Development and Pathology of Key Functions

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This chapter will describe some key functions that are vulnerable to genetic and environmental changes affecting the brain. Motor function, attention, memory, executive function, communication, social understanding and empathy, reality testing, and emotional regulation will be considered separately. Their typical development and the consequences of alterations for psychopathology will be described as the basis for understanding the complex and overlapping results of brain dysfunctions. The brain substrates for such functions are outlined. None of them is a unitary process. They have complex and developing relationships with the diagnoses of attention deficit, autism, language, coordination, learning, and tic disorders. All of them have significant roles to play beyond diagnoses in the development of children and young people.

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