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This book offers a comprehensive exploration of common neurodevelopmental disorders—including autism, depression, schizophrenia, ADHD, Tourette’s Syndrome, and obsessive-compulsive disorder—through the lens of frontostriatal system function and dysfunction. By examining these conditions as extensions of normal personality traits, the author provides a biological, clinical, and evolutionary perspective, highlighting potential behavioral advantages that may explain their persistence in the population. Integrating insights from genetics, neuropsychology, neuropathology, neuroimaging, and clinical practice, the book presents a unified framework for understanding, comparing, and treating these disorders.
Key Features:
- Focuses on frontostriatal system dysfunction as a common framework for multiple neurodevelopmental disorders
- Examines disorders from biological, clinical, and evolutionary perspectives
- Discusses disorders as extensions of normal personality traits with potential adaptive advantages
- Integrates findings from genetics, neuropsychology, neuropathology, neuroimaging, and treatment research
- Offers systematic comparisons of autism, depression, schizophrenia, ADHD, Tourette’s Syndrome, and OCD
- Designed for advanced students, researchers, and practitioners in neuropsychology, neuropsychiatry, psychiatry, and clinical psychology
- Provides a unique, wide-ranging synthesis bridging theory, research, and clinical application
