Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Section I Fundamentals of pediatric neuropsychological intervention
- Section II Managing neurocognitive impairments in children and adolescents
- Section III Medical, rehabilitative and experimental interventions
- 17 Pharmacological interventions for neurodevelopmental disorders
- 18 Quantitative electroencephalography and neurofeedback
- 19 Neuroimaging and its role in developing interventions
- 20 Cognitive rehabilitation
- 21 Neuropsychological rehabilitation of school-age children: an integrated team approach to individualized interventions
- Section IV Future directions
- Index
- Plate section
- References
19 - Neuroimaging and its role in developing interventions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 August 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Section I Fundamentals of pediatric neuropsychological intervention
- Section II Managing neurocognitive impairments in children and adolescents
- Section III Medical, rehabilitative and experimental interventions
- 17 Pharmacological interventions for neurodevelopmental disorders
- 18 Quantitative electroencephalography and neurofeedback
- 19 Neuroimaging and its role in developing interventions
- 20 Cognitive rehabilitation
- 21 Neuropsychological rehabilitation of school-age children: an integrated team approach to individualized interventions
- Section IV Future directions
- Index
- Plate section
- References
Summary
Neuroimaging is an essential diagnostic tool for many childhood and adolescent neurologic and neuropsychiatric disorders, conditions that often require neuropsychological assessment, consultation and/or treatment (Provencal & Bigler, 2005a; b). However, beyond diagnosis, there has been little systematic application of how to use neuroimaging information in the planning and implementation of treatment interventions in pediatric neuropsychology. In that sense, this chapter covers novel territory.
Whether it is data from the Center for Disease Control (CDC) or the World Health Organization (WHO), the most common neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders likely to be seen by pediatric neuropsychologists involve various acquired brain injuries (ABI) including birth related and traumatic brain injury (TBI), infection, stroke, various genetic disorders and a host of neuropsychiatric disorders including schizophrenia, Autism, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), and Learning Disabilities (LD) (Center for Disease Control, 2005a; b; Holm et al., 2005; Langlois, Rutland-Brown & Thomas, 2005). The limitations of this chapter do not permit addressing these disorders in any in-depth fashion, nor numerous other pediatric conditions seen by neuropsychologists, but the significance of neuroimaging findings in some of these disorders will be discussed from the perspective that neuroimaging “informs” the clinician with unique information that assists the neuropsychological assessment process as well as planning and tracking treatment interventions. Clinically, the most is known about ABI, like childhood TBI, and, therefore, TBI will be used as an exemplar throughout the chapter.
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- Pediatric Neuropsychological Intervention , pp. 415 - 443Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007