How the Vertebrate Brain Regulates Behavior : : Direct from the Lab /

How the Vertebrate Brain Regulates Behavior : : Direct from the Lab / / Donald Pfaff.

Throughout his career, Donald Pfaff has demonstrated that by choosing problems and methods with care, biologists can study the molecular mechanisms of brains more complex than those of fruit flies, snails, and roundworms. He offers a close-up, conversational perspective on a 50-year quest to underst...

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Pfaff, Donald,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2017]
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.) :; 28 line illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Introduction
  • 1. Hormone Receptors
  • 2. Discovering the Neural Circuit for a Vertebrate Behavior Essential to Reproduction
  • 3. Hormonal Regulation of Gene Expression in the Brain
  • 4. Genes Regulating Behavior
  • 5. Neuropeptide: Gonadotropin- Releasing Hormone
  • 6. Neuropeptide: Oxytocin
  • 7. Brain- Body Relations
  • 8. Central Nervous System Arousal Fueling Instinctive Behaviors
  • 9. Sex Difference
  • 10. Summary
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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