Brain and Behavior in Child Psychiatry

Prof. Dr. med. Aribert Rothenberger ist Professor und Direktor der Klinik für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie/Psychotherapie an der Universität Göttingen.

General Aspects.- The Interaction of Psychological and Biological Processes in Children.- Considerations for the Study of Event-Related Brain Potentials and Developmental Psychopathology.- The Role of the Frontal Lobes in Child Psychiatric Disorders.- Monoaminergic Systems and Child Psychiatric Pathophysiology.- Genetic Aspects of Brain Maturation and Behavior.- The Importance of Genetic Factors in the Etiology of Child Psychiatric Disorders.- Cognition.- Cognitive Correlates of Abnormal EEG Waveforms in Children.- A Neuropsychophysiological Approach to Specific Developmental Learning Disabilities.- Biological Approaches to Classification and Treatment of Dyslexia.- The Special Case of Down Syndrome.- Speech and Language.- Evaluation of Speech Performance in Children and Its Implications for Developmental Psychopathology.- Nonfluent Speech Disturbances-Psychobiological Interactions.- Neurological Basis of Developmental Language Disorders.- Childhood Psychoses.- Clinical, Electrophysiological, and Biochemical Markers and Monoaminergic Hypotheses in Autism.- Childhood-Onset Schizophrenia.- Children at Risk for Schizophrenia.- Minimal Brain Dysfunction and Head Injury.- Development in Children After Severe Head Injury.- What Becomes of Clumsy Children with Attention Deficits? Some Data and Reflections from a Population-Based Study in Sweden.- The Significance and Course of Minimal Brain Dysfunction.- Sleep.- Sleep Disturbances in Children: From the Physiological to the Clinical.- Diagnostic and Therapeutic Aspects.- Biofeedback: Evaluation and Therapy in Children with Attentional Dysfunctions.- Is the Use of Psychotropic Drugs Helpful Within Child Psychiatry?.- A Call for Reliable and Valid Psychophysiological Indices in Daily Practice.- Author Index.