Animal Models in Human Psychobiology

ISBN-13: 9781468421866 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 298 str.

George Serban

Opis

In March, 1974, an International Symposium was held at the Harmonie Club in New York to discuss a highly pertinent problem in today's research: the "Rele vance of the Animal Psychopathological Model to the Human." This meeting was sponsored by the Kittay Foundation, which brought together an outstanding group of scientists involved in widely different fields of research. This volume, it is hoped, will convey the tone of lively and cordial exchange between inter nationally renowned investigators, including Dr. I. Eibl-Eibesfeldt from Germany, Dr. Robert A. Hinde from England, Dr. Edward F. Domino from Michigan, and Dr. Pierre Pichot from France, Chairman of the Steering Committee. In his welcoming address, Mr. Sol Kittay reminded us that man has achieved remarkable control over his environment but not over himself, and he suggested that we should reexamine our ancestral origins, and search in animal behavior for clues to the understanding of normal and abnormal behavior in man."

Spis treści

New Perspectives in Psychiatry: Relevance of the Psychopathological Animal Model to the Human.- I. Instinctual and Environmental Learning.- Factors Affecting Responses to Social Separation in Rhesus Monkeys.- Human Personality Development in an Ethological Light.- Discussion of Suomi and Bowlby Chapters.- Prenatal and Postnatal Factors in Gender Identity.- Workshop I (Moderated by Harry F. Harlow).- II. Conflict of Adaptation to Changed or Induced Environmental Conditions.- Phylogenetic and Cultural Adaptation in Human Behavior.- Unpredictability in the Etiology of Behavioral Deviations.- Animal Models of Violence and Hyperkinesis: Interaction of Psychopharmacologic and Psychosocial Therapy in Behavior Modification.- Coping Behavior and Neurochemical Changes in Rats: An Alternative Explanation for the Original “Learned Helplessness” Experiments.- Discussion.- Workshop II (Moderated by Howard F. Hunt).- III. Neurophysiological Experimental Modification of the Animal Model as Applied to Man.- The Use of Differences and Similarities in Comparative Psychopathology.- Animal Models for Brain Research.- Drug Effects on Foot-Shock-Induced Agitation in Mice.- Indole Hallucinogens as Animal Models of Schizophrenia.- Discussion.- Animal Models for Human Psychopathology: Observations from the Vantage Point of Clinical Psychopharmacology.- Workshop III (Moderated by Ronald D. Myers).- Concluding Remarks.- The Significance of Ethology for Psychiatry.- Index of Names.