suyi publications
Pediatric Behavioural Neurology vol. 3
The Child's Corpus Callosum
By G. Ramaekers and C. Njiokiktjien (Eds.), 1991
388 p, 1334 ref, 10 ill,
40 tab, 37 fig, 94 MRI photos
€ 79,- (VAT included)
ISBN 9072008049
This volume is the result of the authors' research efforts to illustrate the role of the
corpus callosum in neural functioning during childhood.
The book begins with a historical review of the callosal debate, anatomy, embryology,
ontogenetic functions, and functions of the corpus callosum in adults. The main part
of this volume comprises studies, using neuropsychological and electrophysiological
methods, of the development of interhemispheric functioning at school age.
Hypotheses are presented on the role of the corpus callosum in speech, reading and
bimanual motor co-ordination, and the role of interhemispheric dysfunction in de-
velopmental disorders such as developmental dysphasia, dyslexia and dyspraxia.
A substantial part of the book is devoted to clinico-pathological correlations, and to
callosal morphological anomalies based on MRI data.
Finally the authors show the usefulness of morphometry of the callosal sagittal area
in children with learning disabilities. The book tries to forward the notion that inter-
hemispheric dysfunction often occurs in children with developmental disabilities.
This volume is useful for professionals, child neurologists and psychiatrists, psy-
chologists, and neuroradiologists, who want to find a wealth of information and
references on the normaland abnormal development of the corpus callosum, and
abnormal interhemispheric function.
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