Hormones and behaviour : a psychological approach / Nick Neave.

9780511808203 (electronic bk.)
0511808208 (electronic bk.)
9780511649547 (electronic bk.)
0511649541 (electronic bk.)
0511573669
9780511573668
9780521871457 (hardback)
052187145X (hardback)
9780521692014 (paperback)
0521692016 (paperback)

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

English

1 online resource (x, 355 pages) : illustrations

QP356.45 .N43 2008eb

(OCoLC)817930481

"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 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 is an introductory textbook which will appeal to second and third year social science undergraduate students in psychology and biomedicine."--Jacket

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-343) and index.

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Print version: Neave, Nick, 1964- Hormones and behaviour. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008

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