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Hormones and Social Behavior

Hormones and Social Behavior

Kordon, Claude
Chanson, Philippe
Pfaff, Donald W.

Hardcover

Series: Research and Perspectives in Endocrine Interactions

Medical ReferenceBiologyGeneral Psychology

ISBN10: 3540792864
ISBN13: 9783540792864
Publisher: Springer
Published: Jun 24 2008
Pages: 199
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
SocialBonding, aProductofEvolution: anIntroductiontotheVolume Mechanisms underlying reproductive and maternal functions or coping represent the initialstructuringforcebehindmanysocialbehaviors.Theyareaccompaniedbysel- tivehormonalenvironmentsaimedatfacilitatingor stabilizingthem.Sexandadrenal steroids are major players in the regulation of reproductive functions and coping challenges, but other hormones also participate in a variety of social behaviors (in particular, oxytocinandvasopressin, twophylogeneticallyveryoldmoietiesoriginally associated with maternal care and water balance) and are receiving increasing att- tion. Their role is highlighted in the present volume, which gathers contributions to theColloqueMédicineetRechercheHormonesandSocialBehaviororganizedbythe FondationIPSENinDecember 2007. Whatisthekeytounderstandingtherationaleofhormonalsubstratesofbehavior? Evolution, of course. Higher manifestations of social behavior have evolved from - productivebehavior, characterizedbyErnstMayrastheleadingedgeofevolutionary change. As formulated by one contributor to thisvolume, however, the evolutionary increase in neocortex seen in primates has induced a signi?cant emancipation of - havior from hormonal determinants, and in parallel, an increasing role for intelligent socialstrategies(Keverne 2008). In so-called lower mammalian animals, many social behaviors are closely - pendent upon the olfactory system, a component of autonomous regulation of such importancethatitexpressesalargeproportionofallreceptorgenespresentinthebrain. Whenonelooksathighermammalssuchasprimates, olfactorycontrolbecomesless stringent. Olfactory structures exhibit the same number of receptor genes, but a large number are transformed into non-coding pseudogenes. In parallel, hormones i- tially targeted on physiological functions become increasingly associated with more diversi?edcognitivefunctions.

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