This book addresses a wide range of issues situated in the core of theoreticians' and
clinicians' work in the field of giftedness. It gathers practical issues relevant for the
lives of many gifted children adolescents and adults from a neuropsychological point of view.
By studying the basic questions in gifted education through a neuropsychological lens this
book aims to establish a uniform new way for the treatment of gifted children with social or
emotional difficulties learning disabilities physical limitations or psychological and
psychiatric disorders. This book helps educators and mental-health professionals to obtain a
deeper understanding of the neurological system and its role in learning. This includes memory
knowledge-processing making connections and the implications on the cognitive emotional and
physical aspects - all of which play major roles in the life of each gifted child and
adolescent. By acquiring this new knowledge more teachers counsellors psychologists and
psychiatrists will be able to help individuals materialize their giftedness while preserving
their mental health and productivity.
