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Attention, Genes, and Developmental Disorders (Hardcover)
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Attention, Genes, and Developmental Disorders (Hardcover)
Series: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
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What is attention? How does it go wrong? Do attention deficits
arise from genes or from the environment? Can we cure it with drugs
or training? Are there disorders of attention other than deficit
disorders?
The past decade has seen a burgeoning of research on the subject of
attention. This research has been facilitated by advances on
several fronts: New methods are now available for viewing brain
activity in real time, there is expanding information on the
complexities of the biochemistry of neural activity, individual
genes can be isolated and their functions identified, analysis of
the component processes included under the broad umbrella of
"attention" has become increasingly sophisticated, and ingenious
methods have been devised for measuring typical and atypical
development of these processes, from infancy into childhood, and
then into adulthood.
In this book, Kim Cornish and John Wilding are concerned with
attention and its development, both typical and atypical,
particularly in disorders with a known genetic etiology or assumed
genetic linkage. Tremendous advances across seemingly diverse
disciplines - molecular genetics, pediatric neurology, child
psychiatry, developmental cognitive neuroscience, and education -
have culminated in a wealth of new methods for elucidating
disorders at multiple levels, possibly paving the way for new
treatment options. Cornish and Wilding use three
specific-yet-interlinking levels of analysis: genetic blueprint
(genotype), the developing brain, and the behavioral-cognitive
outcomes (phenotype), as the basis for charting the attention
profiles of six well-documented neurodevelopmental disorders: ADHD,
autism, fragile X syndrome, Down syndrome, Williams syndrome, and
22q11 deletion syndrome. Their overarching aim in this book is to
provide the most authoritative and extensive account to date of
disorder-specific attention profiles and their development from
infancy through adolescence.
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