Neurodevelopmental disorders [electronic resource] : research challenges and solutions / edited by Deborah Riby and Jo Van Herwegen.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Neurodevelopmental disorders : definitions and issues / Jo Van Herwegen, Deborah Riby & Emily K. Farran -- 2. Why development matters in neurodevelopmental disorders / George Ball & Annette Karmiloff-Smith -- 3. Making use of brain-behavior links / Brian W. Haas -- 4. Researching the brain in neurodevelopmental disorders / Sarah Lloyd-Fox -- 5. Causal modelling of developmental disorders : insights from animal and computational models of specific language impairment / Themis Karaminis -- 6. ACORNS : a tool for visual modelling of causes and outcomes in neurodevelopmental disorders / Derek G. Moore & Rachel George -- 7. Variability in neurodevelopmental disorders : evidence from Autism Spectrum Disorders / Tony Charman -- 8. Different profiles of development : evidence from children with primary language impairment / Victoria Knowland & Nicola Botting -- 9. Comorbidity in neurodevelopmental disorders : evidence from ADHD / Sinead Rhodes -- 10. Genetic disorders as models of high neurocognitive risk : evidence from Fragile X syndrome / Brianna Doherty, Andria Shimi & Gaia Scerif -- 11. Experimental difficulties in neurodevelopmental disorders : evidence from Down syndrome / Harry Purser -- 12. Eye-tracking and neurodevelopmental disorders : evidence from cross-syndrome comparisons / Mary Hanley -- 13. Uses of new technologies by young people with neurodevelopmental disorders : motivations, processes and cognition / Sue Fletcher-Watson & Kevin Durkin -- 14. Anxiety in neurodevelopmental disorders : phenomenology, assessment and intervention / Victoria Grahame & Jacqui Rodgers.