Detlev Ganten

Donald Pfaff

Brian Pickering

The role of electrical signalling in the control of endocrine secretions by the brain has been clear for many years. Recently, the influences of hormones on synthetic events in neuroendocrine cells have raised new questions concerning the peptides released from such neurons. This volume concentrates on the relation between these two fields and asks how electrical action potentials facilitate secretion of substances from nerve cells which control endocrine events. While stimulus-secretion coupling has been studied extensively in other physiological contexts, this is the first treatment of the phenomenon in an exclusively neuroendocrine setting.

Stimulus-Secretion Coupling in Neuroendocrine Systems

Kjell Fuxe

Neuroendocrinology of Mood

Norman T. Adler

Robert W. Goy

Reproduction

Martin A. Conway

Aikaterini Fotopoulou

Can the psychodynamics of the mind be correlated with neurodynamic processes in the brain? The book revisits a question that scientists and psychoanalysts have been asking for more than a century. It brings together experts from Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Neuroscience, Philosophy, Psychiatry and Neurology to consider this question.

Trends in Psychodynamic Neuroscience

From the Couch to the Lab

Detlef Ganten

Morphology of Hypothalamus and Its Connections

The book, written for a general educated public, compares the most important elements of the human nervous system to the corresponding capacities of robots. Crucial are the areas of activities for which the constraints limiting human and robot performances are much different. Those areas offer opportunities for synergies. The book argues that we now understand mechanisms for emotional feelings in the human brain so well that we will be able to program robots to act as though they also have emotion. Written in a clear and open fashion by an expert neuroscientist, the book will appeal to interested lay readers in addition to neuroscientists and computer scientists. Contents:IntroductionRobots YesterdaySentient MachinesMotors to GoEmotionsRegulation and Display of "Emotions" by RobotsHuman–Robot InteractionsLegal Implications of Living and Working with RobotsRobots TomorrowIndex Readership: Interested lay readers, students and researchers in biology, neuroscience, computer vision, neural networks and psychology. Key Features:It is unique in comparing brain to robot controlsIt is absolutely up to date in describing current capacities of robotsIt looks not only at social implications of burgeoning robot capacities but also at the legal implicationsKeywords:Vision;Smell;Muscle;Cortex;Neuron;Amygdala;Fear;Sex;Robot;Prosthesis;Synergy;Population Growth;Learning;Liability;Design Engineer;Control Engineer

A Neuroscientist Looks at Robots

Latest issue in the CURRENT TOPICS IN NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY se- ries which has been gaining a great deal of reputation as a primary source for reviews in neuroendocrinology and related areas in the past few years.

Behavioral Aspects of Neuroendocrinology

Donald Pfaff

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