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  • Laws of Human Behavior

    Steps Toward Hard Science

    by Donald Pfaff, Sandra Sherman ...
    How scientific studies of human behavior can be replicated with the consistency and rigor characteristic of the physical sciences, yielding scientific “laws.”In Laws of Human Behavior, Donald Pfaff and Sandra Sherman argue that many behavioral and neural discoveries—verified over the years through precise, reliable measurement—are tantamount to “laws,” comparable in rigor and replicability to ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • How Brain Arousal Mechanisms Work

    Paths Toward Consciousness

    by Donald Pfaff ...
    What are the physical paths towards consciousness? How do humans transition out of deep anesthesia, deep sleep, or traumatic brain injury? This book presents a new argument that expands past theories centered on the cerebral cortex, and instead emphasizes the longitudinally-integrated brainstem systems that are essential to the mechanism of consciousness. The workings of these vertical pathways ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • How the Vertebrate Brain Regulates Behavior

    Direct from the Lab

    by Donald Pfaff ...
    Throughout his remarkable career, Donald Pfaff has demonstrated that by choosing problems and methods with care, biologists can study the molecular mechanisms of brains more complex than those of fruit flies, snails, roundworms, and other invertebrates. His half century in the lab, starting with his discovery of hormone receptors in the brains of mammals and leading to the first detailed account ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Drugs of Abuse

    A Perspective

    by Donald W Pfaff, Sandra Sherman ...
    Drugs of Abuse integrates the astonishing history of drugs with a clear, accessible examination of how drugs act on the brain to become addictive. It analyzes how society has addressed addiction and how the latest, cutting-edge approaches are challenging accepted norms. It will equip readers with a comprehensive perspective on a problem that has seemed intractable.Donald W Pfaff is Professor ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Man and Woman:An Inside Story

    An Inside Story

    by Donald W. Pfaff, PhD ...
    The saga of sex differences in brain and behavior begins with a tiny sperm swimming toward a huge egg, to contribute its tiny Y chromosome plus its copies of the other chromosomes. Genetic, anatomic and physiologic alterations in the male ensue, making his brain and behavior different in specific respects from his sister. Brain-wise, specific cell groups develop differently in males compared to ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Neuroscientist Looks At Robots, A

    by Donald W Pfaff ...
    The book, written for a general educated public, compares the most important elements of the human nervous system to the corresponding capacities of robots. Crucial are the areas of activities for which the constraints limiting human and robot performances are much different. Those areas offer opportunities for synergies.The book argues that we now understand mechanisms for emotional feelings in ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Origins of Human Socialization

    by Donald W. Pfaff ...
    Origins of Human Socialization introduces a new concept on the origins of basic human instinct. The book combines the three disciplinary approaches, including neuroscience, paleoanthropology and developmental psychology as an intertwined foundation for prosocial behavior. It argues that humans have the basic brain mechanisms for prosocial activity, offering new insights into more sophisticated ... Read more

    $132.79 CAD

  • The Altruistic Brain

    How We Are Naturally Good

    by Donald W Pfaff ...
    Since the beginning of recorded history, law and religion have provided "rules" that define good behavior. When we obey such rules, we assign to some external authority the capacity to determine how we should act. Even anarchists recognize the existence of a choice as to whether or not to obey, since no one has seriously doubted that the source of social order resides in our vast ethical systems. ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Hormone/Behavior Relations of Clinical Importance

    Endocrine Systems Interacting with Brain and Behavior

    Edited by Donald W. Pfaff, Robert H. Rubin ...
    A single volume of 41 articles, Hormone/Behavior Relations of Clinical Importance is an authoritative selection of relevant chapters from the Hormones Brain and Behavior 2e MRW, the most comprehensive source of neuroendocrinological information assembled to date (AP July 2009). The study of hormones as they impact the brain and, subsequently, behavior is a central topic in neuroscience, ... Read more

    $194.39 CAD

  • Handbook of Neuroendocrinology

    Edited by Donald W. Pfaff, Jon Levine, George Fink ...
    Neuroendocrinology, the discipline concerned with how the nervous system controls hormonal secretion and how hormones control the brain, is pivotal to physiology and medicine. Neuroendocrinology has disclosed and underpins fundamental physiological, molecular biological and genetic principles such as the regulation of gene transcription and translation, the mechanisms of chemical neurotransmission ... Read more

    $139.99 CAD

  • Oxytocin, Vasopressin and Related Peptides in the Regulation of Behavior

    Edited by Elena Choleris, Donald W. Pfaff, Martin Kavaliers ...
    The mammalian neurohypophyseal peptide hormones oxytocin and vasopressin act to mediate human social behavior - they affect trust and social relationships and have an influence on avoidance responses. Describing the evolutionary roots of the effects that these neuropeptides have on behavior, this book examines remarkable parallel findings in both humans and non-human animals. The chapters are ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • Man and Woman

    An Inside Story

    by Donald W. Pfaff, PhD ...
    The saga of sex differences in brain and behavior begins with a tiny sperm swimming toward a huge egg, to contribute its tiny Y chromosome plus its copies of the other chromosomes. Genetic, anatomic and physiologic alterations in the male ensue, making his brain and behavior different in specific respects from his sister. Brain-wise, specific cell groups develop differently in males compared to ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD