Neurobiology of Exceptionality
Nurture or nature? Biology or environment? Why are some people intelligent, or personable, or creative and others obtuse, or shy, or unimaginative? Although each human being is a unique mixture of positive and negative traits and behaviors, the question r
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Edited by
CON STOUGH
Neurobiology of Exceptionality
Neurobiology of Exceptionality Edited by
Con Stough Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia
Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Neurobiology of exceptionality : the biology of normal and abnormal traits / [edited] by Con Stough. p. cm. — (Plenum series on human exceptionality) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-306-48476-5 1. Neuropsychology. 2. Neuropsychiatry. I. Stough, Con. II. Series. QP360.N4924 2005 612.8—dc22 2004054837
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Preface Over the last decade there has been considerable progress in our understanding of the neurobiological basis of many psychologically related phenomena. Significant research endeavors have been mounting in both basic cellular and animal neuroscience. In terms of human behavioural research in neuroscience new and exciting research is now emerging in understanding the causes of the more common psychiatric traits. Certainly drug research in psychiatric disorders has grown exponentially over the last few years. In terms of psychiatry, more often than not, much of this research has focused on the most prevalent psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia and depression. As a researcher involved in understanding the neurobiological basis of both psychological and psychiatric traits I am often asked to provide sources of information and references for integrated reviews and expert opinions that focus on the neurobiology of what I might call less frequently studied but important psychological traits and psychiatric disorders. Such traits are often but not exclusively related to childhood behaviours and disorders and invariably involve an understanding of important psychological processes. Unfortunately there is much less research on the neurobiology of constructs such intelligence, personality and creativity and disorders such as ADHD, autism, mental retardation and antisociality. Moreover the research in this field is not easily accessed. Although there are active research groups studying these phenomena, there is not the same sort of resources allocated
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