The Developing Human Brain: What the Emerging Pediatric Neurologist Needs to Know

The developing human brain is a remarkable tissue. Embryonic and fetal brain growth is largely genetically controlled. Environmental factors become increasingly important with advancing development. The young pediatric neurologist who masters a little fundamental neuroanatomy, developmental neuroanatomy, and developmental neuropathology will be able to interpret neuroimages and abnormal development because he or she understands the structural changes in growth failures, hemorrhages, acquired lesions, white matter abnormalities, vascular disease and malformations, ventriculomegaly, tumors, infectious disease, common malformations, degenerative and demyelinative diseases, toxic, and metabolic diseases.