Braddick O., Atkinson J., Innocenti G.M. (Eds.) Gene Expression to Neurobiology and Behavior: Human Brain Development and Developmental Disorders

Elsevier Science, 2011. — 340 p.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-specialistContributors
Preface
Brain development and the nature versus nurture debate
The dynamics of ontogeny: A neuroconstructivist perspective on genes, brains, cognition and behavior
Molecular bases of cortico-cerebral regionalization
Development and evolution: Two determinants of cortical connectivity
Postnatal brain development: Structural imaging of dynamic neurodevelopmental processes
VERP and brain imaging for identifying levels of visual dorsal and ventral stream function in typical and preterm infants
Neurodevelopment of the visual system in typically developing children
Perinatal brain damage in children: Neuroplasticity, early intervention, and molecular mechanisms of recovery
The impact of perinatal stress on the functional maturation of prefronto-cortical synaptic circuits: Implications for the pathophysiology of ADHD?
The processing of social stimuli in early infancy: From faces to biological motion perception
Social and attention factors during infancy and the later emergence of autism characteristics
How special is social looking in ASD: A review
Developmental disorders of speech and language: From genes to brain structure and function
Precursors to language in preterm infants: Speech perception abilities in the first year of life
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
Neurocognitive development of attention across genetic syndromes: Inspecting a disorder's dynamics through the lens of another
Connectivity and the corpus callosum in autism spectrum conditions: Insights from comparison of autism and callosal agenesis
Biological and social influences on cognitive control processes dependent on prefrontal cortex
Subject Index