HomeAnnotated BibliographiesNeurodivergent Unraveling Neurodiversity: Insights from Neuroscientific Perspectives Share: Section NavigationSkip section navigationIn this sectionAnnotated Bibliographies Capstone Experiences Conditions for Meaningful Learning Global Learning Internships Learning Communities Mentoring Service-Learning Student-Faculty Partnership Undergraduate Research Work-Integrated Learning Writing Transfer In and Beyond the University Reference List Entry:Goldberg, Hagar. 2023. "Unraveling Neurodiversity: Insights from Neuroscientific Perspectives." Encyclopedia 3 (3): 972-980. https://doi.org/10.3390/encyclopedia3030070.About this Journal Article:Goldberg first gives the definition of neurodivergent as a social movement that looks to normalize the differences in human neurocognitive differences in a society. Goldberg then explores the different interpretations of neurodivergence, looking at a scientific approach suggesting that having differences in cognitive processing could offer an induvial advantage and maintained variation amongst the population. Some like this take however, others feel that normalization is doing more to hurt than help as society looks to be more inclusive it begins to ignore the illnesses and difficulties that individual face with neurodiversity. Throughout the rest of the article, he goes over the various ways that neurodivergence could have evolved in humans and how in the modern-day neurodivergent behaviors manifest pointing out that is if often a mixture of both genetics and environment mixed with the complicated evolutionary scaffolding of the human brain. Recommended by Erin Kenney.