Handbook of Developmental Social Neuroscience
ISBN: 9781606231173 | 1606231170
Edition: 1stFormat: Trade Book
Publisher: The Guilford Press
Pub. Date: 4/2/2009
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Recent years have seen an explosion of research into the physiological and neural bases of social behavior. This state-of-the science handbook is unique in approaching the topic from a developmental perspective. Exploring the dynamic relationship between biology and social behavior from infancy through adolescence, leading investigators discuss key processes in typical and atypical development. Chapters address emotion, motivation, person perception, interpersonal relationships, developmental disorders, and psychopathology. The volume sheds lig... MORE
| Introduction | |
| The Brain in a Social Environment: Why Study Development? | p. 3 |
| Methodological and Biological Background | |
| Methods in Social Neuroscience: Issues in Studying Development | p. 13 |
| Neuroanatomy of the Developing Social Brain | p. 38 |
| Perceiving and Communicating with Others | |
| Neural Bases of the Development of Face Processing | p. 63 |
| Decoding Social Signals... MORE | p. 87 |
| The Development and Neural Bases of Processing Emotion in Faces and Voices | p. 107 |
| The Development of Social Information Gathering in Infancy: A Model of Neural Substrates and Developmental Mechanisms | p. 122 |
| Imitation as a Stepping Stone to Empathy | p. 142 |
| Mentalizing and Development during Adolescence | p. 159 |
| Early Communicative Development and the Social Brain | p. 175 |
| Evolutionary Origins of Social Communication | p. 207 |
| Relationships | |
| Attachment and the Comparative Psychobiology of Mothering | p. 225 |
| Neuroendocrine Mechanisms of Social Bonds and Child-Parent Attachment, from the Child's Perspective | p. 246 |
| Neurobiology and Hormonal Aspects of Romantic Relationships | p. 265 |
| Animal Models of Romantic Relationships | p. 281 |
| Regulatory Systems: Motivation and Emotion | |
| Temperament and Affect Vulnerability: Behavioral, Electrocortical, and Neuroimaging Perspectives | p. 305 |
| Reward Systems | p. 324 |
| Social Relationships as Primary Rewards: The Neurobiology of Attachment | p. 342 |
| A Brain-Based Account of Developmental Changes in Social Decision Making | p. 378 |
| Perspectives on Psychopathology | |
| A Social Neuroscience Approach to Adolescent Depression | p. 399 |
| The Development and Neural Bases of Psychopathy | p. 419 |
| Autism: Risk Factors, Risk Processes, and Outcome | p. 435 |
| Social and Genetic Aspects of Turner, Williams-Beuren, and Fragile X Syndromes | p. 459 |
| The Effects of Early Institutionalization on Social Behavior and Underlying Neural Correlates | p. 477 |
| Socioemotional Development Following Early Abuse and Neglect: Challenges and Insights from Translational Research | p. 497 |
| Author Index | p. 521 |
| Subject Index | p. 543 |
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Michelle de Haan, PhD, is Reader in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience in the Institute of Child Health at University College London. Dr. de Haan's research applies neuroimaging and neuropsychological methods to examine the neural correlates of typical and atypical cognitive and social development. She has published over 70 articles, books, and book chapters in this area, and is Associate Editor of the journal Developmental Science.
Megan R. Gunnar, PhD, is Regents Professor of Child Development in the Institute of Child Development at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Gunnar's research focuses on stress biology and the role of early adversity in shaping stress, emotion, and cognitive functioning in the developing child. She has published over 150 articles, chapters, and edited volumes in this area.
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