Genes, Brain Function, and Behavior offers a concise description of the nervous system that processes sensory input and initiates motor movements. It reviews how behaviors are defined and measured, and how experts decide when a behavior is perturbed and in need of treatment. Behavioral disorders that are clearly related to a defect in a specific gene are reviewed, and the challenges of understanding complex traits such as intelligence, autism and schizophrenia that involve numerous genes and environmental factors are explored. New methods of altering genes offer hope for treating or even preventing difficulties that arise in our genes. This book explains what genes are, what they do in the nervous system, and how this impacts both brain function and behavior.
Key Features
- Presents essential background, facts, and terminology about genes, brain function, and behavior
- Builds clear explanations on this solid foundation while minimizing technical jargon
- Explores in depth several single-gene and chromosomal neurological disorders
- Derives lessons from these clear examples and highlights key lessons in boxes
- Examines the intricacies of complex traits that involve multiple genetic and environmental factors by applying lessons from simpler disorders
- Explains diagnosis and definition
- Includes a companion website with Powerpoint slides and images for each chapter for instructors and links to resources
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- Sanes, Reh and Harris, Development of the Nervous System, 4e, Mar 2019, 978012803996, $99.95
- Sweatt, Meaney, Nestler and Akbarian, Epigenetic Regulation in the Nervous System: Basic Mechanisms and Clinical Impact, Feb 2013, 9780123914941, $149.95
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- Chapter 10 Androgen insensitivity syndrome.ppt
- Chapter 11 Leber’s Optic Neuropathy.ppt
- Chapter 12 Down Syndrome.ppt
- Chapter 13 XYY male.ppt
- Chapter 14 Complex traits.ppt
- Chapter 15 Intelligence.ppt
- Chapter 16 Autism.ppt
- Chapter 17 Schizophrenia.ppt
- Chapter 18 Sex and gender.ppt
- Chapter 19 Race.ppt
- Chapter 2 Genes.ppt
- Chapter 20 the future.ppt
- Chapter 3 Gene Expression.ppt
- Chapter 4 Nervous System.ppt
- Chapter 5 Brain Development.ppt
- Chapter 6 Behavior.ppt
- Chapter 7 Single genes.ppt
- Chapter 8 Phenylketonuria.ppt
- Chapter 9 HD.ppt
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Suitable for an advanced undergraduate course in human behavioral and neural genetics. Will also be useful for many neuroscientists, neurobiologists, neuro-oncologists, neurologists, post-doctoral fellows, researchers, graduate students in biological and biomedical sciences
Perfektes Buch für Genen und Gehirn.