The Lifespan Development of Individuals: Behavioral, Neurobiological, and Psychosocial Perspectives: A Synthesis

by Edited by David Magnusson

• ISBN13: 9780521628969
• ISBN10: 0521628962
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-10-28
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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 integrates the findings from these and related areas to form a holistic view of human development from conception to death. Distinguished scientists have combined their expertise in a synthesis of biological and social science that will demand the attention of all researchers and practitioners concerned with human development across the lifespan. 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. Drawing on new theories and models, including the study of nonlinear dynamic systems and chaos theory, this book represents a major step in the move toward an integrated science of human development.

Table of Contents

Contributors to this volume	xi	(4)
Foreword: Towards a developmental science	xv	(4)
David Magnusson
Preface	xix
1. Design for a life	1	(20)
Patrick Bateson
Part I. Early development	21	(84)
2. Areal specialization of the developing neocortex: differentiation, developmental plasticity and genetic specification	23	(15)
Dennis D. M. O'Leary
3. Genes and environment	38	(14)
John C. Loehlin
4. Causes and outcome of perinatal brain injury	52	(24)
Osmund Reynolds
5. Commentary: A systems view of psychobiological development	76	(29)
Gilbert Gottlieb
Part II. The changing brain	105	(100)
6. Neurotransmitter receptors in the changing brain: allosteric transitions, gene expression and pathology at the molecular level	107	(32)
Jean-Pierre Changeux
7. Learning, memory and synaptic plasticity: cellular mechanisms, network architecture and the recording of attended experience	139	(23)
Richard G. M. Morris
8. Brain size, behavior and the allocation of neural space	162	(17)
Dale Purves
Leonard E. White
Dake Zheng
Timothy J. Andrews
David R. Riddle
9. Commentary: Selection and development: the brain as a complex system	179	(26)
Gerald M. Edelman
G. Tononi
Part III. Cognition and behavior	205	(70)
10. Cognitive development	207	(16)
Franz E. Weinert
Josef Perner
11. Cognitive and neural development: clues from genetically based syndromes	223	(21)
Ursula Bellugi
Edward S. Klima
Paul P. Wang
12. Language acquisition at different ages	244	(21)
Wolfgang Klein
13. Commentary: Advances in cognitive neuroscience	265	(10)
Antonio R. Damasio
Hanna Damasio
Part IV. Biology and socialization	275	(82)
14. Socialization and sociogenesis	277	(19)
Robert B. Cairns
15. Patterns of juvenile behavior following early hormonal interventions	296	(19)
Robert W. Goy
16. Gonadal hormones and the organization of brain structure and function	315	(26)
Roger A. Gorski
17. Commentary: The brain and socialization: a two-way mediation across the life course	341	(16)
Pierre Karli
Part V. Social competence	357	(68)
18. The interpenetration of biology and culture	359	(17)
Robert A. Hinde
19. Temperamental contributions to the development of social behavior	376	(18)
Jerome Kagan
20. Development psychopathology as an organizing research construct	394	(20)
Michael Rutter
21. Commentary: Social competence and human conflict	414	(11)
David Hamburg
Part VI. Aging	425	(88)
22. Psychological aspects of aging: facts and frontiers	427	(34)
Paul B. Baltes
Peter Graf
23. Genetics of aging and Alzheimer's disease	461	(7)
John Hardy
24. Aging and molecular biology	468	(20)
David G. Morgan
Marcia N. Gordon
25. Commentary: Biological bases for plasticity during aging of individual life histories	488	(25)
Caleb E. Finch
Index	513