The neuroscience of human relationships : attachment and the developing social brain

Cozolino, Louis J. (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780393707823 (hardcover)
ISBN: 0393707822 (hardcover)
Physical Description: print
xix, 632 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Edition: Second edition.
Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2014]
Copyright: ©2014

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-612) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Part I. The emergence of social neuroscience: an overview : The social brain -- The evolving brain -- Part II. The social brain structures and functions : The developing brain -- The social brain: a thumbnail sketch -- Social and emotional laterality -- Part III. Bridging the social synapse : Experience-dependent plasticity: the science of epigenetics -- Reflexes and instincts: jumpstarting attachment -- Addicted to love -- Implicit social memory -- Ways of attaching -- Part IV. I see you : I've just seen a face -- Getting to know you -- Monkey see, monkey do: imitation and mirror neurons -- Resonance, attunement, and empathy -- Part V. The power of relationships : Sociostasis: how relationships regulate our brains -- The impact of early stress -- Interpersonal trauma -- Part VI. Disorders of the social brain : Social phobia: when others trigger fear -- Borderline personality disorder: when attachment fails -- Psychopathy: the antisocial brain -- Autism: the asocial brain -- Part VII. Social neural plasticity : Self and others -- From neurons to narratives -- Healing relationships -- From social brain to group mind.