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Author Pfaff, Donald W

Title Origins of Human Socialization
Published San Diego : Elsevier Science & Technology, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (286 p.)
Contents Intro -- Origins of Human Socialization -- Copyright -- Contents -- About the author -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Three launching platforms -- Time scales -- Coronaviruses -- Historical perspectives -- Author's current perspective -- The book -- Chapters -- Brains of humans and other vertebrates -- The human (social) brain -- References -- Further reading -- Epigraph -- Chapter 1 Background: Evolution -- The evolution of big brains -- Evolution of genes for brain growth -- Perspective and new questions -- References -- Further reading -- Chapter 2 Babies' development -- Born social?
Individual differences -- Even better -- Social problems, autism -- Stress -- Brain mechanisms -- Chemical -- Electrical -- Perspective -- New questions -- References -- Chapter 3 The basic vertebrate social brain-Fish -- Foundations of the vertebrate social brain -- Hormone receptor-expressing cells in neuronal networks -- Effects of hormones and neuropeptides -- molecular and behavioral studies -- Phenomena in fish social behaviors -- Social effects on reproductive and aggressive behaviors -- Social decision making -- Social eavesdropping -- Social support -- Collective cognition in fish?
Genes expressed in cortex, and connected to language production -- Brainstem -- Hearing -- Active listening -- Evolution, genetics, and continuous (not dichotomous) developments -- Overview -- New questions -- References -- Further reading -- Chapter 7 Psychological approaches -- Bowlby, plus -- Something completely different -- Human social consciousness -- Neuropsychoanalysis -- Perspective -- New questions -- References -- Further reading -- Chapter 8 Social behavior at its best: Altruism -- Evolutionary thinking -- Theory of mind -- Network multipliers -- New questions -- References
Further reading -- Chapter 9 Failure to approach, autism -- Embodied cognition -- Dual prefrontal pathways may mediate approach versus avoidance -- Approach versus avoidance within the prefrontal social network -- Direct pathway for approach -- Indirect pathway for avoidance -- Social approach versus social avoidance -- Prefrontal cortex-striatal pathways in autism -- Genetics in autism -- Epigenetics -- Sex differences in autism -- Development and the potential for heterogeneity in autism -- New questions -- References -- Further reading -- Chapter 10 Loss -- Loneliness -- New questions
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780323858014
0323858015