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The present volume has been written primarily for the advanced student and the mature investigator. The book will be of value to the student because it includes representative research problems on a variety of topics, and significant for the mature investigator, because it can help bring him up to date on specific topics in limbic and autonomic nervous system research, an area which has undergone spectacular growth, particularly during the last ten years. The twelve chapters deal with subject matter that falls loosely into four major subtopics-basic sensory and regulatory mechanisms, emotional processes, cardiovascular processes and learning, and low arousal states-but each chapter represents recent research in one particular area, and stands as a self-contained unit. I am indebted to the many authors and publishers for their aid in granting permission to reproduce quotations, tables, and figures from their works. Specific acknowledgments are made in the text. Leo V. DiCara Ann Arbor Contents Basic Sensory and Regulatory Mechanisms Chapter 1 The Olfactory System and Behavior Bernice M. Wenzel I. Introduction ........................................ 1 2. Background ........................................ 2 2.1. Rhinencephalon ................................ 2 2.2. The Direct Olfactory System and Its Connections .... 3 2.3. Olfactory Lesions and Nonolfactory Behavior ....... 7 3. Effects of Lesions in the Direct Olfactory System ......... 8 3.1. Orienting and Habituation ....................... 9 3.2. Activity ....................................... 12 3.3. Avoidance Learning. . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 . . . . . . 3.4. Appetitive Learning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 . . . . . . .
List of contents
Basic Sensory and Regulatory Mechanisms.- 1 The Olfactory System and Behavior.- 2 Neural Control of Thermoregulatory Responses.- Emotional Processes.- 3 Neural and Hormonal Determinants of Mating Behavior in Adult Male Rats. A Review.- 4 A Model of Agonistic Behavior: Endocrine and Autonomic Correlates.- 5 Immunological and Chemical Sympathectomy in the Neonatal Rodent: Effects on Emotional Behavior.- Cardiovascular Processes and Learning.- 6 The Role of Early Experience in the Development of Autonomic Regulation.- 7 The Neural Pathways and Informational Flow Mediating a Conditioned Autonomic Response.- 8 CNS Integration of Learned Cardiovascular Behavior.- 9 A Psychobiological Perspective on the Cardiovascular System.- 10 Factors Influencing the Specificity of Voluntary Cardiovascular Control.- Low Arousal States.- 11 Cultivated Low Arousal-An Antistress Response?.- 12 Sleep.
