Developmental Psychobiology of Aggression - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521126991 ISBN 13: 9780521126991

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Synopsis

This book is the outgrowth of a memorial conference to honour the scientific contributions of Robert B. Cairns, an internationally recognised interdisciplinary developmental scientist. It is organised around research themes that were an integral part of Dr Cairns' theories and research: neural and developmental plasticity; brain-behaviour bidirectionality; gene-environment interactions. Throughout this book, these themes are linked together by employing animal models and clinical investigations through multiple levels of analysis approach to understanding the origins, development, desistance and prevention of aggression. These studies will add to the compendium of basic knowledge on the developmental psychobiology of aggression and will aid in the ultimate translation of this knowledge to clinical and community settings. This book hopes to foster the legacy of Robert B. Cairns to facilitate the theoretical development and research of a new generation of developmental scientists dedicated to relieving the tragic consequences of aggression on the individual and society.

About this title

Book Description:

The studies in this book draw upon knowledge from multiple disciplines (e.g., child development, anthropology, psychobiology, psychiatry and genetics) with the hope that investigating aggression at multiple levels of analysis will provide a springboard for a new generation of research oriented towards understanding the causes of aggression.

About the Author:

David M. Stoff, PhD is Chief of the extramural research program on the Neuropsychiatry of HIV/AIDS at the Center for Mental Health Research on AIDS at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). Before joining NIMH in 1992, he had a long research career in animal psychopharmacology and the biology of childhood psychiatric disorders. Elizabeth J. Susman is the Jean Phillips Shibley Professor of Biobehavioral Health in the Department of Biobehavioral Health at Pennsylvania State University. She was co-editor of the Journal of Research on Adolescence and has been a consulting editor for numerous scientific journals. Dr Susman is President of the Society for Research on Adolescents.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0521126991
• ISBN 13: 9780521126991
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Stoff David M., Susman Elizabeth J.