Neuropeptides and Behaviour: From Motivation to Psychopathology

• Main Author: Carol F. Elias (auth)
• Other Authors: Deborah Suchecki (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2017
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Medicine; drug adiction; sleep; stress; anxiety; stress resilience; Neuropeptides; adaptive behaviours; feeding behaviour; depression
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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 i...