The evolutionary approach presented in this book provides clues to the relevance of social interactions as part of the natural selection process, for the survival of species, including ours. Proceeding further, as science often does,from the simple to the complex, and taking advantage of the wide pluridisciplinary range of the participants – coming from fields as diverse as molecular neuroscience, anthropology and psychology – a final question was raised as to whether biological substrates of complex social behaviors may also be relevant to moral issues characteristic of humans beings (Hauser and Young 2008): for instance, information aiming at decision making is not processed by the brain in the same way, whether or not a given situation is perceived as involving moral dilemmas. In fact, it could be argued that human social behavior mechanismsdo not constitute a simple extension of other central nervous system regulatory functions but instead represent and require a different level of analysis. INDICE: Preface.- Modules, minds and morality.- Brain mechanisms theoretically underlying extremes of social behaviours: the best and the worst.- Serotonergic modulation of sex and aggression.- The Effect of neuropeptides on humantrust and altruism: A neuroeconomic perspective.- Molecular Neurobiology of the Social Brain.- Impact of brain evolution on hormones and social behaviour.-Brain oxytocin mediates beneficial consequences of close social interactions: from maternal love and sex.- Hormones, brain plasticity and reproductive functions.- Neuroendocrine mechanisms underlying the intergenerational transmissionof maternal behaviour and infant abuse in rhesus macaques.- Brain corticosteroid receptor function in response to psychosocial stressors.- Aspects of Behaviour in Pedophillic Sex Offenders Treated with Leuprolide Acetate.- The brain,androgens, and pedophilia.- Role of alcohol and sex hormones on human aggressive behaviour.- Social neuroscience: complexities to be unravelled.- Subject index.
- ISBN: 978-3-540-79286-4
- Editorial: Springer
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 250
- Fecha Publicación: 01/06/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés