The Great Brain Debate : : Nature or Nurture? / / John E. Dowling.
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 rais...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Science Essentials ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (200 p.) :; 1 halftone. 45 line illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- 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