Genes, Brain Function, and Behavior. What Genes Do, How They Malfunction, and Ways to Repair Damage

Table of Contents

1. Levels of explanation 2. Genes 3. Gene expression 4. Nervous system 5. Brain development 6. Behavior 7. Single gene transmission and expression 8. Phenylketonuria recessive expression 9. Huntington disease dominant expression 10. Androgen insensitivity syndrome X-linked transmission 11. Leber's optic neuritis mitochondrial transmission 12. Down syndrome trisomy 21 13. XYY male 14. Complex traits 15. Intelligence 16. Autism spectrum disorder 17. Schizophrenia 18. Sex and gender 19. Race 20. Applications and ethics; dignity and human rights

Authors

Douglas Wahlsten Department of Psychology, University of Alberta, Canada. Dr. Wahlsten received his Ph.D. degree in psychology from the University of California Irvine and completed his postdoctoral work in behavior genetics at the Institute for Behavioral Genetics at the University of Colorado. He then established research laboratories at the University of Waterloo, the University of Alberta, and the University of North Carolina. The laboratory work involved genetic and developmental analysis of mouse brain defects and methods of behavioral testing. He also acquired expertise in statistical data analysis and theoretical issues central to the field. He was a co-founder of the very successful journal Genes, Brain and Behavior, and was given the Distinguished Scientist award by the International Behavioral and Neural Genetics Society. Throughout his career, he has taught behavioral and neural genetics to undergraduate and graduate students.