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Brain --- Child development. --- Nature and nurture. --- Growth. --- Environment and genetics --- Environment and heredity --- Genetics and environment --- Heredity and environment --- Nature --- Nature versus nurture --- Nurture and nature --- Genetics --- Heredity --- Human beings --- Child study --- Children --- Development, Child --- Developmental biology --- Nurture --- Effect of environment on --- Development --- Cervell --- Desenvolupament infantil --- Resiliència (Tret de la personalitat) --- Growth.999

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Sensitive periods occur when unique experiences permanently influence brain development either by their presence or absence. This volume covers underlying brain systems and behaviors that are sculpted by the environment in humans and animals in a search for commonalities. The mechanisms involved, the importance of timing in the process, and factors that can change the brain are discussed in this exciting book. Different chapters examine how experience guides the development of cells, circuits, and function using vision, cortical circuits, and cognition as frameworks. Scientific evidence for effective preventative intervention approaches, including diet, exercise, and music, are included to find ways to maximize child and adolescent development. The adverse effects of early brain injury are also included. As sensitive periods are gaining importance in their application in the real-world, novel statistical approaches for human studies are presented and the importance of sensitive periods are covered by examining the juvenile justice system. The book has interdisciplinary appeal and scholars with an interest in brain resiliency or vulnerability will find it of particular interest.

Psychology --- Social psychology --- Biomathematics. Biometry. Biostatistics --- Biological techniques --- Paediatrics --- Psychiatry --- Neuropathology --- medische psychologie --- neurologie --- psychologie --- bio-informatica --- biologie --- pediatrie --- klinische psychologie

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Brain development, whether typical or atypical, provides the foundation for all behavior and possible psychopathology.  This volume takes a comprehensive and translational approach in describing how basic neuronal patterning occurs, organizes into systems, and forms functional and inter-connected networks.  The role that hormones and genes play in influencing brain development is also described.  The resultant emotional, cognitive, reward, and social systems show how typical development proceeds.  The second part of the book describes when the process of development goes awry.  Here, a number of childhood disorders are covered.  Autism, ADHD, emotional syndromes of bipolar disorder and depression, oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorder, and sleep and schizophrenia are included in this volume. Written by leading experts in their respective fields, this volume will be a valuable resource to mental health professionals as well as preclinical investigators hoping to gain additional understanding about the neurobiology of the developing brain.

Physiology of nerves and sense organs --- Pathological biochemistry --- Psychiatry --- Neuropathology --- Human medicine --- medische biochemie --- neurologie --- psychiatrie --- biochemie --- biomedische wetenschappen --- psychopathologie --- ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) --- neurobiologie