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Author Schulkin, Jay

Title Adaptation and Well-Being : Social Allostasis
Published Leiden : Cambridge University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (214 pages)
Contents Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1 Evolutionary Perspectives and Hominoid Expression; 2 Cognitive Competence and Cortical Evolution; 3 A Window into the Brain; 4 Chemical Messengers and the Physiology of Change and Adaptation; 5 Social Neuroendocrinology; 6 Cephalic Adaptation: Incentives and Devolution; 7 Neocortex, Amygdala, Prosocial Behaviors; Conclusion: Evolution, Social Allostasis and Well-Being; References; Index
Summary Explores the behavioral neuroscience of social attachment and its significance in establishing and maintaining human well-being
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Subject Psychoneuroendocrinology.
Sociobiology.
Brain -- Evolution.
Adaptation (Physiology)
Allostasis.
Well-being.
Adaptation, Physiological
Allostasis
comfort (sensation)
Adaptation (Physiology)
Allostasis
Brain -- Evolution
Psychoneuroendocrinology
Sociobiology
Well-being
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781139081764
1139081764
1283112973
9781283112970