Body, Brain, Behavior
Three Views and a Conversation

An innovative volume on the mind, brain and connection to peripheral organs

Tamas L. Horvath (Author), Joy Hirsch (Author), Zoltán Molnár (Author)

9780128180938, Elsevier Science

Paperback, published 19 January 2022

444 pages, 100 illustrations (50 in full color)
23.5 x 19 x 2.8 cm, 0.95 kg

Body, Brain, Behavior: Three Views and a Conversation describes brain research on the frontiers, with a particular emphasis on the relationship between the brain and its development and evolution, peripheral organs, and other brains in communication. The book expands current views of neuroscience by illustrating the integration of these disciplines. By using a novel method of conversations between 3 scientists of different disciplines, cellular, endocrine, developmental, and social processes are seamlessly woven into topics that relate to contemporary living in health and disease. This book is a critical read for anyone who wants to become familiar with the inner workings of the nervous system and its intimate connections to the universe of contemporary life issues.

1. What is a brain? 2. Call to action for new conceptual framework 3. Big-brain/small-brain models and controversy 4. Historical black-box models of the brain 5. Eating: linking brain, body, and food 6. Action: linking brain, muscular-skeletal system, and running about 7. Reproduction: Linking, brain, reproductive systems, and love 8. One-brain, one plus one brain, one coupled brain 9. Final integration

Subject Areas: Neurosciences [PSAN], Child & developmental psychology [JMC]