Hormones and social behavior / D. Pfaff ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pfaff, Donald W., 1939-

Series:

Research and perspectives in endocrine interactions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human behavior--Endocrine aspects.

Human behavior.

Cognition.

Evolutionary psychology.

Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms--physiology.

Social Behavior.

Hormones--physiology.

Medical Subjects:

Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms--physiology.

Social Behavior.

Hormones--physiology.

Physical Description:

xii, 198 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Heidelberg : Springer, 2008.

Summary:

Advances in 21st Century neuroscience and endocrinology will permit complex problems of medicine and public health to be elucidated. Among these problems are failures of normal social and sexual behaviors. As it turns out, these behaviors are influenced by hormone actions in the human brain using mechanisms that we have inherited from lower animals. This book concentrates on two major topics: First, the molecular and neural biology of hormone actions relevant to normal social behaviors; and Second, the clinical treatment of human patients in whom these behaviors have gone wrong.

Contents:

Modules, minds and morality / M.D. Hauser, L. Young

Brain mechanisms theoretically underlying extremes of social behaviors: the best and the worst / E. Choleris, M. Kavaliers, D. Pfaff

Serotonergic modulation of sex and aggression / B. Olivier, J.S.W. Chan, M.D. Waldinger

The effect of neuropeptides on human trust and altruism: a neuroeconomic perspective / E. Fehr

Molecular neurobiology of the social brain / L.J. Young

Impact of brain evolution on hormones and social behaviour / E.B. Keverne

Brain oxytocin mediates beneficial consequences of close social interactions: from maternal love and sex / I.D. Neumann

Hormones, brain plasticity and reproductive functions / D.T. Theodosis

Neuroendocrine mechanisms underlying the intergenerational transmission of maternal behavior and infant abuse in Rhesus Macaques / D. Maestripieri

Brain corticosteroid receptor function in response to psychosocial stressors / E.R. de Kloet ... [et al.]

Aspects of behavior in pedophillic sex offenders treated with Leuprolide Acetate / J. Schober

The brain, androgens, and pedophilia / S. Stoléru

Role of alcohol and sex hormones on human aggressive behavior / C.J.P. Eriksson

Social neuroscience: complexities to be unravelled / D. Pfaff, R. Adolphs.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783540792864

3540792864

OCLC:

259711853

Online:

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