Overview
- Extensively revised and updated new edition
- Richly illustrated with color figures
- Supplemented by clinical cases
- Integrates data from human embryology, molecular studies of mice, and developmental neuropathology
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About this book
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the development of the human central nervous system (CNS) in the context of its many developmental disorders due to genetic, environmental, and hypoxic/ischemic causes. The introductory chapters give an overview of the development of the human brain and the spinal cord, the mechanisms of development as obtained in experimental studies of various invertebrates and vertebrates, and  the causes of congenital malformations. In the main part, the developmental disorders of the human brain and the spinal cord are presented in a regional, more or less segmental way, starting with neurulation and neural tube defects, and ending with developmental disorders of the cerebral cortex. These are underlined by carefully chosen clinical case studies, including imaging data and, when available, postmortem verification of the developmental disorders involved. Numerous color photographs and illustrations complement the text.
This second edition emphasizes the prenatal diagnosis by ultrasound, MRI, and DTI and implements new classifications of developmental disorders.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Clinical Neuroembryology
Book Subtitle: Development and Developmental Disorders of the Human Central Nervous System
Authors: Hans J. ten Donkelaar, Martin Lammens, Akira Hori
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54687-7
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-49983-2Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-54687-7Published: 16 June 2014
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XVIII, 659
Number of Illustrations: 175 b/w illustrations, 300 illustrations in colour
Topics: Neurology, Neurosciences, Human Genetics