
Genes, Brain Function, and Behavior
What Genes Do, How They Malfunction, and Ways to Repair Damage
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Description
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
Readership
Table of Contents
1. Levels of explanation
2. Genes
3. Gene expression
4. Nervous system
5. Brain development
6. Behavior
7. Single gene transmission and expression
8. Phenylketonuria – recessive expression
9. Huntington disease – dominant expression
10. Androgen insensitivity syndrome – X-linked transmission
11. Leber’s optic neuritis – mitochondrial transmission
12. Down syndrome – trisomy 21
13. XYY male
14. Complex traits
15. Intelligence
16. Autism spectrum disorder
17. Schizophrenia
18. Sex and gender
19. Race
20. Applications and ethics; dignity and human rights
Product details
- No. of pages: 299
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2019
- Published: March 14, 2019
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128128329
- eBook ISBN: 9780128128336
About the Author
Douglas Wahlsten
Affiliations and Expertise
Ratings and Reviews
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CaffynKelley Fri May 31 2019
Great book
This is a wonderful book on such an important field - engaging, accessible, provocative and erudite.