The Spastic Forms of Cerebral Palsy (eBook)

A Guide to the Assessment of Adaptive Functions

Adriano Ferrari, Giovanni Cioni (Autoren)

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2009 | 2010
XIX, 359 Seiten
Springer Italia (Verlag)
978-88-470-1478-7 (ISBN)

Infos

by A. Berthoz The publication of this volume, edited by Adriano Ferrari and Giovanni Cioni, is a major event for several reasons. Most importantly, it concerns an area of child pathology that has yet to be fully explored. In this context, the authors' efforts to compile their observations as well as those of other clinicians and to elaborate their theories have resulted in an ess- tial step in the field of cerebral palsy (CP). The originality of the book is its very clear focus, while at the same time the authors have encouraged the book's contributors to express their ideas and personal opinions. This leads sometimes to redundancy, but this is precisely one of the benefits of the book - cause the same problems are then exposed from different points of views. The reader is thus spared the normative attempts of many other pathology books, in which the compl- ity of a given disease is hidden by the authors' or editors' desire to impose a rigid taxo- my or epidemiology.

Inhalt

Foreword 5
Foreword 7
Preface 9
Contents 11
List of Contributors 16
Nature of the Defect 19
Cerebral Palsy Detection: from John Little to the Present 20
Guide to the Interpretation of Cerebral Palsy 33
Function Analysis 45
Functional Diagnosis in Infants and in Very Young Children: Early Predictive Signs 46
Motor Defects 68
Perceptive Defects 87
Praxic Organization Disorders 113
Visual and Oculomotor Disorders 129
Neuropsychological Evaluation 157
Emotional, Behavioral and Social Disorders in Children and Adolescents with Cerebral Palsy 194
Observing Interactions 206
Classification of Spastic Syndromes and Clinical Forms 214
Critical Aspects of Classifications 215
Kinematic Classification 230
Tetraplegic Forms 251
Dysperceptive Forms 283
Forms of Diplegia 302
Forms of Hemiplegia 340
Subject Index 366

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.12.2009
• Zusatzinfo: XIX, 359 p.
• Verlagsort: Milano
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Klinische Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitsfachberufe
• Themenwelt: Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Chirurgie ► Unfallchirurgie / Orthopädie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Neurologie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Orthopädie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Physiotherapie / Ergotherapie ► Rehabilitation
• Schlagworte: Assessment • Cerebral palsy • Child • children • classification • Diagnosis • Emotion • Evaluation • Organizations • spasticity • Syndromes
• ISBN-10: 88-470-1478-6 / 8847014786
• ISBN-13: 978-88-470-1478-7 / 9788847014787