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  • Front Cover; Progress in Brain Research, Volume 53; Copyright Page; List of Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Content; Section I
  • Structural adaptation of brain; Chapter 1. Morphological consequences of prenatal injury to the primate brain; Chapter 2. Puromycin induction of transient regeneration in mammalian spinal cord; Chapter 3. Remyelination in human CNS lesions; Chapter 4. Adaption of the cerebellum to deafferentation; Chapter 5. Nutrition and central nervous system development; Chapter 6. Nutritional effects on non-mitotic aspects of central nervous system development
  • Section II
  • Peptide hormones and adaptive mechanismsChapter 7. ACTH-like peptides, pituitary -adrenocortical function and avoidance behavior; Chapter 8. The interaction of posterior pituitary neuropeptides with monoaminergic neurotransmission: significance in learning and memory processes; Chapter 9. Exohypothalamic axons of the classic neurosecretory system and their synapses; Chapter 10. Extrahypothalamic vasopressin and oxytocin innervation of fetal and adult rat brain; Chapter 11. Three modes of intercellular neuronal communication
  • Chapter 12. On the neurochemical mechanism of action of ACTHChapter 13. Neuropeptides in rat brain development; Chapter 14. Neuropeptides. A new dimension in biological psychiatry; Section III
  • Sleep and dreams: their origin and significance; Chapter 15. Sleep as an adaptation for energy conservation functionally related to hibernation and shallow torpor; Chapter 16. Sleep as a restorative process: human clues; Chapter 17. Sleep as a restorative process and a theory to explain why; Chapter 18. The cognitive activity of sleep
  • Chapter 19. Paradoxical sleep deprivation in animal studies: some methodological considerationsChapter 20. Paradoxical sleep and the nature-nurture controversy; Chapter 21. Does rapid-eye-movement sleep play a role in brain development?; Section IV
  • Aggressive behavior as social interaction; Chapter 22. Biological substrates of aggression; Chapter 23. Adaptive aspects of neuronal elements in agonistic behavior; Chapter 24. Is there evidence for a neural correlate of an aggressive behavioural system in the hypothalamus of the rat?
  • Chapter 25. Adaptive aspects of hormonal correlates of attack and defence in laboratory mice: a study in ethobiologyChapter 26. Hormonal correlates of agonistic behavior in adult male rats; Chapter 27. Influences of stress-related hormones on a variety of models of attack behaviour in laboratory mice; Chapter 28. The interaction of experience and neuroendocrine factors in determining behavioral adaptations to aggression; Subject Index