Experiential factors shape the neural circuits underlying social and emotional behavior from
the prenatal period to the end of life. These factors include both incidental influences, such …

Dominance hierarchies occur in numerous social species, and rank within them can greatly
influence the quality of life of an animal. In this review, I consider how rank can also …

Creating a healthy, social classroom environment. This book explains how the brain, as a
social organism, learns best throughout the lifespan, from our early schooling through late …

In this review, we report on studies that have assessed the effects of exogenous and
endogenous increases in stress hormones on human cognitive performance. We first …

The adult brain is a plastic place. To ensure that the mature nervous system's control of
behaviour is flexible in the face of a varying environment, morphological and physiological …

Since Dr. Brizendine wrote The Female Brain ten years ago, the response has been
overwhelming. This New York Times bestseller has been translated into more than thirty …

Background Blau theorized that migraine triggers are exposures that in higher amounts
would damage the brain. The recent discovery that the TRPA1 ion channel transduces …

Dr. Jacqueline N. Crawley, author of the First and Second Editions of What's Wrong with My
Mouse? Behavioral Phenotyping of Transgenic and Knockout Mice, continues to field calls …

Significance: Severe life stress (SLS), as opposed to trivial everyday stress, is defined as a
serious psychosocial event with the potential of causing an impacting psychological …

The hippocampus is a region of the mammalian brain that shows an impressive capacity for
structural reorganization. Preexisting neural circuits undergo modifications in dendritic …