Neural Integration of Physiological Mechanisms and Behaviour : : J.A.F. Stevenson Memorial Volume / / ed. by Gordon Mogenson, Franco Calaresu.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Adolph, E.F.,; Andersson, Bengt,; Antunes-Rodrigues, J.,; Brobeck, John R.,; Camargo, L.A.,; Covian, M.R.,; Dua-Sharma, S.,; Duffin, James,; Epstein, Alan N.,; Fitzsimons, J. T.,; Fonberg, Elzbieta,; Fortier, Claude,; Fregly, Melvin J.,; Gentil, C.G.,; Girvin, J.P.,; Hall, Elizabeth,; Hamilton, C.L.,; Hardy, James D.,; Hervey, G.R.,; Hockman, Charles H.,; Jacobs, Harry L.,; Kennedy, Gordon C.,; Lisk, Robert D.,; MacIntosh, F.C.,; Magnen, J. Le,; Miselis, Richard,; Mogenson, G .J.,; Morgane, P.J.,; Nakamura, Tsutomu,; Neto, C.R. Silva,; Nicolaidis, Stylianos,; Oomura, Yutaka,; Russek, Mauricio,; Saad, W.A.,; Sharma, K.N.,; Sugimori, Mutsuyuki,; Wayner, Matthew J.,; Yamada, Yasuyuki,
• HerausgeberIn: Calaresu, Franco,; Mogenson, Gordon,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©1975
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (460 p.)

Physiology, unlike most biological sciences, is characterized less by methods of study than by its goal, the understanding of the complex interactions at the cellular and organismic levels. Ever since Claude Bernard’s introduction of the concept of homeostasis as a basic principle of survival, biological scientists have attempted to integrate mechanisms characteristic of organs and systems to explain the overall functioning of the whole animal. This book is dedicated to the memory of the distinguished Canadian physiology J.A.F. Stevenson, who maintained in his teaching and research activities a holistic approach to the study of physiological regulations and life processes. Two of the book’s introductory essays are tributes by men who remember James Stevenson as a scientist and as a friend. The third gives a sketch of early studies of physiological regulations. The twenty-four remaining articles serve as examples of integrated physiological regulations with special attention paid to the role of the hypothalamus and limbic systems. Extensive reviews of the anatomical and chemical foundations of neural systems controlling vegetative functions and behaviour, and several articles dealing with aspects of neural and endocrine control of energy and water balance, are highlights of this volume. It also deals with central control of the respiratory system, pituitary hormones, body temperature, growth, and sexual behaviour. The final chapter presents the clinical correlates of disturbed physiological regulations as seen in human pathological conditions associated with hypothalamic and limbic lesions. Because of its intrinsically multidisciplinary nature this book should appeal to a wide variety of readers, including physiologists, anatomists, experimental neurologists, physiological psychologists, psychiatrists and neurosurgeons.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgment -- Preface -- Contents -- James Alexander Franklin Stevenson,1918-1971 -- On attaining a clear perspective -- Seven discoveries of physiological regulations -- Anatomical and neurobiochemical bases of the central nervous control of physiological regulations and behaviour -- The anatomy of the limbic system -- Current concepts in energy balance -- The problem of energy balance in the light of control theory -- Current hypotheses in the control of feeding behaviour -- The glucoprivic control of food intake and the glucostatic theory of feeding behaviour -- The amygdala and ingestive behaviour -- Feeding and temperature -- Electrophysiological monitoring of multilevel signals related to food intake -- The central control of water and salt balance -- Endocrine mechanisms in the control of water intake -- Electrophysiological studies of the mechanisms that initiate ingestive behaviours with special emphasis on water intake -- Central control of salt balance -- Forebrain mechanisms in the control of respiration -- Control of body temperature -- Hormonal interactions in body temperature regulation -- Some aspects of the relation between appetite and endocrine development in the growing animal -- Integrative functions of hypothalamic and limbic systems in the control of female sexual behaviour -- New frontiers in neuroendocrinology -- Contribution of electrophysiological techniques to the understanding of central control systems -- Lateral preoptic / lateral hypothalamic / brain stem motor control system and adjunctive behaviour -- Clinical correlates of hypothalamic and limbic system function -- Index