Includes bibliographical references and index

A developmental cognitive neuroscience approach to the study of atypical development: a model system involving infants of diabetic mothers / Charles A. Nelson -- Development of social brain circuitry in autism / Geraldine Dawson and Raphael Bernier -- Brain mechanisms underlying social perception deficits in autism / Kevin A. Pelphrey and Elizabeth J. Carter -- Williams syndrome: a model developmental syndrome for exploring brain-behavior relationships / Helen Tager-Flusberg and Daniela Plesa Skwerer -- Triangulating developmental dyslexia: behavior, brain, and genes / Elena L. Grigorenko -- Typical reading development and deveopmental dyslexia across languages / Usha Goswami -- Neurocognitive correlates of developmental verbal and orofacial dyspraxia / Frederique Liogeois, Angela Morgan, and Faraneh Vargha-Khadem --

Relation between early measures of brain responses to language stimuli and childhood performance on language and language-related tasks / Dennis L. Molfese, Victoria J. Molfese, and Peter J. Molfese -- Number sense and developmental dyscalculia / Anna J. Wilson and Stanislas Dehaene -- Central nervous system subrates of impulsivity: implications for the development of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and conduct disorder / Lisa M. Gatzke-Kopp and Theodore P. Beauchaine -- Social regulation of the adrenocortical response to stress in infants, children, and adolescents: implications for psychopathology and education / Emma K. Adam, Bonnie Klimes-Dougan, and Megan R. Gunnar -- Child maltreatment and the development of alternate pathways in biology and behavior / Catherine C. Ayoub and Gabrielle Rappolt-Schlichtmann -- Corticolimbic circuitry and psychopathology: development of the corticolimbic system / Francine M. Benes