Hormones and Social Behavior [Hardcover]

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.

Modules, Minds and Morality.- Brain Mechanisms Theoretically Underlying Extremes of Social Behaviors: The Best and the Worst.- Serotonergic Modulation of Sex and Aggression.- The Effect of Neuropeptides on Human Trust and Altruism: A Neuroeconomic Perspective.- Molecular Neurobiology of the Social Brain.- Impact of Brain Evolution on Hormones and Social Behaviour.- Brain Oxytocin Mediates Beneficial Consequences of Close Social Interactions: From Maternal Love and Sex.- Hormones, Brain Plasticity and Reproductive Functions.- Neuroendocrine Mechanisms Underlying the Intergenerational Transmission of Maternal Behavior and Infant Abuse in Rhesus Macaques.- Brain Corticosteroid Receptor Function in Response to Psychosocial Stressors.- Aspects of Behavior in Pedophillic Sex Offenders Treated with Leuprolide Acetate.- The Brain, Androgens, and Pedophilia.- Role of Alcohol and Sex Hormones on Human Aggressive Behavior.- Social Neuroscience: Complexities to Be Unravelled.

Advances in 21st Century neuroscience and endocrinology will permit complex problems of medicine and public health to be elucidated. Among these problems are failures of normal social and sexual behaviors. As it turns out, these behaviors are influenced by hormone actions in the human brain using mechanisms that we have inherited from lower animals. This book concentrates on two major topics: First, the molecular and neural biology of hormone actions relevant to normal social behaviors; and Second, the clinical treatment of human patients in whom these behaviors have gone wrong.

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