Practitioners frequently use diagnostic criteria to identify children with neurodevelopmental
disorders and to guide intervention decisions. These criteria also provide the organising …

The fundamental importance of prefrontal cortical connectivity to information processing and,
therefore, disorders of cognition, emotion, and behavior has been recognized for decades …

Brain networks exist within the confines of resource limitations. As a result, a brain network
must overcome the metabolic costs of growing and sustaining the network within its physical …

Developmental disorders and childhood learning difficulties encompass complex
constellations of relative strengths and weaknesses across multiple aspects of learning …

Brain development is underpinned by complex interactions between neural assemblies,
driving structural and functional change. This neuroconstructivism (the notion that neural …

The reliance in psychology on verbal definitions means that psychological research is
unusually moored to how humans think and communicate about categories. Psychological …

Digital game-based training programs have recently been used to train the cognitive abilities
of children with neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs). However, the effects of training …

The formation of large-scale brain networks, and their continual refinement, represent crucial
developmental processes that can drive individual differences in cognition and which are …

Children show an enormous capacity to learn during development, but with large individual
differences in the time course and trajectory of learning and the achieved skill level. Recent …

Neurodevelopmental disorders are categorized and studied according to their
manifestations as distinct syndromes. For instance, congenital prosopagnosia and dyslexia …