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Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/bceca2/gene_expression_to) has announced the addition of Elsevier Science and Technology's new report "Gene Expression to Neurobiology and Behaviour. Human Brain Development and Developmental Disorders" to their offering.

How does the genome, interacting with the multi-faceted environment, translate into the development by which the human brain achieves its astonishing, adaptive array of cognitive and behavioural capacities? Why and how does this process sometimes lead to neurodevelopmental disorders with a major, lifelong personal and social impact?

This volume of Progress in Brain Research links findings on the structural development of the human brain, the expression of genes in behavioural and cognitive phenotypes, environmental effects on brain development, and developmental processes in perception, action, attention, cognitive control, social cognition, and language, in an attempt to answer these questions.

Key Highlights:

Leading authors review the state-of-the-art in their field of investigation, and provide their views and perspectives for future research Chapters are extensively referenced to provide readers with a comprehensive list of resources on the topics covered All chapters include comprehensive background information and are written in a clear form that is also accessible to the non-specialist

Key Topics Covered:

The developing brain: from developmental biology to behavioural disorders and their remediation Brain development and the nature vs nurture debate The dynamics of ontogeny: A neuroconstructivist perspective on genes, brains, cognition and behaviour Molecular bases of cortico-cerebral regionalization Development and evolution: two determinants of cortical connectivity Postnatal brain development: structural imaging of dynamic neurodevelopmental processes VERP and brain imaging for identifying levels of visual dorsal and ventral stream function in typical and preterm infants Neurodevelopment of the visual system in typically developing children Perinatal brain damage in children: Neuroplasticity, early intervention and molecular mechanisms of recovery The impact of perinatal stress on the functional maturation of prefronto-cortical synaptic circuits: implications for the pathophysiology of ADHD The processing of social stimuli in early infancy: From faces to biological motion perception Social and attention factors during infancy and the later emergence of autism characteristics How Special is Social Looking in ASD: A Review Developmental disorders of speech and language: from genes to brain structure and function Precursors to language in preterm infants: speech perception abilities in the first year of life From genes to brain development to phenotypic behaviour: 'dorsal stream vulnerability' in relation to spatial cognition, attention and planning of actions in Williams syndrome (WS) and other developmental disorders Neurocognitive development of attention across genetic syndromes: Inspecting a disorder's dynamics through the lens of another Connectivity and the corpus callosum in autism spectrum conditions: insights from comparison of autism and callosal agenesis Biological and social influences on cognitive control processes dependent on prefrontal cortex It's all in the head: Gene dosage and Williams Syndrome

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