Biological and Neuropsychological Mechanisms: Life-span Developmental Psychology (West Virginia Conferences on Life-Span Developmental Psychology) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0805811524 ISBN 13: 9780805811520

Publisher: Psychology Press, 1997

Synopsis

Consistent with preceding volumes in this series, the contributors represent a variety of disciplines related to the theme of the conference and the ensuing volume. In the present instance, the theme is biological and neuropsychological mechanisms in life-span psychological development and the disciplines represented are behavioral medicine, neurology, neuropsychology, psychophysiology, and psychology. The theme is expressed in theories and findings about genetic and environmental mechanisms; brain mechanisms; relations of physiological functioning in infancy to later development; physiological risk factors in infancy, adolescence, and old age; methodological and data analytic problems; and issues about the validity of neuropsychological assessment. This volume begins with overviews of theoretical and methodological issues and continues with chapters dealing with selected portions of the life span.

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Review

...a timely illustration of how both nature and nurture are essential in understanding life span development....has the potential to stimulate thought and discussion and serve as a mechanism to braoden the thinking of each of us beyond our specialty area....would be a good adjunct to a developmental psychology text or a useful platform to include in a seminar style graduate school course, a journal club, or a departmental seminar.
—Contemporary Psychology

the volume is an important contribution to the development of an integrated, interdisciplinary understanding of how biological and neuropsychological mechanisms operate, develop, andimpact on development across the life-span.
—Child Development Abstracts and Bibliography

Overall, I give this text a reserved thumbs up. I can recommend it, in part, because of some excellent chapters, and that the book is an attempt to serve the need for a major resouce umbrella within our subdiscipline of pediatric and child neuropsychology.
—Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society

Edition details

• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0805811524
• ISBN 13: 9780805811520
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272
• Editor: Reese Hayne W., Franzen Michael D.