Accessible and comprehensive, this text is written for professionals -- with or without a medical background -- who want to learn more about the practical and developmental applications of neuroimaging. Beginning with easy-to-understand discussions of neuroanatomy and neurophysiology, the authors explore the relationships among brain structure, function, and individual differences in learning and behavior. Brilliant full-color scans illustrate theoretical and methodological discussions of diverse neuroimaging techniques and their applications to developmental disorders in children....

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...

This book reviews the recent rapid development of functional neuroimaging techniques and their implications for child psychiatry. It is unique in that it focuses on children and integrates brain mapping with genetics and behavioral testing, an interface that is likely to become fundamental to functional neuroimaging. This invaluable reference will help clinicians and investigators to:

Understand the mechanisms of childhood psychiatric disorders through imaging

Decide the most appropriate technique for their purposes with respect to technology, experimental design, data analysis, and...