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The social brain : evolution and pathology

Author: Martin Brüne; Hedda Ribbert; Wulf Schiefenhövel
Publisher: Chichester : Wiley, ©2003.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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This book explores the development of social cognition in humans as well as psychiatric implications when these processes go awry. The resulting social brain disorders or psychopathologies can  Read more...

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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Martin Brüne; Hedda Ribbert; Wulf Schiefenhövel
ISBN: 0470849606 9780470849606 0470867221 9780470867228
OCLC Number: 52515677
Description: xiv, 457 p. : ill.
Contents: List of Contributors.Preface (M. Brune, et al.).Introduction (L. Brothers).PART I: EVOLUTIONARY ASPECTS OF THE 'SOCIAL BRAIN'.Stereotypy vs. Plasticity in Vertebrate Cognition (C. Strungaru).Is the Human Brain Unique? (G. Roth).Tracing the Evolutionary Path of Cognition (R. Byrne).ProtocadherinXY: a Candidate Gene for Cerebral Asymmetry and Language (T. Crow).Part II: CULTURE AND THE 'SOCIAL BRAIN'.Evolution of the Cultured Mind: Lessons from Wild Chimpanzees (W. McGrew).Ninye Kanye: the Human Mind. Traditional Papuan Societies as Models to Understand Evolution towards the Social Brain (W. Schiefenhovel).PART III: DEVELOPMENTAL ASPECTS OF THE 'SOCIAL BRAIN'.Big Brains, Slow Development, and Social Complexity: The Developmental and Evolutionary Origins of Social Cognition (D. Bjorklund & J. Bering).Where Is 'The Other' in the Self? Multiplicity, Unity, and Transformation of the Self from a Developmental Standpoint (I. Josephs & H. Ribbert).PART IV: PATHOLOGIES OF THE 'SOCIAL BRAIN'.The Social Brain in Autism (F. Volkmar, et al.).Do Children with ADHD not Need Their Frontal Lobes for Theory of Mind? A Review of Brain Imaging and Neuropsychological Studies (W. Kain & J. Perner).Social Cognition following Prefrontal Cortical Lesions (R. Morris, et al.).Social Cognition at the Neural Level: Invesigations in Autism, Psychopathy and Schizophrenia (T. Russell & T. Sharma).Social Cognition and Behaviour in Schizophrenia (M. Brune).Theory of Mind Delusions and Bizarre Delusions in an Evolutionary Perspective: Psychiatry and the Social Brain (B. Charlton).Social Cognition in Paranoia and Bipolar Affective Disorder (P. Kinderman).Psychopathy, Machiavellianism, and Theory of Mind (L. Mealey & S. Kinner).Borderline Personality Disorder Theory of Mind: An Evolutionary Perspective (G. Dammann).Awareness and Theory of Mind in Dementia (S. Starkstein & M. Garau).Postscript (M. Brune, et al.).Index.
Responsibility: edited by Martin Brüne, Hedda Ribbert, Wulf Schiefenhövel.

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