OBJECTIVE: To consider the power of principles derived from evolutionary biology to
explain the causes and determinants of some forms of child and adolescent mental …

Our motivation in writing this Review arose not only from the great value in contributing to
this special issue of the Journal of Neuroscience Research but also from the desire to …

Repeated social defeat (RSD) in mice causes myeloid cell trafficking to the brain that
contributes to the development of prolonged anxiety-like behavior. Myeloid cell recruitment …

The complete reference of biological bases for psychopathology at any age Developmental
Psychopathology is a four-volume compendium of the most complete and current research …

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized, in part, by
an inability to adequately respond to social cues. Patients diagnosed with ASD are often …

Understanding the brain control of aggression was greatly enhanced over the last decade.
Out of the multitude of new developments, this book will primarily focus on two: the …

Studies from the last two decades have pointed to multiple mechanisms of fear. For
responding to predators, there is a group of highly interconnected hypothalamic nuclei …

Fear conditioning studies have led to the view that the amygdala contains neurons that
signal threat and in turn elicit defensive behaviors through their brain stem and …

Fear is an ancestral emotion, an intrinsic defensive response present in every organism.
Although fear is an evolutionarily advantageous emotion, under certain pathologies such as …

This article advances the theory that the hypocretinergic (orexinergic) system initiates,
coordinates, and maintains survival behaviors and survival-related processes (ie, the …