How the Vertebrate Brain Regulates Behavior : Direct from the Lab / Donald Pfaff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pfaff, Donald, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vertebrates--Behavior--Endocrine aspects.

Vertebrates.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : 28 line illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Throughout his career, Donald Pfaff has demonstrated that by choosing problems and methods with care, biologists can study the molecular mechanisms of brains more complex than those of fruit flies, snails, and roundworms. He offers a close-up, conversational perspective on a 50-year quest to understand how behavior is regulated in vertebrates.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Introduction

1. Hormone Receptors

2. Discovering the Neural Circuit for a Vertebrate Behavior Essential to Reproduction

3. Hormonal Regulation of Gene Expression in the Brain

4. Genes Regulating Behavior

5. Neuropeptide: Gonadotropin- Releasing Hormone

6. Neuropeptide: Oxytocin

7. Brain- Body Relations

8. Central Nervous System Arousal Fueling Instinctive Behaviors

9. Sex Difference

10. Summary

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 13. Sep 2017)

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-674-97875-7

OCLC:

984688220