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This book has a unique combination of data from human embryology, animal research and developmental neuropathology. It provides a comprehensive overview of the development of the human central nervous system (CNS) in the context of its many developmental disorders due to genetic, environmental and hypoxic causes. It highlights numerous clinical cases and there are over 400 figures in more than a thousand illustrations, many of them in two and four colors. In this way the book examines the spectacular progress in developmental neurobiology and the dramatic advances in (neuro) genetics. The high resolution of the modern imaging techniques applicable to developmental disorders of the human brain and spinal cord have made these advances have been made possible. They have created a novel insight into the developmental history of the CNS.