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The concept of homeostasis, the maintenance of the internal physiological environment of an organism within tolerable limits, is well established in medicine and physiology. In contrast, allostasis is a relatively new idea of 'viability through change'. With allostatic regulation by cephalic involvement, the body adapts to potentially diverse and dangerous situations through the activation of neural, hormonal, or immunological mechanisms. Allostasis explains how regulatory events maintain organismic viability, or not, in diverse contexts with varying set points of bodily needs and competing motivations. This 2005 book introduces the concept of allostasis and sets it alongside traditional views of homeostasis. It addresses basic regulatory systems and examines the behavior of bodily regulation under duress. The basic concepts of physiological homeostasis are integrated with disorders like depression, stress, anxiety and addiction. It will therefore appeal to graduate students, medical students and researchers working in physiology, epidemiology, endocrinology, neuroendocrinology, neuroscience, and psychology.

Allostasis. --- Homeostasis. --- Adaptation (Physiology) --- Compensation (Physiology) --- Plasticity (Physiology) --- Ecophysiology --- Biological control systems --- Body fluids --- Physiology

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Physiologist Scott Turner argues eloquently that the apparent design we see in the living world only makes sense when we add to Darwin's towering achievement the dimension that much modern molecular biology has left on the gene-splicing floor: the dynamic interaction between living organisms and their environment. Only when we add environmental physiology to natural selection can we begin to understand the beautiful fit between the form life takes and the way life works.

Natural selection. --- Adaptation (Physiology) --- Compensation (Physiology) --- Plasticity (Physiology) --- Ecophysiology --- Darwinism --- Selection, Natural --- Genetics --- Variation (Biology) --- Biological invasions --- Evolution (Biology) --- Heredity

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Suitable for graduates and undergraduates in environmental biology, comparative physiology, and marine biology, this text lays out the principles of mechanistic comparative physiology in an ecological and evolutionary context.

Adaptation (Physiology) --- Physiology, Comparative. --- Molecular evolution. --- Biochemical evolution --- Chemical evolution --- Evolution --- Life --- Molecular biology --- Comparative physiology --- Medicine, Comparative --- Zoology --- Compensation (Physiology) --- Plasticity (Physiology) --- Ecophysiology --- Origin

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Cognitive Adaptation: A Pragmatist Perspective argues that there is a fundamental link between cognitive/neural systems and evolution that underlies human activity. One important result is that the line between nature and culture and scientific and humanistic inquiry is quite permeable - the two are fairly continuous with each other. Two concepts figure importantly in our human ascent: agency and animacy. The first is the recognition of another person as having beliefs, desires, and a sense of experience. The second term is the recognition of an object as alive, a piece of biology. Both reflect a predilection in our cognitive architecture that is fundamental to an evolving, but fragile, sense of humanity. The book further argues for a regulative norm of self-corrective inquiry, an appreciation of the hypothetical nature of all knowledge. Schulkin's perspective is rooted in contemporary behavioral and cognitive neuroscience.

Cognitive psychology --- Physiology of nerves and sense organs --- Adaptation (Physiology) --- Cognition. --- Neuropsychology. --- Adaptation, Psychological. --- Psychophysiology. --- Adaptation (Physiology). --- Neurophysiology --- Psychophysiology --- Compensation (Physiology) --- Plasticity (Physiology) --- Ecophysiology --- Psychology --- Health Sciences --- Psychiatry & Psychology

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Blood physiology. Circulatory physiology --- Aanpassing (Fysiologie) --- Adaptatie (Fysiologie) --- Adaptation (Physiologie) --- Adaptation (Physiology) --- Cardiologie --- Chirurgie --- Compensation (Physiology) --- Fontan's operation --- Ingreep van Fontan --- Opération de Fontan --- Plasticity (Physiology) --- Academic collection --- Theses --- Heart --- Adaptation --- Cardiovascular system --- Diseases --- Genetic aspects --- Surgery