Hormones And Behaviour

Author : Nick Neave
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 11 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-20
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781139468169

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Hormones and Behaviour by Nick Neave Pdf

Recent advances in non-invasive sampling techniques have led to an increase in the study of hormones and behaviour. Behaviour is complex but can be explained to a large degree by interactions between various psychological and physiological components, such as the interplay between hormonal and psychological systems. This new textbook from Nick Neave offers a detailed introduction to the fascinating science of behavioural endocrinology from a psychological perspective, examining the relationships between hormones and behaviour in both humans and animals. Neave explains the endocrine system and the ways in which hormones can influence brain structure and function, and presents a series of examples to demonstrate how hormones can influence specific behaviours, including sexual determination and differentiation, neurological differentiation, parental behaviours, aggressive behaviours and cognition. This introductory textbook will appeal to second and third year social science undergraduate students in psychology and biomedicine.

Author : Bruce B. Svare
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461335214

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Hormones and Aggressive Behavior by Bruce B. Svare Pdf

This volume is an overview of research examining the relationship between hormones and aggressive behavior. The last 15 years have witnessed a tremen dous growth of knowledge in this area, yet reviews written by specialists are virtually nonexistent. This work is an attempt to provide a comprehensive and cohesive synthesis of this literature. Chapters 1-7 provide an analysis of hor monal influences on the major forms of aggressive behavior, including intermale, interfemale, shock-induced, maternal, territorial, and predatory aggression. The focus of Chapters 8-12 is an examination of the mechanisms through which hormones might act to produce changes in agonistic responding. Genetic, de velopmental, neural, and biochemical influences are considered. It is well known that environment, social context, and experience modulate the effects of hor mones on behavior. Thus, Chapters 13-15 are designed to review the literature concerning hormone-pheromone interactions, hormonal responses to compe tition, and the influence of social context on the endocrine system and aggressive behavior. Frequently, the principles advanced by behavioral endocrinologists are based on research in one species, the rodent. To provide a more comparative perspective and to examine specifically the generality of those principles gen erated for rodents, Chapters 16-22 examine hormone-aggression relationships in a variety of species, including fish, birds, amphibians, reptiles, infrahuman primates, humans, ungulates, and insects. This volume should be useful to both beginning and advanced researchers in animal behavior, behavioral endocri nology, physiological psychology, neuroendocrinology, zoology, physiology, and psychiatry.

Author : Donald W Pfaff,Robert T Rubin,Jill E. Schneider,Geoff Head
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780128026670

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Principles of Hormone/Behavior Relations by Donald W Pfaff,Robert T Rubin,Jill E. Schneider,Geoff Head Pdf

Principles of Hormone/Behavior Relations, Second Edition, provides an introduction to the underlying principles of endocrine regulation of behavior, a newly emerging area of research within neurobiology and endocrinology. It addresses the properties of hormone/behavior relations, including the influence of family background, timing issues, neuroanatomical features, cellular mechanisms, and the importance of environmental context and evolution. This new edition incorporates critical advances in the field, also including increased coverage of hormonal influences on food intake, and on the cardiovascular system. The addition of entirely new principles provides further coverage of epigenetics and appetite. Thoroughly revised and updated, this book is an ideal resource for neuroscientists and researchers engaging in this rapidly expanding field of study. Provides a unique structure where each chapter addresses a key principle that is illustrated by numerous basic experimental and clinical examples Includes user-friendly features, such as boxed figures with extended captions and references, numerous clinical notes, and a comprehensive list of abbreviations Contains numerous illustrations that highlight both the clinical and basic science information

Author : Karen Bales
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1793534500

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An Introduction to Hormones and Behavior by Karen Bales Pdf

An Introduction to Hormones and Behavior explores the ways in which hormones modulate behavior and vice versa. The volume focuses on the key principles of the topic and features original readings from classic studies, as well as more recent research, to provide students with a holistic understanding of the interplay of hormones and behavior. The text begins with a chapter dedicated to endocrine principles and methods, then advances to discuss sexual differentiation, sex differences, and development. Later chapters address the distinctive characteristics and differences between male and female reproduction, as well as male and female parental behaviors. In the closing chapters, students learn about social behavior, stress, and how hormones influence human behavior. Each chapter features prewriting exercises, an introduction to provide context and background information, select readings, and critical thinking questions. The revised first edition includes two new readings, "Testosterone and Cortisol Release among Spanish Soccer Fans Watching the 2010 World Cup Final" and "Hormones and Sleep." An Introduction to Hormones and Behavior is an excellent resource for undergraduate and graduate courses in hormones and behavior, behavioral endocrinology, and physiological psychology.

