ABSTRACT

This book is for readers who are knowledgeable about the neurosciences and curious about brain mechanisms that produce normal and pathological social behaviour. It is a reference work that presents and reviews facts and recent findings that need to be accounted for within a coherent neuroanatomy and neurophysiology of social behaviour.

chapter One|4 pages

Introduction

chapter Two|43 pages

Conceptual framework

chapter Three|44 pages

Hypthalamo-periaqueductal system

chapter Four|62 pages

Basolateral and extended amygdala

chapter Five|149 pages

Septohippocampal system

chapter Six|40 pages

Lateral frontoparietal networks

chapter Seven|85 pages

Prefrontal cortex (medial and orbital)

chapter Eight|108 pages

Basal ganglia

chapter Nine|66 pages

Syntheses