Neuroscience · Behavioural & Affective Neuroscience
A topic within Behavioural & Affective Neuroscience, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Neuroscience.
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Robert Sapolsky
Argues that behaviour, including our best and worst acts, traces back through chains of biological causes reaching from a stressful childhood to hormones and genes, rather than to free will.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Bruce McEwen
Introduces allostatic load, the cumulative wear from stress hormones meant to protect the body in the short term but that damage it when chronically elevated.
link checked 17 Sept 2026