Author : Elizabeth Adkins-Regan
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2005-08-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0691092478

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Hormones and Animal Social Behavior by Elizabeth Adkins-Regan Pdf

This book is a graduate level guide to the intersection between animal social behaviour and behavioural endocrinology. The fascinating connections between steroids, peptides and social behaviour are explored through an integrative and comparative approach combining various methods.

Author : Donald W. Pfaff
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 957 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-10
Category : Brain
ISBN : 9780125321044

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Hormones, Brain and Behavior by Donald W. Pfaff Pdf

Author : Pablo Brañas-Garza,Levent Neyse,Martin Voracek,Ulrich Schmidt,Monica Capra
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9782889457359

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Hormones and Economic Behavior by Pablo Brañas-Garza,Levent Neyse,Martin Voracek,Ulrich Schmidt,Monica Capra Pdf

Behavioral correlates of hormones, emphasized by psychologists, have captured the attention of economists in the past years. Behavioral economists, in particular, have investigated the possible roles of hormones on economic decision making and behavior as well as social preferences and cognitive abilities. Testosterone, oxytocin, dopamine, serotonin and stress hormones are the foremost studied ones in economic contexts. Yet, the results are mixed and the relationship between hormones and economic behavior is under-investigated to this date. Hormone levels are measurable and manipulatable (e.g. activate, de-activate, block). The fact that the behavioral economics also employs experimental methodology makes it possible to observe both correlational and causal relationships between hormones and economic behavior. Since numerous environmental, social and biological factors interact with hormone fluctuations, capturing the true impacts of hormones on decisions and behavior is challenging. Manipulating hormone levels in the body is a method that is used to tackle this issue. Such studies compare observed behaviors of hormones or placebo administrated participants to determine causal relationships. This Research Topic welcomes the studies on the direct or indirect correlates of hormones on economic behavior and decision making to create new insights on the economic consequences of endocrine activity.

Author : Jill B. Becker
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 812 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0262523213

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Behavioral Endocrinology by Jill B. Becker Pdf

The second edition of a popular introduction to the field of behavioral endocrinology.

Author : Catherine Panter-Brick,Carol M. Worthman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780521573320

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Hormones, Health and Behaviour by Catherine Panter-Brick,Carol M. Worthman Pdf

Hormones, Health and Behavior looks at the relationship of human biology and human society at the intersection of behavior, hormones and health.

Author : Donald W. Pfaff,Claude Kordon,Philippe Chanson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008-05-31
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783540792888

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Hormones and Social Behavior by Donald W. Pfaff,Claude Kordon,Philippe Chanson Pdf

This book concentrates on two major topics: firstly, the molecular and neural biology of hormone actions relevant to normal social behaviors; and secondly, the clinical treatment of human patients in whom these behaviors have gone wrong.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 920 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Brain chemistry
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025953212

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Hormones, Brain, and Behavior by Anonim Pdf

Breadth (from molecules to ecophysiology), ranging from basic science to clinical research, making this reference of interest to a broad range of scientists in a variety of fields. Key Features * Contributors from 16 different countries and more than 70 institutions * Unlike any other hormone reference on the market Hormones, Brain and Behavior addresses hormone effects in all major vertebrate and non-vertebrate models * A timely, current reference on an emerging field with each chapter providing an in-depth exploration of the topic * Discusses molecular aspects of hormone function, systems, development, and hormone-related diseases * Addresses hormone effects in both the developing and adult nervous system Topics include: * Mammalian and Non-mammalian Hormone-behavior Systems * Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Hormone Actions on Behavior * Development of Hormone-dependent Neuronal Systems * Hormone/Behavior Relations of Clinical Importance.

Author : Michael Numan,Thomas R. Insel
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006-05-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780387217994

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The Neurobiology of Parental Behavior by Michael Numan,Thomas R. Insel Pdf

In addition to filling a need within the field of parental behavior, this book contributes importantly to the growing area of emotional and motivational neuroscience. A major part of neuroscience research at the whole organism level has been focused on cognitive neuroscience, with an emphasis on the neurobiology of learning and memory, but there has been a recent upsurge in research which is attempting to define the neural basis of basic motivational and emotional systems which regulate such behaviors as food intake, aggression, reproduction, reward-seeking behaviors, and anxiety-related behaviors. In this book the emphasis is on the research findings obtained from rodents, sheep and primates. The authors' goal, of course, was to provide a foundation that may help us understand the neurobiology of human parental behavior. Indeed, the last chapter attempts to integrate the non-human research data with some human data in order to make some inroads toward an understanding of postpartum depression, child abuse, and child neglect. Clearly, motivational and emotional neuroscience has close ties to psychiatry, and this connection will be very evident in the final chapter. By understanding the neurobiology of parental behavior we are also delving into neurobiological factors which may have an impact on core human characteristics involved in sociality, social attachment, nurturing behavior, and love. In this very violent world, it is hard to conceive of a group of characteristics that are more worthy of study.

