Adaptation and Well-Being
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Adaptation and Well-Being

Social Allostasis

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Adaptation and Well-Being

Social Allostasis

About this book

Recently, an interest in our understanding of well-being within the context of competition and cooperation has re-emerged within the biological and neural sciences. Given that we are social animals, our well-being is tightly linked to interactions with others. Pro-social behavior establishes and sustains human contact, contributing to well-being. Adaptation and Well-Being is about the evolution and biological importance of social contact. Social sensibility is an essential feature of our central nervous systems, and what have evolved are elaborate behavioral ways in which to sustain and maintain the physiological and endocrine systems that underlie behavioral adaptations. Writing for his fellow academics, and with chapters on evolutionary aspects, chemical messengers and social neuroendocrinology among others, Jay Schulkin explores this fascinating field of behavioral neuroscience.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Introduction
  8. 1 Evolutionary Perspectives and Hominoid Expression
  9. 2 Cognitive Competence and Cortical Evolution
  10. 3 A Window into the Brain
  11. 4 Chemical Messengers and the Physiology of Change and Adaptation
  12. 5 Social Neuroendocrinology
  13. 6 Cephalic Adaptation: Incentives and Devolution
  14. 7 Neocortex, Amygdala, Prosocial Behaviors
  15. Conclusion: Evolution, Social Allostasis and Well-Being
  16. References
  17. Index