Sex Differences in Lateralization in the Animal Brain

✍ Scribed by V L Bianki, E. B. Filippova

• Publisher: Harwood Academic
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 224
• Series: Conceptual advances in brain research 4
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Until recently, little account has been taken of sex differences in many research studies in psychiatry, medicine and physiology. Subjects of these research studies were mainly men, with most researchers using twice as many males as females in their studies. The need to take a sexually differentiated approach has led to the work described in this book, concerning detailed investigations into the correlations between functional asymmetry of the brain and sex. Sex Differences in Lateralization in the Animal Brain is the first monograph summarizing the sexual specificity of functional lateralization of the brain in animals and humans. It is based on original experimental data from animals and will be of interest to biologists, psychologists and neurobiologists.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Series Preface......Page 8
Tribute to Vsevolod L.Bianki......Page 10
Introduction......Page 12
Editorial Comment......Page 14
Sexual Dimorphism of Interhemispheric Asymmetry in Humans......Page 16
Functional studies of sexual dimorphism of the brain......Page 19
Sex hormones and interhemispheric asymmetry......Page 25
Previous studies of sexual dimorphism of cerebral asymmetry in animals......Page 30
Conclusion......Page 31
Behavioural Indices......Page 34
Vocalization......Page 36
Pain sensitivity......Page 43
Motor activity......Page 47
Ontogenetic dynamics......Page 49
Conditioned reflexes......Page 54
Stereotyped and probabilistic behaviour......Page 60
Differentiation of visual and sound stimuli......Page 63
Invariant recognition of sound and visual stimuli......Page 72
Intermodal and intramodal integration......Page 81
Analysis of space and time stimuli......Page 83
Discrimination of simultaneous and successive complexes......Page 88
Discrimination of absolute and relative characteristics......Page 94
Emotions......Page 95
Noise-resistance......Page 98
Conclusion......Page 102
Electrophysiological Characteristics......Page 112
Interzonal and transcallosal connections......Page 123
Comparison of corresponding hemispheres between sexes......Page 135
The dynamics of transcallosal response processing......Page 141
Patterns of asymmetry......Page 152
Penetrance and expression......Page 158
Intrahemispheric contrast......Page 162
Conclusion......Page 168
Hormonal Factors......Page 170
The influence of sex hormones upon interhemispheric asymmetry during the prenatal and neonatal period......Page 171
The influence of sex hormones upon interhemispheric asymmetry in mature animals......Page 180
The influence of cyclic changes in the level of sex hormones upon interhemispheric asymmetry......Page 187
The influence of pregnancy upon interhemispheric asymmetry......Page 191
Conclusion......Page 195
A Neurobiological Model of Sexual Dimorphism in the Brain (by Way of Conclusion)......Page 200
References......Page 208
Subject Index......Page 222