Understanding Developmental Disorders

Title: Understanding Developmental Disorders

Author: John Morton

Binding: Paperback

EAN: 9780631187585

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Description:
A long-awaited book from developmental disorders expert John Morton, Understanding Developmental Disorders: A Causal Modeling Approach makes sense of the many competing theories about what can go wrong with early brain development, causing a child to develop outside the normal range.

This long-awaited and ground-breaking book from cognitive scientist John Morton helps to clarify the nature of developmental disorders. It challenges the basis of standard behaviorally based diagnostic practice, showing how the role of biology and cognition is crucial to understanding the underlying nature of these disorders. It also sets out a clear method for assessing and comparing the many alternative theories.

An understanding of developmental disorders depends on being able to address the issue of cause and on making the link between disorder and normal process. These were the driving forces behind the emergence of the causal modeling methodology at the Cognitive Development Unit in London by the author and his colleague Uta Frith. John Morton elucidates this method and uses it ruthlessly to compare different theories of particular developmental disorders and to pinpoint their weaknesses. The result is a book that will have a profound impact on research and thinking in the fields of psychology, neuroscience and medicine.

A long-awaited book from developmental disorders expert John Morton, Understanding Developmental Disorders: A Causal Modeling Approach makes sense of the many competing theories about what can go wrong with early brain development, causing a child to develop outside the normal range.

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• Based on the idea that understanding developmental disorders requires us to talk about biological, cognitive, behavioral and environmental factors, and to talk about causal relationships among these elements.
  
• Explains what causal modeling is and how to do it.
  
• Compare different theories about particular developmental disorders using causal modeling.
  
• Will have a profound impact on research in the fields of psychology, neuroscience and medicine.