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A Survey of Developmental Neurologic Conditions

Implications for Individual Neuropsychological Differences

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The Neuropsychology of Individual Differences

Part of the book series: Perspectives on Individual Differences ((PIDF))

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Other than those occasional delightful interlopers who are found to have benign developmental aberrations such as large heads of a familial nature or night terrors, and the farewell visits with the fortunate few who have recovered from acute neurological disorders like Reye’s syndrome or CNS infections, the pediatric neurologist deals with the nervous system in disease and not in health. Yet, in surveying our larger experience with the nervous system in childhood involved in some disease state, one can still glean a great deal of information about the influences of the congenital endowment of the brain and the effects of events in the early development on behaviors observed later in life both in individuals considered within and outside of the limits of normal psychological function.

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Hartlage, P.L. (1985). A Survey of Developmental Neurologic Conditions. In: Hartlage, L.C., Telzrow, C.F. (eds) The Neuropsychology of Individual Differences. Perspectives on Individual Differences. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3484-0_11

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