Barış Korkmaz is a professor of adult and child neurology specializing in autism, language disabilities and developmental disorders. He had postgraduate training in the Department of Child Life and Health at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh, and studied autism and developmental disorders with child neurologist Isabelle Rapin at the Yeshiva University’s Albert Einstein School of Medicine in New York City; and also in the neuropsychology laboratory and Child Study Center of the Psychiatry Department, Washington University in Seattle. He currently teaches in the Division of Child Neurology of the Department of Neurology, Cerrahpaşa Medical Faculty, Istanbul, Turkey.
The subject of this book is the infant’s and young child’s social relatedness, including together the relationship between attachment and theory of body, speech-language, and theory-of-mind function,... (more)