Psychobiology of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder


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Less than twenty years ago the field of mental health did not have the language to describe the long-term consequences of traumatic stress. In the absence of specific biological markers, the psychological symptoms of trauma survivors were often attributed to neurotic or even psychotic disorders. But in 1980, after more than a century of clinical observations, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) was recognized as a diagnosis. By the 1990s, biological findings began to provide objective validation that PTSD is more than a politically or socially motivated conceptualization of human suffering. This volume summarizes the latest findings in this rapidly changing field, including the biological differences between PTSD, stress, and other psychiatric disorders Chief among the findings is that PTSD is a different disorder than was originally thought, and that the biology of PTSD is not simply the biology of stress. Topics include the empirical basis for post-traumatic stress disorder; psychobiological findings; neurodevelopmental effects of trauma; neurological basis of traumatic and non-traumatic memory impairment in post-traumatic stress disorder; how basic research informs clinical observations; and the psychobiology of treatment.




The Brattleboro Rat


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Cocaine


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This volume is taken from the proceedings of a New York Academy of Sciences conference held on September 16-19, 1997. It discusses and interprets recent controversial clinical, animal and behavioural studies suggesting that particular brain structures, neurotransmitter systems and behaviours may be compromised by gestational cocaine exposure.




The Integrative Neurobiology of Affiliation


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This book examines the biological, especially the neural, substrates of affiliation and related social behaviors. Affiliation refers to social behaviors that bring individuals closer together. This includes such associations as attachment, parent-offspring interactions, pair-bonding, and the building of coalitions. Affiliations provide a social matrix within which other behaviors, including reproduction and aggression, may occur. While reproduction and aggression also reduce the distance between individuals, their expression is regulated in part by the positive social fabric of affiliative behavior.Until recently, researchers have paid little attention to the regulatory physiology and neural processes that subserve affiliative behaviors. The integrative approach in this book reflects the constructive interactions between those who study behavior in the context of natural history and evolution and those who study the nervous system.The book contains the partial proceedings of a conference of the same title held in Washington, DC, in 1996. The full proceedings was published as part of the Annals of the York Academy of Sciences.




Women and Mental Health


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A selection of 15 essays derived from a conference entitled Women and Mental Health held in New York, March 1995, identifying specific mental health problems that may arise in the course of a woman's lifespan. The psychologists, psychiatrists, and mental health workers writing for the collection add




Understanding Aggressive Behavior in Children


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In this work, figures in the field of childhood aggression share what is known about the cultural, biological and psychological roots of violence and develop intervention strategies to deal with the needs of young people. Coverage includes clinical assessment and treatment of children with inappropriate aggressive behaviour; socioenvironmental factors that contribute to inappropriate aggressive behaviour; behavioural and neurobiological consequences of environmental and emotional insults; neurochemical control of aggression and the moral and ethical implications of psychopharmacology in children; and psychosocial intervention strategies for helping children who are excessively aggressive.




Current Catalog


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First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.




Plasminogen Activation in Fibrinolysis, in Tissue Remodeling, and in Development


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The result of a conference on [title] held by the New York Academy of Sciences in conjunction with the Gaubius Institute in Leiden, the Netherlands, October 1991, this volume comprises 59 papers in six parts: plasminogen activation in tissues; fibrinolysis; pathology; dynamics in local supply of fib