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The Evolutionary Neuroethology of Paul MacLean Convergences and Frontiers
Gerald A. Cory, Russell Gardner
Foreword by Jaak Panksepp
Book Code: C7219
ISBN: 0-275-97219-4
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-97219-6
472 pages, figures, tables
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 12/30/2002
List Price: $110.95 (UK Sterling Price: £65.00)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • The Evolutionary Neuroethology of Paul MacLean will be of interest to a wide range of researchers concerned with the human brain, including psycologists and psychiatrists, neuroscientists, cognitive scientists, evolutionary anthropologists, and philosophers....Highly recommended for academic and health sciences libraries.
    —E-Streams     2003
Description: In the mid-20th century, integrative efforts began concerning the brain and its social and humanistic functions. These efforts were led by Paul D. MacLean's integrative research and thought. As the century ended, however, such efforts were lost in the surge of new effort in brain and genome research. Nobel Prizes were awarded on biochemical and cellular findings relevant to psychiatry. Findings on these levels seemed to provide ultimate answers. By contrast, Cory, Gardner, and their contributors provide a more comprehensive view by extending MacLean's findings and integrative theory. Supported by new findings and extended by critical analyses of current work, the collection provides foundations for more integrative efforts that the editors and contributors believe will prevail increasingly in coming decades. Looked at from another vantage point, therapeutic, social, economic, and politial sciences have proceeded wtihout operating theories congruent with, or based on, brain functions. Across-species perspectives have been lacking. This collection redresses this problem and leads the way toward more comprehensive 21st century research on the one hand, and practical applications on the other. Multiple approaches extend from modeling efforts to across-species comparisons, to the basic science of psychiatry to theoretical explanations of political and economic systems. But most important, these essays abolish the Berlin wall that currently separates the brain from its social functions. A major guide for scholars, students, and researchers involved in the neurobehavioral sciences, for psychologists, psychiatrists, and others involved with human clinical sciences, and for social scientists concerned with the impact of the nervous system and its function.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Perspectives
  • Pribram and MacLean in Perspective by Karl H. Pribram
  • MacLean's Triune Brain Concept: In Praise and Appraisal by Gerald A. Cory Jr.
  • Molecules, Body Plans, and the Striatum
  • Deep Time and the Brain by C. U. M. Smith
  • Adaptive Functions of the Corpus Striatum by Neil Greenberg
  • The Social Brain: Clinical Theory and Application--Depression and Mania
  • MacLean's Paradigm and Its Relevance for Psychiatry by Russell Gardner Jr.
  • The Triune Brain, Escalation De-escalation Strategies by John S. Price
  • Involuntary Defeat Strategy as Backdrop for Depression by Leon Sloman
  • The Evolved Basis of Mood and Thought Disorders by Daniel R. Wilson
  • The Social Brain: Clinical Theory and Applications: Autism, Forensics, Attention
  • Empathy, Autism, and the Integration of the Triune Brain by James C. Harris
  • Neuroethology and Motiveless Homicide by Anneliese A. Pontius
  • Neural and Functional Aspects of Pride and Shame by Glenn E. Weisfeld
  • The Triune Brain and Attention by Alan F. Mirsky and Connie C. Duncan
  • Interpretations and Challenges
  • Physics, Evolutionary Neuroscience, and Psychotherapy by James F. Brody
  • Evolutionary and Philosophical Issues by Seymour W. Itzkoff
  • MacLean's Evolutionary Neuroethology: Environmental Pollution, Brain Chemistry, and Violent Crime by Roger D. Masters and Myron J. Coplan
  • Social Psychology and Social Theory
  • Reification and Hegemony by Steven A. Peterson
  • Upshifting and Downshifting the Triune Brain by Kent G. Bailey
  • Evolutionary Neuroscience and the Invisible Hand of Economics by Gerald A. Cory Jr.
  • Toward a Neural Network Theory of the Triune Brain by Daniel S. Levine and Nilendu G. Jani
  • Conclusion: Convergences and Frontiers
  • Index
LC Card Number: 2002021588
LCC Class: QP376
Dewey Class: 612
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