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The Great Brain Debate : Nature or Nurture?.

By: Dowling, John E [author.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2011Description: 1 online resource (199 pages).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781400841387; 1400841380; 1283303345; 9781283303347.Subject(s): Brain -- Popular works | Neurobiology -- Popular works | Cerveau -- Ouvrages de vulgarisation | Neurobiologie -- Ouvrages de vulgarisation | MEDICAL -- Neuroscience | PSYCHOLOGY -- Neuropsychology | SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Biology | Brain | NeurobiologyGenre/Form: Electronic books. | Electronic books. | Popular works.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Great Brain Debate : Nature or Nurture?DDC classification: 612.82 Online resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
Cover; THE GREAT BRAIN DEBATE; Title; Copyright; For the next generation--Madison, Quincy, Grace, and Olivia; CONTENTS; Introduction; Part I--The Developing Brain; 1 Building a Brain; 2 Maturing a Brain; 3 Developing Behaviors; Part II--The Adult Brain; 4 Teaching Older Dogs New Tricks; 5 Controversies: New Neurons and Genes and Behavior; Part III--The Aging Brain; 6 Is Aging of the Brain a Disease?; Conclusions (and Speculations); Further Reading; Figure Credits; Index.
Summary: Whether our personality, intelligence, and behavior are more likely to be shaped by our environment or our genetic coding is not simply an idle question for today's researchers. There are tremendous consequences to understanding the crucial role that environment and genes each play. How we raise and educate our children, how we treat various mental diseases or conditions, how we care for our elderly--these are just some of the issues that can be informed by a better understanding of brain development. In The Great Brain Debate, the eminent neuroscience researcher John Dowling looks at these an.
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Cover; THE GREAT BRAIN DEBATE; Title; Copyright; For the next generation--Madison, Quincy, Grace, and Olivia; CONTENTS; Introduction; Part I--The Developing Brain; 1 Building a Brain; 2 Maturing a Brain; 3 Developing Behaviors; Part II--The Adult Brain; 4 Teaching Older Dogs New Tricks; 5 Controversies: New Neurons and Genes and Behavior; Part III--The Aging Brain; 6 Is Aging of the Brain a Disease?; Conclusions (and Speculations); Further Reading; Figure Credits; Index.

Whether our personality, intelligence, and behavior are more likely to be shaped by our environment or our genetic coding is not simply an idle question for today's researchers. There are tremendous consequences to understanding the crucial role that environment and genes each play. How we raise and educate our children, how we treat various mental diseases or conditions, how we care for our elderly--these are just some of the issues that can be informed by a better understanding of brain development. In The Great Brain Debate, the eminent neuroscience researcher John Dowling looks at these an.

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