PSYCH 3JJ3 Lecture Notes - Dopamine Receptor D4, Developmental Psychopathology, Immunodeficiency
28 Apr 2014
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Has a genetic component: parents and children have similar levels of language lateralization. Begins early in life but because not complete younger children have greater brain plasticity: i left hemisphere damaged in infant, child can still develop almost normal language ability. These brain regions are involved in social functions that range from recognizing faces to bodily gestures to evaluating what other people are thinking or feeling, predicting what they are about to do and next, communicating with them. Regions include medial prefrontal cortex, etc (see textbook) Activation in the mpfc decreases in late childhood adolescence and is replaced by activation of specialized subregions of the mpfc in adults. In addition to becoming more specialized, the different cortical regions of the social brain become orchestrated into networks as development proceeds. Gene a portions of dna location at a particular site on a chromosome and coding for the production of a specific type of protein.
