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Peptides, Hormones, and Behavior (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1984)
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Peptides, Hormones, and Behavior (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1984)
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Fundamental to survival of living organisms is their ability to
react appropri ately to their environment. Cannon (1929) recognized
that "back of internal homeostatic mechanisms are powerful
motivating agencies-appetites and hunger and thirst." Almost all
observed behavior may be viewed as activity required to meet some
physical or emotional need. "The higher in the scale of living
things, the more numerous, the more perfect, and the more compli
cated do these regulatory agencies become." This statement by
Fredricq (1885) regarding internal mechanisms is at least as valid
for behavior. Adrenal medullary secretion in preparation of "fight
or flight" may be con sidered the first described behavioral
neuroendocrine response. The conse quences of more prolonged stress
on pituitary-adrenal cortical function and the subsequent unfolding
of the means by which the brain controls the secre tion of the
anterior and posterior pituitary glands led to the birth of neuroen
docrinology. During the last decade, neuroendocrinology has taken a
remarkable turn. Peptides which were believed at first to be
involved solely in control of the pituitary by the hypothalamus
were found in other areas of the brain. Other peptides were
encountered in brain by their activity in competing for the high
affinity binding of drugs to their receptors, and still others,
first found in peripheral organs, were discovered also in brain.
Perhaps even more amaz ing was the discovery that one or another of
these peptides influence almost every aspect of behavior."
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