La foi, la fourche et la fourchette. Recueil de recettes du monastère de Solan

Autism is an extremely complex neurodevelopmental disorder that is expressed in a spectrum of phenotypes and is characterized by impaired reciprocal social communication and stereotyped patterns of interests and activities. Its aetiopathogenesis remains poorly understood. This exhaustive synthesis discusses various aspects: A focus on the neurobiology of autism: the candidate genes implicate an involvement of numerous brain regions and a concomitant malfunctioning of neurotransmitter, immunologic, and other mechanisms. The most incisive rehabilitation models in their original formulation and the results achieved with the same or similar protocols in Italian centres (understanding, language therapy, social skill training...) The psychopharmacologic options for the condition of autism per se and for its associated, very frequent, comorbidities. It suggests a potential influence on professional practice and enables an up-to-date approach to effective diagnosis and treatment.

Cognitive and behavioural neurology is increasingly the focus of attention from the neurosciences, both in adults and children. This field combines a number of specialties including neurophysiology, anatomy, developmental neurobiology, new neuroimaging techniques and genetics, to ensure that neurological conditions are approached from different standpoints. Appropriate cognitive/behavioural evaluation methods should based upon the known characteristics of neuropathology, molecular genetics and neurophysiology of the disorders. This book provides an update on neurocognitive and behavioural deficits observed in developmental neurology (epilepsy, brain malformations, tumours, autistic spectrum disorders, syndromic and non-syndromic intellectual disabilities, cerebral palsy and CNS progressive disorders). It aims to describe cognitive/behavioural phenotypes, define indications for treatment and rehabilitation, and enhance knowledge acquired from clinical studies. The contents are addressed to child neurologists and psychiatrists, psychologists, paediatricians, geneticists, behavioural and speech therapists.

This book provides a comprehensive update on multiple aspects of the wide-ranging topic of mental retardation. The opening part of the volume is dedicated to the definition of mental retardation and to the various classification systems, within an epidemiological perspective. A second core section presents the neuropsychology of mental retardation, considering both the global approach to the identification of the different deficits present in this condition, and the definition of specific cognitive-behavioural phenotypes possibly related to distinct genetic syndromes or gene defects. Of particular interest are some contributions to the neurological diagnosis of mental retardation, providing the clinical description of several specific disorders and genetic syndromes, and outlining the essential diagnostic input provided by genetic tests. The psychiatric comorbidity of mentally retarded subjects is presented, and specific chapters are geared to the medical treatment of mental retardation and the psychopharmacology of the associated neuropsychiatric disorders. A final section deals with several cognitive, psycho-pedagogic, and psycho-educative rehabilitation approaches, focusing on the lifelong disability deriving from mental retardation.

Sans l'aide de l'Arpenteuse Mara, Elaìne n'aurait jamais pu aller au bout de sa quête. Après avoir traversé la Mer des Aigles et la Terre des Meutes, elle accomplit enfin la mission que son père Primus s'était fixée : atteindre la cité qui abrite les vestiges des savoirs anciens, la cité du Roi-Taon. Celui-ci ne s'est pas contenté de protéger les écrits d'avant l'embrasement. S'il maîtrise la culture de l'engrain, il a également développé l'élevage. Chaque île de la lagune abrite à présent des troupeaux d'aurochs et de longs-coureurs, troupeaux qui, ainsi enfermés, ne sont plus disponibles pour les autres clans, ce qui met en péril leur propre nomadisme? Il permet certes aux siens d'être sédentaires et de ne plus risquer leur vie dans les migrations, mais il empêche aussi le nomadisme des autres. Ce roi Taon partage la folie et la logique de Primus : la fin justifie les moyens. Et cette démesure risque de provoquer à nouveau celle des meutes alentour. Elaìne se retrouve face à un choix : faire du rêve de son père une réalité en reconstruisant le monde d'avant, ou suivre le chemin de l'Infini Vagabond ? « à temps nouveaux, savoirs nouveaux » ... Voici le quatrième et dernier tome des Âges perdus, quête haletante créée par Jérôme Le Gris et Didier Poli, et reprise par Luca Bulgheroni. Sur fond de combats titanesques contre des écorcheurs et de courses-poursuites avec les effrayants hommes-cerfs, les auteurs exposent l'une des théories les plus passionnantes de notre Histoire : la sédentarisation, ce changement radical dans notre civilisation, n'est-elle pas à la source de la violence de masse et de l'appropriation des ressources ...