Week One : Child Development and Neurobiology

Full set posted on website, for Tuesday, read:

Pesticide exposure and Neurodevelopment. and environmental contaminants on child development

Thursday read:

Influential peer reviewed research regarding Brain and ADHD and Working memory recovery in iron deficient children.

 

 

Week Two: finish development (Tues)  and then Mind and Implications

Tuesday:  A deaf teen has hearing restored-- what happens to his language skills?
http://www.jneurosci.org/content/22/18/7840.full.pdf+html   ( Environmental Enrichment Reverses the Effects of Maternal Separation on Stress Reactivity)

Thursday:

Neuroscience and the Law
Startle response and Politics


Week three: articles relevant to Evolutionary Psychology and/or sex differences
 

Early sex differences in human infants social perception and objects "of interest".

Transsexuals and hormone effects on cognition (Slabbekoorn et al)

Pheromone and lap dancers

Sex differences in jealousy in evolutionary and cultural perspective
 

 

 

Week 4 Misc

Sex differences in jealousy in evolutionary and cultural perspective ;  Buss articles ( to be posted, classic ones )
Vitamins, Brain and Mental Illness- Nutrition and neuroscience. 

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1. Vitamin D, brain, behavior, pathology:  Please pick one relevant article to review from this site (your individual choice) and plan to tell class about it:    http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/research.shtml
2. Drugs addiction. This article was selected to emphasize key themes of the course.

3. Ockham's Razor