Behavior (American English) or behaviour is the range of actions and mannerisms made by individuals, organisms, systems or artificial entities in conjunction with themselves or their environment, which includes the other systems or organisms around as well as the (inanimate) physical environment. It is the computed response of the system or organism to various stimuli or inputs, whether internal or external, conscious or subconscious, overt or covert, and voluntary or involuntary.
Taking a behavior informatics perspective, a behavior consists of actor, operation, interactions, and their properties. This can be represented as a behavior vector.
A brain is an organ that serves as the center of the nervous system in all vertebrate and most invertebrate animals. It is located in the head, usually close to the sensory organs for senses such as vision. It is the most complex organ in a vertebrate's body. In a human, the cerebral cortex contains approximately 14–16 billion neurons, and the estimated number of neurons in the cerebellum is 55–70 billion. Each neuron is connected by synapses to several thousand other neurons. These neurons typically communicate with one another by means of long fibers called axons, which carry trains of signal pulses called action potentials to distant parts of the brain or body targeting specific recipient cells.
Behavioral and Brain Functions are in the field of behavioral and cognitive neuroscience.
Components of the Book:
- Chapter 1
Influences of genomic imprinting on brain function and behavior
- Chapter 2
A hierarchical processing unit for multi-component behavior in the avian brain
- Chapter 3
Adolescent use of potential novel probiotic Rouxiella badensis subsp.acadiensis (Canan SV-53) mitigates pubertal LPS-Induced behavioral
changes in adulthood in a sex-specific manner by modulating 5HT1A receptors expression in specific brain areas
- Chapter 4
Neurological and behavioral abnormalities, ventricular dilatation, altered cellular functions, inflammation, and neuronal injury in brains
- Chapter 5
Behavioral analysis in mice deficient for GAREM2 that is a subtype of highly expressing in the brain
- Chapter 6
Adolescent use of potential novel probiotic Rouxiella badensis subsp. acadiensis (Canan SV-53) mitigates pubertal LPS-Induced behavioral changes in adulthood in a sex-
- Chapter 7
Skin-brain axis signaling mediates behavioral changes after skin wounding
- Chapter 8
A 4-year longitudinal neuroimaging study of cognitive control using latent growth modeling developmental changes and brain-behavior associations
- Chapter 9
Touching events predict human action segmentation in brain and behavior
- Chapter 10
Neuromodulatory effect of cinnamon oil on behavioural disturbance, CYP1A1, iNOStranscripts and neurochemical alterations induced by deltamethrin in rat brain
- Chapter 11
The Aging Brain Cohort (ABC) repository The University of South Carolina’s multimodal lifespan database for studying the relationship between the brain, cognition, ge
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Olivia Ho-Shing
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology and Center for Brain Science, Harvard University, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA
Noemi Rook
Department of Biopsychology, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Universita¨ tsstraße 150, 44801 Bochum, Germany
Gretchen Hermes
Department of Ophthalmology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA,
Tasuku Nishino, The Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, Prefectural University of Hiroshima, 5562 Nanatsuka, Shobara, Hiroshima 727-0023, Japan
Daniel R. Fregoso
University of California, School of Medicine, Department of Dermatology, Davis, United States
Isaiah Kletenik
University of California, School of Medicine, Department of Dermatology, Davis, United States
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