Efferent Organization and The Integration of Behavior
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Efferent Organization and The Integration of Behavior

  1. 382 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Efferent Organization and The Integration of Behavior

About this book

Efferent Organization and the Integration of Behavior is a nine-chapter text that discusses the hypotheses and alternative conceptualizations of efferent mechanisms, as well as the neural basis of patterned movement. The opening chapters examine several behavioral categories, the neural mediation of movement, and the distinction between efferent response and efferent motor processes. These chapters also present a revised theory of the role of the motor system in physiological regulation and neural-metabolic integration in energy production for behavior. These topics are followed by considerable chapters devoted to efferent organization of specific brain sections, including the motor cortex, pyramidal system, globus pallidus, substantia nigra, diencephalon, hippocampus, and neocortex. This text also deals with the instrumental conditioning based on alimentary or food reinforcements. A chapter discusses the constraints on theoretical interpretations of neuroanatomical circuitry functions of noradrenergic and cholinergic brain systems. The concluding chapter describes the relationship between the motor integration systems of extrapyramidal structures and the motivational systems of limbic structures. This chapter also looks into the anatomical organization of self-stimulation and the microelectrode data, which delineate the response of single neurons to stimulation at hypothalamic self-stimulation sites.

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Efferent Organization and the Integration of Behavior
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. List of Contributors
  6. Preface
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Chapter 1. Efferent Response Processes: Relationships among Stimuli, Movement, and Reinforcement
  9. Chapter 2. Physiological and Sensory Feedback of the Motor System: Neural-Metabolic Integration for Energy Regulation in Behavior
  10. Chapter 3. Motor Cortex and the Pyramidal System
  11. Chapter 4. Subcortical Mechanisms of Behavioral Plasticity
  12. Chapter 5. Comparisons of the Efferent Projections of the Globus Pallidus and Substantia Nigra in the Monkey
  13. Chapter 6. The Role of Prefrontal Control in the Programming of Motor Behavior
  14. Chapter 7. The Development of Operant Responses by Noradrenergic Activation and Cholinergic Suppression of Movements
  15. Chapter 8. Diencephalic, Hippocampal, and Neocortical Mechanisms in Voluntary Movement
  16. Chapter 9. Intracranial Self-Stimulation Pathways as Substrate for Stimulus-Response Integration
  17. Subject Index