targeted activity to optimize early growth and development Shepherd,Roberta B. [editor.] text Edinburgh Churchill Livingstone 2014 monographic 339 p. Part 1: Introduction 1 The changing face of intervention in infants with cerebral palsy Roberta Shepherd Annotation A: Aspects of motor training Roberta Shepherd Part 2: Neuromotor Plasticity & Development 2 Corticospinal tract development and activity-dependent plasticity Janet Eyre 3 Re-thinking the brain: New insights into early experience and brain development Mary Galea Part 3: Impairments & Neuromuscular Adaptations to Impairments & Inactivity 4 The syndrome of deforming spastic paresis: pathophysiology, assessment & treatment Nicolas Bayle, Jean-Michel Gracies 5 Functional effects of neural impairments & subsequent adaptations in cerebral palsy Annotation B: Findings from a series of studies of passive mechanical properties of muscle in young children with cerebral palsy Adel Abdullah Alhusaini 6 Skeletal muscle changes due to cerebral palsy Richard L Lieber, Lucas Smith 7 Early muscle development in children with cerebral palsy: the consequences for further muscle growth, muscle function, and long-term-mobility Martin Gough, Adam P Shortland Part 4: Early and Active Intervention to Optimize Growth, Development & Functional Motor Performance 8 Early diagnosis and prognosis in cerebral palsy Giovanni Cioni, Vittorio Belmonti, Christa Einspieler 9 Effects of motor activity on brain and muscle development in cerebral palsy Diane Damiano 10 The consequences of independent locomotion for brain and psychological development David I Anderson, Joseph J Campos, Monica Rivera, Audun Dahl, Ichiro Uchiyama, Marianne Barbu-Roth Part 5: Specific Methods of Motor Training for Infants 11 Training lower limb performance in early infancy: support, balance and propulsion Roberta Shepherd Annotation C: Kick Start: Using the mobile infant learning paradigm to promote early leg action Linda Fetters 12 Treadmill training in early infancy- sensory & motor effects Caroline Teulier, Marianne Barbu-Roth, David Anderson 13 Very early upper limb interventions for infants with asymmetric brain lesions Roslyn Boyd. Micah Perez, Andrea Guzzetta 14 Constraint-induced therapy and bimanual training in children with unilateral cerebral palsy Andrew M Gordon 15 Interactive technologies for diagnosis and treatment in infants with cerebral palsy Jens Bo Nielsen edited by Roberta B. Shepherd Cerebral palsied children 616.836 SHE 9780702050992