Author : Bernard T. Donovan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1985-08-22
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780521258814

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Hormones and Human Behaviour by Bernard T. Donovan Pdf

This 1985 book provides an account of knowledge concerning the influence of hormones on human behaviour, largely from a physiological point of view. The topics covered include the control of eating, drinking, sexual behaviour, emotional behaviour, learning and memory, as well as the ways in which psychiatric states may affect these activities.

Author : Klaus Atzwanger,Karl Grammer,Katrin Schäfer,Alain Schmitt
Publisher : Springer
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 1475785798

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New Aspects of Human Ethology by Klaus Atzwanger,Karl Grammer,Katrin Schäfer,Alain Schmitt Pdf

Rough-and-tumble play provided one of the paradigmatic examples of the appli- tion of ethological methods, back in the 1970's. Since then, a modest number of - searchers have developed our knowledge of this kind of activity, using a variety of methods, and addressing some quite fundamental questions about age changes, sex diff- ences, nature and function of behaviour. In this chapter I will review work on this topic, mentioning particularly the interest in comparing results from different informants and different methods of investigation. Briefly, rough-and-tumble play (or R&T for short) refers to a cluster of behaviours whose core is rough but playful wrestling and tumbling on the ground; and whose general characteristic is that the behaviours seem to be agonistic but in a non-serious, playful c- text. The varieties of R&T, and the detailed differences between rough-and-tumble play and real fighting, will be discussed later. 2. A BRIEF HISTORY OF RESEARCH ON R&T In his pioneering work on human play, Groos (1901) described many kinds of rough-and-tumble play. However, R&T was virtually an ignored topic from then until the late 1960's. There was, of course, a flowering of observational research on children in the 1920s and 1930s, especially in North America; but this research had a strong practical o- entation, and lacked the cross-species perspective and evolutionary orientation present in Groos' work.

Author : Idan Shalev,Richard Paul Ebstein
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-11
Category : Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
ISBN : 9782889194070

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Social Hormones and Human Behavior: What Do We Know and Where Do We Go from Here by Idan Shalev,Richard Paul Ebstein Pdf

Oxytocin (OT) and arginine vasopressin (AVP) are the paramount social hormones in mammals and accumulating evidence also strengthens the unique role of these neuropeptides also in human social behavior. Indeed from voles to humans, OT and AVP modulate an intriguing number of social behaviors resonating across species such as the quality of pair bonding, parenting, modulations of social stress, in-group & out-group relationships and social communications. Recent molecular genetic studies of the oxytocin (OXTR), arginine vasopressin 1a (AVPR1a) and arginine vasopressin 1b (AVPR1b) receptors have strengthened the role of these two neuropeptides in a range of normal and pathological human behaviors. Importantly, dysfunctions in the OT and AVP neural pathways are likely contributing to deficits in social skills and communication in disorders such as autism. This Research Topic covers the state of the science and provides a deep view of social hormone research in humans to illustrates how pharmacological, genetic and neuroimaging strategies can be successfully combined toward unraveling the mystery of how human social behavior is regulated. Understanding human social behavior at the molecular level, i.e. social neuroscience, is not only crucial for treatment and diagnosis of disorders characterized by deficits in social cognition but also has important implications in establishing the congruence of findings from different approaches in the Social Sciences and Biology. We bring together in this issue a broad spectrum of investigators from the neurosciences, genetics, psychology, economics and political science towards a deeper understanding of the biological roots of human social behavior. We hope that this transdisciplinary Research Topic will bring new insights and ideas to the field, give future perspectives while also addressing open questions and limitation in order to develop intervention and prevention strategies, and to translate the basic social hormone research into clinical applications. This Research Topic covers the state of the science and provides a deep view of social hormone research in humans to illustrates how pharmacological, genetic and neuroimaging strategies can be successfully combined toward unraveling the mystery of how human social behavior is regulated. Understanding human social behavior at the molecular level, aka social neuroscience, is not only crucial for treatment and diagnosis of disorders characterized by deficits in social cognition but such an understanding has important implications for consilience of the Social Sciences and Biology. We bring together in this issue a broad spectrum of investigators from the neurosciences, genetics, psychology, economics and political science towards a deeper understanding of the biological roots of human social behavior. We hope that this transdisciplinary Research Topic will bring new insights and ideas to the field, give future perspectives while also addressing open questions and limitation in order to develop intervention and prevention strategies, and to translate the basic social hormone research into clinical applications.