Neural Circuits Regulating Maternal Behavior: Implications for Understanding the Neural Basis of Social Cooperation and Competition

Moving Beyond Self-Interest: Perspectives from Evolutionary Biology, Neuroscience, and the Social Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Numan, Michael ^a  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Competition; Cooperation; Hypothalamus; Maternal care; MPOA

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921879858     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195388107.003.0031     Document Type: Chapter

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