The twentieth century was the century of the development of morphological cerebral imaging by tomodensitometry (TDM) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). In recent years new brain imaging methods were used in adults with neurological lesions, and more recently in adults with psychiatric disorders. Now it is also possible to use, most of these morphological and functional brain imaging methods in children.
This book presents the main morphological and functional brain imaging methods that we can use in the child. Two main applications are developped: physiopathological and therapeutical interest. The physiopathological approach is of a great interest, coupled with clinical evaluation in psychomotor disorders like hyperkinetic or Tourette syndrom, and in developmental disorders like autistic syndrom, mental retardation, Rett Syndrom ...

A child psychiatrist's point of view

A child psychiatrist's point of view
A radiologist's point of view
A radiologist's point of view
I. Methods and cerebral development
1. Cerebral development and neurophysiologics investigations
2. Methods: principles, anatomical and physiological bases PET and SPECT
3. Anatomical and physiological bases of the main electroencephalographic rhythms
4. Frontocentral electrical brain activity in normal boys: impact of EOG correction on retest stability, topography and condition effects of slow negative cortical potentials
5. Cerebral development and MRI
6. The ontogeny of cerebral metabolism
7. The ontogeny of the EEG during infancy and childhood: implications for cognitive development
8. Auditory evoked potentials (N1 wave) as indices of cortical development
II. Neurophysiological investigations and pathophysiology
1. Structural neuroimaging in Gilles de 1a Tourette's syndrome
2. SPECT studies in Tourette's syndrome
3. Electrical brain activity and motor control in Tourette's syndrome and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
4. SPECT in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Implications for the understanding of awareness
5. Neuroanatomical and neurophysiological clues to the nature of autism
6. Functional brain imaging studies in childhood autism
7. Magnetic resonance spectroscopy and its application to autism and brain development
8. EEG investigations in autistic children
9. Neuroimaging in eating disorders in youth
III. Neurophysiological investigations and treatment
1. The influence of neuropeptides and methylphenidate on evoked potentials in autistic and hyperkinetic children
2. Electrophysiological correlates of vitamin B6 and magnesium treatment inautism
3. Multivariate descriptive statistical methods: an aid to bioclinical studies in populations of developmentally disordered children
Perspectives
Colour illustrations appendix.