This book explains why love is essential to brain development in the early years of life, particularly to the development of our social and emotional brain systems, and presents the startling discoveries that provide the answers to how our emotional lives work. The author consid…
The influence of nutrition on cognition and behaviour is a topic of increasing interest. Emerging evidence indicates that nutrition in early life can influence later mental performance and that diet in later life can reduce cognitive decline. Lifetime nutritional influences on c…
"This book will be valuable to researchers in psychiatry and neurobiology, students in medicine and psychology, and all mental health practitioners."--Jacket.
The genetic, molecular, and cellular mechanisms of neural development are essential for understanding evolution and disorders of neural systems. Recent advances in genetic, molecular, and cell biological methods have generated a massive increase in new information, but there is …
« As scientific inquiry and public interest in the adolescent brain grows, so too does the need for an accessible textbook that communicates the growing research on this topic. The Neuroscience of Adolescence is a comprehensive educational tool for developmental cognitive neuros…
"Developmental neuroscience deliberately aimed at undergraduates. The topics are presented in roughly the chronological order in which they appear in brain development. Additional perspectives are offered as a means of organizing the material into a narrative that makes sense, a…
