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The evolutionary neuroethology of Paul MacLean : convergences and frontiers / edited by Gerald A. Cory, Jr. and Russell Gardner, Jr. ; forward by Jaak Panksepp.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Human evolution, behavior, and intelligence 1063-2158
- Human evolution, behavior, and intelligence, 1063-2158
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Brain--Evolution.
- Brain.
- Animal behavior.
- Neuropsychology.
- MacLean, Paul D.
- MacLean, Paul D. (Paul Donald), 1913-.
- Local Subjects:
- MacLean, Paul D. (Paul Donald), 1913-.
- Physical Description:
- 432 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2002.
- Summary:
- Explores brain organization and the workings of social, economic, political, and care-taking systems.
- Contents:
- Foreword: The MacLean Legacy and Some Modern Trends in Emotion Research / Jaak Panksepp ix
- Part I Perspectives
- 1. Pribram and MacLean in Perspective / Karl H. Pribram 3
- 2. Reappraising MacLean's Triune Brain Concept / Gerald A. Cory, Jr. 9
- Part II Molecules, body plans, and the striatum
- 3. Deep Time and the Brain: The Message of the Molecules / C.U.M. Smith 31
- 4. Adaptive Functions of the Corpus Striatum: The Past and Future of the R-Complex / Neil Greenberg 45
- Part III The Social Brain: Clinical Theory and Applications
- Depression and Mania
- 5. MacLean's Paradigm and Its Relevance for Psychiatry's Basic Science / Russell Gardner, Jr. 85
- 6. The Triune Brain, Escalation De-escalation Strategies, and Mood Disorders / John S. Price 107
- 7. Involuntary Defeat Strategy as Backdrop for Depression / Leon Sloman 119
- 8. The Evolved Basis of Mood and Thought Disorders: Neuroethologic, Game Mathematic, and Evolutionary Epidemiologic Analyses / Daniel R. Wilson 133
- Part IV The Social Brain: Clinical Theory and Applications
- Autism, Forensics, and Attention
- 9. Empathy, Autism, and the Integration of the Triune Brain / James C. Harris 155
- 10. Neuroethology, Exemplified by Limbic Seizures with Motiveless Homicide in "Limbic Psychotic Trigger Reaction" / Anneliese A. Pontius 167
- 11. Neural and Functional Aspects of Pride and Shame / Glenn E. Weisfeld 193
- 12. The Triune Brain and the Functional Analysis of Attention / Allan F. Mirsky, Connie C. Duncan 215
- Part V Interpretations and Challenges
- 13. From Physics and Evolutionary Neuroscience to Psychotherapy: Phase Transitions and Adaptations, Diagnosis and Treatment / James Brody 231
- 14. Evolutionary and Philosophical Issues in Triarchic Theory / Seymour W. Itzkoff 259
- 15. MacLean's Evolutionary Neuroethology: Environmental Pollution, Brain Chemistry, and Violent Crime / Roger D. Masters 275
- Part VI Social Psychology and Social Theory
- 16. Reification and Hegemony: The Human Brain as the Linkage Between Macro and Micro Level Political Phenomena / Steven A. Peterson 299
- 17. Upshifting and Downshifting the Triune Brain: Roles in Individual and Social Pathology / Kent Bailey 317
- 18. Algorithms of Neural Architecture, Hamilton's Rule, and the Invisible Hand of Economics / Gerald A. Cory, Jr. 345
- 19. Toward a Neural Network Theory of the Triune Brain / Daniel S. Levine, Nilendu G. Jani 383
- 20. Conclusion: Convergences and Frontiers / Gerald A. Cory, Jr., Russell Gardner, Jr. 395.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0275972194
- OCLC:
- 49649452
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