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"Child Development, Ninth Edition, provides a broad overview of the field of development. It covers the full range of childhood and adolescence, from the moment of conception through the end of adolescence. Child Development furnishes a broad, comprehensive introduction to the field, covering basic theories and research findings, as well as highlighting current applications outside the laboratory. It covers childhood and adolescence chronologically, encompassing the prenatal period, infancy and toddlerhood, the preschool years, middle childhood, and adolescence. Within these periods, it focuses on physical, cognitive, and social and personality development"--

"First Published in 2017. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company."--Provided by publisher.

9780128188736_WEB01 -- Front Cover -- Encyclopedia of Child and Adolescent Health -- Copyright -- Contents of Volume 1 -- List of Contributors For volume 1 -- Editor-in-Chief and Section Editors Bios -- Preface -- Introduction to the brain development section -- References -- Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in typical and atypical brain development: Challenges and suggestions -- Abbreviations -- Background -- Magnetic resonance imaging -- Excitation and relaxation -- Functional magnetic resonance imaging -- Reliability of FMRI -- Typical brain development -- Atypical brain development and challenges associated with neuroimaging -- Elements of the preparation process -- Natural sleep -- Sedation -- Mock scanner -- Behavioral interventions as preparation methods -- Antecedent-based interventions (ABI) -- Task analysis (TA) -- Technology-aided instruction and intervention (TAII) -- Summary and conclusion -- Translational implications -- References -- Synaptic plasticity during brain development: Implications for therapeutic reorganization of neural circuits -- Introduction -- Mechanisms for brain plasticity -- Activity-dependent synaptic plasticity -- Structural plasticity -- Reorganization of neural circuits by synaptic plasticity -- Impaired synaptic plasticity in brain disorders -- Promoting synaptic plasticity for rehabilitation -- Translational implications -- Conclusion -- References -- Genetics of cortical development -- Introduction -- Cellular diversity and organization -- About areas -- About layers -- PN types -- Overview of the development of the cerebral cortex -- Genetic control of specification of projection neurons -- At the level of progenitors -- Postmitotic control of neuronal identity -- Cortical malformations -- Malformations of progenitors and proliferation -- Malformations of migration.