Handbook of Developmental Social Neuroscience

Fifty-five international academics and researchers contribute 25 chapters examining the dynamic relationship between biology and social behavior from birth through adolescence. Coverage includes an introductory overview of the topic; the basic brain circuits involved in social processing and the methods used to study them; the neural bases related to the ability to exchange social signals with others, including the processing of social information in the face and voice, how infants and children use information gathered from the faces and actions of others to guide their own behaviors and interpret the behaviors of others, and the development of social communication; various relationships, such as the mother-child bond, the neuroendocrine aspects of infant-caregiver bonding, the bases of adult romantic bonds and of monogamy; regulatory systems concerned with motivation and emotion; and psychopathology in children and adolescents. For graduate students and professionals in developmental psychology, neuroscience, and social psychology, and child clinicians. Annotation c2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)