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Neurobiology of social behavior : toward an understanding of the prosocial and antisocial brain /

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Social neuroscience is a rapidly growing, interdisciplinary field which is devoted to understanding how social behavior is regulated by the brain, and how such behaviors in turn influence brain and biology. Existing volumes either fail to take a neurobiological approach or focus on one particular ty...

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Main Author: Numan, Michael, 1946-
Corporate Author: Ebook Library
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Elsevier Science, [2015]
Subjects:
Psychophysiology.
Physiology.
Neurobiology.
PSYCHOLOGY > Physiological Psychology.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1
  • An Introduction to Neural Systems; 1.1 INTRODUCTION; 1.2 A SCHEMATIC OVERVIEW OF THE MAMMALIAN BRAIN; 1.3 FUNCTIONAL NEUROANATOMY; 1.4 CONCLUSIONS; Chapter 2
  • Basic Genetics and Epigenetics; 2.1 INTRODUCTION; 2.2 BASIC GENETICS; 2.3 BASIC EPIGENETICS; 2.4 EPIGENETIC EFFECTS ON PHYSIOLOGICAL AND BEHAVIORAL DEVELOPMENT; 2.5 CONCLUSIONS; Chapter 3
  • Aggressive Behavior; 3.1 INTRODUCTION.
  • 3.2 NEURAL SYSTEMS OF OFFENSIVE AGGRESSION IN NONHUMAN MAMMALS; 3.3 NEUROBIOLOGY OF IMPULSIVE OR AFFECTIVE AGGRESSION IN HUMANS; 3.4 EARLY ADVERSE LIFE EXPERIENCES, GENES, AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF AGGRESSION; 3.5 CONCLUSIONS; Chapter 4
  • Sexual Behaviors and Sexual Differentiation; 4.1 INTRODUCTION; 4.2 THE HORMONAL BASIS OF SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; 4.3 THE NEUROBIOLOGY OF MALE SEXUAL BEHAVIOR IN NONPRIMATE ANIMALS; 4.4 THE NEUROBIOLOGY OF FEMALE SEXUAL BEHAVIOR IN NONPRIMATE ANIMALS; 4.5 THE NEUROBIOLOGY OF SEXUAL BEHAVIOR IN PRIMATES; 4.6 SEXUAL DIFFERENTIATION AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEXUAL BEHAVIOR.
  • 4.7 CONCLUSIONS; Chapter 5
  • Parental Behavior; 5.1 INTRODUCTION; 5.2 NEURAL SYSTEMS REGULATING MATERNAL MOTIVATION IN RATS; 5.3 NEURAL SYSTEMS AND MATERNAL BEHAVIOR IN SHEEP: MATERNAL RESPONSIVENESS AND THE FORMATION OF SELECTIVE ATTACHMENTS; 5.4 MATERNAL BEHAVIOR IN NONHUMAN PRIMATES; 5.5 PATERNAL AND ALLOPARENTAL BEHAVIOR; 5.6 DEVELOPMENTAL INFLUENCES ON THE MATERNAL BEHAVIOR OF MAMMALS; 5.7 THE NEUROBIOLOGY OF MATERNAL BEHAVIOR IN HUMANS; 5.8 GENERAL CONCLUSIONS; Chapter 6
  • Monogamy and the Formation of Enduring Social Attachments between Mating Partners; 6.1 INTRODUCTION.
  • 6.2 THE VOLE MODEL SYSTEM; 6.3 OT AND VASOPRESSIN NEURAL SYSTEMS AND THE REGULATION OF SOCIAL MONOGAMY IN BIRDS AND PRIMATES; 6.4 OT, VASOPRESSIN, AND PAIR BONDING: CONCLUSIONS; 6.5 THE RELATIONSHIP OF OT NEURAL SYSTEMS TO AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER; Chapter 7
  • Human Sociality; 7.1 INTRODUCTION; 7.2 AN EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE; 7.3 IMPORTANT POINTS FROM PREVIOUS CHAPTERS; 7.4 THE INSULAR CORTEX AND EMPATHY: A POTENTIAL STARTING POINT THROUGH WHICH FEELING STATES INFLUENCE PROSOCIAL BEHAVIORS; 7.5 OXYTOCIN AND HUMAN PROSOCIALITY; 7.6 HUMAN PROSOCIALITY: CONCLUSIONS.
  • 7.7 PSYCHOPATHY: A BREAKDOWN OF PROSOCIAL NEURAL CIRCUITS THAT RESULTS IN ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; 7.8 EPILOGUE; References; Index.