New Frontiers in Social Neuroscience

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Decety, Jean (Editor), Christen, Yves (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Research and Perspectives in Neurosciences, 21
• Subjects: Medicine.; Neurosciences.; Behavioral therapy.; Biomedicine.; Behavioral Therapy.

Traditionally, neuroscience has considered the nervous system as an isolated entity and largely ignored influences of the social environments in which humans and many animal species live. In fact, we now recognize the considerable impact of social structures on the operations of the brain and body....