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1 online resource (1329 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of contributors; XXVI International Congress of Psychology/XXVI Congrès international de psychologie; Introduction; Part One: Psychobiological processes; 1. Behavior-genetic analysis and aggression: The mouse as a prototype; Behavior-Genetic Analysis: To Find, to Catch, to Keep Genes; What is at stake in the research of links between genetics and behavior or more generally between genes and integrated functions?; Genetics and aggression illustrate the advances in behavior-genetic analysis |
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Evidence for Genetic Correlates of Aggression in Our Species, Animal ModelsDifficulties in performing genetic analysis with social behaviors; Aggression in human species; Genetic analysis versus "an unfortunate short-cut": the heritability coefficient; Genes Implicated in Aggression: Neurobehavioral Correlates of Previously Identified Genes; The Y chromosome; Recombinant DNA methods; Genes Implicated in Aggression: Gene Mapping; Reverse genetics and initiation of attack behavior in mice; Fine genetic mapping and the challenge of the 21st century |
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How Do the Genes Act? Can their Discovery Tell Us Something about the Biological Mechanisms Underlying Aggression?Microsomal enzyme steroid sulfatase is expressed in the brain; STS is involved in GABA A and N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor functioning; Social Issues for Genetic Analysis, the Lessons from the work with Mice; Acknowledgements; References; 2. Evolution of the human mind; Humans as Great Apes; Language; Mind-reading; Humans as Hominids; Bipedalism; Prolongation of infancy; Brain size; Dissociation, episodic memory, and mental time travel; Language; Language as gesture; Laterality |
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Homo SapiensConclusions; Acknowledgements; References; 3. Pain and stress: Clues toward understanding chronic pain; The Stress System; Programs Involving the Stress System; Programs Involving the Immune System; Programs Involving Homeostatic Regulation; Hypertension and pain; Blood sugar levels and pain; Brain temperature and pain; Implications of Stress Regulation; Rationale of pain therapies; Determinants of chronic pain; Summary; Acknowledgements; References; 4. Somatic responses to psychological stress: The reactivity hypothesis; Stress and Immune Function |
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Investigation of Stress ReactivityThe Effects of Stressors on Immune Function; Low and High Reactors to Stress; Investigation of Heart Rate Reactivity; Other Neuroendocrine Changes; Reactivity and Epstein-Barr Virus; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References; Part Two: Brain mechanisms; 5. Brain plasticity and behavioral change; Introduction; Assumptions; Measuring brain plasticity: Analysis of Golgi-stained material; Experience and the Changing Brain; History; Overview; Environmental enrichment; Training in specific tasks; Age and experience; Visual system of cats; Olfaction in rodents |
| Summary |
The chapters in this volume are the edited versions of invited addresses to the XXVI International Congress of Psychology held in Montréal in August 1996. As one major goal of the Congress was to promote communication among specializations in scientific psychology, the speakers were asked to survey their research area and present their own work in a way that would be accessible to their colleagues in other areas. Another purpose of the meeting was to bring researchers together from different parts of the world, reflecting their different approaches to the scientific study of mind, brain, and b |
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Dendrites and behavior in humans |
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Print version record |
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Psychology -- Congresses
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Reference.
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Psychology
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Michele Robert
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Sabourin, Michel
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International Congress of Psychology (26th : 1996 : Montreal, Québec)
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| ISBN |
9781317775065 |
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1317775066 |
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