ABSTRACT
It is not my intention in this chapter to address directly developmental issues; I have neither clinical experience nor research data to render plausible such an intervention in a field not my own. Rather, I wish to present an outline sketch of what is known about those neuropsychological systems that, in the adult mammal (plausibly including humans), control emotional behavior. For I suppose that the work of developmental psychologists is likely to be aided by an understanding of the final product towards which the subjects they study are tending, and I also suppose that many of the abnormalities of behavior and development that concern the pediatric psychiatrist are emotional in nature.
