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1 What are genotypes, phenotypes, and endophenotypes? How are these three concepts used in understanding the development of psychopathology?

2 This chapter states that there is a complicated relationship between genetic conditions and environmental factors. How are these two concepts involved in the development and maintenance of psychopathology? How is it made even more complex by epigenetic processes?

3 How have the discoveries of epigenetic inheritance and mitochondrial inheritance enriched our understanding and added to the complexity of Mendel’s initial theory of genetic inheritance?

4 How does the small world framework from social science help us understand how neurons are connected in a network? What implications does this have for the transmission of information within a network and across networks?

5 Historically, those interested in neuroscience research have focused more on the universality of human processing rather than the diversity found in different cultures. What evidence can you present to show that culture creates diversity in human psychological processing?

For Further Reading

Ananthaswamy, A. (2015). The man who wasn’t there. New York, NY: Dutton.

Andreasen, N. (2001). Brave new brain: Conquering mental illness in the era of the genome. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Eagleman, D. (2011). Incognito: The secret lives of the brain. New York, NY: Pantheon.

Ramachandran, V. S. (1998). Consciousness and body image: Lesions from phantom limbs, Capgras syndrome and pain asymbolia. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B, 353, 1851–1859.

Ramachandran, V. S., & Blakeslee, S. (1998). Phantoms in the brain. New York, NY: William Morrow.

Seung, S. (2012). Connectome: How the brain’s wiring makes us who we are. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.