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The Social Brain: Evolution and Pathology
Martin Brüne (Editor), Hedda Ribbert (Editor), Wulf Schiefenhövel (Editor)
ISBN: 978-0-470-84960-6
Hardcover
472 pages
April 2003
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  • Table of Contents
List of Contributors.

Preface (M. Brüne, et al.).

Introduction (L. Brothers).

PART I: EVOLUTIONARY ASPECTS OF THE 'SOCIAL BRAIN'.

Stereotypy vs. Plasticity in Vertebrate Cognition (C. Strungaru).

Is the Human Brain Unique? (G. Roth).

Tracing the Evolutionary Path of Cognition (R. Byrne).

ProtocadherinXY: a Candidate Gene for Cerebral Asymmetry and Language (T. Crow).

Part II: CULTURE AND THE 'SOCIAL BRAIN'.

Evolution of the Cultured Mind: Lessons from Wild Chimpanzees (W. McGrew).

Ninye Kanye: the Human Mind. Traditional Papuan Societies as Models to Understand Evolution towards the Social Brain (W. Schiefenhövel).

PART III: DEVELOPMENTAL ASPECTS OF THE 'SOCIAL BRAIN'.

Big Brains, Slow Development, and Social Complexity: The Developmental and Evolutionary Origins of Social Cognition (D. Bjorklund & J. Bering).

Where Is 'The Other'  in the Self? Multiplicity, Unity, and Transformation of the Self from a Developmental Standpoint (I. Josephs & H. Ribbert).

PART IV: PATHOLOGIES OF THE 'SOCIAL BRAIN'.

The Social Brain in Autism (F. Volkmar, et al.).

Do Children with ADHD not Need Their Frontal Lobes for Theory of Mind? A Review of Brain Imaging and Neuropsychological Studies (W. Kain & J. Perner).

Social Cognition following Prefrontal Cortical Lesions (R. Morris, et al.).

Social Cognition at the Neural Level: Invesigations in Autism, Psychopathy and Schizophrenia (T. Russell & T. Sharma).

Social Cognition and Behaviour in Schizophrenia (M. Brüne).

Theory of Mind Delusions and Bizarre Delusions in an Evolutionary Perspective: Psychiatry and the Social Brain (B. Charlton).

Social Cognition in Paranoia and Bipolar Affective Disorder (P. Kinderman).

Psychopathy, Machiavellianism, and Theory of Mind (L. Mealey & S. Kinner).

Borderline Personality Disorder Theory of Mind: An Evolutionary Perspective (G. Dammann).

Awareness and Theory of Mind in Dementia (S. Starkstein & M. Garau).

Postscript (M. Brüne, et al.).

Index.

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