Adaptation and Well-Being

ISBN-13: 9780521509923 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 212 str.

Jay Schulkin

Opis

Explores the behavioral neuroscience of social attachment and its significance in establishing and maintaining human well-being.

Recenzje

'Jay Schulkin has a wonderful gift - the ability to extract the seminal messages in the large corpus of work relating biological processes to psychological outcomes and arranging these kernels of fact into a coherent narrative with a direction and a unifying theme.' Jerome Kagan, Harvard University

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Evolutionary perspectives and hominoid expression; 2. Social competence and cortical evolution; 3. A window into the brain; 4. Chemical messengers and the physiology of change and adaptation; 5. Social neuroendocrinology; 6. Cephalic adaptation, devolution and incentives; 7. Neocortex, amygdala and prosocial behaviors; Conclusion: evolution, social allostasis and well-being; References; Index.