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This book is welcome in that it makes connections between two well studied but related neural systems: the systems that control sex and pain. This is a timely attempt that [will] be of great interest to neuroscientists. The scholarly achievement of this study is apparent; the authors have mastered a substantial literature.
This scholarly and articulate book explores the authors' novel and provocative hypothesis that neural mechanisms controlling reproductive behavior and pain are intricately intertwined. In the process of such exploration, the reader is provided with extensive, up-to-date, and unique reviews—highly valuable regardless of how one views the hypothesis—of behavioral, neurophysiological, hormonal, neurochemical, and genetic research on mechanisms of arousal, analgesia, stress, and reproductive behavior.
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Book Details
Publication Date
Status
Available
Trim Size
6
x 9
Pages
280
ISBN
9780801868276
Illustration Description
6 halftones, 47 line drawings
Table of Contents
Series Foreword
Preface
List of Abbreviations
Part I. Requirement for Motivational State Concepts
A. Physics, Brain, and Behavior
B. Motivation in Its Generalized and Specific Aspects
C. Motivation for
Series Foreword
Preface
List of Abbreviations
Part I. Requirement for Motivational State Concepts
A. Physics, Brain, and Behavior
B. Motivation in Its Generalized and Specific Aspects
C. Motivation for Females to Seek Males
D. Hypothalamic and Preoptic Mechanisms Involved in Two Types of Motivational Change
E. Summary
Part II. Ascending Arousal Systems Activated
A. Ascending Reticular Activating Systems
B. Structure of Arousal States
C. Application to Sexual Behavior
D. Clinical Observations on Human Awareness and Arousal
E. Mood
F. Summary
Part III. Descending Systems: The Importance of Opioid Peptides and Analgesia
A. Opioid Peptides in Pain and Analgesia
B. Analgesia Induced by Stress and Environmental Variables
C. Hormonal Control of the Enkephalin Gene: One Paradox and Three Solutions
D. Intimate Relations among Inhibitory Systems
E. Hypothalamic Projections
F. Gender Differences in Analgesia
G. Pain and Sex: Similarity of Reproductive Behavior and Analgesia - Ascending and Descending Pathways
H. Summary
Part IV. Inferences and Arguments
A. Gene/Behavior Relationships: Application to Opioid Peptides
B. Biological Importance of the Relations among Sex, Arousal, and Analgesia
References
Index
