Hormones and Behaviour: A Psychological Approach - Couverture souple

Neave, Nick

 
9780521692014: Hormones and Behaviour: A Psychological Approach

Synopsis

Recent advances in non-invasive sampling techniques have led to an increase in the study of hormones and behaviour. Behaviour is complex but can be explained to a large degree by interactions between various psychological and physiological components, such as the interplay between hormonal and psychological systems. This new textbook from Nick Neave offers a detailed introduction to the fascinating science of behavioural endocrinology from a psychological perspective, examining the relationships between hormones and behaviour in both humans and animals. Neave explains the endocrine system and the ways in which hormones can influence brain structure and function, and presents a series of examples to demonstrate how hormones can influence specific behaviours, including sexual determination and differentiation, neurological differentiation, parental behaviours, aggressive behaviours and cognition. This introductory textbook will appeal to second and third year social science undergraduate students in psychology and biomedicine.

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À propos de l?auteur

Nick Neave is Reader in Psychology at Northumbria University.

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ISBN 10 :  052187145X ISBN 13 :  9780521871457
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2007
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