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Main Title The Brain and Its Self A Neurochemical Concept of the Innate and Acquired Drives / [electronic resource] :
Type EBOOK
Author Knoll, Joseph.
Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg,
Year Published 2005
Call Number RC321-580
ISBN 9783540274346
Subjects Medicine ; Neurosciences ; Psychopharmacology ; Animal behavior ; Psychology, clinical
Internet Access
Description Access URL
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/b139067
Collation XIII, 176 p. online resource.
Notes
Due to license restrictions, this resource is available to EPA employees and authorized contractors only
Contents Notes
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. 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 error phase of its development. It seeks to outgrow the myth-directed era of its history and come to its final state, the ration-directed human society.