Behavioral Physiology

Introduction about what is the behavior physiology.
Description of the main nervous system structures involved in regulating the behavior. Main subdivisions of the central and the peripheral nervous system and of their components. Chemical basis of behavior: main neurotrasmitters and their localization in the peripheral and central nervous system. Hormones and their role in the regulation of the bilogical and physiological processes. Main systems on which the hormones act, among which hypothalamus-hypophysis-adrenal gland and the limbic system. Main methodologies used in the neuroanatomy and the neurophysiological investigations. The main processes at the basis of the regulation of behaviors such as the alimentary one, the termoregulation and the circadian rhythms. The fly or fight reaction system, the stress and the neuroimmunology.