Neurobiology of Social behavior

Neurobiology of Social Behavior

The Primate Order comprises over 300 species and a wide range of different social systems (Smuts et al., 1987). Very few species have a fully solitary lifestyle. Most of the others are characterized by permanent associations between two or more adults and their young. Pair living is relatively rare, being characteristic of only 3% to 4% of primate species. Some of these socially monogamous spec...

Social influences on neurobiology and behavior: epigenetic effects during development.

The quality of the social environment can have profound influences on the development and activity of neural systems with implications for numerous behavioral and physiological responses, including the expression of emotionality. Though social experiences occurring early in development may be particularly influential on the developing brain, there is continued plasticity within these neural cir...

Neurobiology of behavior.

Russell D. Fernald is professor of Biology and the Benjamin Scott Crocker Professor of Human Biology at Stanford University. He joined the Stanford faculty in 1991 from the University of Oregon where he was a founding member and director of the Institute for Neuroscience. His research is focused on how social behavior is transduced into cellular and molecular changes in the brain using techniqu...

Neurobiology of behavior.

Neurobiology of sexual behavior.

Recent advances in the neurobiology of sexual behavior have helped to refine our understanding of the neuroanatomical, neuroendocrine and neurochemical systems that modulate responses to sexual stimulation. Both appetitive and consummatory sexual behaviors have been studied in several laboratory species and in humans using traditional and novel behavioral paradigms. New knowledge has emerged co...