"The advent of modern neurobiological methods over the last three decades has provided overwhelming evidence that it is the interaction of genetic factors and the experience of the individual that guides and supports brain development. Brains do not develop normally in the absence of critical genetic signaling, and they do not develop normally in the absence of essential environmental input. The key to understanding the origins and emer ..."
The Fundamentals of Brain Development(1st Edition) Integrating Nature and Nurture 通过 JoanStiles Hardcover, 440 页, 发布时间 2008 通过 Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-02674-2, ISBN: 0-674-02674-8
" In a remarkable synthesis of the research of the last two decades, a leading developmental neuroscientist provides psychologists with a sophisticated introduction to the brain--the system that underpins the functions that they study. In clear terms, with ample illustrations, Joan Stiles explains the complexities of genetic variation and transcription, and the variable paths of neural development, from embryology through early childh ..."
"Insights from Children with Perinatal Brain Injury Joan Stiles, Judy S. Reilly,
Susan C. Levine, Doris A. Trauner, Ruth Nass. Murakami, A, Morimoto M,
Yamada K, Kizu O, Nishimura A, Nishimura T, Sugimoto T (2008). Fiber-tracking
techniques can predict the degree of neurologic impairment for periventricular
leukomalacia. Pediatrics 122:500. Mutsaarts M, Steenbergen B, Bekkering H (
2005). Anticipatory planning of movement sequences i ..."
"This study focuses on children who suffered focal brain insult (typically stroke) in the pre- or perinatal period which provides a model for exploring the dynamic nature of early brain and cognitive development."
"The publication of the second edition of this handbook testifies to the rapid evolution of developmental cognitive neuroscience as a distinct field. Brain imaging and recording technologies, along with well-defined behavioral tasks -- the essential methodological tools of cognitive neuroscience -- are now being used to study development. Technological advances have yielded ..."
"Drawing on parent's reports of more than 1,800 children, this Monograph describes in detail both typical and exceptional courses of communicative development between the ages of eight and thirty months. The authors' large dataset offers unusually specific information on the developmentally variable course of individual lexical, gestural, and grammatical skills. The wide variability found among children's acquisition of these skills pres ..."
"The biological mechanisms by which sucking on a pacifier versus tasting a component of milk (sucrose) affect newborns' behaviorial states are investigated in this study of normal calm and agitated babies, as well as a subgroup of infants born to methadone-maintained mothers. The differential effects obtained for tactile and gustatory stimulation under the different conditions are discussed by the authors in the context of the psychobiol ..."