Behavioral Endocrinology: Integrating Mind and Body
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Peter T. Ellison
Abstract
The nervous system and the endocrine system interact to integrate behavior and physiology. Hormones play an important role in this interaction, particularly steroid hormones. Other molecules, notably oxytocin, can serve both as hormones in the soma and neuromodulators in the central nervous system. Understanding the influence of the endocrine system on human behavior, both individual and social, has been a primary focus of behavioral endocrinology for many decades, though technical and methodological challenges have been formidable. The recent enthusiasm for enzyme-linked immunoassay kits for measuring steroid hormones in saliva has been found to be largely unsound, for example. Despite these difficulties, advances in many areas have been made and new areas, such as the endocrinology of paternal behavior and the role of oxytocin in social interactions, have emerged. Reproductive ecology provides a theoretical framework for integrating the diverse content of human behavioral ecology.
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- Front Matter
- Back Matter
- Contributors
- Titelei
- Table of Contents
- ARTICLES
- Voluntary and Involuntary Imagination: Neurological Mechanisms, Developmental Path, Clinical Implications, and Evolutionary Trajectory
- Dostoevsky, Confession, and the Evolutionary Origins of Conscience
- Adapting to Urban Pro-Sociality in Hamsun’s Hunger
- The Psychology, Geography, and Architecture of Horror: How Places Creep Us Out
- White Skin Privilege: Modern Myth, Forgotten Past
- REVIEW ESSAYS
- The Old Tune: English Professors on Science and Literature
- Behavioral Endocrinology: Integrating Mind and Body
- Watching Film with One’s Body
- Divergent Perspectives on Musical Knowledge, Expertise, and Science
- BOOK REVIEWS
- Alberto Acerbi. Cultural Evolution in the Digital Age
- Hector A. Garcia. Sex, Power, and Partisanship: How Evolutionary Science Makes Sense of Our Political Divide
- Samuel J. Keyser. The Mental Life of Modernism: Why Poetry, Painting, and Music Changed at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
- Dominic Lennard. Brute Force: Animal Horror Movies
- Ruth Leys. The Ascent of Affect: Genealogy and Critique
- Dario Maestripieri. Literature’s Contribution to Scientific Knowledge: How Novels Explored New Ideas about Human Nature
- Frank Martela. Wonderful Life: Insights on Finding a Meaningful Existence
- Susan Mattern. The Slow Moon Climbs: The Science, History, and Meaning of Menopause
- Charles Maurer and Daphne Maurer. Pretty Ugly: Why We Like Some Songs, Faces, Foods, Plays, Pictures, Poems, etc., and Dislike Others
- Nara B. Milanich. Paternity: The Elusive Quest for the Father
- Daniel S. Milo. Good Enough: The Tolerance for Mediocrity in Nature and Society
- Contributors
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Front Matter
- Back Matter
- Contributors
- Titelei
- Table of Contents
- ARTICLES
- Voluntary and Involuntary Imagination: Neurological Mechanisms, Developmental Path, Clinical Implications, and Evolutionary Trajectory
- Dostoevsky, Confession, and the Evolutionary Origins of Conscience
- Adapting to Urban Pro-Sociality in Hamsun’s Hunger
- The Psychology, Geography, and Architecture of Horror: How Places Creep Us Out
- White Skin Privilege: Modern Myth, Forgotten Past
- REVIEW ESSAYS
- The Old Tune: English Professors on Science and Literature
- Behavioral Endocrinology: Integrating Mind and Body
- Watching Film with One’s Body
- Divergent Perspectives on Musical Knowledge, Expertise, and Science
- BOOK REVIEWS
- Alberto Acerbi. Cultural Evolution in the Digital Age
- Hector A. Garcia. Sex, Power, and Partisanship: How Evolutionary Science Makes Sense of Our Political Divide
- Samuel J. Keyser. The Mental Life of Modernism: Why Poetry, Painting, and Music Changed at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
- Dominic Lennard. Brute Force: Animal Horror Movies
- Ruth Leys. The Ascent of Affect: Genealogy and Critique
- Dario Maestripieri. Literature’s Contribution to Scientific Knowledge: How Novels Explored New Ideas about Human Nature
- Frank Martela. Wonderful Life: Insights on Finding a Meaningful Existence
- Susan Mattern. The Slow Moon Climbs: The Science, History, and Meaning of Menopause
- Charles Maurer and Daphne Maurer. Pretty Ugly: Why We Like Some Songs, Faces, Foods, Plays, Pictures, Poems, etc., and Dislike Others
- Nara B. Milanich. Paternity: The Elusive Quest for the Father
- Daniel S. Milo. Good Enough: The Tolerance for Mediocrity in Nature and Society
- Contributors
