Animal Models of Human Emotion and Cognition

About this book

Argues that animal studies do indeed provide valuable insights into our behaviors and presents studies illustrating how researchers are trying to better understand human emotion, development, and cognition.

Contents

On the Nature of Animal Models of Human Behavioural Dysfunction, J. Bruce Overmier; Justifying the Research Agenda, Lewis Petrinovich; On the Affective Nature of "Human Nature" - a Neurobiologist's Reflections, Pierre Karli; Rodent "Models" of Human Neuroses and Psychoses, Paul Frederic Brian and Lynne Marrow; The Mouse Defence Test Battery - an Experimental Model of Different Emotional States, Guy Griedel and David J. Sanger; Latent Inhibition in Animals as a Model of Acute Schizophrenia - a Re-Analysis, Phillippe Oberling et al; Startle Response Measure of Information Processing in Animals - Relevance to Schizophrenia, Mark E. Geyer et al; Sensory and Integrative Development in the Human Foetus and Perinate - the Usefulness of Animal Models, Benoist Schaal et al; What Has the Psychology of Human Perception Learned from Animal Studies?, Claude Bonnet and Christian Wehrhahn; An Animal Model for a Physiological Interpretation of Human Bisexuality, Hames R. Anderson and Gordon G. Gallup, Jr.; Animal Models of Medial Temporal Lobe Amnesia - the Myth of the Hippocampus, Christopher A. Duve et al; Animal Models of Global Amnesia - What Can They Tell Us About Memory?, Dave G. Mumby; Behavioural and Pharamcological Analyses of Memory Offer New Behavioural Options for Remediation, J. Bruce Overmeier et al; Nonhumam Primates as Models of Hemispheric Specialization, Jacques Vauclair et al; Animal Aggression - a Model for Stress and Coping, J.M. Koolhaus et al; Mouse Genes and Animal Models of Aggression in Humans, Stephen C. Maxson; Challenges in Assessing Rodent and Nonhuman Primate Aggression, Augusto Vitale and Enrico Alleva; Continuity Versus (Political) Correctness - Animal Models and Human Aggression, D. Caroline Blanchard et al.

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