The chemistry of human nature, Tom Husband

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The chemistry of human nature, Tom Husband

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Tom Husband

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• The chemistry of human nature

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• Cambridge, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2017

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Contents

• A Risky Strategy
• 1.3.1.
• Eating
• 1.3.2.
• Reproduction
• 1.3.3.
• Status
• 1.3.4.
• Free Will
• 1.4.
• Machine generated contents note:
• Chemistry Fundamentals-A Possible Way Back
• References
• ch. 2
• The Chemistry of Taste
• 2.1.
• How Muscles Work
• 2.2.
• How Taste Buds Work
• 2.2.1.
• Ion Channel Taste Receptors
• ch. 1
• 2.2.2.
• G-Protein Coupled Taste Receptors
• 2.2.3.
• What Happens Next?
• 2.3.
• What They All Have in Common
• References
• ch. 3
• The Chemistry of Pleasure
• 3.1.
• The Chemistry of Space Travel
• The Pleasure Circuit
• 3.1.1.
• Ions and Potential
• 3.1.2.
• How Neurons in the Gustatory Nerve Transmit Sweet Signals
• 3.1.3.
• Tasting Chocolate: The Next Step
• 3.2.
• The Case for Food Addiction
• 3.2.1.
• 1.1.
• Where Next for Dopamine and Food Addiction?
• References
• ch. 4
• Is it in Our Nature?
• 1.2.
• A Reaction of Self-replication
• 1.3.
• ch. 5
• The Chemistry of Evolution
• 5.1.
• From Self-replicators to Organisms
• 5.1.1.
• Cell Membranes
• 5.1.2.
• Proteins
• 5.2.
• From Replication to Reproduction
• The Chemistry of Life's Origins
• 5.2.1.
• Single-celled Organisms
• 5.2.2.
• Multicellular Organisms
• 5.2.3.
• Sexual Reproduction
• 5.3.
• Developing Choice
• 5.4.
• Introducing Pleasure
• 4.1.
• References
• Section 1: Concluding Remarks
• References
• ch. 6
• The Chemistry of Lust
• 6.1.
• Androgens and Women
• 6.2.
• How Testosterone Works
• 6.3.
• Where Did RNA Come From?
• A Radical Transmitter
• 6.4.
• Priming Genitals
• 6.5.
• The Lust Hypothesis
• References
• ch. 7
• The Chemistry of Romantic Love
• 7.1.
• Monoamines
• 4.2.
• 7.1.1.
• Getting Rid of Monoamines
• 7.2.
• The Hypothesis Develops
• 7.3.
• Duping Dopamine Receptors
• 7.4.
• What about Humans?^^^
• Chemical Evolution
• 4.3.
• Cosmic Origins
• References
• The Chemistry of Attachment
• 8.1.
• The Puppet Masters of Mammalian Attachment
• 8.2.
• Oxytocin-the Cuddle Hormone?
• 8.3.
• The Role of Temperature
• 8.4.
• Cheating the Sensors
• 8.5.
• 7.5.
• Not a Cuddle Hormone
• 8.6.
• The Neuromodulator
• 8.7.
• Reward
• References
• ch. 9
• The Chemistry of Baby Making
• 9.1.
• Epigenetics
• Which Neurotransmitter?
• 9.2.
• Foetal Development
• 9.2.1.
• The Three Hypotheses
• 9.2.2.
• Mechanism
• 9.2.3.
• Merging Hypotheses
• 9.3.
• Epigenetic Inheritance
• 7.6.
• 9.4.
• Conclusion
• References
• Section 2: Concluding Remarks
• ch. 10
• The Chemistry of Creative Intelligence
• 10.1.
• The Birth of a Paradigm
• 10.2.
• How Heritable is Creativity?
• Why Does My Heart Go Boom?
• 10.3.
• The Validity of Heritability Studies
• 10.4.
• The Price of Creativity
• 10.5.
• Nature-Nurture Duality
• 10.6^
• 7.7.
• Another Role for Noradrenaline
• References
• ch. 8
• 11.3.
• Brunner Syndrome
• 11.4.
• Other Problems with the MAO A Gene
• 11.5.
• A Role for the Epigenome
• 11.6.
• A Role for the Reward Network
• 11.7.
• Conclusion
• A Role for the Reward Network?
• References
• ch. 12
• The Chemistry of Dominance
• 12.1.
• What is Dominance?
• 12.2.
• Dominance and Status
• 12.3.
• Heritability of Status
• 12.4.
• References
• Findings from Neuroscience
• 12.4.1.
• Processing Information
• 12.5.
• Cocaine Studies
• 12.6.
• Serotonin
• 12.7.
• The Winner Effect
• 12.7.1.
• ch. 11
• Nobel Legacies Boosting the Hypothesis for Reward Mediation of the Winner Effect
• 12.8.
• Conclusion
• References
• Section 3: Concluding Remarks
• ch. 13
• The Chemistry of Free Will
• 13.1.
• Unease around Emerging Biology
• 13.1.1.
• The Chemistry of Violence
• Dennett's Position
• 13.2.
• Indeterminacy^^^g10.6^
• 11.1.
• Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
• 11.2.
• What is a Gene Anyway?
• 13.4.3.
• So, Can We Break the Rules or Not?
• 13.5.
• A Healthy Balance?
• 13.6.
• More Answers from Buddhism
• 13.7.
• What Should We Change?
• References
• Part 1: What Makes Reactions Happen
• 13.3.
• Part 2: Life and Thermodynamics
• Part 3: Free Energy
• Part 4: A Truer Picture of Entropy
• Part 5: Energy Levels
• Part 6: The Relationship of Entropy with Energy Levels
• Part 7: The Hydrophobic Effect
• Part 8: Proteins, Specific Heat Capacity and the Heat Receptors
• Specific Heat Capacity and the Hydrophobic Effect
• Folding Proteins
• The Thermodynamics of Heat-detecting Ion Channels
• Pleasure and the Three Directives
• References
• 13.4.
• Breaking the Rules
• 13.4.1.
• Sex and Drugs
• 13.4.2.
• Buddhism

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23 cm

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xiv, 417 pages

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9781782621348

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2016498426

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