Neurobehavioral Disorders of Childhood An Evolutionary Perspective /

• Main Authors: Melillo, Robert. (Author), Leisman, Gerry. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2010.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Neurosciences.; Chiropractic.; Neurology.; Evolution (Biology).; Biomedicine.; Evolutionary Biology.; Chiropractic Medicine.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1231-2

Attention deficit disorder, attention deficit hyperactive disorder, pervasive developmental disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, asperger's syndrome, and autism, to name but a few, may be viewed as points on a spectrum of developmental disabilities in which those points share features in co...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Evolution of the Human Brain
• Why the Brain Works the Way it Does: Evolution and Cognition from Movement
• The Cerebellum and Basal Ganglia
• The Basal Ganglia
• The Thalamus
• The Limbic System and the Evolution of the Cerebral Cortex
• The Cerebral Cortex
• Signs and Symptoms of Neurobehavioral Disorders of Childhood
• Causation from an Evolutionary Perpective
• Therapeutic Theory and Strategy
• References
• Index.