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Developmental Dyspraxias and Related Motor DisordersNeural substrates and assessment
2007
Hard cover, 392 pages
507 references, 25 figures, 24 tables,
43 drawings and 17 assessment sheets
Price € 60 (reduced on dec.1 2008)
(for EC 6% VAT included; shipping excluded)
ISBN 90 72008 10-3 ISBN-13: 978 90 72008 10 7
Translated in Italian (see Italiano). Russian translation is expected
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Developmental Dyspraxias and Related Motor DisordersNeural substrates and assessment
In this book, the author makes an effort to bring the developmental neurosciences
closer to the people who diagnose and treat children with motor disorders. Many years
of experience with children who have developmental disorders has led the author to
conclude that a developmental neurobiological approach together with thoroughful
clinical examination and the knowledge of today neuropsychology are indispensable.
It has become clear that all the various professionals involved, child neurologists
and psychiatrists, occupational therapists and physiotherapists as well as child
neuropsychologists, are in need of information on the relationship between brain,
behaviour, learning and motor function in a practical clinical context.
Topics of this book are the neurological examination of the child as well as the
somatocognitive or clinical neuropsychological assessment. This is of interest for
the professionals who examine a child.
Contents
Introduction
1 Functional neuroanatomy of behavioural and motor disorders
2 History-taking and neurological examination: background and methods
3 Body-cognitive examination and screening
4 Developmental dyspraxias and related motor disorders
References
Glossary
Index
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Examples from chapter 2
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The author
The author specialized in (child) neurology and psychiatry and has been for 35 years
a paediatric neurologist in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He wrote a thesis on equilibrium
physiology at the Psychiatric Centre Sainte Anne in Paris with the ophthalmologist Jean-
Bernard Baron.
The author studied with developmental neurologists Heinz Prechtl and Bert Touwen in
Groningen, special education and child neuropsychiatry with the late Frits Grewel in
Amsterdam, clinical paediatric neurology with Jacobus Willemse in Utrecht, the Nether-
lands and child aphasiology with child neurologist Isabelle Rapin in New York.
Charles Njiokiktjien has done joint research and published with neuropediatrician Claudine
Amiel-Tison in Paris, developmental physiologists Deborah Farber and her colleagues
Natasha Dubrovinskaya, Maria Knyazeva and Vladimir Vildavsky in Moscow, with child
neurologist Tatsuya Koeda in Tottori, Japan and with clinical neurophysiologist Kees
Jonkman and neuropsychologist Leo de Sonneville in Amsterdam. He did joint research into
motor disorders with occupational therapist and neuropsychologist Ank Verschoor in
Amsterdam, movement scientist Maria Vranken in Leuven, Belgium, and with education
specialist Wally van Grunsven in Eindhoven.
The author has given workshops and lectures in most European countries, Russia, Japan,
Indonesia and the United States of America.
Suyi Publications has published the English book series 'Paediatric Behavioural
Neurology'. 'Clinical Principles' was volume 1, written in 1986 by Charles Njiokiktjien,
followed in 1988 by Volume 2 'Aspects on Information Processing' by neuropsychologist
dr. Leo de Sonneville, in 1991 volume 3 'The child's Corpus Callosum' with amongst
others dr. Guy Ramaekers, psychiatrist and in 1993 volume 4 'Developing Brain and
Cognition' with Deborah Farber and collaborators.