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The Biology of Lactation
Everything you ever wanted to know about the substance that binds all mammals together. After drawing its first breath, every newborn mammal turns his...
Draws on popular examples and sound science to explain our expanding waistlines and to discuss the consequences of being overweight for different demo...
A Pragmatic Guide to Neuroscience
The human brain is the most complex object in the known universe. The field of neuroscience has made remarkable strides in recent years in understandi...
An Evolutionary Perspective
What's so special about music? We experience it internally, yet at the same time it is highly social. Music engages our cognitive/affective and sensor...
Body, Brain, and World
Pragmatism—a pluralistic philosophy with kinships to phenomenology, Gestalt psychology, and embodied cognitive science—is resurging across discipl...
A Biological, Philosophical, and Cultural Perspective
The neuroscientist Jay Schulkin argues that biology and culture do more than coexist when we play sports--they blend together seamlessly, propelling e...
As the active interface of the most biologically intimate connection between two living organisms, a mother and her fetus, the placenta is crucial to ...
Allostatic Regulation in Physiology and Pathophysiology
An overview of allostasis, the process by which the body maintains overall viability under normal and adverse conditions....
Better Information for Building a Wealthier, More Sustainable Future
How better information and better access to it improves the quality of our decisions and makes for a more vibrant participatory society. Information i...
John Dewey, Cognitive Science, and a Naturalistic Philosophy for Living
A dialogue between contemporary neuroscience and John Dewey’s seminal philosophical work Experience and Nature, exploring how the bodily roots of hu...
We have known for over a thousand years that the brain underlies behavioral expression, but effective scientific study of the brain is only very recen...
Social Allostasis
Recently, an interest in our understanding of well-being within the context of competition and cooperation has re-emerged within the biological and ne...
A Life in the Laboratory
In the first half of the twentieth century, psychology was a discipline in search of scientific legitimacy. Debates raged over how much of human and a...
In this text Jay Schulkin discusses and emphasizes the important roles of steroids and neuropeptides in the regulation of behavior. The guiding princi...
This book explores the cultures of philosophy and the law as they interact with neuroscience and biology, through the perspective of American jurist O...
Throughout the book, he incorporates neurobiological evidence for a domain-specific system for social cognition."....
Intelligent Action
Although we usually identify our abilities to reason, to adapt to situations, and to solve problems with the mind, recent research has shown that we s...
A Pragmatist Perspective
Argues that there is a fundamental, evolutionary link between cognitive systems and evolution that underlies human activity....
The Search for a Salty Taste
The hunger for sodium has been used as a model system in which to study how the brain produces motivated behaviour. In this account of the field Jay S...
A Behavioral Neuroscience Perspective on the Will
In Effort: A Behavioral Neuroscience Perspective on the Will, author Jay Schulkin presents a two-fold thesis: there is no absolute separation of the c...
Its History and Future
This publication traces the corporate path to power and influence in the modern world, and explores whether corporations of the future will become sup...
Behavioral and Biological Regulation
This book brings together the behavioral, physiological, and neuroendocrine regulation of calcium. An understanding of how the brain orchestrates whol...
Uncovering an Information Molecule
Information molecules, such as Cortico-Releasing Factor (CRF), are ancient and widely distributed across diverse organs, playing various regulatory ro...
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Explores the behavioral neuroscience of social attachment and its significance in establishing and maintaining human well-being....
Dewey, Cognitive Science, and a Naturalistic Philosophy for Living
"A reassessment of the influence of John Dewey's mature work, especially "Experience and Nature" on recent trends in cognitive science"--...
The decision making process that underlies ovarian hormone therapy (HT) is fallible. Thus, the decision for women to go on HT remains controversial. A...
Since 2005 a dozen states and more than 15 specialties have reported a physician shortage or anticipate one in the next few years. This anticipated sh...
As a working neuroscientist, Jay Schulkin's ambitious exploration offers reflections on the pragmatic tradition from a fresh perspective, to present n...