Neural Circuits of Innate Behaviors

Hao Wang (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

112 Seiten

2020 | 1st ed. 2020
Springer Verlag, Singapore
978-981-15-7085-8 (ISBN)

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This book summarizes the latest research findings in the neurocircuitry of innate behaviors, covering major topics such as innate fear, aggression, feeding, reward, social interaction, parental care, spatial navigation, and sleep-wake regulation. For decades, humans have been fascinated by wild animals’ instincts, like the annual two-thousand-mile migration of the monarch butterfly in North American, and the “imprint” behavior of newborn birds. Since these instincts are always displayed in stereotypical patterns in most individuals of a given species, the neural circuits processing such behaviors must be genetically hard-wired in the brain. Recently, with the development of modern techniques, including optogenetics, retrograde and anterograde virus tracing, and in vivo calcium imaging, researchers have been able to determine and dissect the specific neural circuits for many innate behaviors by selectively manipulating well-defined cell types in the brain. This book discusses recent advances in the investigation of the neural-circuit mechanisms underlying innate behaviors.

Dr. Hao Wang is a Distinguished Professor and Principle Investigator at the Institute of Neuroscience, Zhejiang University School of Medicine. He received a Cheung Kong Scholars’ award from the Chinese Ministry of Education (Youth Program) in 2016. His research focuses on neural mechanisms of innate behaviors, and he has published several papers in leading journals in this field, such as Nature Neuroscience, Cell Reports, eLife and the Journal of Neuroscience.

Chapter 1: Neural Circuits Underlying Innate Fear.- Chapter 2: Neurobiology and Neural Circuits of Aggression.- Chapter 3: Neural Regulation of Feeding Behavior.- Chapter 4: Neural Circuits for Reward.- Chapter 5: Neuronal response and behavioral modulation in social interaction.- Chapter 6: Neural circuit mechanisms that underlie parental care.- Chapter 7: Spatial navigation.- Chapter 8: Neural circuits for sleep-wake regulation.

Erscheinungsdatum	04.09.2020
Reihe/Serie	Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology ; 1284
Zusatzinfo	10 Illustrations, color; 3 Illustrations, black and white; IX, 112 p. 13 illus., 10 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Singapore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Studium
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
ISBN-10	981-15-7085-X / 981157085X
ISBN-13	978-981-15-7085-8 / 9789811570858
Zustand	Neuware