Broadly defined psychobiology is a wide field of scientific
endeavor, which bridges the artificial divide imposed by the
Cartesian philosophy of things of the mind and things of the body.
Starting in the early decades of the 20th century, mind-body
research developed new avenues of understanding in Western science.
It became increasingly clear that processes attributed to the
psyche, including emotions, cognitions, memories, and
personalities, had important effects upon physiological events,
could disrupt homeostasis, determined and controlled allostasis,
and arose, in fact, from biological phenomena driven by cell
biology, biochemistry, genomics and, in a larger sense,
interactomics. In brief, psychobiology reunited, at last, the
sciences of psychology and physiology. Current advanced research in
psychobiology proffers a new perspective on human and animal
behavior, with cognitions, emotions, and traits describing the
interaction between biological systems and behavior. Today, novel
frontiers in psychobiology research encompass how cognition (what
we are thinking) and mood (how we are feeling) combine with,
determine and are engendered by biological events. The superb
chapters that compose this book are written by the premier
internationally and most renowned psychobiologists in the world at
this time. They examine several of the most important domains of
psychobiology research today: from a novel conceptualization of
stress in the context of the person-environment fit model, to the
modulation of immune surveillance by perceived stress, the
alterations of cognition by pharmaceutical use and over-use, as
well as from athletic training or ionization poisoning to,
ultimately, the brain-gut interaction. The role of functional MRS
in the study of advanced research questions in psychobiology is
also discussed in depth. Taken together, this collection of
chapters make this book on advanced psychobiology both timely and
critical. Expectations are that future research development in
psychobiology, as the field continues to advance, will continue to
strive to understand how psychological and biological connections
shape the human experience. Psychobiology will increasingly provide
a uniquely new perspective in psychology on the one hand, and on
the other hand, in biology along several of the dimensions
proffered in this book.
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