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Introduction
This book is a transdisciplinary study involving relationships between neurobiology, affects and emotions into the frame of Affective Neuroscience, to clarify body-mind queries in a scientific way. Being a tra...
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Development and Affective Regulation
As the baby’s brain develops, it undergoes distinct phases called windows of opportunity, or critical periods. During such phases, when the brain is stimulated by the right epigenetic event or is supported by a r...
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A Conversation Between Affective Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis
In this last chapter, we present examples of how a psychoanalyst can use affective neuroscience tools to scientifically enhance his/her clinical practice, with special emphasis on information about oxytocin, well...
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Affective Neuroscience and the Discovery of Oxytocin
The progress of scientific knowledge allowed for the opening of the new field of affective neuroscience. Around 1950, researchers of animal psychology discovered a new class of neuroactive substances called pepti...
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Brain Development
A detailed description of the human brain development is made from its formation alongside with other prenatal structures, as well as after birth, highlighting development of morphological and neuroendocrine m...
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The Nervous System and the Affective Neural Systems
In terms of neurobiological structures, the nervous system is similar in all mammals. This similarity is even stronger in the subcortical part of the brain, where most of our affects and feelings are generated. T...
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Attachment
Attachment (AT) is, perhaps, the most relevant phenomenon mediated by oxytocin, as it acts as a bonding element between mother and baby, stimulating maternal care, essential for the baby’s survival, and, ultimate...
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Oxytocin
This chapter reviews the workings of oxytocin, nested in hypothalamic and pituitary (or hypophysis) brain structures, and fundamental for human social relationships and well-being states, known as oxytocinergi...
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Therapeutic Choices
In this chapter, we will compare similarities and differences between psychiatry, psychology, psychoanalysis, and psychopharmacology, especially as a referral for a personal choice for therapy. We will browse ...