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Title

The Lifespan development of individuals : behavioral, neurobiological, and psychosocial perspectives : a synthesis / edited by David Magnusson, in collaboration with Torgny Greitz [and others].

Publication

Cambridge [UK] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996.

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Additional Authors

• Magnusson, David.
• Greitz, Torgny Valdemar Bernhard, 1921-

Description

xx, 526 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm

Summary

• A full understanding of the developmental process in individuals requires contributions from disciplines including developmental biology and psychology, physiology, neuropsychology, social psychology, sociology and anthropology. This ambitious and wide-ranging book is an attempt to present the findings from these and related areas to motivate a holistic view of human development from conception to death.
• Based on a Nobel symposium, the topics discussed range from the function and development of single cells to the whole organism interacting with its environment. Chapters fall into six parts, dealing with early development, the changing brain, cognition and behavior, biology and socialization, social competence and aging.
• Drawing upon new theories and models, including the study of nonlinear dynamic systems and chaos theory, this book represents a major step in the move towards an integrated science of human development.

Subject

• Developmental psychology > Congresses
• Developmental biology > Congresses
• Developmental neurophysiology > Congresses

Note

• Papers presented at a symposium, held at Södergarn Conference Center, Stockholm, June 1994.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Foreword: Towards a developmental science / David Magnusson -- 1. Design for a life / Patrick Bateson -- 2. Areal specialization of the developing neocortex: differentiation, developmental plasticity and genetic specification / Dennis D. M. O'Leary -- 3. Genes and environment / John C. Loehlin -- 4. Causes and outcome of perinatal brain injury / Osmund Reynolds -- 5. Commentary: A systems view of psychobiological development / Gilbert Gottlieb -- 6. Neurotransmitter receptors in the changing brain: allosteric transitions, gene expression and pathology at the molecular level / Jean-Pierre Changeux -- 7. Learning, memory and synaptic plasticity: cellular mechanisms, network architecture and the recording of attended experience / Richard G. M. Morris -- 8. Brain size, behavior and the allocation of neural space / Dale Purres, Leonard E. White, Dake Zheng, Timothy J. Andrews and David R. Riddle --
• 9. Commentary: Selection and development: the brain as a complex system / Gerald M. Edelman and G. Tononi -- 10. Cognitive development / Franz E. Weinert and Josef Perner -- 11. Cognitive and neural development: clues from genetically based syndromes / Ursula Bellugi, Edward S. Klima and Paul P. Wang -- 12. Language acquisition at different ages / Wolfgang Klein -- 13. Commentary: Advances in cognitive neuroscience / Antonio R. Damasio and Hanna Damasio -- 14. Socialization and sociogenesis / Robert B. Cairns -- 15. Patterns of juvenile behavior following early hormonal interventions / Robert W. Goy -- 16. Gonadal hormones and the organization of brain structure and function / Roger A. Gorski -- 17. Commentary: The brain and socialization: a two-way mediation across the life course / Pierre Karli -- 18. The interpenetration of biology and culture / Robert A. Hinde -- 19. Temperamental contributions to the development of social behavior / Jerome Kagan --
• 20. Developmental psychopathology as an organizing research construct / Michael Rutter -- 21. Commentary: Social competence and human conflict / David Hamburg -- 22. Psychological aspects of aging: facts and frontiers / Paul B. Baltes and Peter Graf -- 23. Genetics of aging and Alzheimer's disease / John Hardy -- 24. Aging and molecular biology / David G. Morgan and Marcia N. Gordon -- 25. Commentary: Biological bases for plasticity during aging of individual life histories / Caleb E. Finch.

ISBN

0521470234 (hc)

LCCN

95013924

OCLC

ocm32312615

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries