Neuroendocrine mechanisms underlying behavioral stability: Implications for the evolutionary origin of personality

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1360, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 54-74

  Duckworth, Renée A ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral flexibility; Developmental constraint; Epigenetic programming; Ontogeny of behavior; Sensitive periods

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; HORMONE RECEPTOR;

AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL METABOLISM; EGO DEVELOPMENT; EPIGENETICS; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; MATERNAL STRESS; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NATURAL SELECTION; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PERSONALITY; PHENOTYPE; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; POSTSYNAPTIC DENSITY; RECEPTOR DENSITY; STABLE EXPRESSION; ANIMAL; BRAIN; EVOLUTION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETIC SELECTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; NEUROSECRETION; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BRAIN; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; HUMANS; NEUROSECRETORY SYSTEMS; PERSONALITY; SELECTION, GENETIC; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84949316850     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nyas.12797     Document Type: Article

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