The Evolutionary Neuroethology of Paul MacLean: Convergences and Frontiers(Human Evolution, Behavior, and Intelligence)

In the mid-20th century, integrative efforts began concerning the brain and its social and humanistic functions. These efforts were led by Paul D. MacLean's integrative research and thought. As the century ended, however, such efforts were lost in the surge of new effort in brain and genome research. Nobel Prizes were awarded on biochemical and cellular findings relevant to psychiatry. Findings on these levels seemed to provide ultimate answers. By contrast, Cory, Gardner, and their contributors provide a more comprehensive view by extending MacLean's findings and integrative theory. Supported by new findings and extended by critical analyses of current work, the collection provides foundations for more integrative efforts that the editors and contributors believe will prevail increasingly in coming decades. Looked at from another vantage point, therapeutic, social, economic, and politial sciences have proceeded wtihout operating theories congruent with, or based on, brain functions. Across-species perspectives have been lacking. This collection redresses this problem and leads the way toward more comprehensive 21st century research on the one hand, and practical applications on the other. Multiple approaches extend from modeling efforts to across-species comparisons, to the basic science of psychiatry to theoretical explanations of political and economic systems. But most important, these essays abolish the Berlin wall that currently separates the brain from its social functions. A major guide for scholars, students, and researchers involved in the neurobehavioral sciences, for psychologists, psychiatrists, and others involved with human clinical sciences, and for social scientists concerned with the impact of the nervous system and its function.

Table of Contents:
Introduction Perspectives Pribram and MacLean in Perspective by Karl H. Pribram MacLean's Triune Brain Concept: In Praise and Appraisal by Gerald A. Cory Jr. Molecules, Body Plans, and the Striatum Deep Time and the Brain by C. U. M. Smith Adaptive Functions of the Corpus Striatum by Neil Greenberg The Social Brain: Clinical Theory and Application--Depression and Mania MacLean's Paradigm and Its Relevance for Psychiatry by Russell Gardner Jr. The Triune Brain, Escalation De-escalation Strategies by John S. Price Involuntary Defeat Strategy as Backdrop for Depression by Leon Sloman The Evolved Basis of Mood and Thought Disorders by Daniel R. Wilson The Social Brain: Clinical Theory and Applications: Autism, Forensics, Attention Empathy, Autism, and the Integration of the Triune Brain by James C. Harris Neuroethology and Motiveless Homicide by Anneliese A. Pontius Neural and Functional Aspects of Pride and Shame by Glenn E. Weisfeld The Triune Brain and Attention by Alan F. Mirsky and Connie C. Duncan Interpretations and Challenges Physics, Evolutionary Neuroscience, and Psychotherapy by James F. Brody Evolutionary and Philosophical Issues by Seymour W. Itzkoff MacLean's Evolutionary Neuroethology: Environmental Pollution, Brain Chemistry, and Violent Crime by Roger D. Masters and Myron J. Coplan Social Psychology and Social Theory Reification and Hegemony by Steven A. Peterson Upshifting and Downshifting the Triune Brain by Kent G. Bailey Evolutionary Neuroscience and the Invisible Hand of Economics by Gerald A. Cory Jr. Toward a Neural Network Theory of the Triune Brain by Daniel S. Levine and Nilendu G. Jani Conclusion: Convergences and Frontiers Index

About the Author :
GERALD A. CORY JR. is Director of the Center for Behavioral Ecology in San Jose, California, as well as Professor at San Jose State University. RUSSELL GARDNER JR. is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Wisconsin Medical College.