What does not sound as reductionistic is that social and developmental factors can exert actions on the brain. This sounds as two way causality. But then comes in the primacy of genes and neurons. "These changes ... are responsible for initiating and maintaining abnormalities of behavior that are induced by social contingencies." Especially "initiating" is the problem here.
This misses the two way causality that is possible in complex dynamical systems (See Jarrero at the bottom).
"[...] so can behavior and social factors exert actions on the brain by feeding back upon it to modify the expression of genes and thus the function of nerve cells." Redutionistic is the idea that these expression of genes and function of nerve cells first occur and then cause abnormalities of behaviour.
See https://breininactie.com/nature-and-nurture-congenital-and-acquired/:
"For everything that we can learn, for all our functions, it is never nature OR nurture. In the developing brain, the contributions of hereditary and environmental factors can never be seen separately."
Juarrero A (2023): Context changes everything: how constraints create coherence. Cambridge, Massachusetts, The MIT Press.
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