Plasticity and Diversity in Behavior and Brain Function: Important Raw Material for Natural Selection?: 18th Annual Karger Workshop, Atlanta, Ga., October 2006 (Brain, Behavior and Evolution 2007)
by Ø. Øverli
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Author: Ø. Øverli
Publisher: S. Karger
Paperback:
ISBN 10: 3805583672
ISBN 13: 978-3805583671
Special Topic Issue: Brain, Behavior and Evolution 2007, Vol. 70, No. 4 Based on the Karger Workshop in Atlanta 2006, this publication provides current knowledge of proximate and ultimate mechanisms involved in maintaining individual variation in behavior, focusing on the relationship between brain structural plasticity, cognitive processes, and behavioral outcome in comparative and mammalian models. In some cases, neurobiological mechanisms that cause a variation in behavior are quite plastic and modified by experience, in other cases certain traits appear to be inheritable life-long characteristics. Stress has acute and long-lasting effects on the neuroendocrine signaling systems controlling physiological, emotional, and behavioral responses. The reviews timely reflect that understanding individual differences in stress coping ability has become a paramount task in biological psychiatry and stress research. This publication offers a valuable source of recent information for scientists in the field of neuroscience, endocrinology, animal behavior, and in particular, anybody concerned with stress management and/or stress research in animals or human subjects.
Publisher: S. Karger
Paperback:
ISBN 10: 3805583672
ISBN 13: 978-3805583671
Special Topic Issue: Brain, Behavior and Evolution 2007, Vol. 70, No. 4 Based on the Karger Workshop in Atlanta 2006, this publication provides current knowledge of proximate and ultimate mechanisms involved in maintaining individual variation in behavior, focusing on the relationship between brain structural plasticity, cognitive processes, and behavioral outcome in comparative and mammalian models. In some cases, neurobiological mechanisms that cause a variation in behavior are quite plastic and modified by experience, in other cases certain traits appear to be inheritable life-long characteristics. Stress has acute and long-lasting effects on the neuroendocrine signaling systems controlling physiological, emotional, and behavioral responses. The reviews timely reflect that understanding individual differences in stress coping ability has become a paramount task in biological psychiatry and stress research. This publication offers a valuable source of recent information for scientists in the field of neuroscience, endocrinology, animal behavior, and in particular, anybody concerned with stress management and/or stress research in animals or human subjects.