Table of Contents

Contents: Series Foreword Preface List of Abbreviations I Requirement for Motivational State Concepts A Physics, Brain, and Behavior B Motivation in Its Generalized and Specific Aspects C Motivation for Females to Seek Males D Hypothalamic and Preoptic Mechanisms Involved in Two Types of Motivational Change E Summary II Ascending Arousal Systems Activated A Ascending Reticular Activating Systems B Structure of Arousal States C Application to Sexual Behavior D Clinical Observations on Human Awareness and Arousal E Mood F Summary III Descending Systems: The Importance of Opioid Peptides and Analgesia A Opioid Peptides in Pain and Analgesia B Analgesia Induced by Stress and Environmental Variables C Hormonal Control of the Enkephalin Gene: One Paradox and Three Solutions D Intimate Relations among Inhibitory Systems E Hypothalamic Projections F Gender Differences in Analgesia G Pain and Sex: Similarity of Reproductive Behavior and Analgesia - Ascending and Descending Pathways H Summary IV Inferences and Arguments A Gene/Behavior Relationships: Application to Opioid Peptides B Biological Importance of the Relations among Sex, Arousal, and Analgesia References Index

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This book is welcome in that it makes connections between two well studied but related neural systems: the systems that control sex and pain. This is a timely attempt that [will] be of great interest to neuroscientists. The scholarly achievement of this study is apparent; the authors have mastered a substantial literature. -- Gregory F. Ball, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University This scholarly and articulate book explores the authors' novel and provocative hypothesis that neural mechanisms controlling reproductive behavior and pain are intricately intertwined. In the process of such exploration, the reader is provided with extensive, up-to-date, and unique reviews-highly valuable regardless of how one views the hypothesis-of behavioral, neurophysiological, hormonal, neurochemical, and genetic research on mechanisms of arousal, analgesia, stress, and reproductive behavior. -- Karen J. Berkley, Ph.D., McKenzie Professor of the Neuroscience Program at Florida State University

About the Author

Richard J. Bodnar is professor and chair of the Department of Psychology at Queens College of the City University of New York. Kathryn Commons is a postdoctoral fellow in the Laboratory of Neurobiology and Behavior at the Rockefeller University. Donald W. Pfaff is professor and head of the Laboratory of Neurobiology and Behavior at the Rockefeller University. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.