................................................................................pp. 2 Chapter 1: A Review of Hormonal Effects in Vertebrates.......................pp. 2-10 Hormones and Behavior.....................................................pp. 3-4 Hormones’ Relationship to Allostasis.....................................pp. 4-5 Glucocorticoids and Behavior.....................................

The current article provides commentary on the Homeostatic Theory of Obesity and associated Circle of Discontent. A strength of this theory is that it points to the requirement for multiple avenues of societal change, largely through policy and regulation. The current authors suggest consideration of allostasis, coping style and habituation in addition to the existing model. Incorporation of th...

Recently, the term meditation has entered neuroscience and psychiatry (Kabat-Zinn et al. 1992; Kutz et al. 1985; Linehan 1993; Snaith 1998; Varela et al. 1996). Its narrow use to designate a religious practice of contemplation has broadened to include any intentionalexercise of attention (Kabat-Zinn 1982). The context for this shift is the convergence of various lines of research with the intro...

The immune system, an exquisitely regulated physiological utilizes a wide spectrum of soluble factors and multiple cell populations subpopulations at diverse states maturation to monitor protect the organism against foreign organisms. Immune surveillance is ensured by distinguishing self-antigens from self-associated with non-self (e.g., viral) peptides presented major histocompatibility comple...

Pleasure and reward are central for motivation, learning, feeling allostasis. Although is without any doubt an affective phenomenon, there no consensus concerning its relationship with emotion. In this mini-review we discuss conceptual issue both from the perspective of theories emotion as well human systems neuroimaging. We first describe how process can be understood dissected intertwined pro...

Dynamical systems perspectives on emotion emphasize the importance of the regulatory interplay between brain, body and environment to adaptive behaviour. We suggest that a key facet of emotions, above all fear, consistent with this perspective lies in the allostatic regulation of constitutive/behavioural dynamics in terms of prediction and behavioural biases linking internal needs to external a...