Understanding Developmental Disorders: A Causal Modelling ApproachA long-awaited book from developmental disorders expert John Morton, Understanding Developmental Disorders: A Causal Modelling 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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... behaviour 236 What does the application of the framework tell us about the theories? 244 Chapter 11 Tying in Biology 247 Relations between the cognitive and biological levels 247 Equivalence: brain to cognition 251 Causal influences from ...
... behaviour 236 What does the application of the framework tell us about the theories? 244 Chapter 11 Tying in Biology 247 Relations between the cognitive and biological levels 247 Equivalence: brain to cognition 251 Causal influences from ...
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... behaviour – conduct disorder is a good example. Sometimes the labels refer ... mental age (usually by two years). For others, it means people with a ... biological, cognitive, behavioural and environmental factors, and to discover the ...
... behaviour – conduct disorder is a good example. Sometimes the labels refer ... mental age (usually by two years). For others, it means people with a ... biological, cognitive, behavioural and environmental factors, and to discover the ...
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... behaviour, without regard to the origins of the behaviour. This has led to ... biological/cognitive base. In this chapter I also compare causal modelling with ... cognition. The use of causal modelling has sharpened my own view of this ...
... behaviour, without regard to the origins of the behaviour. This has led to ... biological/cognitive base. In this chapter I also compare causal modelling with ... cognition. The use of causal modelling has sharpened my own view of this ...
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... cognitive and behavioural factors (I will say more about this in the next ... genetics and psychosocial pathways. These are both ways of representing the ... biological, cognitive and behavioural levels in ways that enable them to be ...
... cognitive and behavioural factors (I will say more about this in the next ... genetics and psychosocial pathways. These are both ways of representing the ... biological, cognitive and behavioural levels in ways that enable them to be ...
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Contents
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A Causal Modelling Approach Chapter 2 Introducing Cognition | 20 |
A Causal Modelling Approach Chapter 3 Representing Causal Relationships Technical and Formal Considerations | 34 |
A Causal Modelling Approach Chapter 4 Autism How Causal Modelling Started | 67 |
A Causal Modelling Approach Chapter 5 The What and the How | 98 |
A Causal Modelling Approach Chapter 6 Competing Causal Accounts of Autism | 106 |
A Causal Modelling Approach Chapter 7 The Problem of Diagnosis | 133 |
A Causal Modelling Approach Chapter 8 A Causal Analysis of Dyslexia | 161 |
A Causal Modelling Approach Chapter 9 The Hyperkinetic Confusions | 208 |
A Causal Modelling Approach Chapter 10 Theories of Conduct Disorder | 227 |
A Causal Modelling Approach Chapter 11 Tying in Biology | 247 |
A Causal Modelling Approach Chapter 12 To Conclude | 270 |
A Causal Modelling Approach References | 273 |
A Causal Modelling Approach Name Index | 292 |
A Causal Modelling Approach Subject Index | 296 |
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