The Neurotransmitter Revolution

Author : Roger D. Masters,Michael T. McGuire
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Behavior
ISBN : 0809318016

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The Neurotransmitter Revolution by Roger D. Masters,Michael T. McGuire Pdf

Extraordinary advances in neurochemistry are both transforming our understanding of human nature and creating an urgent problem. Much is now known about the ways that neurotransmitters influence normal social behavior, mental illness, and deviance. What are these discoveries about the workings of the human brain? How can they best be integrated into our legal system? These explosive issues are best understood by focusing on a single neurotransmitter like serotonin, which is associated with such diverse behaviors as dominance and leadership, seasonal depression, suicide, alcoholism, impulsive homicide, and arson. This book brings together revised papers from a conference on this theme organized by the Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioral Research, supplemented with articles by leading scholars who did not attend. Contributors include psychiatrists, neurologists, social scientists, and legal scholars. The Neurotransmitter Revolution presents a unique survey of the scientific and legal implications of research on the way serotonin combines with other factors to shape human behavior. The findings are quite different from what might have been expected even a decade ago. The neurochemistry of behavior is not the same thing as genetic determinism. On the contrary, the activity of serotonin varies from one individual to another for many reasons, including the individual’s life experience, social status, personality, and diet. And there are a number of major neurotransmitter systems, each of which interacts with the other. Behavior, culture, and the social environment can influence neurochemistry along with inheritance. Nature and nurture interact—and these interactions can be understood from a vigorously scientific point of view. The fact that our actions are heavily influenced by neurotransmitters like serotonin is bound to be disquieting. A sophisticated understanding of law and human social behavior will be needed if our society is to respond adequately to these rapid advances in our knowledge. This book is an essential step in that direction, providing the first comprehensive survey of the biochemical, social, and legal considerations arising from research on the behavioral effects of serotonin and related neurotransmitters.

Author : Scott C. Anderson,John F. Cryan,Ted Dinan
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781426218477

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The Psychobiotic Revolution by Scott C. Anderson,John F. Cryan,Ted Dinan Pdf

Written by the leading researchers in the field, this information-rich guide to improving your mood explains how gut health drives psychological well-being, and how depression and anxiety can be relieved by adjusting your intestinal bacteria. This groundbreaking book explains the revolutionary new science of psychobiotics and the discovery that your brain health and state of mind are intimately connected to your microbiome, that four-pound population of microbes living inside your intestines. Leading medical researchers John F. Cryan and Ted Dinan, working with veteran journalist Scott C. Anderson, explain how common mental health problems, particularly depression and anxiety, can be improved by caring for the intestinal microbiome. Science is proving that a healthy gut means a healthy mind—and this book details the steps you can take to change your mood and improve your life by nurturing your microbiome.

Author : Francis Fukuyama
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781847653703

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Our Posthuman Future by Francis Fukuyama Pdf

Is a baby whose personality has been chosen from a gene supermarket still a human? If we choose what we create what happens to morality? Is this the end of human nature? The dramatic advances in DNA technology over the last few years are the stuff of science fiction. It is now not only possible to clone human beings it is happening. For the first time since the creation of the earth four billion years ago, or the emergence of mankind 10 million years ago, people will be able to choose their children's' sex, height, colour, personality traits and intelligence. It will even be possible to create 'superhumans' by mixing human genes with those of other animals for extra strength or longevity. But is this desirable? What are the moral and political consequences? Will it mean anything to talk about 'human nature' any more? Is this the end of human beings? Our Posthuman Future is a passionate analysis of the greatest political and moral problem ever to face the human race.

Author : Steven A. Peterson,Albert Somit
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781781907290

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The World of Biology and Politics by Steven A. Peterson,Albert Somit Pdf

This volume describes (a) the present academic and institutional status of Biopolitics and (b) the wide range of research areas that have emerged within the field.

Author : J Rose
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780203305515

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Environmental Toxicology by J Rose Pdf

Because our chemical environment affects our physical and mental well-being, it is a matter of increasing concern and is therefore attracting much research effort. This timely collection of essays highlights current developments in the field of environmental toxicology. Chapters analyze the carcinogenic, mutagenic, genotoxic, and neurotoxic effects of both anthropogenic and natural toxins in the soil, air, and water around us, as well as in our workplace and diet. The book also examines the effects of toxins on other organisms, as well as the techniques, policies, and management strategies employed in studying and controlling environmental pollutants. It will be an essential reference to a variety of personnel in environmental studies and public health.

Author : Robert Blank,Samuel M. Hines Jnr.
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2002-03-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134629060

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Biology and Political Science by Robert Blank,Samuel M. Hines Jnr. Pdf

This book demonstrates the increasing interest of some social scientists in the theories, research and findings of life sciences in building a more interdisciplinary approach to the study of politics. It discusses the development of biopolitics as an academic perspective within political science, reviews the growing literature in the field and presents a coherent view of biopolitics as a framework for structuring inquiry across the current subfields of political science.

Author : James Trefil
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 555 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2001-08-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136753633

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The Encyclopedia of Science and Technology by James Trefil Pdf

Edited by acclaimed science writer and physicist James Trefil, the Encyclopedia's 1000 entries combine in-depth coverage with a vivid graphic format to bring every facet of science, technology, and medicine into stunning focus. From absolute zero to the Mesozoic era to semiconductors to the twin paradox, Trefil and his co-authors have an uncanny ability to convey how the universe works and to show readers how to apply that knowledge to everyday problems.

