Main description:

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.

Contents:

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