Hormones, Brain and Behavior, Second Edition | Date: 28 April 2011, 09:06
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Hormones, Brain and Behavior, Second Edition
By Arthur P. Arnold, Anne M. Etgen, Susan E. Fahrbach, Robert T Rubin, Donald W. Pfaff
* Publisher: Academic Press
* Number Of Pages: 3476
* Publication Date: 2009-07-06
* ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0123743826
* ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780123743824
Hormones, Brain and Behavior, Second Edition is a comprehensive work discussing the effect of hormones on the brain and, subsequently, behavior. This major reference work more than 100 chapters covering a broad range of topics with an extensive discussion of the effects of hormones on insects, fish, amphibians, birds, rodents, and humans. To truly understand all aspects of our behavior, we must take every influence (including the hormonal influences) into consideration. Donald Pfaff and a number of well-qualified editors examine and discuss how we are influenced by hormonal factors, offering insight, and information on the lives of a variety of species.
Hormones, Brain and Behavior offers the reader comprehensive coverage of growing field of research, with a state-of-the-art overview of hormonally-mediated behaviors. This reference provides unique treatment of all major vertebrate and invertebrate model systems with excellent opportunities for relating behavior to molecular genetics. The topics cover an unusual 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.
Available June 2009, 3,000 pp, 5-Volumes,
ScienceDirect ISBN: 9780080887838
Limited Print Edition ISBN: 9780123743824
Introductory Print List Price*: $1200 USD / € 820.00 EUR / ? 650.00
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Introduction to The Second Edition
Donald Pfaff, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York.
In 2002, there appeared the first edition of Hormones, Brain and Behavior, dedicated to three generations of productive scientists in our field, as it had developed at that point. With five volumes, totaling about 4100 pages, it represented a massive effort by over 200 scientists. The volumes were well received.
At least four developments have taken place since 2002 and justify a second edition. Two of them are technical: the increasingly sophisticated application of molecular biological techniques and biophysical techniques to the understanding of mechanisms for hormone/behavior relations. Thirdly, we have entered an era of "translational research." Laboratory scientists are under increasing pressure to show how their work might lessen the burden of disease upon the citizenry. The fourth development is the most subtle and can explained as follows.
Some contemporary approaches to the hormonal controls of various forms of behavior can be distinguished sharply from the major theme in neuroscientific research in the past century. I characterize that classical theme as a 'hunt for specificity'. In the spinal cord, for example, the work of neurophysiologists like Sir Charles Sherrington (1947) and Sir John Eccles (1957) sought to explain why a particular reflex response occurred specifically as a result of one particular stimulus and not another. At the level of the cerebral cortex, work typified by that of Torsten Wiesel and David Hubel (1977) in the visual system and Vernon Mountcastle (1957) in the somatosensory system described cells whose responses required stimuli of a specific type in a well-defined receptive field. My own work, explaining mechanisms for lordosis behavior (Pfaff, 1999) fell into that tradition.
In contrast, new approaches to changes of global states of the CNS involve the regulation of large classes of behavioral responses to large sets of adequate stimuli. Thus, hormonal influences on mood, on exploratory tendencies, on arousal, alertness and attention would not be ‘specific’ in the manner displayed by neurons in the visual cortex, but they would be incredibly important for maintaining mental and physical health. Our field of hormones and behavior increasingly embraces these concepts.
In order to add new material, discovered since 2002, with special emphasis on clinical research, we had to adopt the following strategy. We asked authors who had contributed to the first edition, to reduce markedly the length of their treatments of findings already covered in 2002. Therefore, the reader of this current, second edition will want to refer to the first edition as well for the kind of comprehensive review we intend.
Taking the 1st and the 2nd editions of Hormones, Brain and Behavior together will afford the reader a tremendous number of facts, ranging from molecular genomics of hormone action, through biophysics, neuroanatomy, and endocrinology to animal behavior and human disease. But this bulky coverage of primary research findings is not, across the scope of several volumes, intended to be logically systematic. A parallel effort in the text Principles of Hormone Behavior Relations takes a step in that direction.
VOLUME 1 – MAMMALIAN HORMONE-BEHAVIOR SYSTEMS
Chapter 1 Male Sexual Behavior
Elaine M. Hull
Chapter 2 Feminine Reproductive Behavior and Physiology in Rodents: Integration of Hormonal, Behavioral and Environmental Influences
Jeffrey D. Blaustein
Chapter 3 From Indifference to Ardor: The Onset, Maintenance and Meaning of the Maternal Brain
Gabriela Gonzalez-Mariscal
Chapter 4 The Neurobiology of Social Affiliation and Pair Bonding
C. Sue Carter
Chapter 5 Hormones and the Development and Expression of Aggressive Behavior
Randy J. Nelson
Chapter 6 Energy Partitioning, Ingestive Behavior and Reproductive Success
Jill Schneider
Chapter 7 Neuro-endocrinology of Body Fluid Homeostasis
Derek Daniels
Chapter 8 Stress, Opioid Peptides and their Receptors
Ryszard Przewlocki
Chapter 9 Social Stress Effects on Hormones, Brain and Behavior
Caroline Blanchard
Chapter 10 Sex Hormones, Pregnancy and Immune Function
Caroline C. Whitacre
Chapter 11 Communication by Chemical Signals: Behavior, Social Recognition, Hormones and the Role of the Vomeronasal and Olfactory Systems
Robert Johnston
Chapter 12 Hormonal and Pheromonal Modulation of the Extended Amygdala: Implications for Social Behavior
Jennifer Swann
Chapter 13 Circadian Regulation of Endocrine Functions
Rae Silver
Chapter 14 Mammalian Seasonal Rhythms: Behavior and Neuroendocrine Substrates
Randy J. Nelson
Chapter 15 Steroids, Learning and Memory
Gary Dohanich
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VOLUME 2 NON-MAMMALIAN HORMONE-BEHAVIOR SYSTEMS, NON-MAMMALIAN VERTEBRATES
Chapter 16 Reproductuve Plasticity in Fish: Evolutionary Lability in the Patterning of Neuroendocrine and Behavioral Traits Underlying Divergent Sexual Phenotypes
Andrew H. Bass
Chapter 17 Weakly Electric Fish: Behavior, Neurobiology and Neuroendocrinology
Harold Zakon
Chapter 18 Hormonal Pheromones in Fish
Peter W. Sorensen
Chapter 19 Social Regulation of Reproduction: What Changes and Why?
Russell D. Fernald
Chapter 20 Hormones and the Regulation of Vocal Patterns in Amphibians: Xenopus laevis Vocalizations as a Model System
Darcy B. Kelley
Chapter 21 Endocrinology of Complex Life Cycles: Amphibians
Robert J. Denver
Chapter 22 Sesorimotor Processing Model: Neuroendocrine Control of Reproductive Behaviors in an Amphibian
Frank L. Moore
Chapter 23 Hormones, Brain, and Behavior in Reptiles
Nicholas Sanderson
Chapter 24 Ecophysiological Studies of Hormone-Behavior Relations in Birds
Bengt Silverin
Chapter 25 Neuroendocrine Regulation of Reproductive Behavior in Birds
Gregory F. Ball
Chapter 26 Neural and Hormonal Control of Birdsong
Eliot A. Brenowitz
Chapter 27 Nervous System Actions of Insect Developmental Hormones in Adult Insects
Susan E. Fahrbach
Chapter 28 Biogenic Amines as Circulating Hormones in Insects
Sandra Leal
Chapter 29 Regulatio
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