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Neurobehavioural Mechanisms of Resilience and Vulnerability in Addictive Disorders
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 223
Cannabidiol Treatment in Neurotherapeutic Interventions
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 184
The Role of Neuropeptides in Drug Addiction and Other Psychiatric Disorders
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 146
Neuropeptides and Behaviour: From Motivation to Psychopathology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 148

Neuropeptides and Behaviour: From Motivation to Psychopathology

The discovery of the involvement of neuropeptides with behaviours other than regulatory motivated ones took place in the midst of 1960’s with David de Wied’s first report on the influence of pituitary peptides on memory. This major scientific breakthrough opened a new frontier of studies in Endocrinology and its related fields, Neuroendocrinology and Psychoneuroendocrinology. Neuropeptides were initially thought to be involved in homeostatic regulation and secreted only from neurons located in the hypothalamus; they are now recognized neurotransmitters, produced in and secreted from distinct brain areas, associated with a myriad of, not only, motivated, but also psychopathological behaviours. Motivated behaviours are determinant for individual and species survival, but their expression in a large spectrum and deviations from average may give rise to a number of psychiatric conditions.

Genetic Analysis of Animal Models to Understand the Genomic Architecture of Substance Use Disorders
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 246
Caffaro, Genoa and the Twelfth-Century Crusades
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 281

Caffaro, Genoa and the Twelfth-Century Crusades

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-04-15
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This volume provides the first comprehensive English translation, with a substantial introduction and notes, of the writings of Caffaro of Genoa, as well as related texts and documents on Genoa and the crusades. The majority of early crusading historiography is from a northern European and clerical perspective. Here is a very different voice, one with a more secular, Mediterranean tone. To see the similarities and differences with the mainstream sources offers an exciting new dimension to our understanding of the reception of crusading ideas in the Mediterranean and, given Genoa’s prominence in the commercial world, can help to illuminate the complex and controversial relationship between ...

Caffaro, Genoa and the Twelfth-Century Crusades
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 436

Caffaro, Genoa and the Twelfth-Century Crusades

This volume provides the first comprehensive English translation, with a substantial introduction and notes, of the writings of Caffaro of Genoa, as well as related texts and documents on Genoa and the crusades. The majority of early crusading historiography is from a northern European and clerical perspective. Here is a very different voice, one with a more secular, Mediterranean tone. To see the similarities and differences with the mainstream sources offers an exciting new dimension to our understanding of the reception of crusading ideas in the Mediterranean and, given Genoa’s prominence in the commercial world, can help to illuminate the complex and controversial relationship between ...

Ermengard of Narbonne and the World of the Troubadours
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 495

Ermengard of Narbonne and the World of the Troubadours

Before France became France its territories included Occitania, roughly the present-day province of Languedoc. The city of Narbonne was a center of Occitanian commerce and culture during the eleventh and twelfth centuries. For most of the second half of the twelfth century, that city and its environs were ruled by a remarkable woman, Ermengard, who negotiated her city's way through a maze of everchanging dynastic alliances.Fredric L. Cheyette's masterful and beautifully illustrated book is a biography of an extraordinary warrior woman and of a unique, vulnerable, doomed society. Throughout her long reign, viscountess Ermengard roamed Occitania receiving oaths of fidelity, negotiating treatie...

Politics and Justice in Late Medieval Bologna
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 682

Politics and Justice in Late Medieval Bologna

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Utilizing a uniquely rich collection of trial records and council meeting minutes from late medieval Bologna, this book offers the first study of summary justice and oligarchy in an Italian commune, demonstrating how new legal institutions arose in response to the increasingly exclusionary policies of the popolo government.