Bodnar, Richard J.,  1946- <br/><br/>
Central neural states relating sex and pain / 
Richard J. Bodnar, Kathryn Commons, and Donald W. Pfaff. 
 - Baltimore :  The Johns Hopkins University Press,  c2002. 
 - xii, 258 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
 - Advances in systems neuroscience and behavioral physiology .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-249) and index. 
<br/><br/>Machine generated contents note: 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0801868270 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2001001743 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Neuroendocrinology.<br/>Sex (Biology)<br/>Pain.<br/>Opioid peptides.<br/>Estrogen.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>QP356.4  / .B64 2002 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>612.8