1st Edition
Neuroanatomy of Social Behaviour An Evolutionary and Psychoanalytic Perspective
By Ralf-Peter Behrendt
Copyright 2011
690 Pages
by
Routledge
690 Pages
by
Routledge
690 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book is for readers who are knowledgeable about the neurosciences and curious about brain mechanisms that produce normal and pathological social behaviour. It is a reference work that presents and reviews facts and recent findings that need to be accounted for within a coherent neuroanatomy and neurophysiology of social behaviour.
Introduction -- Conceptual framework -- Hypthalamo-periaqueductal system -- Basolateral and extended amygdala -- Septohippocampal system -- Lateral frontoparietal networks -- Prefrontal cortex (medial and orbital) -- Basal ganglia -- Syntheses
Biography
Behrendt, Ralf-Peter
