The Brain and Its Self A Neurochemical Concept of the Innate and Acquired Drives /

• Main Author: Knoll, Joseph (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Neurosciences.; Psychopharmacology.; Behavioral sciences.; Neuropsychology.; Biomedicine.; Behavioral Sciences.

The main message of this monograph is that the appearance of the mammalian brain with the ability to acquire drives ensured the development of social life, and eventually led to the evolution of the human society. This most sophisticated form of organized life on earth is still in the trial and erro...

Table of Contents:

• Innate and Acquired Drives
• The Conception that Whatever Humans Achieved Derives from the Unrestricted Capacity of Their Brain to Acquire Drives
• Enhancer Regulation: A Neurochemical Approach to the Innate and Acquired Drives
• Approaching Old Problems From A New Angle
• Theoretical Aspects of the Enhancer Regulation Approach
• Conclusion.