Gene Expression to Neurobiology and Behavior: Human Brain Development and Developmental Disorders

✍ Scribed by Oliver Braddick, Janette Atkinson and Giorgio M. Innocenti (Eds.)

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 340
• Series: Progress in Brain Research 189
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

How does the genome, interacting with the multi-faceted environment, translate into the development by which the human brain achieves its astonishing, adaptive array of cognitive and behavioural capacities? Why and how does this process sometimes lead to neurodevelopmental disorders with a major, lifelong personal and social impact? This volume of Progress in Brain Research links findings on the structural development of the human brain, the expression of genes in behavioural and cognitive phenotypes, environmental effects on brain development, and developmental processes in perception, action, attention, cognitive control, social cognition, and language, in an attempt to answer these questoins. Leading authors review the state-of-the-art in their field of investigation, and provide their views and perspectives for future researchChapters are extensively referenced to provide readers with a comprehensive list of resources on the topics coveredAll chapters include comprehensive background information and are written in a clear form that is also accessible to the non-specialist

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Copyright
Page iv

Contributors
Pages v-vi

Preface
Pages vii-xvi
Oliver Braddick, Janette Atkinson, Giorgio M. Innocenti

Chapter 1 - Brain development and the nature versus nurture debate
Pages 3-22
Joan Stiles

Chapter 2 - The dynamics of ontogeny: A neuroconstructivist perspective on genes, brains, cognition and behavior
Pages 23-33
Tessa M. Dekker, Annette Karmiloff-Smith

Chapter 3 - Molecular bases of cortico-cerebral regionalization
Pages 37-64
Antonello Mallamaci

Chapter 4 - Development and evolution: Two determinants of cortical connectivity
Pages 65-75
Giorgio M. Innocenti

Chapter 5 - Postnatal brain development: Structural imaging of dynamic neurodevelopmental processes
Pages 77-92
Terry L. Jernigan, William F.C. Baaré, Joan Stiles, Kathrine Skak Madsen

Chapter 6 - VERP and brain imaging for identifying levels of visual dorsal and ventral stream function in typical and preterm infants
Pages 95-111
Oliver Braddick, Janette Atkinson, John Wattam-Bell

Chapter 7 - Neurodevelopment of the visual system in typically developing children
Pages 113-136
Peter Klaver, Valentine Marcar, Ernst Martin

Chapter 8 - Perinatal brain damage in children: Neuroplasticity, early intervention, and molecular mechanisms of recovery
Pages 139-154
Giovanni Cioni, Giulia D'Acunto, Andrea Guzzetta

Chapter 9 - The impact of perinatal stress on the functional maturation of prefronto-cortical synaptic circuits: Implications for the pathophysiology of ADHD?
Pages 155-169
Jörg Bock, Katharina Braun

Chapter 10 - The processing of social stimuli in early infancy: From faces to biological motion perception
Pages 173-193
Francesca Simion, Elisa Di Giorgio, Irene Leo, Lara Bardi

Chapter 11 - Social and attention factors during infancy and the later emergence of autism characteristics
Pages 195-207
Mayada Elsabbagh, Karla Holmboe, Teodora Gliga, Evelyne Mercure, Kristelle Hudry, Tony Charman, Simon Baron-Cohen, Patrick Bolton, Mark H. Johnson

Chapter 12 - How special is social looking in ASD: A review
Pages 209-222
Terje Falck-Ytter, Claes von Hofsten

Chapter 13 - Developmental disorders of speech and language: From genes to brain structure and function
Pages 225-238
Kate Watkins

Chapter 14 - Precursors to language in preterm infants: Speech perception abilities in the first year of life
Pages 239-257
Laura Bosch

Chapter 15 - From genes to brain development to phenotypic behavior: “Dorsal-stream vulnerability” in relation to spatial cognition, attention, and planning of actions in Williams syndrome (WS) and other developmental disorders
Pages 261-283
Janette Atkinson, Oliver Braddick

Chapter 16 - Neurocognitive development of attention across genetic syndromes: Inspecting a disorder's dynamics through the lens of another
Pages 285-301
Gaia Scerif, Ann Steele

Chapter 17 - Connectivity and the corpus callosum in autism spectrum conditions: Insights from comparison of autism and callosal agenesis
Pages 303-317
Rhonda Booth, Gregory L. Wallace, Francesca Happé

Chapter 18 - Biological and social influences on cognitive control processes dependent on prefrontal cortex
Pages 319-339
Adele Diamond

Subject Index
Pages 341-350

Volume in series
Pages 351-352