Adaptation and Well-Being: Social Allostasis

Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Preface......Page 9
Introduction......Page 11
Genes, brains and behavior......Page 12
Allostasis......Page 15
Regulation......Page 19
Social and behavioral regulation of the internal milieu......Page 22
Meaningful social contact and human well-being......Page 28
Explanations in the context of evolution......Page 31
Biology-amazing......Page 35
Hominoid evolution......Page 36
Tools and time......Page 38
Out of Africa......Page 41
Changing perspectives on progressive evolution: punctuated equilibrium......Page 45
Conclusion......Page 46
Introduction......Page 47
Cephalic cortical expansion and hominoid evolution......Page 48
Vision, primates, joint social contact......Page 49
Cognitive predilections......Page 53
Representational capacities for action and tools......Page 56
Allostasis, cortex and social function......Page 60
Caution and humility: invertebrate and vertebrate brains......Page 61
Conclusion......Page 62
Introduction......Page 65
Structure of brains......Page 66
Re-envisioning the limbic system......Page 73
Allostatic regulation and centrifugal control......Page 74
Conclusion......Page 76
Introduction......Page 77
Origins......Page 78
Chemical messengers, information molecules and the brain......Page 80
Evolutionary expression of corticosteroids and crh......Page 84
From negative restraint to allostatic regulation: beyond the hpa axis......Page 90
Cortisol induction of crh and profound change birth......Page 93
Metamorphosis: radical change, allostatic regulation......Page 98
Pre-and postnatal events and continuous change......Page 99
Alimentary and visceral contribution......Page 101
Conclusion......Page 102
Appetitive and consummatory behaviors......Page 105
Cephalic adaptation: feedforward systems in the brain and appetitive and consummatory behaviors......Page 106
Song and social communication......Page 110
Vasopressin and social behavior......Page 113
Prolactin......Page 116
Oxytocin and social behavior......Page 121
Symbiotic social behaviors, sensory systems and evolution......Page 125
Epigenetic events and social contact......Page 127
Withdrawal or avoidance behaviors and crh......Page 129
Conclusion......Page 131
Introduction......Page 135
Adaptation and simple hedonic shifts related to the internal milieu......Page 136
Dopamine, incentives and reward......Page 139
Anticipatory regulation and cognitive/visceral adaptation......Page 143
Salience, objects, rewards and devolution of function: glucocorticoids and crh......Page 146
Social adaptations, vulnerabilities and allostatic overload......Page 151
Conclusion......Page 153
Considerations about the neocortex......Page 155
The view......Page 157
Moral conflict, control, cortex......Page 159
Cortical inhibition......Page 160
Dopamine and the organization of inhibition: maturation of frontal cortex......Page 162
The amygdala......Page 164
Taste and distaste in social contact......Page 165
Amygdala social function......Page 166
Fear, familiar/unfamiliar dimensions, temperament and the amygdala......Page 167
Social judgment, oxytocin and the amygdala......Page 168
Devolution of social function and autism......Page 171
Conclusion......Page 172
Evolution and adaptation......Page 175
Human empathy, devolution of empathy and social contact......Page 177
Information molecules, crh......Page 179
Oxytocin/vasopressin......Page 180
Prolactin......Page 182
Social allostasis and well-being......Page 183
References......Page 187
Index......Page 203