Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Michael S. C. Thomas is a professor of cognitive neuroscience at Birkbeck, University of London and Director of the Centre for Educational Neuroscience. One of his main interests is the translation of research between neuroscience and education. With Cathy Rogers, he recently published the book 'Educational Neuroscience: The Basics' (Routledge). The focus of his research laboratory, the Developmental Neurocognition Lab, is to use multi-disciplinary methods to understand the brain and cognitive bases of cognitive variability, including the use of behavioural, brain imaging, computational, and genetic methods. He has published over 150 scientific papers and book chapters, and his work has been cited over 10,000 times. He is a Chartered Psychologist, Fellow of the British Psychological Society, Fellow of the US Association for Psychological Science, and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Annette Karmiloff-Smith was, until she "retired" in 2003, Head of the Neurocognitive Development Unit at the Institute of Child Health, London where she ran a research team studying typical and atypical infant and child cognitive development. She now occupies a Professorial Research Fellowship at Birkbeck's Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development. She has a "Doctorat en Psychologie Genetique et Experimentale" from Geneva University, where she studied and worked with Piaget. Elected fellow of various distinguished societies and several honorary doctorates, she was awarded the 1995 BPS Book Award for Beyond Modularity (MIT Press, 1992). Her co-authored book, Rethinking Innateness: A Connectionist Perspective on Development, (MIT Press, 1996) was nominated for the 1997 APA Eleanor Maccoby Prize. She has just published Neurodevelopmental Disorders across the Lifespan (Oxford University Press, 2012). She is the author of 13 books and over 300 articles and chapters, as well as a series of booklets for parents on different aspects of foetal, infant and child development. Her current research focuses on Down syndrome as a model for understanding Alzeihmer's disease at the genetic, cellular, neural and cognitive levels. http://www.bbk.ac.uk/psychology/our-staff/academic/annette-karmiloff-smith

VOLUME ONE: DISORDER TYPOLOGY AND EXPLANATORY FRAMEWORKS Behavioral Inhibition, Sustained Attention, and Executive Functions: Constructing a Unifying Theory of ADHD - Russell Barkley A Comparative Study of Infantile Autism and Specific Developmental Receptive Language Disorder: I. The Children - Lawrence Bartak, Michael Rutter and Antony Cox Developmental Aphasia and Brain Damage - Arthur Benton The Effects of Early and Late Brain Injury upon Test Scores, and the Nature of Normal Adult Intelligence - D.O. Hebb What Mental Retardation Teaches Us about Typical Development: The Examples of Sequences, Rates, and Cross-Domain Relations - Robert Hodapp and Jacob Burack Autistic Disturbances of Affective Contact - Leo Kanner Development Itself Is the Key to Understanding Developmental Disorders - Annette Karmiloff-Smith Developmental Dyscalculia - Ladislav Kosc Language Disorders in Childhood - Eric Lenneberg Concepts of Autism: A Review of Research - Michael Rutter Defects of Non-Verbal Auditory Perception in Children with Developmental Aphasia - Paula Tallal and M. Piercy Cognitive Neuropsychology and Its Application to Children - Christine Temple Behaviour after Cerebral Lesions in Children and Adults - Hans-Lukas Teuber and Rita Rudel Using Developmental Trajectories to Understand Developmental Disorders - Michael Thomas et al. VOLUME TWO: BEHAVIOURALLY DEFINED DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS Does the Autistic Child Have a "Theory of Mind"? - Simon Baron-Cohen, Alan Leslie and Uta Frith Nonword Repetition as a Behavioural Marker for Inherited Language Impairment: Evidence from a Twin Study - D.V.M. Bishop, T. North and C. Donlan A Case-Control Family History Study of Autism - P. Bolton et al. Delay versus Deviance in the Language Acquisition of Language-Impaired Children - Susan Curtiss, William Katz and Paula Tallal Schizophrenia: Caused by a Fault in Programmed Synaptic Elimination during Adolescence? - I. Feinberg Developmental Dyslexia: Four Consecutive Patients with Cortical Anomalies - Albert Galaburda et al. Mathematical Disabilities: Cognitive, Neuropsychological, and Genetic Components - David Geary Ameliorating Early Reading Failure by Integrating the Teaching of Reading and Phonological Skills: The Phonological Linkage Hypothesis - Peter Hatcher, Charles Hulme and Andrew Ellis Developmental Prosopagnosia. A Single Case Report - Helen McConachie Adolescence-Limited and Life-Course-Persistent Antisocial Behavior: A Developmental Taxonomy - Terrie Moffitt Familial Mental Retardation - Paul Nichols Specific Language Impairment as a Period of Extended Optional Infinitive - Mabel Rice, Kenneth Wexler and Patricia Cleave Very Early Language Deficits in Dyslexic Children - Hollis Scarborough Treatment of Gilles de la Tourette's Syndrome with Haloperidol - Arthur Shapiro and Elaine Shapiro Movement Analysis in Infancy May Be Useful for the Early Diagnosis of Autism - Philip Teitelbaum et al. VOLUME THREE: GENETICALLY DEFINED DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS Bridging cognition, the brain and molecular genetics: evidence from Williams syndrome - Ursula Bellugi, Liz Lichtenberger, Debra Mills, Albert Galaburda, Julie R. Korenberg Developmental and Behavioural Characteristics of Cri Du Chat Syndrome - K.M. Cornish and J. Pigram Verbal Short-Term Memory in Down Syndrome: A Problem of Memory, Audition, or Speech? - Christopher Jarrold., Alan Baddeley and Caroline Phillips Language and Williams Syndrome: How Intact Is "Intact"? - Annette Karmiloff-Smith et al. Observations on an Ethnic Classification of Idiots - J. Langdon Down Les Chromosomes Humains En Culture De Tissus - M. Jerome Lejeune, Marthe Gautier and Raymond Turpin A Marker X Chromosome - H.A. Lubs The Association of Angelman's Syndrome with Deletions within 15q11-13 - M. Pembrey et al. Evidence from Turner's Syndrome of an Imprinted X-Linked Locus Affecting Cognitive Function - D.H. Skuse et al. The 22q11 Deletion Syndromes - Peter Scambler Reading the Windows to the Soul: Evidence of Domain-Specific Sparing in Williams Syndrome - Helen Tager-Flusberg, Jenea Boshart and Simon Baron-Cohen Fragile X Syndrome and Attentional De?cits - Jeremy Turk A Syndrome of Infantilism, Congenital Webbed Neck, and Cubitus Valgus - Henry Turner Praxic and Nonverbal Cognitive Deficits in a Large Family with a Genetically Transmitted Speech and Language Disorder - Faranah Vargha-Khadem et al. VOLUME FOUR: DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS AND THE ENVIRONMENT Feral Children - Susan Curtiss Developmental Disorders and Evolutionary Expectations: Mechanisms of Resilience - Barbara Finlay, Jeremy Yost and Desmond Cheung Dopamine Transporter Alterations in ADHD: Pathophysiology or Adaptation to Psychostimulants? A Meta-Analysis - Paolo Fusar-Poli et al. The Development of Language-Like Communication without a Language Model - Susan Goldin-Meadow and Heidi Feldman Experience and Brain Development - William Greenough, James Black and Christopher Wallace American Parenting of Language-Learning Children: Persisting Differences in Family Child Interactions Observed in Natural Home Environments - Betty Hart and Todd Risley Skill Formation and the Economics of Investing in Disadvantaged Children - James Heckman et al. Systematic Review of Early Intensive Behavioural Interventions for Children with Autism - Patricia Howlin, Iliana Magiati and Tony Charman Mental Number Line Training in Children with Developmental Dyscalculia - K. Kucian et al. Early Experience Is Associated with the Development of Categorical Representations for Facial Expressions of Emotion - Seth Pollak and Doris Kistler Quasi-Autistic Patterns Following Severe Early Global Privation - Michael Rutter et al. Development of Left Occipitotemporal Systems for Skilled Reading in Children after a Phonologically-based Intervention - Bennett Shaywitz et al. Language Comprehension in Language-Learning Impaired Children Improved with Acoustically Modified Speech - Paula Tallal et al. Cocaine Exposure Is Associated with Subtle Compromises of Infants' and Mothers' Social - Emotional Behavior and Dyadic Features of Their Interaction in the Face-to-Face Still-Face Paradigm - E.Z. Tronick et al. The Dietary Treatment of Phenylketonuria - L.I. Woolf VOLUME FIVE: MULTI-DISCIPLINARY APPROACHES TO DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS Early Cognitive and Language Skills Are Linked to Resting Frontal Gamma Power across the First Three Years - April Benasich et al. Developmental Cognitive Genetics: How Psychology Can Inform Genetics and Vice Versa - Dorothy Bishop Tangled Webs: Tracing the Connections between Genes and Cognition - Simon Fisher Electrical Brain Responses in Language-Impaired Children Reveal Grammar-Specific Deficits - Elisabeth Fonteneau and Heather van der Lely From Genes to Behavior in Developmental Dyslexia - Albert Galaburda, et al. Dynamic Mapping of Human Cortical Development during Childhood and Adolescence - Nitin Gogtay et al. The Endophenotype Concept in Psychiatry: Etymology and Strategic Intentions - Irving Gottesman and Todd Gould ACORNS: A Tool for the Visualisation and Modelling of Atypical Development - D.G. Moore and R. George The Prevalence and Phenomenology of Repetitive Behavior in Genetic Syndromes - Joanna Moss et al. Deviations in the Emergence of Representations: A Neuroconstructivist Framework for Analysing Developmental Disorders - Andrew Oliver et al. A Mouse Model for Down Syndrome Exhibits Learning and Behaviour Deficits - Roger Reeves et al. Longitudinal Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study of Cortical Development through Early Childhood in Autism - Cynthia Schumann et al. Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Is Characterized by a Delay in Cortical Maturation - P. Shaw et al. GTF2IRD1 in Craniofacial Development of Humans and Mice - May Tassabehji et al. Are Developmental Disorders Like Cases of Adult Brain Damage? Implications from Connectionist Modelling - Michael Thomas and Annette Karmiloff-Smith A Functional Genetic Link between Distinct Developmental Language Disorders - Sonja Vernes et al.