Psychobiological Footprints through Human Development: How Our Experiences Shape Who We Are

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Prologue
Where do we come from?
What will you find in this book?
SECTION I: Theory
	1. Order and disorder: Non-linear dynamics of development
		When we started observing
		The system
		Organization and specificity: The centrality of time
		Inevitable ruptures
		Matching, mismatching, and other dance steps
		Meaning making
	2. Born to be wired
		In Taung (South Africa)
		In utero
		Just like me
		Giant cells
		The skin as a place to meet
		Conclusions
	3. The assembly grammar
		To select and to instruct
		Not in a vacuum
		Frog thighs and hearts
		Chemical brothers
		The assembly
		Learn like a slug
		Beyond learning: Recollection
		An integrated systemic view of developmental psychobiology
SECTION II: Processes
	4. Social by evolution
		The Da Vinci code
		The vagal paradox
		Of reptiles and mammals
		Polyvagal
		Distinguishing foes from enemies
		Critiques
		In unison
	5. The culprit of stress
		Let’s stress it out
		A neuroendocrine cascade
		Everyday resilience
		Pump up the volume or shut the system down?
		What makes a good rat mama
		Too much and too little
		Paying the consequences
		Parenting as a protective buffer
		Not only stress: The role of HPA in memory and learning
	6. Genes and what you do
		Genetics and psychology, a difficult relationship?
		From quantitative genetics to molecular genetics
		Vulnerable to stress
		Evolutionary reasons
		Psychobiological reasons
		Better than vulnerable: Malleable
		Conditional adjustments
		Temperament and sensitivity
		Genetic variations
		Positive and negative: Does it make sense?
	7. Footprints in the epigenome
		Paris and London
		Looking at another landscape
		When environments shape genes
		Stories of rodents
		Hallelujah
		Behavioral epigenetics
		The seductive charm of a promise
	8. Other frontiers
		Stress that can inflame
		A second brain
		Powerful organelles
		As long as life
SECTION III: Contexts
	9. Waiting for
		The placental barrier
		Beyond the barrier
		Caregiving programming
		Prenatal conflicts
	10. Born soon
		Dark side
		Protecting the newborn and the parents
		Music power
		Epigenetics and neuroplasticity
		Behavioral epigenetics of prematurity
		Light side
	11. Embodied parenting
		Psychobiology of maternal caregiving
		Is there a paternal brain?
		Hormonal plasticity
		Synced dancers
		Interbrain wires
	12. Memories of trauma
		Psychobiological scars
		9/11
		Below zero
		The hunger winter
		Inheriting a nightmare
		Concluding remarks
Epilogue: Framing developmental psychobiology in complexity
	Complex
	Wired
	Quasi-adapted
	Intentional
	What’s wrong?
	How do we proceed from here on out?
Notes on contemporary issues, on frailty and care: Psychobiological postcards from the pandemic
Acknowledgments
References
Index