Disorders of Neuronal Migration

by Peter G. Barth (Editor), Isabelle Rapin (Editor), Peter G. Procopis (Editor)

Overview

Disorders of neuronal migration can cause learning disability, autism, and epilepsy. Many are genetically determined and need precise diagnosis to provide genetic counselling. This book will help the clinician to acquire insight as well as proficiency in diagnosis. Individual chapters describe subgroups including lissencephalies, subependymal heterotopia, non-lissencephalic cortical dysplasias, anomalies of the corpus callosum, hemimegalencephaly, schizencephaly, polymicrogyria and multisystem disorders with impaired migration such as chromosomal and metabolic syndromes. Neuroradiological and genetic data are provided with the respective chapters. Although the book is intended for clinical practice, it provides core information for all interested in this important biological process.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781898683315
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	01/17/2003
Series:	International Child Neurology Association Series
Pages:	220
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.56(d)

About the Author

Edited by Peter G. Barth, Universiteit van Amsterdam

Table of Contents

1. Introduction Peter G. Barth; 2. Morphogenesis of the human cerebral cortex V. S. Caviness Jr, T. Takahashi, R. S. Nowakowski and Robert Wood; 3. Lissencephaly: the clinical and molecular genetic basis of diffuse malformations of neuronal migration William B. Dobyns and Richard J. Leventer; 4. Non-lissencephalic cortical dysplasias Ruben I. Kuzniecky and Frederick Andermann; 5. Periventricular gray matter heterotopia: a heterogenous group of malformations of cortical development Richard J. Leventer and William B. Dobyns; 6. Anomalies of the Corpus Callosum and cortical malformations A. James Barkovich; 7. Hemimegalencephaly Laura Flores-Sarnat; Index.