ArizonaLEND Seminar: Traumatic Brain Injury, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and other Disturbances of the Central Nervous System

Traumatic Brain Injury, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and other Disturbances of the Central Nervous System

                                                (Sydney Rice, Jaclyn Larson, Curby and Billy Sickmon)

·         Insights from a TBI survivors and their families

·         Overview of Disturbances of the Central Nervous System

·         Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

·         Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder

·         Down syndrome, Williams syndrome and Fragile X

·         Seizure disorders, Sickle Cell disease and Spina Bifida

Readings:

1)     Anderson, Spencer-Smith & Wood (2011). Do children really recover better? Neurobehavioral plasticity after early brain insult.

2)     Adelson & Kochanek (1988). Head Injury in children.