Epigenetics and Behavior

Exploring Biological Determinants of Behavior

F. Scott Hall, Maria T. G. Perona (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

400 Seiten

2017
Academic Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-12-801384-7 (ISBN)

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Epigenetics and Behavior: Exploring Biological Determinants of Behavior discusses the evolutionary basis of neurodevelopmental regulation of gene expression by experience (epigenetics). While many areas of scientific inquiry have sought to understand what determines the variation in human attributes (phenotypes) that have consistent trait-like features, including anxiety or fearlessness, aggressive or non-aggressive behavior, social or antisocial behavior, charitable or miserly traits, and so forth, this book takes a comprehensive approach.

Over the lifespan of a particular individual, these traits, although flexible, are often highly consistent. The "nature-nurture" or "genes versus environment" discussion is one of the longstanding arguments in all philosophical inquiry. And now, as we stand on the threshold of a complete understanding of the most fundamental question about human nature, all a result of combined empirical and theoretical advances in epigenetics which influence developmental psychobiology and evolutionary biology, the science is rapidly progressing.

With the advent of epigenetics, we now have a mechanism (or mechanisms, really) to explain how this process works at a molecular level - that is, evolutionary selected mechanisms of gene-environment interactions are literally "written" into our genetic code. This book draws together the knowledge and ideas from the different fields that collectively have answered the "nature-nurture" discussion.

Dr. F. Scott Hall is an Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics in the College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Toledo. Dr. Hall's research investigates the genetic and environmental determinants of susceptibility to addiction and related psychiatric disorders. After a B.A. from Harvard University (1987) and a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 1994, Dr. Hall completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Institute on Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse. Dr. Hall joined the Molecular Neurobiology Branch at the National Institute on Drug Abuse in 1999 where he led the behavioral genetics group until 2014. He has authored over a hundred scientific publications and is a fellow of the International Behavioral Neuroscience Society. Dr. Hall is recognized internationally as an expert in the genetic basis of addiction and the role that early social experience plays in shaping adult behavior and behavioral pathology. Behavioral Biology Research Center, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Campus, Baltimore, MD, USA

1. Introduction
2. Gene x Environment Interactions in Sensory and Perceptual Development
3. Gene x Environment Interactions in Intellectual Development
4. Gene x Environment Interactions in Emotional Development: Social Deprivation in Primates
5. Gene x Environment Interactions in Emotional Development: Social Deprivation in Rodents
6. Deprivation of Social Play in Rodents: Isolation Rearing
7. Isolation Housing of Adult Rodents
8. Specificity of the Effects of Early Life Experiences and the Importance of Critical Periods
9. Epigenetics
10. Evolutionary Implications of Epigenetically Mediated Neurodevelopmental Programs

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.10.2017
Verlagsort	San Diego
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Biopsychologie / Neurowissenschaften
	Informatik ► Weitere Themen ► Bioinformatik
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Genetik / Molekularbiologie
ISBN-10	0-12-801384-2 / 0128013842
ISBN-13	978-0-12-801384-7 / 9780128013847
Zustand	Neuware