the mechanisms underlying basic developmental processes; become familiar with current knowledge and hypotheses concerning the neural bases of developmental neuropsychiatric disorders; and learn about neuroimaging techniques, including their unique strengths and limitations. Coverage includes normal developmental processes, atypical processing in developmental neuropsychiatric disorders, ethical issues, neuroimaging techniques and their integration with psychopharmacologic and molecular genetic research approaches, and future directions. This comprehensive volume is an essential resource for neurologists, neuropsychologists, psychiatrists, pediatricians, and radiologists concerned with normal development and developmental neuropsychiatric disorders.

About the Author

Judith M. Rumsey is Chief of the Program on Neurodevelopment and Neuroimaging and Chief of the Program on Executive Control and Attention-Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder in the Division of Developmental Translational Research, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.

Monique Ernst is Head of the Neurodevelopment of Reward Systems, in the Emotional Development and Affective Neuroscience Branch of the Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program, National institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.