edited by C. Sue Carter, I. Izja Lederhendler, and Brian Kirkpatrick
New York :
New York Academy of Sciences,
1997
xviii, 614 p. :
ill. ;
24 cm
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences,
v. 807
Includes bibliographical references and index
Pt. 1. Ultimate causation -- Species diversity and the evolution of behavioral controlling mechanisms -- Ecological constraints and the evolution of hormone-behavior interrelationships -- Evolutionary perspectives on primate mating sytems and behavior -- Emotion: an evolutionary by-product of the neural regulation of the autonomic nervous system -- Pt. 2. Proximate causation -- Brain systems for the mediation of social separation-distress and social-reward. Evolutionary antecedents and neuropeptide intermediaries -- Neuroanatomical circuitry for mammalian maternal behavior --Oxytocin control of maternal behavior. Regulation by sex steroids and offspring stimuli -- Physiological and endocrine effects of social contact -- Integrative functions of lactational hormones in social behavior and stress management -- Social facilitation, affiliation, and dominance in the social life of spotted hyenas -- Hormonal modulation of sexual behavior and affiliation in rhesus monkeys -- Attachment relationships in new world primates -- Psychobiological consequences of social relationships -- Specific neuroendocrine mechanisms not involving generalized stress mediate social regulation of female reproduction in cooperatively breeding marmoset monkeys -- Mating-induced c-fos expression patterns complement and supplement observations after lesions in the male syrian hamster brain -- Peptides, steroids and pair bonding -- Brain sexual dimorphism and sex differences in parental and other social behaviors -- Regulatory mechanisms of oxytocin-mediated sociosexual behavior -- Molecular aspects of monogamy -- Pt.3. Cognition and communication -- Conflict resolution and distress alleviation in monkeys and apes -- Early learning and social bond -- Affiliative processes and vocal development -- Audio-vocal learning in budgerigars -- Functional anatomy of forebrain vocal control pathways in the budgerigar (melopsittacus undulatus) -- Neural correlates of sensitive periods in avian song learning -- Pt.4. Clinical and societal issues -- Pyschobiology of early social attachment in rhesus monkeys -- Psychological and neuroendocrinological sequelae of early social deprivation in institutionalized children in Romania -- Role of psychosocial factors in the onset of major depression -- Social behavior in autism -- Affiliation and neuropsychiatric disorders: the deficit syndrome of schizophrenia -- Pt.5. Poster papers