Author : J. Daryl Charles
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830826912

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The Unformed Conscience of Evangelicalism by J. Daryl Charles Pdf

J. Daryl Charles urges the evangelical church to better equip (in character and moral vision) its pastors, leaders and members to constructively and effectively engage the ethical debates of the twenty-first century.

Author : Stephen Kern
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400826230

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A Cultural History of Causality by Stephen Kern Pdf

This pioneering work is the first to trace how our understanding of the causes of human behavior has changed radically over the course of European and American cultural history since 1830. Focusing on the act of murder, as documented vividly by more than a hundred novels including Crime and Punishment, An American Tragedy, The Trial, and Lolita, Stephen Kern devotes each chapter of A Cultural History of Causality to examining a specific causal factor or motive for murder--ancestry, childhood, language, sexuality, emotion, mind, society, and ideology. In addition to drawing on particular novels, each chapter considers the sciences (genetics, endocrinology, physiology, neuroscience) and systems of thought (psychoanalysis, linguistics, sociology, forensic psychiatry, and existential philosophy) most germane to each causal factor or motive. Kern identifies five shifts in thinking about causality, shifts toward increasing specificity, multiplicity, complexity, probability, and uncertainty. He argues that the more researchers learned about the causes of human behavior, the more they realized how much more there was to know and how little they knew about what they thought they knew. The book closes by considering the revolutionary impact of quantum theory, which, though it influenced novelists only marginally, shattered the model of causal understanding that had dominated Western thought since the seventeenth century. Others have addressed changing ideas about causality in specific areas, but no one has tackled a broad cultural history of this concept as does Stephen Kern in this engagingly written and lucidly argued book.

Author : Kendall Haven
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2007-02-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780313094583

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100 Greatest Science Discoveries of All Time by Kendall Haven Pdf

Brimming with fascinating and fun facts about 100 scientific breakthroughs, this collection presents the real stories behind the history of science, at the same time offering a panoramic overview of the history of science and an introduction to some of the most important scientists in history. Grades 6 and up. Throughout history, science has changed lives and dramatically altered the way in which the universe is perceived. Focusing on the 100 most significant scientific events of all time—from Archimedes' discovery of the two fundamental principles underlying physics and engineering (levers and buoyancy) in 260 B.C.E. to human anatomy, Jupiter's moons, electrons, black holes, the human genome, and more—storyteller Kendall Haven has created a ready reference for those seeking information on science discoveries.

Author : Joseph Dumit
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780691236629

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Picturing Personhood by Joseph Dumit Pdf

By showing us the human brain at work, PET (positron emission tomography) scans are subtly--and sometimes not so subtly--transforming how we think about our minds. Picturing Personhood follows this remarkable and expensive technology from the laboratory into the world and back. It examines how PET scans are created and how they are being called on to answer myriad questions with far-reaching implications: Is depression an observable brain disease? Are criminals insane? Do men and women think differently? Is rationality a function of the brain? Based on interviews, media analysis, and participant observation at research labs and conferences, Joseph Dumit analyzes how assumptions designed into and read out of the experimental process reinforce specific notions about human nature. Such assumptions can enter the process at any turn, from selecting subjects and mathematical models to deciding which images to publish and how to color them. Once they leave the laboratory, PET scans shape social debates, influence courtroom outcomes, and have positive and negative consequences for people suffering mental illness. Dumit follows this complex story, demonstrating how brain scans, as scientific objects, contribute to our increasing social dependence on scientific authority. The first book to examine the cultural ramifications of brain-imaging technology, Picturing Personhood is an unprecedented study that will influence both cultural studies and the growing field of science and technology studies.

Author : John Albert Murley
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 958 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0739106163

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Leo Strauss and His Legacy by John Albert Murley Pdf

With over 10,000 entries, this bibliography is the most comprehensive guide to published writing in the tradition of Leo Strauss, who lived from 1899 to 1973 and was one of the most influential political philosophers of the twentieth century. John A. Murley provides Strauss's own complete bibliography and identifies the work of hundreds of Strauss's students, and their students' students. Leo Strauss and His Legacy charts the path of influence of a beloved teacher and mentor, a deep and lasting heritage that permeates the classrooms of the twenty-first century. Each new generation of students of political philosophy will find this bibliography an indispensable resource.

Author : Edward Shorter
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780195368741

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Before Prozac by Edward Shorter Pdf

In this volume, Shorter presents a revealing account of why psychiatry is 'losing ground' in the struggle to treat depression. It focuses on an unexpected villain - the FDA, the very agency charged with ensuring drug safety and effectiveness. Shorter describes how the FDA permits companies to test new products only against placebo.

Author : Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra,Harry Oosterhuis,Joost Vijselaar
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789053567999

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Psychiatric Cultures Compared by Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra,Harry Oosterhuis,Joost Vijselaar Pdf

The comparative global history of mental health care in the twentieth century remains relatively uncharted territory. Psychiatric Cultures Compared offers an overview of various national psychiatric cultures, comparing, for example, advances in Dutch psychiatry with developments abroad. Wide-ranging essays cover analyses of the field of psychiatric nursing, the changing use of psychotropic medicine, the emergence of in- and outpatient mental health sectors, the rise of the anti-psychiatry movement, and a critical look at modern day deinstitutionalization.

Author : Wenceslao J. González
Publisher : Netbiblo
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Science
ISBN : 9788497459334

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Conceptual Revolutions by Wenceslao J. González Pdf