Main description:

Modern neuroscience has presented new opportunities for exploring the molecular and neural mechanisms controlling specific social responses. This book reviews insights into the neural circuits underlying a particularly fascinating form of social interaction, parental behavior. This book presents a detailed review of maternal and paternal behavior of particular mammalian species. It offer neuroscientists a spectrum of specific mammals that can be used as experimental models to explore particular topics on the functions of the nervous system. It shows that results coming from the laboratory can be translated into useful information for raising mammals on the farm, and it stimulates biologists to gain insights into the underpinnings of the complex mechanisms governing mammalian behavior in the wild. It also discusses the implications of this research for human parental behavior.

Contents:

Contents Number of Pages

1. Front Matter

2. Chapter 1: Parental Behavior in Rodents, by Mariana Pereira, Kristina O. Smiley, and Joseph S. Lonstein................................................. 66

Email ID: lonstein@msu.edu

3. Chapter 2: Parental Behaviour in Carnivores, by Robyn Hudson, Peter Szenczi, and Oxa na Ba nszegi............................................. 45

Email ID: rhudson@biomedicas.unam.mx

4. Chapter 3: The onset of maternal behavior in sheep and goats:endocrine, sensory, neural and experiential mechanisms, by Frederic Levy................................................................................. 65

Email ID: frederic.levy@inrae.fr

5. Chapter 4: Parental behaviour in sows, by Jinhyeon Yun and Olli Peltoniemi ...................... 18

Email ID: pilot9939@jnu.ac.kr

6. Chapter 5: Rabbit maternal behavior: a perspective from behavioral neuroendocrinology, animal production, and psychobiology, by Gabriela Gonzalez-Mariscal, Steffen Hoy, and Kurt L. Hoffman................................. 35

Email ID: gabygmm@gmail.com

7. Chapter 6: Parental behavior in bovines by Lena Lidfors................................................. 38

Email ID: Lena.Lidfors@slu.se

8. Chapter 7: Nonhuman Primate Paternal Care: Species and Individual Differences in Behavior and Mechanisms, by Toni E. Ziegler, Stacey R. Tecot, Eduardo Fernandez-Duque, Anne Savage, andCharles T. Snowdon ....................................................................................................... 38

Email ID: ziegler@primate.wisc.edu

9. Chapter 8: Recent Neuroscience Advances in Human Parenting, by Maria Magdalena Martinez-Garcia, Sofia I. Cardenas, Jodi Pawluski, Susanna Carmona, and Darby E. Saxbe ............... 40

Email ID: mmartinez@hggm.es

10. Chapter 9: Integrative studies of the effects of mothers on offspring: an example from wild North American red squirrels, by Ben Dantzer, Stan Boutin, Jeffrey E. Lane, and Andrew G. McAdam ............................................................................ 48

Email ID: dantzer@umich.edu

11. Index