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  • Romania's Abandoned Children

    Deprivation, Brain Development, and the Struggle for Recovery

    This "landmark study of child development" examines the devastating effects of early childhood institutionalization (Avshalom Caspi, Duke University).In 1989, the fall of Romania's Ceausescu regime left approximately 170,000 children in impoverished institutions across the country. This crisis prompted the most comprehensive study to date on the effects of institutionalization on a child's brain ... Read more

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  • The Development of Social Engagement

    Neurobiological Perspectives

    Series series Series in Affective Science
    The Development of Social Engagement, edited by Peter J. Marshall and Nathan A. Fox, brings together some of the latest research on social engagement processes across a range of life stages and species. The opening chapters provide overviews of cutting-edge research on social engagement in areas such as temperament, face processing, joint attention, language development, and early social cognition ... Read more

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  • The Psychobiology of Affective Development

    Series series Psychology Library Editions: Emotion
    Originally published in 1984, this was the first volume on this topic to appear in an emerging area of study at the time. The editors were selective in choosing their contributions to the volume to ensure that both the developmental and neuropsychological domains were well represented. One of the major goals was to foster greater contact and cross-fertilization between subdisciplines that they ... Read more

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  • Handbook of Self-Regulatory Processes in Development

    New Directions and International Perspectives

    The development of self- and emotional regulatory processes helps children to regulate their behavior based on their cultural context and to develop positive social relationships. This handbook brings together heretofore disparate literatures on self- and emotional regulation, brain and physiological processes, mastery motivation, and atypical development to highlight how mastery motivation is ... Read more

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  • Behavioral Inhibition

    Integrating Theory, Research, and Clinical Perspectives

    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This book examines three decades of research on behavioral inhibition (BI), addressing its underlying biological, psychological, and social markers of development and functioning. It offers a theory-to-practice overview of behavioral inhibition and explores its cognitive component as well as its relationship to shyness, anxiety, and social withdrawal. The volume traces the emergence of BI during ... Read more

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  • The Psychological Effects of War and Violence on Children

    The outgrowth of a conference planned as a response to the need for researchers and clinicians to develop integrated plans for addressing the psychological trauma of children exposed to violence, this volume's goals are:* to summarize research on the subject with particular emphasis on the Gulf War;* to use this information to formulate an outline of what current knowledge suggests are reasonable ... Read more

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    An extraordinary memoir about the cutting-edge brain therapy that dramatically changed the life and mind of John Elder Robison, the New York Times bestselling author of Look Me in the EyeNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POSTImagine spending the first forty years of your life in darkness, blind to the emotions and social signals of other people. Then imagine that someone ... Read more

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  • Idiot Brain

    What Your Head Is Really Up To

    by Dean Burnett ...
    "Entertaining…[A] grand tour around modern cognitive science and psychology." —Wall Street JournalThe brain is an absolute marvel—the seat of our consciousness, the pinnacle (so far) of evolutionary progress, and the engine of human experience. But it’s also messy, fallible, and about 50,000 years out of date. We cling to superstitions, remember faces but not names, miss things sitting right in ... Read more

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  • The Drama of the Gifted Child

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  • Descartes' Error

    Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain

    **"An ambitious and meticulous foray into the nature of being." -- The Boston GlobeA landmark exploration of the relationship between emotion and reason**Since Descartes famously proclaimed, "I think, therefore I am," science has often overlooked emotions as the source of a person’s true being. Even modern neuroscience has tended, until recently, to concentrate on the cognitive aspects of brain ... Read more

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  • The World in Six Songs

    How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature

    The author of the New York Times bestseller This Is Your Brain on Music reveals music’s role in the evolution of human culture in this thought-provoking book that “will leave you awestruck” (The New York Times).Daniel J. Levitin's astounding debut bestseller, This Is Your Brain on Music, enthralled and delighted readers as it transformed our understanding of how music gets in our heads and stays ... Read more

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